Zahid Suhrawardy

Zahid Suhrawardy
Suhrawardy in Kolkata, 1937
Judge, Calcutta High Court
In office
25 February 1921 – 27 November 1931
Personal details
Born
Zuhad Rahim Zahid Suhrawardy

27 November 1870[1]
Midnapore, Bengal, British India
Died2 January 1949(1949-01-02) (aged 78)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
SpouseKhujista Akhtar Banu
Children

Sir Zahid Suhrawardy (27 November 1870 – 2 January 1949), also known as Zahidur Rahman,[2] was an Indian Bengali jurist who served a judge in the Calcutta High Court between 1921 and 1931. He was the father of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, a former Prime Minister of Pakistan, and linguist Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy.

  1. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1939). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (97th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 2921–2922.
  2. ^ Gangopadhyay, Sunil (3 April 2010). "Forgotten pride of our subcontinent". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.