Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for boarders and day scholars in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It admits students without regard to race, religion, gender, nationality, or financial status. A practice which dates back to the pre-independence era.
The school is named after Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton the son of an Army Captain, who died leading his Regiment in battle. He was a scholar of Westminster School, and a graduate of ...
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Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for boarders and day scholars in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It admits students without regard to race, religion, gender, nationality, or financial status. A practice which dates back to the pre-independence era.
The school is named after Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton the son of an Army Captain, who died leading his Regiment in battle. He was a scholar of Westminster School, and a graduate of Cambridge. In 1836 he was appointed Assistant Master at Rugby by Doctor Thomas Arnold, one of the founders of the British Public School System. It was the young Mr. Cotton who is spoken of as the 'the model young master' in Thomas Hughes' famous book 'Tom Brown's School Days'.
The school is bordered by Residency Road, St.Mark's Road, Lavelle Road and Vittal Mallya Road, and is spread over 13 acres (53,000 m) of land in the heart of Bangalore.
School heads in the early days included Rev. George Uglow Pope, Bishop Pakenham-Walsh, Rev. Pettigrew,...
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