William, born in Ireland (1797-1833) and the eldest, was a postman in London. However, three other sons followed their father's profession.

Dean Mahomed (unknown-1836) who married Mary Ann Malthus in 1834, and was apprenticed to Thomas Mapleton to learn the practice of 'cupping', ran St James's Place bath-house, London, established in 1830.

Horatio Mahomed (1816-1873) was the manager of the Ryder Street Baths, London, set up in 1838. By the 1850s, Horatio had moved to a smaller establishment at 42 Somerset Street. In 1848, the Gentleman's Magazine reported his second marriage to Elizabeth Pruday, with whom Horatio had four children. Clara (1852-unknown), Gertrude (1855-unknown), Henry Pelham (1857-1919) named as a 'masseur' in his father's will, and Lizzie (1862-unknown). Horatio Mahomed wrote two books on the subject of bathing: The Bath A Concise History of Bathing (1843) and Short Hints on Bathing (1844).

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Arthur Ackber (1819-1872), the youngest, married to Amelia, inherited the much-reduced baths at the Black Lion Street establishment in Brighton. But times had changed. Brighton lost its prominence when Queen Victoria came to the throne. Arthur could not cash in on the 'Indian-ness' of Arthur's Baths as some English clients did not consider him 'Indian' enough. Yet others socially excluded him as a black native of India.

Frederick Mahomed (1818-1888), on the other hand, made his reputation among the fashionable middle classes of Brighton as a fencing instructor and teacher of gymnastics. He married Sarah Hodgkinson (1816-1905) of Foolow, Derbyshire, in 1848. All their five sons, Dean's grandsons, received university education and followed professional careers. Frederick Henry Horatio Akbar (1849-1884), the eldest, educated at Guy's was a doctor at Guy's. He was the first to attempt clinical measurement of high blood pressure, and the first to provide an accurate description of the condition. He is buried at Highgate Cemetery in a plot purchased by his wife, Ada Chalk for 20 guineas. The tombstone remembers both Mahomed and his first wife, Ellen. Mahomed has received no recognition for his pioneering work on hypertension.

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James Dean Kerriman (1853-1935), a graduate of Kebble College Oxford, was a Church of England Vicar, Omar Said (1854-unknown) an architect.

Arthur George Sulieman, (1857-1943) also educated at Guy's, practiced medicine at Bournemouth, and was the author of The Treatment of the Bournemouth Mont Dore (1889). He married Mary Spolis Crukshank (1863-unknown). Their Son Lt. Claude Atkinson Etty Mahomed (1886-1917), a civil engineer, served with the Scots Guards on the Western Front. He died in battle in France in August 1917 and is buried about 500 yards north east of Boesinghe, north west of Ypres. Their daughter, Phyllis Bell, (1889-unknown) was the proprietor of the Punch and Judy Cafe Verwood, Wimborne, Dorset in the 1950s.

The youngest son of Frederick and Sarah Mahomed, Herbert Abdallah Selim (1861-unknown) was a dental surgeon. Their daughters were named Florence Gertrude (1851-1945) and Adeline Alice Bertha (1859-1949).

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