Lieutenant-Colonel Hassan Suhrawardy CStJ, FRCS was a Bengali surgeon, military officer in the British Indian Army, politician, and a public official, he was the former chairman of the executive committee of the East London Mosque.
10 Facts About Hassan Suhrawardy
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Hassan Suhrawardy was born in Dhaka, to Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy, an educationist and scion of the prominent Suhrawardy family of Midnapore.
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At a very young age, Hassan Suhrawardy was married to Sahibzadi Shahbanu Begum in a match arranged by their families in the usual Indian way.
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Hassan Suhrawardy was the first Muslim vice-chancellor of Calcutta University and the second Muslim from the sub-continent to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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Hassan Suhrawardy served as an adviser to the Simon Commission and was a member of the Bengal Legislative Council of which he was deputy president from 1923 to 1925.
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Hassan Suhrawardy played a role towards the establishment of the East London Mosque.
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Hassan Suhrawardy's distinguished career in medicine and in the public service was crowned in 1939 by his appointment to succeed Sir Abdul Qadir as the adviser to the Secretary of State for India.
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Hassan Suhrawardy was appointed an OBE in the 1927 Birthday Honours list, awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal, First Class in the same honours list in 1930, knighted on 17 February 1932, appointed an Associate Officer of the Venerable Order of St John in January 1932 and promoted to Associate Commander in January 1937.
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Hassan Suhrawardy died at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, aged 61.
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Hassan Suhrawardy had renounced his knighthood and OBE a month before his death in August 1946, when the Muslim League decided to renounce all British honours.