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The '''Advocate-General of Bengal''' was charged with advising the Government of the British administered [[Bengal Presidency]] on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1765 to 1947. Prior to 1858, when it was administered by the [[East India Company]], the Advocate-General was the senior law officer of that company but was also the Attorney-General of the Sovereign of [[Great Britain]].

==List of Advocates-General of Bengal==
;East India Company
*Sir John Day 1780– <ref>{{cite book|title=India Courier Extraordinary: Proceedings of Parliament Relating to ..., Volume 8|page=147|first= Warren|last= Hastings}}</ref>
*Thomas Henry Davies 1786–?1792 <ref>{{cite book|title=A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland ..., Volume 2|first= Robert|last=Beatson|page=237}}</ref>
*[[Sir William Burroughs, 1st Baronet|Sir William Burroughs, Bt]] 1792–1801 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/burroughs-william-1753-1829|title= BURROUGHS, William (?1753-1829), of Castle Bagshaw, co. Cavan.|publisher= History of Parliament online|accessdate = 27 October 2015}}</ref>
*Edward Strettell ?1803–c.1816
*[[Robert Cutlar Fergusson]] (acting) c.1817
*[[Robert Spankie]] 1817–?1823
*[[Robert Cutlar Fergusson]] 1823–
*[[John Pearson (advocate general)|John Pearson]] 1824–1840 <ref>{{cite web|url= http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/2038408|title= Yale Center for British Art|publisher= Yale|accessdate = 26 October 2015}}</ref>
*(Sir) [[Lawrence Peel (judge)|Lawrence Peel]] 1840–1842 <ref>{{cite book|title=The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 33|page=295}}</ref> (afterwards [[Chief Justice of Bengal]], 1842)
*[[John Edwardes Lyall]] 1842–?1845 <ref>The Asiatic Journal</ref> (died of cholera, 1845)
*Sir [[James William Colvile]] 1845–1848 (later [[Chief Justice of Bengal]], 1855)
*[[William Ritchie (barrister)|William Ritchie]] 1855–1861 <ref>Bengal: Past and Present, Volume 64</ref>
;Government of the United Kingdom
*Thomas Hardwick Cowie 1862–1870 <ref>The India Office and Burma Office List - Page 25</ref>
*Joseph Graham 1870–1873 <ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Obituary - Joseph Graham |date=22 December 1902 |page=6 |issue=36957}}</ref>
*Sir Gregory Charles Paul 1873–1899 <ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|page=330}}</ref>
**Frederick Joseph Patton 1878 (acting)
**Arthur Phillips 1882, 1884-1885 (acting)
**Sir Gruffydd Humphrey Pugh Evans 1895 (acting)
*James Tisdall Woodroffe 1899–1904
*[[Lewis Pugh Pugh]] 1900–
*Peter O'Kinealy 1904– <ref>The India List and India Office List, 1905</ref>
*[[Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha|Satyendra Prasanna Sinha]] 1908–1909 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/s-p-sinha|title= S P Sinha|accessdate = 26 October 2015}}</ref>
*George Harry Blair Kenrick 1909–1916 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/000079c8-0cfe-496c-a4d6-7f6f9251e845|title=Papers of George Harry Blair Kenrick (d 1952), barrister, Advocate-General of Bengal|publisher=The National Archives|accessdate=27 October 2015}}</ref>
*[[Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha|Satyendra Prasanna Sinha]] 1916<ref>{{Citation |last=Pinakpani |title=English: List of Advocate General of Bengal or Calcutta High Court |date=2017-01-04 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:List_of_Advocate_General_of_Bengal.jpg |access-date=2022-03-04}}</ref>
*Thomas Clark Pilling Gibbons 1917–1923 <ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32782 |page=2 |supp=y|date=1 January 1923}}</ref>
*[[Satish Ranjan Das]] 1922– <ref>THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE. NOVEMBER 7, 1922. Page 1728</ref>
*Sir Brojendra Lai Mitter 1925–1928 <ref>The India Office and Burma Office List - Page 784</ref>
*[[Nripendra Nath Sircar|Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar]] 1928–1934 <ref>THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, DECEMBER 28, 1928. Page 1448</ref>
*Sir Asoka Kumar Roy 1934–1943 <ref>{{cite book|title= The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India|first= Eleanor|last = Newbigin|page=235}}</ref>
*Sudhansu Mohan Bose c.1946 <ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37598 |page=2757 |supp=y|date=13 June 1946}}</ref>

==References==
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