Shahab-ud-Din Virk

Chaudhry Sir Shahab-ud-Din Virk (died 1946) was a Punjabi lawyer and politician of British India. He presided over the Punjab Legislative Council for three consecutive terms between 1925 and 1936, and when that council was replaced by the Punjab Legislative Assembly he became its first Speaker, serving from April 1937 to March 1945. No Arabic or Urdu Wikipedia article exists for him; this account is written from the English article and the Wikidata item, and no consulted source records his birth date. ^{1 2}

He was born into a Muslim Jat family of the Virk tribe hailing from Sialkot District in the Punjab — as the article records his family background, citing Talbot's study of the Punjab Unionist Party and a Brill volume on Pakistan. He was educated at Government College in Lahore. ¹

In 1912 he was elected to the Lahore Municipal Committee. He became a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1923, and was elected its 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 he served as the Assembly's Speaker between April 1937 and March 1945. ¹

He died at Lahore in 1946. ^{1 2}

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