Mancherjee Bhownaggree

Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree KCIE (15 August 1851 – 14 November 1933) was a British Conservative Party politician of Indian Parsi heritage.

Called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1885, in the following year the Maharaja appointed him judicial councillor, a post in which he introduced far-reaching reforms.

His compatriot Dadabhai Naoroji was in the 1892-95 parliament, but Bhownaggree was the only other Indian of that time to enter the House of Commons, and the only one to be re-elected (1900).

[2] He originated and unflaggingly maintained in and out of the House the long battle against the disabilities of Indians in South Africa and other overseas dominions of the Crown.

2239, 1904), and was sent to Lord Milner by the Colonial Secretary, Alfred Lyttelton, with the observation that he felt much sympathy for the views expressed, and that it would be difficult to give a fully satisfactory answer.

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Grave of Mancherjee Bhownaggree in Brookwood Cemetery