Sir Thomas Joseph Strangman QC (7 January 1873 – 8 October 1971) was a British barrister who spent much of his career in

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. Strangman was educated at

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and

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and was called to the bar by the

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in 1896. He practised in

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, twice served as

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(1908–1915 and 1916–1922), and as such was an ''ex officio'' member of the Bombay Legislative Council. As Advocate-General he was the first lawyer to successfully prosecute

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. He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours. In 1922 he returned to England and attempted to enter politics for the Conservative Party, unsuccessfully contesting

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in 1923 and Wolverhampton East in 1924. He then returned to practise in Bombay. In about 1929 he returned to England permanently and specialised in Indian appeals before the

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. He was highly successful in this practice and

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in 1938. He became a

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of Lincoln's Inn in 1944. He was also at various times chairman of the

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, the Banque Belge pour l'Etranger, the Shanghai Electric Corporation and the Singapore Traction Company. In January 1928 Strangman's younger daughter, Josephine, married

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of the Guinness brewing family. The marriage was dissolved in 1936.

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