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HISTORY OF THE PARS IS.
[CHAP. II.
business as a merchant in the year 1790, and in 1795
had become aa;ent for the Honourable East India Com-
pany. From an early age he showed high capacity for
business, and during half a century he was one of the
most enlightened, energetic, and honourable merchants.
But his name will chiefly be remembered on account
of his benevolence and high character as a citizen, and
for his zealous and indefatigable exertions for the pro-
motion of the moral and physical improvement of his
countrymen. He was one of the most active of those
who shared or assisted in the educational movement
during the administration of the Honourable Mount-
stuart Elphinstone. He was a member for many
years of the late Board of Education, to which had
been entrusted by Government the direction of educa-
tion in Western India. On his death, which occurred
in the year 1851, the Board, of which Sir Erskine
Perry, Chief-Justice of Her Majesty's Supreme Court
at Bombay, was president, expressed themselves to
Government as follows:—"Framji Kavasji, Esquire,
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, Avhich distinguished our late much
esteemed colleague, are too well known to your
Lordship in council to need any notice from us,
but in recording his death, which subsequently
occurred, the Board feci a melancholy pleasure in
HISTORY OF THE PARS IS.
[CHAP. II.
business as a merchant in the year 1790, and in 1795
had become aa;ent for the Honourable East India Com-
pany. From an early age he showed high capacity for
business, and during half a century he was one of the
most enlightened, energetic, and honourable merchants.
But his name will chiefly be remembered on account
of his benevolence and high character as a citizen, and
for his zealous and indefatigable exertions for the pro-
motion of the moral and physical improvement of his
countrymen. He was one of the most active of those
who shared or assisted in the educational movement
during the administration of the Honourable Mount-
stuart Elphinstone. He was a member for many
years of the late Board of Education, to which had
been entrusted by Government the direction of educa-
tion in Western India. On his death, which occurred
in the year 1851, the Board, of which Sir Erskine
Perry, Chief-Justice of Her Majesty's Supreme Court
at Bombay, was president, expressed themselves to
Government as follows:—"Framji Kavasji, Esquire,
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, Avhich distinguished our late much
esteemed colleague, are too well known to your
Lordship in council to need any notice from us,
but in recording his death, which subsequently
occurred, the Board feci a melancholy pleasure in