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|term = 1930–1934
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|birth_date = 14 May 1874<ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition= 97th |year=1939 |page= 2800 |ref=Burke }}</ref>
|birth_place = [[Jaunpur district]], Uttar Pradesh, British India
|death_date = August 1947 (aged 73)
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'''Sir Syed Wazir Hasan''' (14 May 1874 – August 1947) was an Indian [[jurist]] and Secretary and later President of the [[All-India Muslim League]]. A practitioner in the Judicial Commissioner's Court, he was the first Indian Chief Justice of the [[Awadh]] Chief Court (1930–1934).<ref name=ICCR>[http://www.iccrindia.org/gosha3.htm Gosh-e-Azad: Biography of Maulana Azad] ICCR.</ref> His Presidential address at the 24th Session, of Muslim League, held on 11–12 April 1936 in [[Bombay]], was noted for its call of Hindu-Muslim unity, before the call for separate Muslim state was raised by Jinnah the very next year.<ref>{{cite book |title= Education and politics: from Sir Syed to the present day : the Aligarh School|last= Muhammad|first=Shan |year=2002|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=81-7648-275-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7BCcgC0kvsC&q=Sir+Syed+Wazir+Hasan&pg=PA134 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Foundations of Pakistan: All-India Muslim League documents, 1906–1947, Volume 2 |last= Pirzada |first=Syed Sharifuddin |year=1969 |publisher=National Pub. House }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: S-Z |last=Singh |first=Nagendra Kr |year=2001|publisher= A.P.H. Pub. Corp.|isbn=81-7648-235-8 |page=439 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Muslim India, 1857–1947: a biographical dictionary |last= Saʻīd|first=Ahmad |year=1997 |publisher= Institute of Pakistan Historical Research|location=Lahore, Pakistan |page=335 }}</ref>

During [[Indian Independence movement]], he was the counsel for [[Hindustan Times]] newspaper, for the noted 'Hindustan Times Contempt Case', August–November 1941 at [[Allahabad High Court]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Hindustan Times Contempt Case (August–November, 1941)|last=. |first=Hesperides |year=2007|publisher=READ BOOKS|isbn=978-1-4067-6748-3 |page=283 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XtYhsX39MKQC&q=Sir+Syed+Wazir+Hasan&pg=PA283 }}</ref>

==Family and education==
Born in 1873 to Syed Zaheer, who belonged to a family was landed gentry from the [[Jaunpur district]] and he was expected to look after the estate. But he saw the opportunities that an English education would bring, quarrelled with his father and left for [[Aligarh Muslim University]] to study law, and also at [[Muir Central College]], [[Allahabad]]. He had 4 brothers: Syed Jafar Hasan, Syed Shabbir Hasan, a prominent poet of his time, also known as "Qateel Lakhnawi", Syed Asghar Hasan, and Syed Kazim Hasan. He had 2 sisters (names unknown). His sons were [[Sajjad Zaheer]] and [[Syed Ali Zaheer]]. Professor [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]] was his grandson.

==Career==
He had incisive intelligence and great knowledge and ability. As the Secretary of [[All-India Muslim League]], his meeting with [[Maulana Azad]] proved decisive for the party as after it for the first time in its history at the April 1913 Annual Session at [[Lucknow]] under [[Jinnah]] as the President, it changed its motto from "the attainment of suitable Self-Government for India" instead of "loyalty to British Government and the attainment of the rights of the Muslims", and the subsequent signing of [[Lucknow Pact]] with [[Indian National Congress]].<ref name=ICCR/>

He also had a large volume of work and was the first Indian member of the Oudh Bar Association to be elevated as Additional Judicial Commissioner in 1921. He continued as such till the Oudh Chief Court came into being in 1925, and he became a Justice of the Court. His judgments spoke volumes of his erudition and it is said that none of his judgments were ever upset by the Privy Council. He became the Chief Judge of the Chief Court in 1930 and retired in 1934. After retirement he shifted to [[Allahabad]] to practice. He lived like any [[Taluqdar]], and in later life dabbled in politics. He was knighted in the imperial [[1932 New Year Honours]] list and invested with his knighthood by the Viceroy of India in New Delhi on 4 March of that year.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33785|supp=y|page=3|date=29 December 1931}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33816|page=2398|date=12 April 1932}}</ref>

His successful career proved him right and getting a good education became the rule in the family. His daughters Fatima Zehra and Noor Zehra were among the first students to get enrolled in the newly established Muslim School for Girls, later known as Karamat Hussain College. His son [[Syed Ali Zaheer]] was a politician and member of the First Indian Cabinet, under [[Jawahar Lal Nehru]], and [[Syed Sajjad Zaheer]] (1904–1973) was a renowned Urdu writer, Marxist thinker and revolutionary. His other children were Syed Baquar, Syed Hussain, Nur Zehra, Nur Fatima, and Syed Hasan.

==Personal life==
His wife Lady Wazir Hasan, gave up ''[[purdah]]'' in 1930, during the [[Non-co-operation movement]] of [[Gandhi]] She gave away all her French chiffon saris and started wearing [[khadi]] and weaving on a [[Charkha (spinning wheel)|charkha]]. She was from Bhopal, and was the first girl to do a 'Middle' Exam, Class VI or Middle School.

The [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] Presidential address was delivered by Sir Wazir Hasan at the Bombay Session held on 11–12 April 1936. He died in [[Lucknow]] in August 1947 and was buried there as well.<ref>[http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Syed-Wazir-Hasan/6000000000288575712 Sir Syed Wazir Hasan Profile]</ref>

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |title= Evolution of Muslim Political Thought in India. (President Address of Sir Wazir Hasan)|last=Zaidi |first=A. Moin |year=1975 |publisher=Indian Institute of Applied Political Research by Michiko & Panjathan |page=207 }}

==References==
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->FreeToDisagree: Removed the religion-parameter from the infobox since it is no longer in use. Also did minor cleanup.