Bishop's College, Calcutta
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Bishop's College, Calcutta[1] is an Anglican educational establishment founded on 15 December 1820 at Sibpur by Thomas Fanshawe Middleton[2] the first bishop of the Anglican diocese of Calcutta.[3] The College was started in Shibpur, on the west bank of the Hooghly river, a location now occupied by the Bengal Engineering and Science University (IIEST Shibpur).
Principals
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- 1849–1864 William Kay.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ British Library
- ^ Project Canterbury
- ^ College web site
- ^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1892). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 250.
Categories:
- Educational institutions established in 1820
- Anglican seminaries and theological colleges
- Education in Kolkata
- Seminaries and theological colleges affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University)
- 1820 establishments in British India
- Christian universities and colleges in India
- Seminaries and theological colleges in India
- Christian seminaries and theological colleges
- West Bengal university stubs