Sunder Lal (lawyer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian lawyer
Date of Birth: 21-May-1857
Place of Birth: Jaspur, Uttarakhand, India
Date of Death: 13-Feb-1918
Profession: lawyer
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Sunder Lal (lawyer)
- Rai Bahadur Sir Sunder Lal was born in Jaspur, near Nainital, on 21 May 1857. In 1876, he joined Muir Central College at Allahabad then led by Augustus Harrison.
- While an under-graduate Pandit Sunder Lal passed the Vakil's Examination of the High Court in 1880 and was enrolled as a Vakil on 21 December 1880.
- He practiced in Allahabad High Court.
- In 1896 the High Court raised him to the rank and status of Advocate. The distinction of 'Rai Bahadur' was conferred on him in 1905.
- He was appointed a CIE in 1907.
- In 1909 he accepted a seat on the Bench of the Judicial Commissioner's Court at Lucknow for a few months and in 1914 for brief periods officiated as a Judge of the Allahabad High Court. Appointed Member, Council of Law Reporting, Allahabad; Member of the Board of the Allahabad Court to represent Vakils, 1893; enrolled as Advocate, 1893; Fellow Allahabad University, since 1888 Member of the Syndicate, 1895, represented University in U.P.
- Legislative Council, 1904; and 1906-1909; one of the Secretaries of the MacDonnell Boarding House, Allahabad; Offg.
- Additional Judicial Commissioner, Oudh, 1909; Vice-Chairman, U.P.
- Exhibition, 1910-11; acting Judicial Commissioner for 5 months; Judge, High Court, N.W.P..
- 1914; owner of the largest private library in the Province; prominently connected with the establishment of the University School of Law and the Hindu University, Benares; nominated as an Additional Member, Imperial Legislative Council, 1915: resigned his seat in the U.P.
- Legislative Council, 1915.
- Address: Allahabad.In 1906, he became the first Indian Vice Chancellor of Allahabad University.
- He was reappointed to that office in 1912 and 1916. In 1916, he was named the founding Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University (BHU).
- The Sir Sunderlal Hospital of the Institute of Medical Sciences on the BHU campus is named in his honor.On 21 February 1917, Sunder Lal received a knighthood.
- He died in Allahabad on 13 February 1918 at age 61.
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