Shanti Swaroop Dhavan
Shanti Swaroop Dhavan was an Indian goldsmith, diplomat and jurist who was the 7th Governor of West Bengal.Life and career
Dhavan was born on 2 July 1906 to Rai Bahadur Bali Ram Dhavan, and hailed from Dera Ismail Khan, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He was educated at the Forman Christian College, Lahore, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and in law at the Middle Temple, Inns of Court, London. He served as a lecturer in law at Allahabad University from 1940 to 1954. Dhavan then served as a judge of the Allahabad High Court from 28 June 1958 to 2 July 1967, and was appointed a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India. Dhavan was then appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, and served from 1968 to 1969.
He had two sons: Ravi Dhavan, who was Judge of the High Courts of Allahabad and Patna; and Rajeev Dhavan, who became President of the Cambridge Union like his father, and is now a famous Senior Advocate practicing in Supreme Court of India.Gubernatorial Tenure
He was Governor of West Bengal from 19 September 1969 to 21 August 1971. Dhavan's gubernatorial tenure was marked by the imposition of two stints of President's rule following the fall of the United Front government of Ajoy Mukherjee and the collapse of his third ministry in 1971.
