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Bishop Cotton Boys' School
Bishop Cotton Boys' School
	The School Arms
Address
	St. Mark's Road; Bengaluru, Karnataka; India
Coordinates	12°58′7.0″N 77°35′55.6″E / 12.968611°N 77.598778°E
Information
Type	Private school
Motto	Nec Dextrorsum Nec Sinistrorsum (Latin); (Neither to the right, nor to the left.)
Established	1865; 160 years ago
Founder	Samuel Thomas Pettigrew
Chairman	Rt. Rev. Martin C. Borgai (Bishop-In-Charge)–KCD
Principal	Alistair R. A. Freese
Enrollment	approx. 7,000
Campus size	14 acres (57,000 m2)
Houses	Pope, Pettigrew, Elphick, Pakenham Walsh, Thomas
Color(s)	Green and gold
Publication	The Cottonian, The Cotton Mill
Affiliation	ICSE, ISC
Former pupils	Old Cottonians
Website	bishopcottonboysschool.edu.in

Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for boarders and day scholars in Bengaluru, India, founded in the memory of Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta.

The school is bordered by Residency Road, St Mark's Road, Lavelle Road and Vittal Mallya Road, and is spread over 14 acres (57,000 m²) of land in the heart of Bangalore.

School heads in the early days included George Uglow Pope, Herbert Pakenham-Walsh, S. T. Pettigrew, William Elphick, Iowerth Lowell Thomas and A. T. Balraj.

The sister school Bishop Cotton Girls' School is located on the opposite side of St. Mark's Road.^[2]

Origins

The school's past extends back to the British Raj and the Victorian era with its beginnings in a house on High Grounds over which now stands the great ITC Windsor Hotel. It was started in 1865 by Rev. S T Pettigrew, the then Chaplain of St. Mark's Cathedral who had a vision of starting a school for the education of children of European and Anglo-Indian families. In his own words, he wanted to "establish a day and boarding School for the Children of Christian residents in the station and its vicinity." The school was named in honour of George Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta, under whose stewardship a scheme of education was organized for the Anglican Churches in India. After India gained independence from the British in 1947, the school began to be, and is still governed by the Church of South India.

In the first five years of the school it had three principals. It was only with the arrival of George Uglow Pope, a distinguished Tamil scholar (who translated the famed Tirukkuṛaḷ into English^[3]) that the present site was acquired For Rs 47,500. The boys' school and the girls' school functioned on the same campus but under different heads. Under the stewardship of Pope, the school grew from strength to strength. A collegiate section was started and the school obtained recognition from the University of Madras. He gave the School its motto – 'Nec Dextrorsum Nec Sinistrorsum', meaning 'Neither to the right nor to the Left'.

When Pope left India in 1892 to take up the post of Reader at Oxford University, the standard of the school began to decline. By 1906, closure of the school was contemplated.

Henry Whitehead, Bishop of Madras, the chairman of the board of governors, as a last resort, invited the members of the Brotherhood of Saint Peter to save the school from closure. Herbert Pakenham-Walsh, of the Brotherhood of St. Peter, later to become Bishop, revived the school. The school still celebrates St. Peter's day amongst other traditions such as Guy Fawkes' bonfires. In 1911, the girls' school was moved across the road. William Elphick worked for a quarter of century for the growth of the school.

The last living member of the Brotherhood of St Peter in India, Father David, died of old age. He lived and worked in the school as the school chaplain.^[4]

Scouting was officially founded in British India in 1909, first starting at the Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore by Capt T.H Baker and Major Pakenham Walsh.^[5]

General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Trust

The General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Trust pays tribute to the School, in memory of General K. S. Thimayya, Cottonian (1918 to 1922). The Trust organises the annual Thimayya Memorial Lecture, and awards the Thimayya Medal to Cottonians who have demonstrated exemplary public service. The Trust also operates a Benevolent Fund that supports former staff members of the School, monetarily.^[6]

Notable alumni

Science

Nasir Ahmed, Indian-American electrical engineer, invented the discrete cosine transform. ^[7]
B. Jayant Baliga, Electrical Engineer
Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan, AM FRS, Australian bioengineer and neuroscientist
Varghese Mathai, Australian mathematician
Ananth Dodabalapur, Indian-American engineer
Angus Finlay Hutton, British naturalist
Ajit Varki, Indian American physician-scientist
Raja Ramanna, Padma Vibhushan, scientist and former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.^[8]
Makarand Paranjape, former director at Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla

Military

Lieutenant General A C Iyappa, first Indian Signal officer in chief
Lieutenant General Jameel Mahmood, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command (1992-93)
Major General Sultan Mahmood
Col. Lalit Rai, VrC, Kargil War hero
William Leefe Robinson, British fighter pilot, Victoria Cross awardee
Admiral Vijay Singh Shekhawat, former Chief of Naval Staff, Indian Navy
General Sir Frank Simpson, former Chief of Army Staff, Great Britain
General K. S. Thimayya, former Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army
Air Marshall Malcolm Wollen, former chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics limited
Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, VSM

