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 days of r857, the Head Ofﬁce of the Bank was situated in Delhi. and when the Mutiny spread from Meerut, and the hullt of the mutinoos regiments made for Delhi as their rallying centre, Mr. lleresford was the Manager of the Bank there, and he, with his wife and five children. were amongst those of the European community who fell victims to the mutineers. Of Mr. llrresl'ord's family but two a o rt s survived. who were afterwards educated and started in life by the Bank, one son ultimately joining the Bank's unite, and the other the Indian Arm. .tp rently. owing to the outbreak In Dehi, the Bank's Head Oﬂice was removed to Lucknow in 1857, and during the ntetnorahle siege of the Residency there, Mr. Party. the General Manager, was one of those beleaguered therein. In t865 :t was found desirable to remove the Had Oﬁce to London, and at the same time the titleol the Bank was changed to that of the "Delhi and London Bank. 1A.." and under this style it has since continued. In India the Bank has branchesat Delhi, Lucknow. Mussoorie Simla, Karachi and Amritsar, besides that at Calcutta, and is thus in touch with most of the leading trade centres of the country. The premises occupied inall these places, with the eaceptionofthelast twonamed,are valuable freehold properties belonging to the Bank. From its lengthy con- nection with the East, the Bank has a wide reputation. and has weathered successfully more than once tempest~ nous times in financial circles in the past, and has steadily held its place in the estimation of the public, its aﬂ'aira being at all times carefully managed and Its interests thoroughly safeguarded both by its Home Board of Directors and its several local Managers.

Mr. EDWARD _IAM£S WRIGHT. the present Ma er of the Calcutta Brunch. was bornngthe year tone, and educated at Brighton College. Brighton. and St. Andrews, Scotland. On com- pletion of his education, Mr. Wright commenced his banking career, in the Bank of Scotland. St. Andrews. in
 * 883 he came to India in the service

of the Chartered hierantile Bank of India London and China, and in t894 accepted an appointment in the Delhi and London Bank, Calcutta.

THE DEUTSCH-ASMTISCHE BANK was founded in Berlin and

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Shanghai in the year t889, the found- ers being a very powerful syndicate at financial houses and banks in Berlin Frankforton-Maln, Hamburg. Cologne and Munich. connected with German commercial interests in the Far East With a view of further strengthening and consolidating the Bank's business relatiomhip with China, and at the same time securing a share in the ﬁnancial business between India and China, the Calcutta Branch was estab- lished in October r896, this being the only branch in India, the other Branch- es being all tn China, with the Head Ofﬁce in Shanghai. In Europe. the Bani: is established at Berlin, and front that City the Board of Directors control the operations. The Bank’s interests are chieﬂy connected with China, though since the establishment of the Calcutta Branch. a considerable amount of businas has accrued in ' the opium and cotton trades Wm: between India and China' In the German Settlements, in the Slimming Province of the Celestial Empire, the Deutschdlsiatische Bank is the ﬁnancial representative of the Gennan Government, and it is to the good ofﬁces of this Banlt that the Chinese Government has of late years been able to obtain the large loans it required The greater indemnity paid by China to the Allied Powrrs after the attack on the Lega- tions was paid through this Bank. The derehpment of Railways, Col. licries, and Mining industries in the Far East, in favour of German conces- sionaires, is natural! of much interest to the Bank. and t construction of the Shantung Railway, opening out the Colliery districts, was greatly aided by the ﬁnancial assistance given by the Ban): to the undertaking.

Mr. MAX GU'I‘SCHKK, the Man‘ ager of the Calcutta Branch, canto to India in t898 as an Assistant in the Bank. and became Accountant in the same year and Subhlanager in moo. obtaining his present appointment oi Manager in January toes. his I Continental Banking experience cut» nently ﬁtting him for the responsible position he now holds.

Sir CURRIMBHOY EBRAHIM. His genial nature and geétotgae sympathy with the people of y and Catch have gained for Sir Cumm- bhoy Ebrahim a high place in Natire estimation. He is the illustrious

representative of the Pabaneya who are the most prosperous and the foremost amongst the Kliojas. His father, Mr. Ehrahinihhoy Pahattey. was a leading Merchant in Cutch Mandyi, who carried on an extensive business with Zanzibar and Bombay, and who also owned ships to carry his own merchandise and for the conveyance of trade. He died in Bomlny in IS”. leaving three sons, 0! whom Mr. Currintbhoy. who was born in t34o, was the youngest and a minor but who turned out the pluckicst and most richly gifted with talent. industry and sound commercial instinct, which often proved to him very profitable. He made very important commercial

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connections with well-known Centres at commerce. At the early age of t6, he established a firm in Bombay in his own name, and ﬁnding the trade with China in a ﬂourishing and developing state heopened in Hart Kong. lnt857. rt ﬁrm in the nameol is frtthet, and subsequently opened ﬁrms in his own name at diﬂ’erent commercial and industrial parts, namely, Shanghai, Kobe, Calcutta, Singapore and a number of encies in different places. Perceiving the growing trade of yarn in China Mr. Currimbhoy took the agency of the Prince 0! Wales Mitts, but as he wanted to tound a Cotton Spinning Mill on a large scale and on new prin- ciples. he brought into existence. in the year t888. the well known Currimbhoy Mills. and, as was tully