Gooroodas Banerjee
scholar (1844–1918)
Sir Gooroodas Banerjee (also Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, 26 January 1844 – 2 December 1918) was a judge of the Calcutta High Court in British India. In 1890, he also became the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of University of Calcutta.
Education
He received his early education at the Oriental Seminary, and the Hare School at the Presidency College Calcutta, the General Assembly's Institution (now Scottish Church College), the University of Calcutta. He obtained an M.A. with a focus on Mathematics in 1865, winning a University medal for attaining first place in his examinations, and passed the B.L. examination in 1866. in 1877, he obtained a Doctorate in Law.
Career
Banerjee briefly taught as an Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, before joining the General Assembly's Institution, now known as the Scottish Church College, as a Professor of Mathematics.
Banerjee began his legal practice in Berhampore, simultaneously teaching law and mathematics on a part-time basis at Berhmapore College. In 1872, he moved his legal practice to Kolkata, representing clients such as the erstwhile Nawab of Murshidabad at the Calcutta High Court. In 1878, he was appointed to the Tagore Professorship of Law, and delivered the Tagore Law Lectures in the same year, on 'The Hindu Laws of Marriage and Stridhan'. The Tagore Law Lectures were later published as a legal text on Hindu marriage laws.
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