Currimbhoy Ebrahim

Sir (Fazalbhoy) Currimbhoy Ebrahim, 1st Baronet CBE (25 October 1839 – 26 September 1924) was an Indian Dawoodi Bohra businessman of the Gujarati Khoja Ismaili faith based in Bombay credited with founding E. Pabaney & Co, whose shipowning family held trading interests as far as the Arabian peninsula and the African coast. Dawoodi Bohras based in Bombay, who had been active in Canton (the capital city of the Guangdong Province in southern China) before the Opium War and long monopolized India's overseas merchandising, continued to maintain a considerable stake in the opium trade through E. Pabaney & Co, with branch offices springing up in Hong Kong and Shanghai during the latter half of the 19th century.
He had 10 children through his first marriage with Bai Foolbai Gangji and 11 children through his second marriage to Bai Foolbia Sajan.
Sir Currimbhoy Ebrahim was knighted during the Prince and Princess of Wales's Indian tour of 1905 and created a baronet in 1910 and further granted lands to support that dignity by the Currimbhoy Ebrahim Baronetcy Act 1913 following the precedent set by the Cowasji Jehangir Baronetcy Act. The 'Currimbhoy Ebrahim Khoja Orphanage trust' started by him, continue to own large pieces of land in / around Mumbai. including the Currimbhoy manor (Bhulabhai Desai road, Mumbai) and the Poona bungalow (Pune).