Lord Sinha's house at Raipur (Raipur, Birbhum)

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Satyendra Prasanno Sinha was born on 24 March 1863 in Raipur, Birbhum in Bengal, British India. His father was a zamindar of the Kayastha caste. He was educated first in Bibhum Zilla School at Suri and then obtained a scholarship to Presidency College, Calcutta, then an affiliate of the University of Calcutta, in 1878. He married Gobinda Mohini Mitter on 15 May 1880 at Mahata, Burdwan, Bengal, and in 1881 he abandoned his studies in India to study law in England. Scholarships and prizes enabled him to attend Lincoln's Inn and in 1886 he returned to Calcutta as a barrister.
He became Governor of Bihar and Odisha in 1920, the first Indian to be appointed to such a high rank in the administration. But he retired on grounds of health in 1921. He became a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1926.

Lord Sinha died on 4 March 1928 at Berhampore. He and his wife had seven children.