Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky
| birth_date = 1876
| birth_place = Kaliakair Upazila, Gazipur District, British Raj
| death_date = {{death year and age|1937|1876}}
| death_place = Kaliakair Upazila, Gazipur District, British Raj
| occupation = {{flatlist|
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| relatives = Badruddin Ahmed Siddiky (nephew)
Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky (grandson)
| party = All-India Muslim League
| nationality = British Indian
| alma_mater =
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Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky (1876–1937) was a Bengali Muslim aristocrat and politician during the British Raj. A Khan Bahadur, he was one of the founders of the University of Dacca.{{cite book |last=Salam |first=Muhammad Abdus |year=2012 |chapter=Siddiky, Kazemuddin Ahmad |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Siddiky,_Kazemuddin_Ahmad |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}} He was President of the Eastern Bengal and Assam Muslim League between 1908 and 1912. He was also a member of the governing council of Jagannath College.
Siddiky was fluent in Bengali, English, Urdu, Arabic and Persian.
Social work
Family
Siddiky was born in 1876 into the landlord family of Baliadi hamlet in Gazipur, central Bengal. He was a descendant of Qutubuddin Koka, one of the early Mughal Viceroys of Bengal. His brother's son Justice Badruddin Ahmed Siddiky was the Chief Justice of the High Court of Dacca and Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. His grandson Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky was a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and a former cabinet minister in Bangladesh.
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