V. Krishnaswamy Iyer

Venkatarama Krishnaswamy Iyer CSI (15 June 1863 – 28 December 1911) was an Indian lawyer and High Court judge of Madras. He was involved in the prosecution of a partner of the British banking Company Arbuthnot & Co after the bank crashed on 22 October 1906. Following the crash, Iyer gathered together eight Indians who started a bank funded by Chettiar Capital which later became the Indian Bank. He is the first Indian to have a beach-fronted statue when a statue of his was put up outside the Senate House. Madras University in 1912.

For other people named Krishnaswami, see Krishnaswami.
In this Indian name, the name Venkatarama is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Krishnaswamy Iyer.
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