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PETIT, SIR DINSHAW MANECKJI, BART

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 306 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PETIT, SIR DINSHAW MANECKJI, BART . (18231901), Parsee philanthropist, was born on the 3oth of June 1823. As broker to
European
  firms he amassed a large fortune during the period of speculation in Bombay at the time of the American Civil War. In 1886 he became a member of the
governor
 -general's legislative
council
 . He devoted his wealth to philanthropic objects, among the public and private charities which he endowed being the Towers of Silence and
fire
  temples of the Parsees, a
hospital
 
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for animals, a college for
women
 , and the Petit
hospital
 
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. He was knighted in 1887, created a
baronet
  in 1890, and died in
February
  19o1.


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