Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru

Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru

Name : Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru
Date of birth : December 8th, 1875
Date of Death : January 20, 1949
Place of birth : Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Place of death : Allahabad
Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Occupations: lawyer

Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru (1875–1949) was an Indian lawyer, political and social leader in India during the British Raj.Tej Bahadur Sapru was born on December 8th, 1875 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He was born in a Kashmiri Brahmin family living in Delhi. He was educated at the Agra College, He attended high school in Aligarh and matriculated at Agra College, where he took his law degree. Sapru worked in the Allahabad High Court as a lawyer in 1898. He was knighted in 1922.

Sapru served in the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) Legislative Council (1913–16), the Imperial Legislative Council (1916–20), and was law member of the Viceroy's Council (1920–23). He was very active in the Indian Round Table Conferences 1931-1933 (see Muldoon) and served as an informal spokesman for liberal views in the first of these which was boycotted by Congress. He was also a member of the Privy council in 1934.He died on January 20, 1949 in Allahabad.

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