Bomanjee Dinshaw Petit

Seth Bomanjee Dinshaw Petit (27 March 1859 – 17 December 1915)[1] was son of Sir Dinshaw Maneckjee Petit, Bart, and a noted cotton mill owner and philanthropist from Bombay.

He was born on 27 March 1859 and was the third son of Sir Dinshaw Maneckjee Petit. He inherited a large portion of his father's estate and was owner of Petit Mills. He was one of the founders of the London School of Tropical Medicine to which he donated £6,666.[2] In a letter to Sir Francis Lovell (Dean of the School), quoted in The Times in 1902, he wrote the following about the school:

This institution, whilst according ample scope to students of diseases that well nigh devastate the East, will be the means of bringing the Western and Eastern minds together to afford help to the suffering East, and thus cementing that union of hearts.[3]

He was the president of the Mill Owners' Association; a director of Bank of Bombay for ten years and served as its president in 1903.[4] He founded the Bomanjee Dinshaw Petit Parsee General Hospital and served as its president for many years.[5] He was father of Jehangir Bomanji Petit, who impressed on him to make the munificent donation of the property called Cumballa Hotel at Cumballa; this led to the foundation of Bomanjee Dinshaw Petit Parsee General Hospital in 1907.[4] He was on the board of the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, vice-president of Bombay Presidency Association, and founder and managing director of the newspaper Indian Daily Mail.[6]

He died on 17 December 1915.[1]

References
  1. Parsi Statues, Marzban Jamshedji Giara, 2000, p. 197
  2. Medical Record, Volume 70 by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, 1906, p. 26
  3. "The London School of Tropical Medicine". The Times (36874). London. 16 September 1902. p. 7.
  4. The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital, 1912–1972, Maneckji D. Petit, Homi Shapurji Mehta, P. S. Jhabvala, 1973
  5. A. P. Mishra, Nagendra Kr Singh. Encyclopaedia of Oriental Philosophy and Religion. Global Vision Pub House. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-81-8220-112-5.
  6. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, 1931, pp 614
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