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Sheriff Of Mumbai
The Sheriff of Bombay is an apolitical titular position of authority bestowed for one year on a prominent citizen of Bombay. The Sheriff is an officer of the High Court and the nominal Head of the High Court Department which carries out the orders of the High Court for summoning people, and also for attachment and sealing of properties and if ordered for their auction. The Sheriff has an office and staff but does not have any executive powers. The Sheriff office is in Bombay High Court, Fort on the Ground Floor. In the order of precedence, the Sheriff ranks just below the Mayor of Bombay, Mayor. Bombay and Calcutta are the only cities in India to maintain this post. The most important social function of the Sheriff is to receive foreign dignitaries at the airport on behalf of the city and to call condolence meetings on the demise of prominent citizens of the city. The first Sheriff of Mumbai after independence was Mahadeo Laxman Dahanukar, a city businessman in 1948. His son, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-most populous city in India after Delhi and the eighth-most populous city in the world with a population of roughly 20 million (2 crore). As per the Indian government population census of 2011, Mumbai was the most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore) living under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the sixth most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of over 23 million (2.3 crore). Mumbai lies on the Konkan coast on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named an alpha world city. It has the highest number of millionaires and billionaires among all cities i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adamjee Peerbhoy
Sir Adamji Peerbhoy (13 August 1845 — 11 August 1913) was an Indian business magnate, philanthropist and member of the Dawoodi Bohra community based at Bombay in British India. Adamji Peerbhoy was born in 1846 in Dhoraji, Princely State of Gondal, British India (now Gujarat), in a very poor Dawoodi Bohra family to Qadir bhai and Sakina Banu Peerbhoy. Adamji Peerbhoy started his career at age of 13, as a street vendor in Bombay, selling match boxes but in one of the "rags to riches" stories being helped by two persons in his early life, one Seth Lukmanji and other an Englishman, Lt. Smith. Later by his untiring efforts and ability by the turn of the 19th century, became one of India's largest cotton manufacturers and wealthiest men. At one point he employed more than 15,000 workers in his cotton mills and supplied the canvas used for the tents and khaki uniforms of the British soldiers during the Second Boer War. He established several factories manufacturing thousands of tents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Merchant
Vijay Singh Madhavji Merchant , real name Vijay Madhav Thackersey (12 October 1911 – 27 October 1987) was an Indian cricketer. A right-hand batter and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, Merchant played first-class cricket for Bombay cricket team as well as 10 Test matches for India between 1929 and 1951. Behind his limited Test appearances, he dominated Indian domestic cricket – his batting average of 71.64 is the second highest first-class average in history, behind only that of Don Bradman. He is regarded as the founder of the Bombay School of Batsmanship, that placed more importance on right technique, steely temperament, and conservative approach rather than free flow of the bat, a tradition broken and remoulded only after the arrival of Sachin Tendulkar. His international career included two tours of England upon which he scored over 800 runs. English cricketer C. B. Fry exclaimed "Let us paint him white and take him with us to Australia as an opener." His br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Moraes
Francis Robert Moraes (12 November 1907 – 2 May 1974) was editor of many prominent newspapers in post-Independence India, including ''The Times of India'' and ''The Indian Express''. Early life and education Born in Bombay (now Mumbai) of Goan descent on 12 November 1907, Moraes was the son of Anthony Xavier Moraes, a Goan civil engineer. There has been considerable migration of Goans to Bombay for many decades. He spent his childhood in the city of Poona (Pune) in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, and studied at Catholic schools in both cities. The historian Teresa Albuquerque was his sister. From 1923, he was at St Xavier's College where he studied history under Henry Heras and also economics. He earned his B.A. at Bombay University majoring in history and economics. He went to Oxford for his M.A. in history" He was active in Oxford University student politics, and edited the student newspaper ''Bharat''. He also studied law at Lincoln's Inn in London, and was cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abasaheb Garware
Bhalchandra Digamber Garware (fondly referred to as Abasaheb Garware) was a pioneering industrialist from Maharashtra state in India and Founder Chairman of the Garware Group of Industries. Early life Abasaheb Garware was born in Tasgaon in Satara district of Bombay Presidency on 21 December 1903. He faced poverty since his father wasted away all the family wealth and incurred large amount of debts. Due to the financial position at home he was forced to leave education after passing the then 6th Standard High School exam. Struggle and rise in second-hand car market After initial struggle in Mumbai he started an automobile business for his livelihood which made some decent earnings for him. During this time since he was in automobile business he got an idea of the potential for a second-hand car market. He then started working as an agent for selling second-hand cars. Eventually with his entrepreneurship and hard work he established his "Deccan Motor Agency" in Girgaon, a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulestan Rustom Billimoria
Gulestan Rustom Billimoria was an Indian philanthropist, social worker, writer and painter, best known for her services for the special needs children of Mumbai. She served as the Sheriff of Mumbai in 1957 and was the lady superintendent of The Alexandra Girls’ English Institution, Mumbai from 1922 to 1937. Born Gulestan J. Bhadurjee, Billimoria did her schooling at Girton High School and college studies at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai during which period she was a fellow of the University of Mumbai for two terms and a member of the university senate. After her marriage to Rustomji Bomanji Billimoria, the founder of Bel-Air Hospital of Indian Red Cross Society and a Padma Bhushan recipient, she took over the management of the functions of the hospital. Later, she helped found the Savera Special School Gulestan And Billimoria School, Mumbai of the Maharashtra State Women's Council, an institution for the mentally and physically handicapped children. Billimoria was a known paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khwaja Abdul Hamied
