MATTHAI FAMILY
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Dr John Matthai was born in Calicut on 10th Jan, 1886. He was married to Achamma and had three children, Valsa, Duleep and Ravi. He graduated from Madras Christian College and later went on to Oxford. He was an educationist, economist and prominent member of the Government of India and in the corporate world during the 1940s and 1950s. Dr John Matthai passed away in Bombay on 2nd Nov, 1959.
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Achamma Matthai was born on the 21st February 1898. She was educated in Trivandrum and sent for her B.A(Hons) degree to St John’s Diocesan College in Calcutta. She was one of the earliest women of her time to study out of Kerala. In recognition of her many contributions to the country, she was conferred with the Padma Shri in 1955. She passed away in Trivandrum in April 1977.
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Duleep was born on the 18th October 1924 in Madras. He studied at the Doon School after which he was employed by a British Managing agency company in Calcutta. His first assignment was in their Tea Gardens in Assam where he was able to experience Nature in all its aspects. He passed away in Anand (Gujarat) on 5th March, 2017.
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Ravi was the youngest of Dr Matthai and Achamma’s children, born in Trivandrum on the 6th August 1927. He joined the Doon School and then went to Allahabad University. Four years later, he went to Balliol College Oxford where he graduated with a PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) degree. He passed away in February 1984 in London after a cardiac surgery.
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