Positions of responsibility

Norman Majoribanks, former governor of Madras^{[citation needed]}
Gopal Krishna Pillai, former Union Home Secretary, Government of India^[9]
Dinesh Gundu Rao, Minister for Health and Family Welfare in the Government of Karnataka^[10]
Akbar Mirza Khaleeli, Indian ambassador to Iran from 1980 to 1984 and Italy from 1986 to 1990
A.R. Khaleel, former vice-president of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) and president of the Karnataka State Football Association

Entrepreneurs

Nandan Nilekani, Padma Bhushan, co-founder of Infosys and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)^[11]
Philip Wollen, Australian philanthropist, environmentalist and animal rights activist; former vice-president of Citibank
Rohan Murty, Indian technical officer, junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and the founder of the Murty Classical Library of India^[12]
Bharat Goenka, Padma Shri, co-founder and managing director of Tally Solutions
Kunal Agarwal, Co-founder and CEO of Unravel Data
Varun Agarwal, founder of Alma Mater

Arts

Lucky Ali, Bollywood singer
Biddu Appaiah, British-indian singer-songwriter, composer, and music producer
Prabhu, Indian actor, businessman and film producer
Ricky Kej, Indian composer, music producer^[13]
Feroz Khan, actor
Brodha V, Hip hop artist^[14]
Ashvin Mathew, stage actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter
Ramkumar Ganesan, Indian film producer, actor

Sports

Brijesh Patel, cricketer
Colin Cowdrey, English cricketer
Mayank Agarwal, cricketer
Eugeneson Lyngdoh, footballer
David Mathias, cricketer who represents the Bahrain national cricket team
Amit Verma, cricketer
Nihar Ameen, swimmer
Ravikumar Samarth, cricketer who plays for the Karnataka cricket team

Other notable alumni

Sudi Devanesen, Canadian family medicine physician and educator
Kenneth Anderson, Indian writer and hunter

References

^ "About Us | Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore". 20 January 2020.
^ "The School | BISHOP COTTON BOYS' SCHOOL". bishopcottonboysschool.edu.in. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ Pope, G U; Drew, W H; Lazarus, John; Ellis, F W. "Tirukkural: English Translation and Commentary". Project Madurai. Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ "History | BISHOP COTTON BOYS' SCHOOL". bishopcottonboysschool.edu.in. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ "The Bharat Scouts and Guides". scout.ind.in. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
^ Mane, Vedika (11 November 2020). "Pragmatism, Philosophy and Courage: The 16th General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Lecture". nsoj.in. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ Sanyal, Riniki (18 February 2021). "'This Is Us' Honours Nasir Ahmed in Ep 8 of Season 5 – Who is He?". TheQuint. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
^ "India's Most Eminent Nuclear Physicist". Archived from the original on 13 March 2012.
^ "Leadership Team - IPF". www.policefoundationindia.org. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
^ Service, Express News (12 July 2014). "Alumni Join Cottonians for 150th Anniversary". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ Iyengar, Vidya. "They were once tots too: Famous Bishop Cotton Alumni". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
^ "Rohan Narayana Murty: Billionaire Narayana Murthy's son, who pioneered his own path to excellence in technology and innovation". The Economic Times. 31 July 2023. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ "Old Cottonian steals the show". The Hindu. 23 December 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ Kumar, Shyama Krishna (27 August 2013). "Meet the machas with an attitude". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

External links

[1] "About Us | Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore". 20 January 2020.

[2] "The School | BISHOP COTTON BOYS' SCHOOL". bishopcottonboysschool.edu.in. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[Project_Madurai-3] Pope, G U; Drew, W H; Lazarus, John; Ellis, F W. "Tirukkural: English Translation and Commentary". Project Madurai. Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2014.

[4] "History | BISHOP COTTON BOYS' SCHOOL". bishopcottonboysschool.edu.in. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[5] "The Bharat Scouts and Guides". scout.ind.in. Retrieved 8 March 2024.

[6] Mane, Vedika (11 November 2020). "Pragmatism, Philosophy and Courage: The 16th General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Lecture". nsoj.in. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[7] Sanyal, Riniki (18 February 2021). "'This Is Us' Honours Nasir Ahmed in Ep 8 of Season 5 – Who is He?". TheQuint. Retrieved 9 September 2023.

[8] "India's Most Eminent Nuclear Physicist". Archived from the original on 13 March 2012.

[9] "Leadership Team - IPF". www.policefoundationindia.org. Retrieved 10 March 2024.

[10] Service, Express News (12 July 2014). "Alumni Join Cottonians for 150th Anniversary". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[11] Iyengar, Vidya. "They were once tots too: Famous Bishop Cotton Alumni". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 28 February 2024.

[12] "Rohan Narayana Murty: Billionaire Narayana Murthy's son, who pioneered his own path to excellence in technology and innovation". The Economic Times. 31 July 2023. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[13] "Old Cottonian steals the show". The Hindu. 23 December 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[14] Kumar, Shyama Krishna (27 August 2013). "Meet the machas with an attitude". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

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PROFILPELAJAR.COM

Bishop Cotton Boys' School

Origins

General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Trust

Notable alumni

Science

Military

Positions of responsibility

Entrepreneurs

Arts

Sports

Other notable alumni

References

External links

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