Sir Fazalbhoy Currimbhoy Ebrahim, 1st Baronet CBE (25 October 1839 – 26 September 1924)[1] was a mid 19th century businessman based in Bombay. He is credited with founding E. Pabaney & Co, the family held trading and ship owning company whose trading interests extended as far as the Arabian Peninsula, the African coast and China.
The family was based in Bombay, and had been active in Canton (the capital city of the Guangdong Province in southern China) before the Opium War. They had a virtual monopoly on India's overseas merchandising. They continued to maintain a considerable stake in the opium trade through E. Pabaney & Co, with branch offices springing up in Hong Kong and Shanghai during the latter half of the 19th century.[2]
- ^ Charles, Mosley (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition. Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Genealogical Books. p. 1266.
- ^ Ina Baghdiantz McCabe; Gelina Harlaftis; Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (11 January 2005). Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History. Berg Publishers. p. 227. ISBN 1-85973-880-X.