Manockjee Cursetjee

Manockjee Cursetjee (also Manekji Khurshedji Shroff)[1] (1808–1887)[2] was a Parsi businessman and judge from Bombay, remembered as a reformer and proponent of female education.

[5] He obtained a government post in the Bombay Presidency, and became a member of the Royal Asiatic Society.

The initiative gained the support of Kharshedji Nasarwanji Cama and John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune.

In 1863, with a land grant and a donation from Cursetjee, the Alexandra Native Girls' English Institution set up in its own premises.

[17] His second son Cursetjee Manockjee studied at Oxford University and Lincoln's Inn.

Manockjee Cursetjee, 1841 drawing by William Brockedon .
Title page from an 1862 book by Manockjee Cursetjee, published by Emily Faithfull
At the 1865 Social Science Congress in Sheffield, Manockjee Cursetjee speaks on female education in India