Dwarka Nath Mitra (1833 - 25 February 1874) was a famous lawyer and judge of the Calcutta High Court.

Dwarka Nath Mitra was born in 1833 in Hooghly district and educated at Hooghly College where he excelled in mathematics and English literature.[1] He studied law at Presidency College and joined the bar at the Sadr Diwani Adalat in 1856.[1] He was appointed a judge of the High Court in 1867 at the age of 34 years old after the death of Sambhunath Pandit, the first Indian judge of the Calcutta High Court.[2][3] Lord Northbrook, Viceroy of India, described Dwarka Nath Mitra as one of the most brilliant men he had ever met and said if he were "put ... in a trio with Gladstone and Lowe ... would not be the least clever of the three."[4] He died at the age of 41 on 25 February 1874.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Buckland, C. E. (1901). Bengal under the Lieutenant-Governors (Vol II). Calcutta: S. K. Lahiri & Co. pp. 1037–1039. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  2. ^ Majumdar, Bimanbehari; Mazumdar, B. B. (1964). "Judiciary and Public Life in India in the Nineteenth Century". The Indian Journal of Political Science. 25 (3/4): 180. JSTOR 41854028. The next Indian to be appointed to the Calcutta High Court was Dwarka Nath Mitra who being born in 1833 rose to the Bench at the early age of 34 in 1867. He died at the early age of 41.
  3. ^ Pillai, G. P. (1897). Representative Indians. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  4. ^ Banerjee, Anil Chandra (2003). English Law in India. Abhinav Publications. p. 245. ISBN 978-8170171836. Retrieved 16 May 2016.


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