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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Bonnerjee    
First Name(s)  Womesh Chunder    
Year of Birth  1844    
Entry  Second son of Grees Chunder Bonnerjee, attorney of the High Court, Calcutta : born Dec. 29, 1844 : educated at the Oriental Seminary and Hindu School : in 1864, in receipt of a scholarship from Mr. R. J. Jijibhai of Bombay, went to England to study law : called to the bar from the Middle Temple : joined the Calcutta High Court Bar, 1868 : acted as the Standing Counsel to Government in 1882, 1884, 1886-7 : presided over the First Indian National Congress at Bombay, 1885 : Fellow of the Calcutta University : President of the Faculty of Law, 1880 : represented the Calcutta University in the Bengal Legislative Council, 1893 : retired from the Calcutta Bar, 1901, to practise before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England.     
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