<Tr> <Th> Cause of death </Th> <Td> cerebral haemorrhage </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Joachim Alva </Td> </Tr> <P> Violet Hari Alva (24 April 1908--20 November 1969) was an Indian lawyer, politician and Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, and member of the Indian National Congress . She was the first woman lawyer to appear before a High Court in India and the first to preside over the Rajya Sabha . </P> <P> Alva was born Violet Hari on 24 April 1908 in Ahmedabad . She was the eighth of nine children . Violet's father, Reverend Laxman Hari, was one of the first Indian pastors of the Church of England . Having lost both her parents when she was sixteen, her older siblings provided for her education till her matriculation at Bombay's Clare Road Convent . She graduated from St. Xavier's College, Bombay and Government Law College . For a while thereafter, she was a professor of English at the Indian Women's University, Bombay . </P>

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