Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha, was a prominent lawyer and statesman in British India.
He was the first Governor of Bihar and Orissa, first Indian Advocate-General of Bengal, first Indian to become a member of the Viceroy’s executive Council and the first Indian to become a member of the British ministry.
He is sometimes also referred as Satyendra Prasanno Sinha or Satyendra Prasad Sinha.
Sinha who was born in a zamindar family, completed his early education from Birbhum Zilla School at Suri and then obtained a scholarship to carry on with his higher studies at Presidency College, Calcutta. In 1881, he left his studies in India to study law in England. In 1886 he returned to Calcutta as a barrister. Sinha established a successful legal practice in Calcutta. inha was a member of the Indian National Congress from 1896 to 1919 – rising to become its president in 1915 at the Bombay session.

Shantiniketan was originally a part of the ancestral zamindari of the Sinha family , Satyendra Prasad Sinha donated for the construction of Sinha Sadan with a clock tower and bell. It was in this building that Oxford University conferred its honorary doctorate on the poet, Rabindranath Tagore.