Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bonnerjee, Womesh Chunder
BONNERJEE, WOMESH CHUNDER (1844–)
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.