| Names |
SATYENDRA PRASANNA
SINHA |
| Date of
Birth |
March 24, 1863 |
| Date of
Death |
March 04, 1963 |
| Identity |
He was a prominent
lawyer and statesman in British India. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- May 15, 1880: He married
Gobinda Mohini Mitter.
- 1896: He became a member of
the Indian National Congress.
- 1903: He became Standing
Counsel to the Government of India.
- 1908: He was the first
Indian to be appointed as Advocate-General of Bengal.
- 1909: He was the first
Indian member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.
- 1914: He went to England as
a member of the War Conference following the outbreak of the
First World War.
- January 01, 1915: He was knighted
in the New Year Honours on this day.
- 1915: He was elected to
preside over the Bombay session of the Congress in this
year.
- 1919: He left the Congress
membership.
- 1919: He represented India
in Europe's Peace Conference.
- 1919: He was the first
Indian to be appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
State for India in 1919. In the same year he was elevated to
the peerage as Baron Sinha of Raipur in the Presidency of
Bengal, becoming the first Indian member of the British
House of Lords, taking his seat in February 1919.
- 1920: He became Governor of
the Province of Bihar and Orissa in 1920, the first Indian
to be appointed to such a high rank in the administration of
British India.
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