See also:

• SIR

SIR COWASJI JEHANGIR See also:

• SIR COWASJI JEHANGIR READYMONEY (1812-1878)

READYMONEY (1812-1878)  , " the See also:

• PEABODY
• PEABODY, ANDREW PRESTON (1811–1893)
• PEABODY, ELIZABETH PALMER (1804-1894)
• PEABODY, GEORGE (1795-1869)

Peabody of Bombay." See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

Early in the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century three Parsee See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers moved from Nowsari, near See also:

• SURAT

Surat, in See also:

• GUJARAT

Gujarat, to Bombay, and became the pioneers of a lucrative See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade with See also:

• CHINA

China . They gained the See also:

• SOBRIQUET

sobriquet of " See also:

• READYMONEY, SIR COWASJI JEHANGIR (1812-1878)

Readymoney," which they adopted as a surname . Only Hirji Jewanji Readymoney See also:

• LEFT

left issue, two daughters, the See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder of whom married a Banaji, and the younger a Dady Sett . The son of the former, Jehangir Hirji, married Mirbae, the daughter of the latter, and was made the See also:

• HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir not only of his grandfather, but of his two See also:

• GRAND

grand-uncles . The younger of their two sons was Cowasji Jehangir . His only See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• EDUCATION

education was at the then well-known school kept by See also:

• SERJEANT

Serjeant Sykes in the Fort of Bombay . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of 15 he entered the See also:

• FIRM

firm of See also:

• DUNCAN
• DUNCAN, ADAM DUNCAN, 1ST VISCOUNT (1731-1804)
• DUNCAN, PETER MARTIN (1824-1891)
• DUNCAN, THOMAS (1807—1845)

Duncan, Gibb & Co. as " godown keeper," or warehouse clerk . In 1837 he was promoted to the responsible and lucrative See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of " See also:

• GUARANTEE (sometimes spelt " guarantie " or " guaranty "; an O. Fr. form of " warrant," from the Teutonic word which appears in German as wahren, to defend or make safe and binding)

guarantee See also:

• BROKER (according to the New English Dictionary, from Lat. brocca, spit, spike, broccare, to broach "—another Eng. form of the same word; hence O. Fr. vendre d broche, to retail, e.g. wine, from the tap, and thus the general sense of dealing; see also for

broker " to two of the leading See also:

• EUROPEAN

European firms of Bombay . In 1846 he was able to begin trading on his own See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account . He was made a J.P. for the See also:

• TOWN

town and See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of Bombay, and a member of the See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board of conservancy; and in 1866 was appointed a See also:

• COMMISSIONER

commissioner of income tax, his tactful management being largely responsible for the fact that this tax, then new to Bombay and unpopular, was levied with unexpected See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial success . He was made C.S.I. in 1871; and in 1872 he was created a See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

Knight See also:

• BACHELOR (from Med. Lat. baccalarius, with its late and rare variant baccalaris—cf. Ital. baccalare—through O. Fr. bacheler)

Bachelor of the See also:

• UNITED

United See also:

• KINGDOM

Kingdom, and his statue, by T . See also:

• WOOLNER, THOMAS (1825-1892)

Woolner, R .

A., was erected in the town See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall . His donations to the institutions of Bombay amounted to See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close on £200,000 . His See also:

• HEALTH

health See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke down in 1871, and he died in 1878, being succeeded by his son, See also:

• SIR

Sir J . Cowasji Jehangir [Readymoney], who was created a Knight Bachelor in 1895, and a See also:

• BARONET

Baronet in 1908 . See J . Cowasji Jehangir, Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney (189o) . (M . M .