Narottam Morarjee, born on 2 April 1877, in Porbandar, was an Indian businessperson with major interests in shipping and textiles.
His father Seth Morarjee Goculdas was
a pioneering textile magnate. He studied at Elphinstone College. He
started managing two mills- Morarjee Goculdas Mill of Bombay and Solapur Mill
of Solapur while studying.
Narottam Morarjee later came into close
contact with Mahatma Gandhi, Dr, Annie Besant, Dadabhai Naoroji, Rabindranath
Tagore, Sarojini Naidu and Motilal Nehru.
Narottam Morarjee joined hands with
other Gujarati businessmen, Walchand Hirachand and Kilachand Devchand to finance
and establish The Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd., which was founded on
27 March 1919. On 5 April 1919, Scindia's first ship s.s. LOYALTY sailed from
Bombay to the United Kingdom and unfurled the flag of Indian shipping in
international waters.
Narottam Morarjee died on 5 November 1929.
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