Hormusjee Naorojee Mody
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Sir Hormusjee Naorojee Mody (12 October 1838 - 16 June 1911) was a successful Parsi businessman in Hong Kong. He was born in Bombay and moved to Hong Kong around 1860. At the time, there was a large community of Parsi merchants based in Hong Kong, including Dorabjee Naorojee, who founded the Star Ferry, J. H. Ruttonjee who helped estabish the Hong Kong Sanatorium. Many of the community initially engaged in the opium trade between India and China.
He and Sir Catchick Paul Chater formed Chater & Mody with great success in business. Mody saw the potential of buying and developing land in Kowloon after it was ceded to the British in 1860.
Mody was a friend of the Hong Kong Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard and his wife Flora Shaw, who wished to found a university in Hong Kong. Mody offered to contribute a great sum money, $150,000, to help establish the University of Hong Kong, provided it was matched by donations from other sources. He was knighted in 1910 after the laying of the university's foundation stone. His bust is on display as a memorial in the University of Hong Kong's Main Building.
Several places in Hong Kong are named after him, including:
- Mody Road and Mody Square in Tsim Sha Tsui
He is buried in the Parsee Cemetery in Happy Valley.
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