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Indian politician

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee (or Umesh Chandra Banerjee; 29 December – 21 July ) was an Indian independence activist and barrister who practiced in England.

He was a secretary of the London Indian Society founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in He was the one of the founders and the first president of Indian National Congress in at Bombay, serving again as president in at Allahabad.^[1] Bonnerjee financed the British Committee of Congress and its journals in London.

Along with Naoroji, Eardley Norton and William Digby he started the Congress Political Agency, a branch of Congress in London. He unsuccessfully contested the United Kingdom general election as a Liberal party candidate for the Barrow and Furness seat.

In , Naoroji, Bonnerjee and Badruddin Tyabji founded the Indian Parliamentary Committee in England.

Family

Bonnerjee was born on 29 December at Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the present-day state of West Bengal.^[2]