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'''Sir Thomas Joseph Strangman''' [[Queen's Counsel|QC]] (7 January 1873 – 8 October 1971) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[barrister]] who spent much of his career in [[India]].<br />
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Strangman was educated at [[Charterhouse School]] and [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] and was [[called to the bar]] by the [[Middle Temple]] in 1896.<ref>{{acad|id=STRN891TJ|name=Strangman, Thomas Joseph}}</ref> He practised in [[Bombay]], twice served as [[Advocate-General of Bombay]] (1908–1915 and 1916–1922), and as such was an ''ex officio'' member of the Bombay Legislative Council. As Advocate-General he was the first lawyer to successfully prosecute [[Gandhi]]. He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the 1920 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31712 |date=30 December 1919 |page=3 |supp=y}}</ref><br />
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In 1922 he returned to England and attempted to enter politics for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], unsuccessfully contesting [[Crewe (UK Parliament constituency)|Crewe]] in 1923 and [[Wolverhampton East (UK Parliament constituency)|Wolverhampton East]] in 1924. He then returned to practise in Bombay.<br />
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In about 1929 he returned to England permanently and specialised in Indian appeals before the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]]. He was highly successful in this practice and [[took silk]] in 1938. He became a [[bencher]] of [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1944.<br />
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He was also at various times chairman of the [[Eastern Bank Ltd (historic)|Eastern Bank]], the [[Banque Belge pour l'Etranger]], the [[Shanghai Electric Corporation]] and the [[Singapore Traction Company]].<br />
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In January 1928 Strangman's younger daughter, Josephine, married [[Kenelm Lee Guinness]] of the [[Guinness family|Guinness brewing family]]. The marriage was dissolved in 1936.<ref>{{cite book |last=Donnelly |first=Tom |title=[[Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography|Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]: Guinness, Kenelm Edward Lee|date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=019861411X}}</ref><br />
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==Footnotes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*Obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', 12 October 1971<br />
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