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{{Infobox officeholder
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name = V. B. Iyengar
| honorific-prefix = Sir
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]]
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image = Venbakam_Bashyam_Aiyangar.jpg
| predecessor2 = C. A. White
| office1 = [[Advocate-General]] of [[Madras Presidency]] (acting)
| predecessor1 = [[J. H. Spring-Branson]]
| successor1 = [[C. A. White]]
| successor2 = [[J. E. P. Wallis]]
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birth_name = Vembakkam Bhashyam Aiyangar
|
birth_date = January 1844
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birth_place = [[Vembakkam]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[India]]
| death_date = 18 November 1908
| death_place = [[Madras Presidency]], [[India]]
|
spouse =
| occupation = [[lawyer]]
| profession = [[Advocate-General]], [[legislator]]
|
| term_start1 = 1897
| term_end1 =1898
| term_start2 = 1899
| term_end2 =1900
}}

[[Diwan Bahadur]] '''Sir Vembakkam Bhashyam Aiyangar''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CIE}} (January 1844 – 18 November 1908) was an eminent [[lawyer]] and [[jurist]] who served as the first Indian Advocate-General of [[Madras Province]] and also as a Judge of the Madras High Court.

== Posts held ==

Bhashyam Aiyangar served as the Acting Advocate General of Madras from February 1897 to March 1898 and September 1899 to March 1900.<ref name="indiaofficelistp439">[[#India Office List 1905|India Office List 1905]], Pg 439</ref> He was the first Indian to hold the post. In February, 1897, Bhashyam Aiyangar was nominated to the [[Madras Legislative Council]] as an official member He was nominated for two more terms in November 1899 and March 1900.<ref name="indiaofficelistp439" /><ref name="indiaofficelistp75">[[#India Office List 1905|India Office List 1905]], Pg 75</ref>

In July 1901 Bhashyam Aiyangar was appointed a Judge of the High Court at Madras,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27338 |date=26 July 1901 |page=4950}}</ref> in which position he served until 1904.

== Honours ==

Bhashyam Aiyangar was created a [[Order of the Indian Empire|Companion of the Indian Empire]] in May 1895.<ref name="indiaofficelistp439" /> He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] on 5 February 1900,<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27162 |page=806 |date=6 February 1900}}</ref> after a knighthood had been announced in the [[1900 New Year Honours|1900 New Year Honours list]].<ref name="knighthood">{{cite book |last=Shaw |first=William Arthur |year=1906 |title=The Knights of England |volume=II |location=London |publisher=Sherratt and Hughes |page=406 |url=https://archive.org/stream/knightsofengland02shawuoft#page/406/mode/2up}}</ref>

A statute of Bhashyam Aiyangar was donated by [[M. S. Nagappa]] in 1927 and has been installed in the Madras High Court campus, just outside the Madras Bar Association entrance.

== Personal life ==

Bhashyam Aiyangar had a number of daughters. His third daughter was married to eminent lawyer and freedom fighter [[S. Srinivasa Iyengar]].<ref name="somemadrasleadersp11">[[#Some Madras Leaders|Some Madras Leaders]], Pg 11</ref> The Indian independence activist [[Ambujammal]] is his granddaughter.

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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* {{cite book | title=The India List and India Office List| last=Great Britain India Office| date=1905| publisher=Harrison and Sons| location=London|ref=India Office List 1905}}
* {{cite book | title=Some Madras Leaders| date=1922| publisher=Babu Bishambher Nath Bhargava| location=Allahabad|ref=Some Madras Leaders}}

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[[Category:1844 births]]
[[Category:1908 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian lawyers]]
[[Category:People of British India]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]
[[Category:Knights Bachelor]]
[[Category:Indian knights]]
[[Category:Lawyers awarded knighthoods]]
[[Category:Advocates General for Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Members of the Madras Legislative Council]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian lawyers]]
[[Category:People from Tiruvannamalai district]]

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