C. R. Pattabhirama Iyer

{{Short description|Indian lawyer and jurist}}

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Chetput Ramaswami Pattabhirama Iyer (c.1857 - September 29, 1902), surname alternately spelt Aiyar, originally surnamed Dikshitar, was an Indian lawyer and jurist, noted for having led the Tanjore Bar and served as the Tanjore public prosecutor, before relocating to the city of Madras,{{Cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Christopher John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fHCwCwAAQBAJ |title=South India |last2=Washbrook |first2=D. A. |date=1976-06-18 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-349-02746-0 |language=en}} whereupon he ultimately became a Vakil of the High Court of Madras, central member of the Mylapore clique, and a leader of the Madras bar,{{Cite book |last=Paul |first=John Jeya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bHQAAAAMAAJ |title=Vakils of Madras, 1802-1928: The Rise of the Modern Legal Profession in South India |date=1986 |publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison |language=en}} along with M. O. Parthasarathy Iyengar, V. Krishnaswamy Iyer, P. R. Sundaram Iyer, Sir V. C. Desikachariar, and Sir C. Sankaran Nair, immediately behind Sir V. Bhashyam Aiyangar and Sir S. Subramania Iyer, from 1891.{{Cite book |last=Gopalratnam |first=V. C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-pPAQAAIAAJ |title=A Century Completed: A History of the Madras High Court, 1862-1962 |date=1962 |publisher=Madras Law Journal Office |language=en}}

He was appointed to the Madras City Civil Court as a judge in 1899, serving also on the Court of Small Causes, preparatory for higher judicial office, but died three years later, at the age of 45.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQE5AQAAMAAJ |title=The Law Times |date=1902 |publisher=Office of The Law times |language=en}}

He fostered his only son, Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, in the family of C. V. Runganada Sastri, betrothing him to C. V. Sundara Sastri's daughter Seethamma, and apprenticing him to Sundara Sastri's son Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri, thus completing a merger of two powerful North Arcot Vadama dynasties.{{Cite journal |last=Price |first=Pamela G. |date=February 1989 |title=Ideology and Ethnicity under British Imperial Rule: 'Brahmans', Lawyers and Kin-Caste Rules in Madras Presidency |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0026749X00011446/type/journal_article |journal=Modern Asian Studies |language=en |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=151–177 |doi=10.1017/S0026749X00011446 |issn=0026-749X |via=Cambridge University Press|url-access=subscription }}