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 of the Company to Bombay in where haremained until trans- lerrcd to Calcutta in X903.

Mr. Jenkins is Agent for the Marine Insurance Co. ol London. lie is a Member at the Bengal Chamberol Comnmrcc onda Member of the Shipping Sueroanmittc-e at that body. He is ads; on the Com- mittees ol the Presidency General Hospital and llaspital lnsn- tution, representing the Linn—3' Con- (create, and Was for a time on tbc Committee of the Sailors' Home.

Mr. BOMAXJl DIXSHAW PETIT. of Bombay. is the only sur- viving son of the late Sir Dimhaw Potit. Bum. patriot. philanthropist. and pioneer ol the mill industry.

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Th0 late Sir Dimhnw. the ﬁrst Bar- onet. was known as the Indian Pra- body. owl to his wise nnd muniti- cont. charlt es. which amounted to nearly thirty lulths ol ru m. and hit. Bomanjl who is now t c recog- nized hood of the cat Pctit family. zealously lollows n the loomteps ol his father. Besides being one at the foremost and most rearwctcd oi. the Farm continual. ﬁr. Barnum l! a reproantotivacl n of “Mill. hav- ing in lit, contributed to the com- mercl. idustrlol and mercantile dovelopmcnt ol the country both as a milloowncr of wide experienti- and a hound man ol business

Mr. Bomnnii was b0m in r859.

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and was educated at St. Xavier‘s College. Bombay. After he passed his F. E. A. Eumination. the pre- mature death of his elder brcthcr. )Ir. (music’s. put an cnd to his school life. as It Wil‘i now nocesaary for him to join hi5 father's ﬁrm and assist him in his colossal un~ dcrtakings. Though SChOiaSIlt‘ edu~ cation was thus cut shun. his education .15 a merchant and bu5i- ncii man went on under the wise guidance of Sir Dinshaw inr up- wards ot a quarter ol a century. with the rcsult that he acquired cormm-rcial knowledge of a rare and high order. Mr. Bununji is an expert at ﬁgurcs and hears the reputation 0! being a 51’"ch ﬁnanCicr. His great expericnoc in mill managt'mcnt puts him in the trout rank among the: merchants of the Oriental Manchester. As senior partner in the house of D. .\l. Pent. Sons 5: (0.. he has chief managerial supervision of the Mam ockj Petit. Dinshaw l’ctit. Bom- anji Petit. and Framii Pctit Mills. and also until recently of the Vic. toria Mills and the Southern Muh- ratha Pressing and GinningCo. He is also senior er of the ﬁrm of Messrs. B. D. Petit. Sons 5: Co., under whose agency is the mansalgo ment of the Emperor Edward ill, and the Proﬁts and Gin; of the Godavcrv Valley. Pubhani and

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panics, Ld. The magnitude of his the mill industry may be partly realized from the lact that under his control are 200.000 spindles. 5.000 loom. 10.009 work- pcoplc drawing a lnlth and-a-hall of rupees salary monthly, while engines of 10.500 horse-power are cmplovcd in the monthly produc- tion ol' 2.500.000 pounds 01 yarn and 1.350.000 pounds at cloth. All this is in addition to hosiery. dyeing. pressing. ginning. and mechanical factories.

The work by which Mr. Bomanjl has contributed towards the dc. velopmcnt ol Bombay's trade is varied and voluminous. He is a member of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and of the Bombav Hill Ownm' Association. at whici latter body he was President in r903. He established in 1892 the Bombay Cotton Exchange Co., Ld.. in order to safeguard the interests at the native cotton trade ol 80m

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hay. He also started the Bombay Fire Insurance (20.. Ld. He has been aDirector of the Bank of Bonn bay for the last ten years, and was .1 pointed its President in 1903. 5 . Bornanji also holds a seat on the directorate of all the mills under the Petits. of which he is also the Chairman, mi. thr- Manockji Petit group. the Emperor Edward and the Framji Petjt Mills. andis also Chair- man of the Directors of the Textile Manufacturing (0., Ld.. and the Bombay Dyeing Co., Ld. He is alsn a Director 01 the jubilee llanu- lactating Co., Ld.

Mr. Bomanji's more purely pub. hc work should now be new In 1599 he was nominated a Memo her of the Bombay Legislative Council. and in Igor was appointed

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a Government Representative on the Board of the City Improvement Trust. a position which he resigned in 1905 owing to ill-health. He is I Justice of the Peace. a Delegate ol the Pam Chict Matrimonial Court. a Trustee of the Pam Panchayat funds. and a prominent nod unetul member of almost all the important institutions of the city. charitable. literal-v. or religious. He repre- sents the Mill Owners' Association on the Board ol the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute. and holds a seat on the Committees of the Sir jamsctjcc Jcejecbhoy Pane: Ben- evolent Institute. the Sir Dinshuv