Abu Sayeed Chowdhury

Abu Sayeed Chowdhury was a jurist and the second President of Bangladesh. Besides that, he held the positions of the Chairmen of the United Nations Commission on Human rights, the vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka, the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh and the first Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK .

Chowdhury graduated in 1940 from the Presidency College in Kolkata. He obtained his master's and law degrees from University of Kolkata in 1942 and after the second world war he completed bar-at-law in London.

Chowdhury joined the Kolkata High Court Bar in 1947, and after the partition of India he came over to Dhaka and joined the Dhaka High Court Bar in 1948. Chowdhury died of a heart attack in London on 2 August 1987 and was buried in his village, Nagbari of Tangail.