Advocate-General Of Bengal

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.

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 (died of cholera, 1845)
• Sir James William Colvile 1845–1848 (later Chief Justice of Bengal, 1855)
• William Ritchie 1855–1861

Government of the United Kingdom

• Thomas Hardwick Cowie 1862–1870
• Joseph Graham 1870–1873
• Sir Gregory Charles Paul 1873–1899
  • Frederick Joseph Patton 1878 (acting)
  • Sir Gruffydd Humphrey Pugh Evans 1895 (acting)
• James Tisdall Woodroffe 1899–1904
• Lewis Pugh Pugh 1900–
• Peter O'Kinealy 1904–
• 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–
• Sir Brojendra Lai Mitter 1925–1928
• Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar 1928–1934
• Sir Asoka Kumar Roy 1934–1943
• Sudhansu Mohan Bose c.1946