Sir Hormusjee Naorojee Mody (12 October 1838 – 16 June 1911) was a successful Indian Parsi businessman in Hong Kong. He made Hong Kong his home for 50 years, during which he did much for the benefit of the colony and finally founded the University of Hong Kong. Biography He was born in Bombay and moved to Hong Kong around 1860. At the time there was a large community of Parsi merchants based in Hong Kong, including Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala, who founded the Star Ferry and Jehangir Hormujee Ruttonjee who helped establish the Hong Kong Ruttonjee Sanatorium. Mody arrived in Hong Kong in 1858 with help from his uncle Jehangirjee Buxey. He spent his early days in the colony as an auctioneer of opium, then a legally respectable activity. After working at Bank of Hindustan, China and Japan and later Buxey and Company, Mody partnered with another Indian immigrant, Sir Catchick Paul Chater, to form the brokerage company Chater and Mody which enjoyed great success in the real estate/land business. Mody saw the potential of buying and developing land in Kowloon after it was ceded to the British in 1860. Both partners also participated in the great Praya Reclamation Scheme of 1887. Mody contributed towards founding of University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jockey Club and Kowloon Cricket Club. Family Sir Hormusjee Mody and his wife Maneckbai had five children, 4 boys and a girl. Sirinbai Mody married to Nusseranji Dady, they had a son Hormusjee. Merwanjee Mody 1858–1910 Naoroz Hormusjee Naoroji Mody 1875–1944 Jehangirjee Hormusjee Mody 1876–1949 Dinshawjee Hormusjee Mody 1882–1920 Contribution towards founding of University of Hong Kong Mody was a friend of the Hong Kong Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard and his wife Flora Shaw, who wished to found a university in Hong Kong. Mody offered to contribute a great sum of money, $150,000, to help establish the University of Hong Kong, provided it was matched by donations from other sources. His donation, eventually almost doubled to $285,000, was a very significant component of the total endowment for the inception of this institution. At the foundation ceremony on 16 March 1910, Mody summed up his reasons for contributing towards HKU "As a young man, the advantages of education were unfortunately not within my reach, and I have to-day at my advanced age to confess myself 'no scholar'. Throughout my long life I have daily realised all I have