(1844-12-29)29 December 1844 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Died
21 July 1906(1906-07-21) (aged 61) Croydon, London, England
Nationality
British Indian
Political party
Indian National Congress
Spouse
Hemangini Motilal
(m. 1859)
Alma mater
Middle Temple
Occupation
Lawyer
Known for
Co-founder and First president of Indian National Congress
Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee (or Umesh Chandra Banerjee (29 December 1844 – 21 July 1906) was an Indian barrister who practiced in England. He was a secretary of the London Indian society founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1865. He was a co-founder and the first president of Indian National Congress in 1885 at Bombay, served 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.
^Nanda, B. R. (2015) [1977], Gokhale: The Indian Moderates and the British Raj, Legacy Series, Princeton University Press, p. 58, ISBN 978-1-4008-7049-3
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