Career
He was the former Chairman of the executive committee of the East London Mosque. He is the grandfather of Salma Sobhan, Naz Ikramullah and Princess Sarvath of Jordan. In 1945 he was appointed Professor of Islamic History and Culture in Calcutta University while retaining the chair of Public Health and Hygiene, which he had held since 1931.
As Chief Medical and Health Officer of the East Indian Railway he founded the railway"s ambulance and nursing division.
Suhrawardy also played a role towards the establishment of the East London Mosque. lieutenant was while he was Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine that he received his knighthood immediately after he had saved the life of Sir Stanley Jackson from an attempt by Bina Das, a female student who attempted to shoot Jackson in the Senate House of the University of Calcutta in February, 1932.
His distinguished career in medicine and in the public service was crowned in 1939 by his appointment to succeed Sir Abdul Qadir as Adviser to the Secretary of State for India. He retired from that post in 1944.