Tributes to his Memory. HGH COURT. At 11 A.M. on Tuesday the 3rd Dec. 1918 the Chicf Justice and all the other Judges of the Court met in the Chief Justice's Court room, which was crowded with barristers, attorneys, vakils, officers of the Court and litigants. Mr. Ram Charan Mitter, Senior Government Pleader addressing their lordships said:-My Lords, it is with a heavy heart that I have to bring to your notice the dcath of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee, who till February 1904, was a colleague of your lordships on the Bench for a period of sixteen years. The sad event took place at 1 o'clock last night. The deceased was born in January, 1844, at Narikeldanga, in the suburbs of calcutts, in a respectable Brahmin family. When Gooroo Dass was a mere infant his father dicd, and the duty of bringing him up fell on his mother who was an exemplary lady. Master Gooroo Dass at an carly age showed signs of his future greatness. Having matriculated from the Hare School he was admitted into the Presidency College whence he passed the F.A., B. A., M. A. and B.L. examinations, always taking the first place among the successful candidates. In 1866, at the age of 22, he was enrolled as a Vakil of the High Court but having shortly been offered the appointment of the Law Lecturer in the Berhampur College with liberty to practice as a pleader in the Local Courts, he joined
