EvKNTS OF HIS LIFE. 13 He was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 1888. He was elected a member of the Syndicate of the Calcutta University in 1886 and in the four succeeding years. In 1890 ho was appointed Vice Chancellor of the Calcutta University. This was the first, appointment of an Indian as Vice Chancellor of an Indian University and Lord Lansdowne in his convocation speech in 1890 spoke of the appointment in the following torms:- "There was however a special reason why I was particularly anxious to attend this convocation. I desired to offer my congratulations to the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University on his accession to the honourable office. He enters upon it with the goodwill of his fellow citizens, of the country and of the Government of India. I do not believe that any more suitable selection could have been made. As a member of the University conspicuous among his contemporaries during his career as a student, as a man of cultivatel taste and scholarly attainments, as a distinguished ornament of the Judicial Bonch, and as a gentleman occupying an honourable position in the community which is most largely represented amongst the members of the Calcutta University he is admirably qualified to take a leading part in its affairs. It has becn very gratifying to me, as indeed it must have been, to observe the manner in which his appointment has been received. I have been long enough in this
