Zoroastrian Bank

We, at Zoroastrian Bank, salute the foresight of our Founder Sir Hormusjee Cowasjee Dinshaw Adenwalla, who founded the Bank on 17th June, 1927.

Sir Hormusjee Cowasjee Dinshaw born on 4′ April, 1857 and was the eldest son of Cowasjee Dinshaw. He was educated at Elphinstone College and King’s College, London and started life as an apprentice at James Barber and Son, London and then at Leopold Bin Fils & Gans, Paris.

He joined his father’s business in 1879 and expanded the same by establishing agency links at London, Paris, Marseilles, Geneva, Trieste, Amsterdam, Hamburg, New York and Colombo.

He was popularly known as ‘the Maker of Modern Aden’ and his family built an agiary and a dokhma at Aden and an agiary at Zanzibar and at Lonavala.

He had the honour of presenting on behalf of the residents of Aden and address to His Majestic King George V in 1911.

Sir Hormusjee represented the Aden Chamber of Commerce at the Fifth International Congress held at Boston in 1911 and he was a Trustee of Aden Port. He was a Vice Consul for Spain in 1891 and Consul for Portugal and Austria in Aden.

Sir Hormusjee was conferred the Order of the British Empire in 1918 and was Knighted in 1922. He was elected as a Trustee of the Bombay Parsee Punchayat in 1931 and was the President of the Parsee Federal Council and Jarthosti Komna Labh Sachavnari Mandali.

Sir Hormusjee was known as a Captain of Industry and was on the Board of several mills. He was a philanthropist having firm faith in our religion, its traditions and customs.
In appreciation of his services, the Bombay Municipal Corporation named a road as Sir Hormusjee Adenwalla Road in Dadar Parsee Colony. He passed away at the age of 82 on 1′ August, 1939.
We, at Zoroastrian Bank carry fond memories of our founder and dedicate ourselves towards realizing his dreams to make Zoroastrian Bank a name to reckon with in the Banking Industry. .