Wadia, Ardaseer Cursetjee (1808–1877), civil engineer, was born, probably on 30 September 1808, in Bombay, India, the only surviving child of Cursetjee Rustomjee Wadia (1788–1863), master shipbuilder of the East India Company, and his wife, Jerbai Cowasjee Bomanjee Kabrajee (d. 1848). He was a member of the Parsi community, his forebears being from ...
