Womesh chandra banerjee biography of william

Indian politician

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee (or Umesh Chandra Banerjee; 29 December 1844 – 21 July 1906) was an Indian independence activist and barrister who practiced in England.

Womesh chandra banerjee biography of william

He was a secretary of the London Indian Society founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1865. He was the one of the founders and the first president of Indian National Congress in 1885 at Bombay, serving again as president in 1892 at Allahabad.^[1] Bonnerjee financed the British Committee of Congress and its journals in London.

Along with Naoroji, Eardley Norton and William Digby he started the Congress Political Agency, a branch of Congress in London. He unsuccessfully contested the 1892 United Kingdom general election as a Liberal party candidate for the Barrow and Furness seat.

In 1893, Naoroji, Bonnerjee and Badruddin Tyabji founded the Indian Parliamentary Committee in England.

Family

Bonnerjee was born on 29 December 1844 at Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the present