 In 1892 , Sir Frederick Leigh Croft , a business associate of Jinnahbhai <unk> , offered young Jinnah a London apprenticeship with his firm , Graham 's Shipping and Trading Company . He accepted the position despite the opposition of his mother , who before he left , had him enter an arranged marriage with a girl two years his junior from the ancestral village of <unk> , <unk> Jinnah . Jinnah 's mother and first wife both died during his absence in England . Although the apprenticeship in London was considered a great opportunity for Jinnah , one reason for sending him overseas was a legal proceeding against his father , which placed the family 's property at risk of being sequestered by the court . In 1893 , the Jinnahbhai family moved to Bombay . 
