Bishop's College, Calcutta

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A view of The Bishop's College, Garden Reach, Calcutta

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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References

  1. ↑ British Library
  2. ↑ Project Canterbury
  3. ↑ College web site
  4. ↑ Greenhill, William Alexander (1892). "Kay, William"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 250.