Career
He was Chairman of the Royal Western India Turf Club (1931–1939) and instigated Mumbai Races"s A.Geddis Plate. His extensive business interests included a directorship of the Bank of India Limited and co-founding Geoffrey Manners & Company Limited., which became a leading distributor and manufacturer of Consumer Healthcare products and Pharmaceuticals across India until its amalgamation in April 2003 with the Wyeth Corporation, formerly known as American Home Products (AHP),one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
He left Bruntsfield Place in Edinburgh for Bombay in 1907 to work for James Finlay & Company
Limited. and went on to become extensively involved in the Ahmedabad textile industry becoming a Director of the Ahmedabad Jubilee Spinning & Manufacturing Company, Limited. and the Ahmedabad Manufacturing & Calico Printing Company Limited., as well as Director of the India Cotton Association and the Chairman of Mill Owners" Mutual Insurance Association Limited from its inception.
P. Railway Advisory committee for 13 years and was appointed to the Board of Trustees for the Bombay Portuguese trust in 1920. A keen horse racing enthusiast, as well as his chairmanship of the Western India Turf Club was also Chairman of the Turf Club House, Poona.
Other interests included being Chairman of the Bombay Scottish Orphanage Society and Chairman of the Caledonia Society of Bombay.
On arrival in India he stayed in the Pali Hill Chummery. He also had a beach house at Juhu.