Biography

He was the son of the noted Parsi merchant Jamsetji Tata. Ratan
Tata was educated at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and
afterwards entered his father's firm. On the death of the elder Tata
in 1904, Ratan Tata and his brother Dorabji Tata inherited a very
large fortune, much of which they devoted to philanthropic works of
a practical nature and to the establishment of various industrial
enterprises for developing the resources of India.
An Indian institute of scientific and medical research was founded
at Mysore in 1905, and in 1912 the Tata Iron and Steel Co. began
work atSachi, in the Central Provinces, with marked success. The
most important of the Tata enterprises, however, was the storing of
the water power of the Western Ghats (1915), which provided
Mumbai with an enormous amount of electrical power, and hence
vastly increased the productive capacity of its industries. Sir Ratan
Tata, who was knighted in 1916, did not confine his benefactions to
India. In England, where he had a permanent residence at York
House, Twickenham, he founded (1912) the Ratan Tata
department of social science and administration at the London
School of Economics, and in 1912 established a Ratan Tata fund
at the University of London for studying the conditions of the poorer
classes.
[edit]Personal life
He married Navajbai Sett in In 1892 and left for England in 1915.
He died on September 5, 1918 at St Ives in Cornwall, England and
was buried at Brookwood Cemetery near London by the side of his
father. [1]
[edit]Legacy

After his death the Sir Ratan Tata Trust was founded in 1919, with
a corpus of Rs. 8 million.[1]
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