Seth Bomanjee Dinshaw Petit (27 March 1859 – 17 December 1915)[1] was a noted cotton mill owner, founder of B.D.
He was the third son of the industrialist Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, the 1st baronet and his wife, Sakarbai Panday.
[2] In a letter to Sir Francis Lovell (Dean of the School), quoted in The Times in 1902, he wrote the following about the school: This institution, whilst according ample scope to students of diseases that well nigh devastate the East, will be the means of bringing the Western and Eastern minds together to afford help to the suffering East, and thus cementing that union of hearts.
[4] He founded the Bomanjee Dinshaw Petit Parsee General Hospital and served as its president for many years.
[4] He was on the board of the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, vice-president of Bombay Presidency Association, and founder and managing director of the newspaper Indian Daily Mail.