Hormusjee Naorojee Mody

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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 Mithaiwala, who founded the Star Ferry and Jehangir Hormujee Ruttonjee who helped establish the Hong Kong Ruttonjee Sanatorium. Much of the community initially engaged in the opium trade between India and China. He and Sir Catchick Paul Chater formed the company Chater & Mody which enjoyed great success in business. Mody saw the potential of buying and developing land in Kowloon after it was ceded to the British in 1860.