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==Career== | ==Career== | ||
He was the Additional | He was the Additional Judge of Chittagong, District Judge of Comilla and then the District Judge of Hooghly in 1929. Later, he appointed as a Judge of the Calcutta High Court. He was conferred a knighthood in 1938.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34534/pages/4740 London Gazette, 22 July 1938]</ref> He became the Chief Justice of the Indian Princely State of Jaipur and then the last Chief Justice of the Indian Princely State of Kashmir from 29 March 1946 to 29 March 1948. He was one of the last officials of the former regime in Kashmir to have left the state just before the first Indo-Pakistan war broke out in 1948.<ref name=formerchiefjusticesandjudgesofjammu&kashmirhighcourt>[http://www.jkhighcourt.nic.in/ Former Chief Justices and Judges of Jammu & Kashmir High Court]</ref> He was also Chairman of the Rajasthan Public Service Commission.<ref name=rajasthanpublicservicecommission>[http://www.rpsc.gov.in/Profile.htm Rajasthan Public Service Commission]</ref> | ||
==Later life== | ==Later life== |
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