Sathyendra Prasad Sinha

Sinha, Sir Satyendra Prasanna Born in Bengal and a lawyer by profession, he was the first Indian to be appointed as a governor (of Bihar and Orissa from 1920 to 24) by the British. He was also the First Indian to be appointed as a member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council (1909), and the only Indian to be honoured with a peerage. Taking to politics quite late in life, he presided over the Bombay Session (1915) of the INC.