The Advocate-General of Madras was charged with advising the Government of the British-administered Madras Presidency on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1652 to 1950. Prior to 1858, when it was administered by the East India Company, the Advocate-General was the senior law officer of that company and also the Attorney-General of the Sovereign of Great Britain and an ex-officio member of the Madras Legislative Council.
List of Advocates-General
Madras Presidency
Alexander Anstruther 1803–?1812 Sir Samuel Toller 1812–1821 Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton 1822–1828 George Norton 1828–1839 W. Bathie 1833–1834 (acting) Thomas Sydney Smith 1861–1863 John Bruce Norton 1863–1868 John Dawson Mayne 1868–1872 (acting) Henry Stewart Cunningham 1872–1877 Patrick O'Sullivan 1877–1882 Hale Horatio Shephard 1885–1887 James Spring Branson 1887–1897 V. Bhashyam Aiyangar 1897–1898 (acting) Charles Arnold White 1898–1899 (afterwards Chief Justice of Madras, 1899) V. Bhashyam Aiyangar 1899–1900 (acting) John Edward Power Wallis 1900–1906 (later Chief Justice of Madras, 1914) C. Sankaran Nair 1906–1907 P. S. Sivaswami Iyer 1907–1912 S. Srinivasa Iyengar 1912–1920 C. P. Ramaswami Iyer 1920–1923 C. Madhavan Nair 1923–1924 T. R. Venkatarama Sastri 1924–1928 Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer 1929–1944 P. V. Rajamannar 1944–1945 (later Chief Justice of Madras, 1948) K. Rajah Iyer 1945–1950 K.Kuttikrishna Menon 1950-1951 https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/indiandailymail19500726-1.2.41
Madras State V. K. Thiruvenkatachari 1951–1964 N. Krishnaswami Reddy 1964–1966 Mohan Kumaramangalam 1966–1967 P.L.Narayanan viluthugal1000-10000
Tamil Nadu NameTenure Start Tenure End Govind Swaminadhan 19671976 K. Parasaran 19761977 V. P. Raman 19771979 R. Krishnamoorthy 19801989 K. Subramaniam 19911994 R. Krishnamoorthy 19941996 K. V. Venkatapathi 19962001 N. R. Chandran 20012006 R. Viduthalai 20062007 G. Masilamani 20072009 P. S. Raman 20092011 A. Navaneethakrishnan 20112013 A. L. Somayaji 20132016 R. Muthukumarasamy 20162017 Vijay Narayan 20172021 R. Shunmugasundaram 20212023 P. S. Raman20242026 Vijay Narayan2026
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