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fourth return voyage from 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 See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good See also:

Hope, then a neutral Dutch See also:

possession; and it was only after much delay, and with See also:

GREAT

great difficulty, that he made his way to Calcutta in a Danish See also:

SHIP

ship. Nothing daunted, he undertook yet another voyage to China, which was more successful than any of the previous ones. By this See also:

time he had fairly established his reputation as a merchant possessed of the highest spirit of enterprise and consider-able See also:

WEALTH

wealth, and thenceforward he settled down in Bombay, where he directed his commercial operations on a widely extended See also:

scale. By 1836 his See also:

FIRM

firm was large enough to engross the energies of his three sons and other relatives; and he had amassed what at that See also:

period of Indian mercantile See also:

HISTORY

history was regarded as fabulous wealth. An essentially self-made See also:

man, having experienced in early life the miseries of poverty and want, in his days of affluence Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy See also:

DEVELOPED

developed an active instinctof sympathy with his poorer countrymen, and commenced that career of private and public philanthropy which is his See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title to the admiration of mankind. His liberality was unbounded, and the absorbing occupation of his later life was the alleviation of human See also:

DISTRESS

distress.

To his own community he gave lavishly, but his benevolence was mainly See also:

COSMOPOLITAN (Gr. Kbvµos, world, and IroXirgs, citizen)

cosmopolitan. Hospitals, See also:

SCHOOLS

schools, homes of charity, See also:

PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension funds, were founded or endowed by him, while numerous public See also:

WORKS

works in the shape of See also:

wells, reservoirs, See also:

bridges, causeways, and the like, not only in Bombay, but in other parts of India, were the creation of his See also:

BOUNTY (through O. Fr. bontet, from Lat. bonitas, goodness)

bounty. The See also:

TOTAL

total of his known benefactions amounted at the time of his See also:

DEATH

death, which took See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in 1859, to over £230,000. It was not, however, the amount of his charities so much as the period and circumstances in which they were performed that made his benevolent career worthy of the fame he won. In the first See also:

HALF

half of the 19th See also:

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

century the various communities of India were much more isolated in their habits and their sympathies than they are now. Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy's unsectarian philanthropy awakened a See also:

COMMON

common understanding and created a See also:

bond between them which has proved not only of domestic value but has had a See also:

NATIONAL

national and See also:

POLITICAL

political significance. His services were recognized first in 1842 by the bestowal of a See also:

KNIGHTHOOD

knighthood upon him, and in 1858 by that of a baronetcy. These were the very first distinctions of their See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind conferred by See also:

Queen See also:

Victoria upon a See also:

BRITISH

British subject in India. His title devolved in 1859 on his eldest son CURSETJEE, who, by a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of the See also:

VICEROY (from O. Fr. viceroy, mod. viceroi, i.e. Lat. vice, in place of, and roy or roi, king)

Viceroy's See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council in pursuance of a See also:

PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision in the letters-patent, took the name of Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy as second See also:

BARONET

baronet. At his death in 1877 his eldest son, MENEKJEE, became Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, the third baronet. Both had the See also:

ADVANTAGE

advantage of a good See also:

ENGLISH

English education, and continued the career of benevolent activity and devoted See also:

LOYALTY

loyalty to British See also:

RULE

rule which had signalized the life-See also:

WORK

work of the founder of the See also:

FAMILY

family. They both visited See also:

England to do See also:

HOMAGE (from homo, through the Low Lat. hominaticum, which occurs in a document of 1035)

homage to their See also:

SOVEREIGN

sovereign; and their public services were recognized by their nomination to the See also:

order of the See also:

STAR

Star of India, as well as by See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment to the Legislative See also:

COUNCILS

Councils of Calcutta and Bombay.

On the death of the third baronet, the title devolved upon his See also:

BROTHER

brother, COWSAJEE (1853-1908), who became Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, fourth baronet, and the recognized See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of the Parsee community all over the See also:

WORLD

world. He was succeeded by his son RUSTOMJEE (b. 1878), who became Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, fifth baronet. Since their See also:

EMIGRATION (from Lat. emigrare; e, ex, out of, and migrare, to depart)

emigration from See also:

PERSIA

Persia, the Parsee community had never had a titular chief or See also:

head, its communal funds and affairs being managed by a public See also:

BODY

body, more or less democratic in its constitution, termed the Parsee panchayat. The first Sir Jamsetjee, by the hold that he established on the community, by his charities and public spirit, gradually came to be regarded in the See also:

LIGHT

light of its chief; and the recognition which he was the first in India to receive at the hands of the British sovereign finally fixed him and his successors in the baronetcy in the position and title of the See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official Parsee leader. (M. M.

End of Article: JEEJEEBHOY (JIJIBHAI), SIR JAMSETJEE (JAMSETJI)

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