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 f «S9 1 GURUDAS BANERJL SirGurudas Banerji, the great lawyer and educationist, was bom at Narikaldanga near Calcutta in 1844, He is the third son of Pandit, Pitambar Tarkapanchanau, His College career was a brilliant one. Passing through the lower examinations with great credit, he came out as a first class M. A. in 1865 and was the gold-medalist in Mathematics of that year. He was appointed Assistant Lectuier in Mathematics at the Presidency College that very year. He passed the B. L. Examination next year and was enrolled as a Vakil of the High Court, He served as Law Lecturer in the Berhampore College from 1866 to 1872. He became a D. L. in 1877 and 41. the- same year was appointed the Tagore Law Lec- turer and a Fellow of the Calcutta University. He was Vice- Chanccllor of the University from 1889 to 1891, and in that capa- city and as an ordinary Fellow, has rendered gTeat service to the University and to the cause of education in general. He has also done great service to the country as a member of the Bengal Legislative Council and as a Municipal Commissioner. He was appointed an Honarary Presidency Magistrate in 1887. In 1889 the Government of India rewarded his legal abilities and his high character by appointing him a Judge of the Calcutta High Court. He filled this high post till 1903 with great ability, uprightness and independence. In 1902 .be was appointed a member of Lord Cur- zon's University Commission and rendered great service to the country in that capacity. His note of dissent from his colleagues was hailed with a chorus of praise and appreciation by the whole country and must have done not a little to neutralise the harmful effects of the Commission's recommendations. The recently pro- mulgated regulations of the Calcutta University under the Univer-