Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee.
Indian barrister and first president of Indian National Congress (1844-1906)
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About Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was an Indian independence activist and barrister who practised in England. He was a secretary of the London Indian Society founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1865. He was one of the founders and the first president of Indian National Congress in 1885 at Bombay, serving again as president in 1892 at Allahabad. 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.
Everything about Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee →- Occupation
- politician, barrister
- Position held
- President of the Indian National Congress
- Citizenship
- British Raj
- Born
- December 29, 1844
- Died
- July 21, 1906