Nur Ahmed was born on 25 December 1890 to a Bengali Muslim family of Qazi-Saudagars in the Alkaran mahallah of the port city of Chittagong in southeastern Bengal, British Raj.
He graduated with a First Class master's degree in history in 1916 receiving the Chancellor's Gold Medal for extraordinary result.
He played a pioneering role in establishing educational institutions beside providing urban facilities to the people of Chattogram.
On April 10, 1952 the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan convened in Karachi and the day's proceedings began with a motion moved by Nur Ahmed from Chittagong.
[1]In 1954 he retired from active politics and voluntarily abstained from running for the Chairmanship of the Municipality and devoted his time to writing.