Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney

Sir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, CSI (24 May 1812 – 19 July 1878)[1][2] was a Parsi community leader, philanthropist and industrialist of Bombay, India.

His great-grandfather and two great-uncles had moved in the early 18th century from Navsari near Surat to Bombay and had become pioneers in the lucrative opium trade with China.

The brothers were cash-rich and worked as bankers for various British clients, and they earned for themselves the sobriquet "Readymoney," which they later adopted as a surname.

In 1872, he was created a Knight Bachelor of the United Kingdom[4] in recognition of his donations to the Indian Institute in London and other charitable causes in Bombay amounting to approximately £200,000.

He financed the erection, in 1869, of the Readymoney Drinking Fountain in Regent's Park, London, which was opened by the Princess of Teck, as a mark of gratitude from the Parsi community to the protection that British rule in India had given them.

[5] Readymoney had a particular association with University of Bombay and he financed the erection of several notable buildings there, including the Convocation Hall designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.