caption death_date religion birth_place ethnicity relatives parents birth_date article_title name occupation alma_mater
nowroji saklatwala 1938 -lrb- aged 63 -rrb- zoroastrian bombay , british india parsi jamshetji tata -lrb- uncle -rrb- bapuji and virbaiji -lrb- néé tata -rrb- 1875 nowroji saklatwala
 sir nowroji saklatwala former chairman of tata group university of bombay
nowroji saklatwala

sir nowroji saklatwala , kbe , cie -lrb- 1875 - 1938 -rrb- was the third chairman of the tata group from 1932 till his sudden death in 1938 due to a heart attack .
he was son of bapuji saklatwala and virbaiji saklatwala -lrb- `` néé tata '' -rrb- .
his mother virbaiji was the sister of jamshetji nusserwani tata .
he completed his studies at st. xavier college , joined the tata group in 1899 as a clerk in svadeshi mills in mumbai .
within twenty years , he rose to be the head of the firm .
he was the only non-tata to make it to the top , and worked closely with dorabji tata .
when dorabji died in 1932 , he became the chairman of the tata group and had the task of consolidating the company during the depression years .
closely connected with indian cricket , saklatwala played for the parsees team during 1904-05 , but stopped playing actively due to business pre-occupations .
as a cricket player he represented the parsees against the europeans in 1904 .
he was the first chairman of the cricket club of india after its inception in 1933 till his death and was instrumental in the development of brabourne stadium , for which he also donated a large sum of money .
saklatwala was appointed a companion of the order of the indian empire -lrb- cie -rrb- in the 1923 new year honours list , knighted in the 1933 birthday honours list and further knighted as a knight commander of the order of the british empire -lrb- kbe -rrb- in the 1937 coronation honours list .
