(3 April 1767 – 12 February 1851) was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) to a Parsi family.
[2] Some of his achievements were:- Post his death The Education Board under the presidency of eminent educationist and Judge, Sir Erskine Perry, put below resolution before the committee and passed "Framji Cowasji, Esq., resigned his seat in consequence of his advanced time of life.
The eminent and good citizenship, and zeal in supporting every measure for public improvement, which distinguished our late much esteemed colleague, are too well-known to your Lordship (Governor of Bombay) in Council to need any notice from us, but in recording his death, which subsequently occurred, the Board feel a melancholy pleasure in thus publicly expressing the respect in which they hold his memory.” [8] ON the evening of 22 September 1852, The Framjee Cowasji Testimonial gathering was called to discuss a suitable memorial to erect in his name.
P LeGreyt who was chairing the testimonial, termed it an "extraordinary occasion" and said “This is the first instance that has been known in which persons of the classes and denominations, of both natives and Europeans, have come forward to raise posthumous testimonial in honour of a native of this presidency”.
[9] In 1892, Memoirs of the late Framji Cowasji Banaji were published by Bombay Gazette Steam Printing Works.