C. R. Pattabhirama Iyer

Chetpet Ramaswamy Pattabhirama Iyer (c.1857 - September 29, 1902), surname alternately spelt Aiyar, originally surnamed Dikshitar, was an Indian lawyer and jurist, noted for having led the Tanjore Bar and served as the Tanjore public prosecutor, before relocating to the city of Madras,^[1] whereupon he ultimately became a Vakil of the High Court of Madras, central member of the Mylapore clique, and a leader of the Madras bar,^[2] along with M. O. Parthasarathy Iyengar, V. Krishnaswamy Iyer, P. R. Sundaram Iyer, Sir V. C. Desikachariar, and Sir C. Sankaran Nair, immediately behind Sir V. Bhashyam Aiyangar and Sir S. Subramania Iyer, from 1891.^[3]

C.R. Pattabhirama Aiyar with wife Rangammal

He was appointed to the Madras City Civil Court as a judge in 1899, serving also on the Court of Small Causes, preparatory for higher judicial office, but died three years later, at the age of 45.^[4]

He fostered his only son, Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, in the family of C. V. Runganada Sastri, betrothing him to C. V. Sundara Sastri's daughter Seethamma, and apprenticing him to Sundara Sastri's son Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri, thus completing a merger of two powerful North Arcot Vadama dynasties.^[1][5]

References

1. Baker, Christopher John; Washbrook, D. A. (1976-06-18). South India. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-02746-0.
2. Paul, John Jeya (1986). Vakils of Madras, 1802-1928: The Rise of the Modern Legal Profession in South India. University of Wisconsin--Madison.
3. Gopalratnam, V. C. (1962). A Century Completed: A History of the Madras High Court, 1862-1962. Madras Law Journal Office.
4. The Law Times. Office of The Law times. 1902.
5. Price, Pamela G. (February 1989). "Ideology and Ethnicity under British Imperial Rule: 'Brahmans', Lawyers and Kin-Caste Rules in Madras Presidency". Modern Asian Studies. 23 (1): 151–177. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00011446. ISSN 0026-749X – via Cambridge University Press.