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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mehta    
First Name(s)  Rustumji Dhunjibhoy    
Birth Year  1849    
Entry  Born at Bombay, July 26, 1849 : son of Dhunjibhoy Byramji Mehta : educated at the Bombay Branch School and at the Bengal Academy from 1860, when his father settled in Calcutta : joined his father's business, Messrs. D. B. Mehta and Co. : in 1870 went to Hongkong to manage a branch of the business there and visited Japan : went to England in 1877 to purchase machinery for the Empress of India Cotton Mills, and again in 1891 for the education of his sons : Sheriff of Calcutta, 1893 : Consul for Persia at Calcutta, 1899 : Member of the Bengal Asiatic Society, Port Commissioner, Calcutta : and Chairman of the Alipur Local Board : C.I.E.     
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