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– Thomas Henry Davies 1786–?1792 Sir William Burroughs, Bt 1792–1801 Edward Strettell ?1803–c.1816 Robert Cutlar Fergusson (acting) c.1817 Robert Spankie 1817–?1823 Robert Cutlar Fergusson 1823– John Pearson 1824–1840 (Sir) Lawrence Peel 1840–1842 (afterwards Chief Justice of Bengal, 1842) John Edwardes Lyall 1842–?1845 The Asiatic Journal (died of cholera, 1845) Sir James William Colvile 1845–1848 (later Chief Justice of Bengal, 1855) William Ritchie 1855–1861 Bengal: Past and Present, Volume 64 Government of the United Kingdom Thomas Hardwick Cowie 1862–1870 The India Office and Burma Office List - Page 25 Joseph Graham 1870–1873 Sir Gregory Charles Paul 1873–1899 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– The India List and India Office List, 1905 Satyendra Prasanna Sinha 1908–1909 George Harry Blair Kenrick 1909–1916 Satyendra Prasanna Sinha 1916 Thomas Clark Pilling Gibbons 1917–1923 Satish Ranjan Das 1922– THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE. NOVEMBER 7, 1922. Page 1728 Sir Brojendra Lai Mitter 1925–1928 The India Office and Burma Office List - Page 784 Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar 1928–1934 THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, DECEMBER 28, 1928. Page 1448 Sir Asoka Kumar Roy 1934–1943 Sudhansu Mohan Bose c.1946
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