Petit baronets

Petit Baronets
Place of origin	Bombay, British India
Members	Dinshaw Maneckji Petit Rattanbai Petit
Connected families	Tata family Jinnah family
Traditions	Zoroastrian

The Petit Baronetcy, of Petit Hall on the Island of Bombay, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 September 1890 for the Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist Dinshaw Maneckji Petit. The baronetcy was created with remainder to 1) Framjee Petit, second son of the first Baronet, and the heirs male of his body, failing which to 2) the heirs male of the body of the first Baronet. By Special Act of the Legislative Council of India all holders of the title were to relinquish their own name on succession and assume those of the first Baronet.

Petit Baronets, of Petit Hall (1890)[]

• Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 1st Baronet (1823–1901)
• Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 2nd Baronet (1873–1933). His daughter, Rattanbai, married Jinnah and was the mother of Dina Wadia
• Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 3rd Baronet (1901–1983). His wife, Sylla, was a sister of JRD Tata.
• Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 4th Baronet (1934–1998)
• Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 5th Baronet (born 1965)

Other family members[]

• Sylla Tata, wife of Dinshaw Maneckji Petit (3rd Baronet). She was the daughter of the Tata Group chairperson, Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, the sister of JRD Tata, and the sister in law of Rattanbai Petit, who married Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
• Rattanbai Jinnah (1900–1929), born as Rattanbai "Ruttie" Petit, she was the daughter of Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit of 2nd Baronet. She married Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948), founder of Pakistan, husband of Maryam Jinnah
• Dina Wadia (1919–2017), daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Rattanbai Petit, married to Neville Wadia

See also[]

• Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Jinnah family
• Tata family
• Wadia family

References[]

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets