Bomanjee Dinshaw Petit
Seth Bomanjee Dinshaw Petit (27 March 1859 – 17 December 1915)Bombay.
Petit was born on 27 March 1859 into the business influential
Rattanbai Petit
were his nieces.
Petit 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]
Petit was the president of the Mill Owners' Association; a director of
Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, vice-president of Bombay Presidency Association, and founder and managing director of the newspaper Indian Daily Mail.[6]
Petit died on 17 December 1915.[1]
References
- ^ a b Parsi Statues, Marzban Jamshedji Giara, 2000, p. 197
- ^ [1] Medical Record, Volume 70 by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, 1906, p. 26
- ^ "The London School of Tropical Medicine". The Times. No. 36874. London. 16 September 1902. p. 7.
- ^ a b The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital, 1912–1972, Maneckji D. Petit, Homi Shapurji Mehta, P. S. Jhabvala, 1973
- ISBN 978-81-8220-112-5.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, 1931, pp 614