Shahab-ud-Din Virk
Chaudhry Sir Shahab-ud-Din Virk was a Punjabi lawyer and politician of British India.Biography
Virk was born into a Muslim Jatt family in Sialkot District, Punjab, British India. He was educated at Government College University in Lahore. In 1912 he was elected to Lahore Municipal Committee. He became a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1923, and was elected President for three consecutive terms between 1925 and 1936. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours list of 1930. In 1936 the Council was replaced by the Punjab Legislative Assembly, and Virk served as the Speaker of the Assembly between April 1937 and March 1945. He died in Lahore in 1946.
