Mangaldas Nathubhoy

Sir Mangaldas Nathubhoy (15 October 1832 – 9 March 1890), Seth or head of the Kapol Bania caste, well known for their thrift and keen commercial instincts.

Ramdas Manordas, his grandfather, amassed a considerable fortune, which, owing to the premature death of his father, came into the sole possession of Mangaldas at the age of eleven.

In 1862, he assisted in establishing the Hindu Boys' School in Bombay, founded under the patronage of the Students' Literary and Scientific Society.

On the death of Nathubhoy's wife in 1864, he established a dispensary at Kalyan in her memory and also a special female ward in connection with the David Sassoon hospital in Poona.

In social matters he stood forth as a reformer, and to him the change to election from hereditary succession to the headship of the caste is due.