The Advocate-General of Madras was charged with advising the Government of the British-administered

Madras Presidency The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India. At its greatest extent, the presidency i ...

on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1652 to 1950. Prior to 1858, when it was administered by the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

, the Advocate-General was the senior law officer of that company and also the Attorney-General of the Sovereign of Great Britain and an ''ex-officio'' member of the Madras Legislative Council.

List of Advocates-General

Madras Presidency

* Alexander Anstruther 1803–?1812 *Sir Samuel Toller 1812–1821 * Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton 1822–1828 *George Norton 1828–1839 *W. Bathie 1833–1834 (acting) * Thomas Sydney Smith 1861–1863 * John Bruce Norton 1863–1868 * John Dawson Mayne 1868–1872 (acting) * Henry Stewart Cunningham 1872–1877 * Patrick O'Sullivan 1877–1882 * Hale Horatio Shephard 1885–1887 * James Spring Branson 1887–1897 * V. Bhashyam Aiyangar 1897–1898 (acting) * Charles Arnold White 1898–1899 (afterwards Chief Justice of Madras, 1899) *V. Bhashyam Aiyangar 1899–1900 (acting) * John Edward Power Wallis 1900–1906 (later Chief Justice of Madras, 1914) * C. Sankaran Nair 1906–1907 * P. S. Sivaswami Iyer 1907–1912 * S. Srinivasa Iyengar 1912–1920 * C. P. Ramaswami Iyer 1920–1923 * C. Madhavan Nair 1923–1924 * T. R. Venkatarama Sastri 1924–1928 * Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer 1929–1944 * P. V. Rajamannar 1944–1945 (later Chief Justice of Madras, 1948) * K. Rajah Iyer 1945–1950

Madras State

* V. K. Thiruvenkatachari 1950–1964 * N. Krishnaswami Reddy 1964–1966 * Mohan Kumaramangalam 1966–1967

Tamil Nadu

* Govind Swaminadhan 1967–1976 * K. Parasaran 1976–1977 * V. P. Raman 1977–1979 * R. Krishnamoorthy 1980–1989 * K. Subramaniam 1991–1994 * R. Krishnamoorthy 1994–1996 * K.V.Venkatapathi 1996–2001 * N. R. Chandran 2001–2006 * R. Viduthalai 2006–2007 * G. Masilamani 2007–2009 * P. S. Raman 2009–2011 * A. Navaneethakrishnan 2011–2013 * A. L. Somayaji 2013–2016 * R. Muthukumarasamy 2016–2017 * Vijay Narayan 2017–2021 * R. Shunmugasundaram 2021–2023

References

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