Titles and Honours :

- 1877 : Certificate of Honour & Delhi Medal

The Delhi medal presented to him at Bangalore by Lord Lytton in person. (page 52; T. Royaloo Chetty)

1st January 1877, durbar in the Public Offices at Bangalore, a certificate of honour was presented to Mr Thumboo Chetty, Sir James Gordon addressed him as follows: For the past two and twenty years you have well served the State, unaided, you have risen, through your high ability and equally high character, to the honourable, and responsible position you now occupy. By the intelligent, upright and thorough discharge of your duties you have well earned this recognition, which it gives me sincere pleasure to bestow in the name of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen-Empress of India.

- 1892 : The Pope’s Medal, Mr Thumboo Chetty was admitted to the order of ‘proecclesia et pontifice,’ and received the jubilee Medal of His Holiness the Pope Leo XIII.

- 1893 : Title of Raja Dharma Pravina, proclaimed by his Highness the Maharajah of Mysore Chamaraja Wodeyar, conferring this title on Mr Thumboo Chetty.

Mysore Gazette Extraordinary :— " On the 7th day of Asvija Sudha of the year Vijya, on Tuesday, corresponding to the 17th October 1893, during the Dassara Durbar, in honour of the date of ascension, His Highness the Maharajah of Mysore was pleased to confer, with suitable presents, the following titles and honours on the following gentlemen: — 1... 2. Trichinopoly Royaloo Arogheaswami Thumboo Chettiar, Raja Dharma Pravina.", (page 134; T. Royaloo Chetty)

The London Gazette

The Queen has been graciously pleased to make the following promotion in, and appointments to, the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire: -to be Companions. Trichinopoly Rayalu Arakiaswamy Thumboo Chetty, Member of the Council of Regency, Mysore. Source : THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 25, 1895

- 1895 : Companion of the Indian Empire, in may 1895, the Queen-Empress of India was graciously pleased to create Mr Thumboo Chetty a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire.

Companion of the Indian Empire.— In May 1895, Mr. Thumboo Chetty's name was included in the list of the Queen's Birthday Honours. The announcement that Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen-Empress was graciously pleased to create him a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire was made to him personally by the then British Resident, Mr. (after- wards Sir Wm.) Lee-Warner, through whom he tendered his most grateful acknowledgments for the honour conferred. Numerous were the congratulations he received from his many European and Indian friends, and foremost among them was a communication which Her Highness the Maharani Regent, C. I., was very pleased to send, through Her Private Secretary. It ran as follows : —

" Her Highness, while congratulating upon your well- deserved honour, feels proud that one of her own Councillors should be the recipient of such honours at the hands of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen-Empress. The fact merely indicates that your merits are recognized not only within the Province, but abroad, reaching the very ears of Her who is the fountain head of all Titles and Honours. Her Highness has already felt assured that the confidence she has reposed in you has been rightly placed, and that you will justify it." (page 134; T. Royaloo Chetty)

- 2008 : Unveiling the portrait of T. R. A. Thumboo Chetty

Thumboochetty’s portrait unveiled

BANGALORE: A portrait of T.R.A. Thumboochetty, the first Indian to become Chief Justice of India, was unveiled on the High Court premises here on Thursday.

Born in April 1837, Thumboochetty studied law and was posted as munsiff in Bellary. He was subsequently transferred as Registrar under J.P. Kindersley, Judicial Commissioner. Thumboochetty served as Assistant Commissioner in the Revenue and Judicial branches. Mr. Thumboochetty later became the Judge of Small Causes Court in Bangalore When the Mysore Council was constituted, he was appointed a senior ex-officio member When the Chief Court of Mysore was constituted in 1884, he was appointed one of the judges of the court. He became the Chief Judge of the then Mysore State and was in that post from March 1, 1891 to August 11, 1900 when he retired.

At the museum

The Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court Cyriac Joseph, unveiled Thumboochetty’s portrait in the museum of the High Court.

(Saturday, Jun 07, 2008 edition)

Erratum : Mr. Thumboo Chetty was The Chief Judge of Mysore officially from july 1890 to Nov 1895. source (page 218-224; T. Royaloo Chetty)

www.hindu.com/2008/06/07/stories/2008060758270300.htm

Places named after Mr. T. R. A Thumboo Chetty :

Places which are named after this great statesman as a reminder of his contribution to the State of Mysore :

- The Raja Dharma Pravina Thumboo Chettiar Dispensary Bangalore (1895) — charitable institution, situated between the Bowring Civil Hospital and St. Paul's Church, attached to the Bowring Hospital. This charitable institution, the foundation stone of which was laid by the philanthropic donor, on the 24th December 1893, was completed in 1895. (Page 156 T. Royaloo Chetty)

- Thumboo Chetty Road, Cox Town, Bangalore.

- T. R. A. Thumboo Chetty Circle, Frazer town, Bangalore.

- Thumboo Chetty Palya, Battarahalli, Bangalore.