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The National Geographic Magazine 



Navrozjee Maneckjee Wadia, C. I. E. 



A Parsee merchant and a companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire. 

 He is reputed to be the richest man in Bombay. His mother, the late Bai Motlibhia Maneckjee 

 Wadia, has endeared her memory for many generations to come by her munificent charitable 

 gifts. Mr Wadia will leave by deed of trust his entire vast fortune to universal charity and 

 relief of the distressed, without distinction of nationality, race, cast, color, sex, or condition. 

 He is also the Bearer of the Cross of the Legion of Honor, conferred upon him by Napoleon III. 



