Sir Manohar Lal KB (31 December 1871 – 1 May 1949) was an economist, lawyer and politician during the British Raj.
At Cambridge he became the first Indian to secure a first in the Moral Sciences Tripos, studying economics under Alfred Marshall.
[1] In 1904 he was awarded the prestigious Cobden Prize ahead of D. H. MacGregor and later that year he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn.
[1] In 1905 he returned to India owing to the ill health of his father and accepted a professorship at Randhir College in Kapurthala.
Following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 he was arrested on the basis of his role as a trustee of The Tribune newspaper and held in a jail for a month without charge.