Men-at-the-Bar/Ameer, Ali (Hon. Syed)

by Joseph Foster

Ameer, Ali (Hon. Syed), M.A., chief magistrate Calcutta, a member of Legislative Council of governor-general of India 1884, lecturer Mahommedan law in Bengal Presidency Coll., author of The Personal Law of the Mahommedans, a student of the Inner Temple 2 May, 1870 (then aged 22), called to the bar 27 Jan., 1873 (4th son of Syed Saadad, Ali, Khan Bahadoor, late of Hooghly, Bengal); born , 1848; married 21 Oct., 1884, Isabelle, 2nd dau. of H. Kohnstamm, of London.

Calcutta.