Sir Jehangir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, 1st Baronet, KCIE

Order of the Indian Empire

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 (8 June 1853 – 26 July 1934) was a prominent member of the Bombay

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 (today Mumbai) Parsi community. He was the nephew and heir to the childless Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney

Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney

Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, CSI , was a Parsi community leader, philanthropist and industrialist of Bombay, India .Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney came from a wealthy Parsi family. His grandfather and two great-uncles had moved in the early 18th century from Navsari, near Surat, to Bombay and had...

 (1812-1878).

Jehangir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney was knighted in 1895 and created baronet in 1908. He was succeeded by Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, 2nd Bt.

Cowasji Jehangir

Sir Cowasji Jehangir, 2nd Baronet, GBE, KCIE was a prominent member of the Bombay Parsi community. He was the son of Sir Jehangir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, 1st Bt...

 (1879 - 1962), who however dropped the 'Readymoney' sobriquet.