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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  Petit    
First Name(s)  Dinshaw Manackji Baronet    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1823    
Death Year  1901    
Entry  Born June 30, 1823 : son of Manackj Nasserwanji Petit : educated at Sykes' School, Bombay : adopted, like his father, a commercial career, and became broker to European firms : during the period of speculation in Bombay in 1864, etc., he acquired great wealth : erected the Manackji Petit Spinning and Weaving Mill, and became the chief shareholder, agent and Director in five other mills, also a Director of the Bank of Bombay and of various Companies : a member of Parsi Societies, of the Bombay Royal Asiatic Society: J.P. : and Member of Bombay Municipal Corporation : in his philanthropy he spent large sums on public and private charities and charitable institutions, including Towers of Silence and Fire Temples for his co-religionists, a Hospital for animals, a College for Females, the Petit Hospital, gifts of land to Government, etc., etc. : Sheriff of Bombay, 1886 : C.S.I., and knighted in 1887 : Baronet, 1890 : Member of the Governor- General's Legislative Council, 1886 : died Feb. 1901.     
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