[16] These were the very first distinctions of their kind conferred by Queen Victoria upon a British subject in India. was born on 19 April 1913. 1 He died in 1925. [6] Around this time, he changed his name from "Jamshed" to "Jamsetjee" to sound similar to names of the Gujarati community. After much delay and great difficulty, Jejeebhoy made his way to Calcutta in a Danish ship. By this time Jejeebhoy had established his reputation as an enterprising merchant possessed of considerable wealth. Please check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. He lived a rich life, filled with adventure and accomplishments and he passed away on 14th April, 1859 at the age of 75. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. 3 Their works included the Royal Mint, which was dismantled and replaced by the New India Assurance Building. He made a huge fortune in cotton and the opium trade with China. Media in category "Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet" The following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total. A tribute to their connection exists even today in a portrait of Jeejeebhoy which hangs in Jardine's Hong Kong office. His second voyage (1801-1802) to China was made in a ship of the East India Company’s fleet. With more than a little help from the British East India Company, Jejeebhoy quickly transformed himself into a Victorian-era Pablo Escobar. Yes, please send me occasional summaries of new content. The Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, formerly The Victoria and Albert Museum, at Byculla in Bombay which was designed by a famous London architect was built with the patronage of many wealthy Indian businessmen and philanthropists like Jagannath, David Sassoon and Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy.. 1 I do wish something new had been said about Jejeebhoy. The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group. The tray is decorated with the elaborate family crest representing the family of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet (1783-1859). Parsi and Christian, Hindu and Muslim, were alike the objects of his beneficence. These were three boys, Cursetjee, Rustomji and Sohrabji and one girl, Pherozebai, all of whom, following in their parents footsteps, went on to also make their own mark in society. Your email address will not be published. Another has him nearly dying of starvation whilst in South Africa. Jeejeebhoy’s straightforward dealings and Parsi integrity initiated good credit and helped him to develop far-flung trade connections from China to Sumatra and on to Great Britain. Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet Jejeebhoy of Bombay, CMG (15 July 1783 – 14 April 1859 ), also spelt Jeejeebhoy or Jeejebhoy, was a Parsi-Indian merchant and philanthropist. "Walla" meant "vendor", and Jejeebhoy's business interests included the manufacture and sale of bottles on the basis of his uncle's business. Jeejeebhoy long continued as one of the close associates who served as underwriters to Jardine, Matheson and Company. In 1819 William Jardine became the agent for a Parsi Bombay merchant, Framjee Cowasjee, before forming a business alliance with Jamsetjee Jeejee a wealthy Parsi merchant. The ornate crest has an engraved acanthus designed border that is further embellished with a knight’s head, bumblebees and sun over the mountain with palm trees … Jeejeebhoy long continued as one of the close associates who served as underwriters to Jardine, Matheson and Company. This article was first posted on 15th May 2014. This mass dog killing led to a serious riot. [10] He was seen as the chief representative of the Indian community in Bombay by the British Imperial authorities.[11]. Raised in Navsari, he moved back to Bombay upon the death of his parents in 1799, and was apprenticed to a maternal uncle. You can also subscribe without commenting. His father was a textile merchant from Surat, Gujarat, who migrated to Bombay in the 1770s. There is a great dearth of information especially about his early trading years and his trips to China. Jejeebhoy and his family would often sign letters and checks using the name "Battliwala", and were known by that name in business and society, but he did not choose this assumed surname when it came to the baronetcy. [6] Undaunted, Jejeebhoy undertook another voyage to China which was more successful than any of his previous journeys. Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy raised his public profile by promoting both his social status in Bombay society and his personal involvement in decision making along-side the British (p. 87). Like countless drug dealers that came later, Jejeebhoy came from a poor family but desired riches. Lord Elphinstone, then Governor of Bombay, said of him, "By strict integrity, by industry and punctuality in all his commercial transactions, he contributed to raise the character of the Bombay merchant in the most distant markets. 2 He married Shirin Cama, daughter of Jehengir Hormusjee Cama, on 3 October 1943. This name is associated with Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy (1783–1859), famous philanthropist and opium merchant who made his fortune by trading with China in the first half of the nineteenth century. [2][3][4] He was considered Bombay's most worthy son. 1 He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) [Bombay] 1 He lived at Bombay, India. Born of humble origins, he went from collecting and selling empty bottles to building a business empire through the nineteenth-century China Trade. Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet Jejeebhoy of Bombay, CMG (15 July 1783 – 14 April 1859[1]), also spelt Jeejeebhoy or Jeejebhoy, was a Parsi-Indian merchant and philanthropist. When she returned to Bombay, she joined 'The Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy (J.J.) School of Art' and obtained her diploma in architecture in 1936. Jamsetji’s family came from a long line of Parsi priests and they lived in Mota Falia’s Dastur Vad, an area where families of the Parsi clergy generally stayed. Created in 1857 for Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, a noted Parsi business magnate and philanthropist from Bombay (Mumbai). 52 Stink Boats – used in the removal of nightsoil from Hong Kong island in the 1960s and 70s, 51 D. & M. Rustomjee, trading firm in Canton and Hong Kong, 48 T.O.Morgan, Director of Water Supplies – imagined Plover Cove Reservoir while swimming in the area. Funds for the project, which cost Rs 1.6 lakh (the equivalent of £17,000 at the time) had been donated by Lady Avabai Jejeebhoy, wife of the merchant Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy. to the Gcrrernor, Sir Frank Souter, Commissioner d£ Police, "Mr. F. Mathew, Sir Jamsetjee Jejeeblioy, and'Mr. Copyright © 2013–2020 The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group, (15 July 1783 – 14 April 1859), also spelt. His third voyage (1803-1804) was “successful and uneventful, and a consolidation of his network of contacts, adding Siam, Singapore and Sumatra.”. He was later joined by a Goan Rogério de Faria. He had close connections over a lengthy period with Hong Kong, through his business association with William Jardine,  his merchant fleet using its harbour and for having had the first Hong Kong built ocean-going ship constructed here. Scroll below and check our most recent updates about about Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet's Biography, Salary, Estimated Net worth, Expenses, Income Reports & Financial Breakdown 2020! Further riches came to him from the cotton trade during the Napoleonic Wars. Jejeebhoy was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1783, of poor parents who died shortly afterwards, leaving him an orphan. At the age of sixteen, having had little formal education, he made his first visit to Calcutta (now Kolkata) and then began his first voyage (1800-1801) to China to trade in cotton and opium. Issued on Apr 15, 1959. Jejeebhoy began his business career by collecting and selling empty bottles in Bombay. Under the command of Sir Nathaniel Dance, this ship drove off a French squadron under Rear-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois[6] in the Battle of Pulo Aura. By the age of 40, he had made over two crore rupees, a staggering sum in those days. [2] The first Indian to be knighted, in 1842, he was known for his immense wealth and charitable works. The connection with Jeejeebhoy was instrumental as Jardine and Matheson built up their great firm, continuing the profitable and amiable association with the Parsi entrepreneur. Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was born into a poor family in Bombay, on July 15, 1783. Jamsetjee, the youngest son of cloth weaver Jeejeebhoy and his wife, Jeevibai, was born in the `Yatha Ahu Vairyo Mohalla’ near the Crawford Market in Bombay on July 15, 1783. "[8], In 1814, his co-operation with the British East India company had yielded him sufficient profits to purchase his first ship, the Good Success, and he gradually added another six ships to this, usually carrying primarily opium and a little cotton to China. Thank You! Born on Jul 15, 1783 at Bombay, India [5] Both of Jeejeebhoy's parents died in 1799, leaving the 16-year-old under the tutelage of his maternal uncle, Framjee Nasserwanjee Battliwala. The East India Company introduced a rule "for the annual destruction of dogs in Bombay island, and a considerable number were from time to time destroyed, in spite of frequent petitions from the public". 1 He was the son of Rustamjee Jejeebhoy and Soonabai Rustamjee Byramjee Jeejeebhoy. His non-violent attitude extended also to the animal kingdom. [12] Some of Jejeebhoy's notable charitable works include: Jejeebhoy's services were first recognised by the British Empire in 1842 by the bestowal of a knighthood and in 1857 by the award of a baronetcy. On Jejeebhoy’s fourth voyage (1805)  to China, the Indiaman,  in which he sailed was forced to surrender to the French, by whom he was carried as a prisoner to the Cape of Good Hope, then a neutral Dutch possession. . The Grant Government Medical College, Mumbai is a medical college affiliated to the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik.Founded in 1845, it counts among the premier medical institutions in India and one of the oldest institutions teaching Western medicine in Asia.It has been consistently ranked on the list of top ten medical colleges in the country. The following is a brief account of his various voyages to China, and elsewhere. Waters, Captain Shaik Cassum, Native A.D.C. An essentially self-made man, having experienced the miseries of poverty in early life, Jejeebhoy developed great sympathy for his poorer countrymen. A commemorative postage stamp on the Death Centenary of Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, 1 st Baronet Jejeebhoy of Bombay, an Indian Parsi merchant and philanthropist : Issued by India. [6] After much delay and great difficulty, Jejeebhoy made his way to Calcutta in a Danish ship. To alleviate this suffering, Jamsetjee with others founded Panjrapole on 18 October 1834. Hospitals, schools, colleges, dharamshalas, and whatnot: the Jeejeebhoy name is ubiquitous in Bombay. Family: Jamsetjee and Avabai had ten children altogether, of whom only four of the youngest survived. [17], "Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy: China, William Jardine, the Celestial, and other HK connections", Sir JJ College Of Architecture, Bombay– Home, "The opium trader who became one of India's richest men", "SIR JAMSETJEE JEJEEBHOY – LESSER KNOWN FACTS", Homi Dhalla, "Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Lesser Known Facts about his Multidimensional Personality", homidhalla.com, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jamsetjee_Jejeebhoy&oldid=992997603, Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, 19th-century Indian educational theorists, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Jejeebhoy donated to at least 126 notable public charities, including the, He paid two-thirds of the entire cost of the Poona (now, Construction of Charni Road and relief to cattle. In 1855, under royal patronage, the Patriotic Fund was launched to aid the wounded soldiers and widows of those who had died in the Russo-Turkish war. Jejeebhoy's second voyage to China was made in a ship of the East India Company's fleet. He bought his first ship the Good Success, in 1814, then soon formed a large, rapid fleet which often harboured in Hong Kong. War is exhibited to us in the dazzling dress of poetry, fiction, and history, where its horrors are carefully concealed beneath its gaudy trappings; or we see, perhaps, its plumes and epaulettes, and harlequin finery, we hear of the magnificence of the apparatus, the bravery of the troops, the glory of the victors, but the story of the wholesale miseries and wretchedness and wrongs which follow in its train is untold … What nation is not groaning under war-debts, the greatest of national burdens! At the age of sixteen, having had little formal education, he made his first visit to Calcutta (now Kolkata) and then began his first voyage (1800-1801) to China to trade in cotton and opium. He settled in Mumbai, where he directed his commercial operations on an extended scale. Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 5th Baronet, KCSI, (1878-06 February1931) was an Indian businessmen. Jejeebhoy, of Bombay. One of the greatest sons of India, and certainly the greatest son of Bombay, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy was born 237 years ago, on 15th July, 1783, in Mumbai. These mini dams built by Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, the Parsi businessman and philanthropist, served as a source of irrigation water for the under-privileged. [9] By 1836, Jejeebhoy's firm was large enough to employ his three sons and other relatives, and he had amassed what at that period of Indian mercantile history was regarded as fabulous wealth.[6]. 1,45,403 to set up the Sir J. J. Had the inconceivable sum wasted in the work of human butchery been applied to promote individual comfort and national prosperity, the world would not now be so far behind as it is in its career of progress … Our duty to relieve the sufferers in this great war would have remained the same whether the war had been a just one or not; but, considering the nature and objects of this war, we extend this relief now more as a privilege than as a duty … To the call of our gracious Sovereign, and to the call of humanity, the Parsis, my lord, will cordially respond. [6], By this time Jejeebhoy had established his reputation as an enterprising merchant possessed of considerable wealth. Jamsetjee donated Rs. Jejeebhoy was known by the nickname “Mr. Between 1822 and 1838, cattle from the congested fort area used to graze freely at the Camp Maidan (now called. Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet ,1783-1859, a Parsi-Indian merchant and ... (1829-93) (1821-66) MB 1866-84 MB 1857-66 Rustomjee Ardaseer (1828-93) Figure 2. By 1836, Jejeebhoy’s firm was large enough to employ his three sons and other relatives, and he had amassed what at that period of Indian mercantile history was regarded as fabulous wealth. A tribute to their connection exists even today in a portrait of Jeejeebhoy which hangs in Jardine’s Hong Kong office. In 1857 the Jejeebhoy family’s secret efforts over many years to obtain a hereditary title were also realized when Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was granted a hereditary baronetcy, becoming first baronet. Once they returned, the brothers adopted the name of their Chinese teacher, Chhoi, who had taught them the art of silk weaving. Amidst calls for dissolution of the (then) 110-year-old institution for nepotism and fiscal mismanagement (it would eventually be reestablished as administrator of community property), the community gradually came to depend on prominent individuals not connected to the panchayat and its improprieties. Jejeebhoy was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1783, the son of Merwanjee Mackjee Jejeebhoy and Jeevibai Cowasjee Jejeebhoy. The garden was opened in 1869 when the bridge was completed. He was born to Merwanjee Mackjee Jejeebhoy and Jeevibai Cowasjee Jejeebhoy. In 1803 Jeejeebhoy was shipwrecked off Cape Town with the surgeon of the Brunswick, William Jardine, thus starting  a lifelong friendship founded on mutual business canniness and largess. Byramjee Jeejeebhoy. He bought his own fleet of ships. Surgeon to the Governor, Dr. Colour : Single colour. Unwilling to do the dirty work themselves they relied on an Indian man, Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy. Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy (1783-1859) as an example, he argues that Indian notables "utilized the very mechanisms of British authority to satisfy Indian requirements" (p. 86). Philanthropy. After they died, Jejeebhoy moved to Bombay and began working for his maternal uncle, buying and selling empty liquor bottles. On Jejeebhoy's fourth voyage to China, the Indiaman in which he sailed was forced to surrender to the French, by whom he was carried as a prisoner to the Cape of Good Hope, then a neutral Dutch possession. Jamsetji and his four younger sisters — Ratanbai, Maneckbai, Virbai and Jerbai — grew up in this strongly religious environment, wholeheartedly embracing the tenets and practices of the Zoroastrian faith. I then wrote a quick Python script to process these files into a DOT file. From 1838 onward, the Bombay Parsi Panchayat came to be increasingly disregarded as the instrument for regulating the affairs of members of the community that resided in the Bombay Presidency. It is believed that Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, a Parsi merchant commissioned three weavers from a Joshi family of Surat, to travel to China and learn the craft of weaving this particular brocade silk, around 1856 CE. Bottlewalla”. He made a huge fortune in cotton and the opium trade with China. Baronet,1st,Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy,statue, Tamil Nadu481.jpg 3,264 × 2,448; 4.26 MB At the age of 16, having had little formal education,[6] he made his first visit to Calcutta and then began his first voyage to China to trade in cotton and opium.[7]. “Walla” meant “trader”, and Jejeebhoy’s business interests included the manufacture and sale of bottles. This book details the life and public career of one of India's legendary individuals-Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, the first Indian knight and baronet. But some remarks from his speech on this occasion are most significant: Of none of the great evils which afflict our race do we form such inadequate conceptions as of the evils of war. He had close connections over a lengthy period with Hong Kong, through his business association with William Jardine,  his merchant fleet using its harbour and for having had the first Hong Kong built ocean-going ship constructed here. Furdoonjee Jamsetjee Parakh married Soonabai Cursetjee Jejeebhoy, daughter of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 2nd Bt. Subscribe below to receive a Newsletter every two months and occasional updates about Group and website news. In 1842 Jejeebhoy was to become the first Indian to receive a knighthood from Queen Victoria. Jejeebhoy and his Chinese secretary Portrait by George Chinnery. His voyages to China resulted in a long trading partnership with the Canton based company Jardine Matheson & Co. 1 He died in 2006. Jejeebhoy was known by the nickname "Mr. Bottlewalla". [6] In his later life he was occupied with alleviating human distress in all its forms. The first ocean-going ship ever constructed in Hong Kong was the Celestial, a schooner, built for Jeejeebhoy. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. HF: Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, 1st Baronet (15 July 1783 – 14 April 1859), also spelt Jejeebhoy or Jeejebhoy, was a Parsi India merchant and philanthropist. This was his most successful and he extended his commercial contacts in the East and added Egypt and England in the west. Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was a member of the Parsi Panchayet of Bombay, or internal government of the Parsis, from 1823 (Jejeebhoy, 1843; Cursetjee, 1860; Davar, 1949). Your email address will not be published. In 1818, he formed the business, trading and shipping firm "Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy & Co." with two other associates Motichund Amichund and Mahomed Ali Rogay as Jejeebhoy's business associates. The connection with Jeejeebhoy was instrumental as Jardine and Matheson built up their great firm, continuing the profitable and amiable association with the Parsi entreprenur. [6] In 1803, he married his maternal uncle's daughter Avabai (d.1870) and settled in Bombay, where he directed his commercial operations on an extended scale. Born into a clerical Parsi family, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy flouted the religious taboo on tobacco and alcohol to amass a fortune from the Opium trade with China. [6], On Jejeebhoy's death in 1859, his Baronetcy was inherited by his eldest son Cursetjee Jejeebhoy, who, by a special Act of the Viceroy's Council in pursuance of a provision in the letters-patent, took the name of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy as second baronet.[6]. Jeejeebhoy, born in 1783, sailed for China and its limitless opportunities as a sixteen-year-old orphan.

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