1. Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry was an Irish billionaire businessman of Indian descent.
11 Facts About Pallonji Mistry
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Pallonji Mistry was chairman of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and a major shareholder of India's largest private conglomerate, Tata Group.
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Pallonji Mistry was born to Shapoorji Mistry in Bombay on 1 June 1929.
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Pallonji Mistry was a member of Parsi community in Bombay.
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Pallonji Mistry was the chairman of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, through which he owned Shapoorji Pallonji Construction Limited, Forbes Textiles and Eureka Forbes Limited.
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Pallonji Mistry was the former chairman of Associated Cement Companies.
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Pallonji Mistry was the richest Irish billionaire at the time of his death, and the world's 143 richest person.
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In 2003, Pallonji Mistry gave up his Indian citizenship to become an Irish citizen "on the basis of his marriage to an Irish-born national", Pat "Patsy" Perin Dubash, who was born in September 1939 at Hatch Street Nursing House in Dublin.
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The family's interest in Ireland is ascribed, in part, to their love of horses; Pallonji Mistry owned a 200 acres stud farm and a 10,000-square-foot home in Pune, India.
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Pallonji Mistry was awarded the Padma Bhushan in January 2016 by the Government of India for his contributions in the field of trade and industry.
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Pallonji Mistry died in Mumbai on 28 June 2022 at the age of 93.