People/magnate, financier

Dorabji Tata

Dorabji Tata (1859–1932), magnate, financier, from India. Linked to iron ore.

The lucky break

Senior partner in Tata Sons, knighted in 1910, and educated at Bombay and Caius College, Cambridge.1,2,3,4

Legacy

With his cousin RD Tata he carried his father's steel project forward after 1904, and the first ingot was rolled in 1912.1,2,3,4

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People

FamilyJamsetji TataHe finished his father's steel project after 1904.1

Sources

  1. The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915): Tata, Sir Dorabji Jamsetji Wikisource (public domain source text)
  2. Jamsetji Tata (Tata Titans) Tata Group
  3. Wikidata item Q1243687
  4. File pages and licence metadata for portraits (via the Commons imageinfo/extmetadata API) Wikimedia Commons

Pictures on this page: JNTata.jpg, Uploaded to en-Wiki by Chirags (Public domain).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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