Khwaja Abdul Hamied Chemical Society, FCS, Royal Institute of Chemistry, FRIC (31 October 1898 – 23 June 1972) was an Indian industrial and pharmaceutical chemist who founded Cipla, India's oldest pharmaceutical company in 1935. His son, Yusuf Hamied headed the company after him for the next 52 years. Early life and background Hamied was born in Aligarh, to Khwaja Abdul Ali, an advocate, and Masood Jahan Begum. Through his father, he was descended from the Sufism, Sufi saint Khwaja Ahrar, while on his mother's side, he was descended from Shah Shujah Durrani, Shah Shuja, the last Durrani dynasty, Durrani List of heads of state of Afghanistan, king of Afghanistan. His paternal great-uncle was the noted reformer Syed Ahmad Khan, Sayyid Ahmad Khan. Education After matriculating from Islamia High School, Etawah, distinguishing himself in mathematics, Hamied completed his Intermediate in Science from Agra College in 1917. Having decided to become a chemist, he then spent a ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Alva
Joachim Ignatius Sebastian Alva or Joachim Piedade Alva (21 January 1907 – 28 June 1979) was an Indian lawyer, journalist and politician from Mangalore. He was a prominent Mangalorean Christian figure involved in the Indian independence movement. After Independence, Alva was appointed Sheriff of Bombay in 1949 for the Bombay state. In 1950, he entered the Provisional Parliament of India. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1952, 1957, and 1962 from North Kanara. He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1968 and retired from the Rajya Sabha in 1974. History Joachim Alva belonged to the Alva-Bhat, a Mangalorean Catholic clan from Belle in Udupi district. He was educated at the Jesuit St. Aloysius College, Mangalore, Elphinstone College, Government Law College, Mumbai and the Jesuit St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. In 1928, Alva became the first Christian to be appointed as Secretary of the fifty-year-old Bombay Students Brotherhood. Along with Khurshed Nariman, H.D. Raja and Sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithan Jamshed Lam
Mithan Jamshed Lam (1898–1981) was an Indian lawyer, social activist and the Sheriff of Mumbai. She was the first Indian woman barrister and the first Indian woman lawyer at the Bombay High Court. She was a member of the All India Women's Conference and served as its president in 1961–62. The Government of India awarded her the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1962, for her contributions to society. Biography Mithan Jamshed Lam, née Mithan Ardeshir Tata, was born on 2 March 1898 in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, in a Parsi Zoroastrian family, to Ardeshir Tata, a textile mill employee and Herabai Tata, a women's rights activist. Her childhood and early education were at Phulgaon, in Pune district, where her father was working at a local textile mill, but later, she moved to Ahmedabad when her father shifted his job to that place. Soon, she came to Mumbai, where she joined ''Frere Fletcher School'' (present-day J.B. Petit High School for Girl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamshedji Duggan
Sir Jamshedji Nasarwanji Duggan (8 April 1884 – 15 January 1957) was a prominent Indian ophthalmic surgeon, magistrate, and Sheriff of Mumbai in 1942. Biography Born in Mumbai (then Bombay), Duggan took a licentiate in medicine from the Grant Medical College in 1904, and joined the staff of the Sir Cowasji Jehangir Ophthalmic Hospital in Mumbai in 1906 as clinical registrar and tutor in ophthalmology. From 1908 to 1912, he studied in Vienna, Wiesbaden, and in London under several eminent ophthalmologists, including Hermann Pagenstecher and Edward Treacher Collins, receiving a doctorate in the field from Oxford University in 1912. He then returned to Mumbai, where he established a large practice and became the medical superintendent of the Sir C. Jehangir Ophthalmic Hospital. During the First World War, Duggan served as an Indian Medical Service (IMS) officer, and was the consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the designated wartime hospitals in Mumbai. He was appointed a justice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathuradas Vissanji
Sir Mathuradas Vissanji (1916-1949) was an Indian businessman, politician and philanthropist. Life He was born on 18 March 1916 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He died on 22 December 1949. Career Business career He has been described as a visionary of the textile industry. He founded the Wallace Mills Company, a family owned textile business, which is today managed by his grandson Hemant Vissanji. The Vissanji family also owned the Bombay Burmah Trading Company which is worth over 1 billion $USD today. He was the very first President of the Cotton Association of India. Political career He was elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1935. In the 1934 Indian general election, he was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly. Philanthrophy He founded the Andheri Education Society. He established the Vissanji Academy, a charitable school that still functions till this day. The school is today managed by his son Pratapsinh Vissanji. Awards and honours At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temulji Bhicaji Nariman
Sir Temulji Bhicaji Nariman RCSEd, also recorded as Tehmulji B. Nariman (3 September 1848 – 1 August 1940), was a Parsi obstetrician from Bombay (now Mumbai) who co-founded one of the city's first lying-in hospitals in 1887 and was knighted in 1914 for his work during the plague epidemic in India at the turn of the 19th century. A graduate of Grant Medical College, he became its Dean and remained active in medical education. He headed the maternity hospital for twenty-one years, was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal in 1909 and became president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Bombay. Early life and family Temulji B. Nariman was born on 3 September 1848 to a poor family at Navsari. He was married to his cousin in 1853 when he was about 5 years old, and in 1997 (57 years after his death) his marriage to Lady Nariman of Bombay of 86 years duration was officially noted as the longest marriage ever recorded. Career In 1872, Temulji passed his medical licentiate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
