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).
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Principals
edit- 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.