Badaruddin Taiyabji

Badruddin Tyabji (Tyab Ali) (1844-1906) was the third President of the Indian National Congress. He was succeeded by George Yule.

He was born on October 10, 1844 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. He was the son of the scion of an old Cambay emigrant Arab family.

He passed the London Matriculation and joined the Middle Temple. He became the first Indian Barrister in Bombay in April, 1867. He accepted a Judgeship of the Bombay High Court in 1895. In 1902, he became the first Indian to hold the post of Chief Justice in Bombay.

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* [http://www.congresssandesh.com/AICC/history/presidents/badruddin_tyabji.htm Badruddin Tyabji]