Facts: - monarch: elizabeth ii - predecessor: lord soulbury alan rose manikku wadumestri hendrick de silva - birth date: 25 october 1893 - relations: c. amirthalingam c. panchalingam c. suntharalingam c. thiagalingam - profession: judge , lawyer - blank: ethnicity - order: 27th - death date: 25 october 1958 - spouse: gnanam - office: acting puisne justice of the supreme court of ceylon attorney general governor-general of ceylon of ceylon acting chief justice of ceylon - term end: 1954 1954 1958 1947 - name: c. nagalingam - successor: lord soulbury hema henry basnayake edward percival rose - data: ceylon tamil - primeminister: john kotelawala - nationality: ceylonese - alma mater: ceylon 's college , jaffna law college royal college , colombo st. john - term start: 1954 1954 1947 25 january 1946 - image: chellappah nagalingam.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of c. nagalingam .
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justice chellappah nagalingam , kc was a leading ceylonese judge and lawyer .he was a judge of the supreme court of ceylon and served as acting governor-general of ceylon in 1954 .he also served as acting chief justice , acting legal secretary and attorney general .he was the first ceylon tamil to be appointed to the bench of the supreme court of ceylon .