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{{Short description|Defunct school in Sadra}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox school
| name =
| city = [[Sadra, Gandhinagar]]
| state = [[Gujarat]]
| country = [[India]]
| fundingtype = [[Private School|Private]]
| established = 16 December 1887
| closed = {{circa|1934}}
| gender = [[Single-sex education|Boys]]
}}
{{Use India English|date=February 2025}}

'''Scott College''' was a [[Private school|private]] [[boarding school]] located in [[Sadra, Gandhinagar|Sadra]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]].

==History==
In 1885, Colonel W. Scott, the then Political Agent of [[Mahi Kantha Agency|Mahi Kantha]], who was dissatisfied with the quality of education being provided at the taluqdari school, proposed to the rulers, chiefs, and nobles of the agency to donate towards building a school at [[Sadra, Gandhinagar|Sadra]] for the education of their sons, on the lines of an [[Public school (United Kingdom)|English public school]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kellogg |first=Day Otis |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Encyclopaedia_Britannica/Om_5Wfn_CUMC |title=The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature |last2=Baynes |first2=Thomas Spencer |last3=Smith |first3=William Robertson |date=1902 |publisher=Little, Brown |pages=468 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Master |first=Framroz Sorabji |url=http://archive.org/details/mahikanthadirect00mast |title=The Mahi Kantha directory |date=1922 |publisher=Rajkot : [s.n.] |others=University of California Libraries |pages=54, 97–98}}</ref> Generously responding to his call, they contributed a sum of nearly Rs. 75,000, of which Rs. 30,000 was invested in Government Promissory Notes to form the nucleus of an endowment fund for the school, and the remainder was used to construct the building.<ref name=":0" /> In appreciation of Scott, who had been instrumental in founding the school, and at the request of the rulers, chiefs, and nobles of the agency to the [[British government of India|Government of India]], the school was named after him.<ref name=":0" /> The foundation stone of the school building was laid by Scott himself on 6 November 1886, and the completed building, which was to be opened by the [[Governor of Bombay]], was, due to the Governor's unavailability, opened by J. B. Richey, a member of the [[Bombay Legislative Council|Bombay Council]], on 16 December 1887.<ref name=":0" />

It was amalgamated with the [[Rajkumar College, Rajkot]], in 1934.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/the-sphere-1930-1964 |title=The Sphere 1930-1964 |pages=434}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Feudatory_and_zemindari_India/9ggnAQAAIAAJ |title=The Feudatory and zemindari India |date=1937 |pages=128 |language=en}}</ref>

==Alumni==
The following are some of the school's alumni.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Name
!Father Name
!State/Esate
!Note(s)
!Reference
|-
|Viramji
|Kanji
|Deodar
|
| rowspan="7" |<ref>{{Cite book |last=Not Available |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34582 |title=Memoranda On The Indian States 1930 |date=1933 |pages=194, 260, 262–266}}</ref>
|-
|Keshrisinghji
|
|[[Ambliara State|Ambliara]]
|
|-
|Fatehsinhji
|
|[[Ghodasar]]
|
|-
|Fatehsinhji
|
|[[Khadal State|Khadal]]
|
|-
|Fatehsinhji
|
|[[Pethapur State|Pethapur]]
|
|-
|Shivsinhji
|
|[[Punadra]]
|
|-
|Prithisinhji
|
|Sudasna
|
|-
|Hamirsinhji
|
|[[Vijaynagar State|Vijaynagar]]
|
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite book |last=Not Available |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81042 |title=List Of Ruling Princes And Chiefs In Political Relations |date=1931 |pages=30, 35}}</ref>
|-
|Ajitsinhji
|
|[[Punadra]]
|
|-
|Bapusinhji
|
|Vasna
|
| rowspan="3" |<ref>{{Cite book |last=Peters |first=Thos |url=http://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1808 |title=Who's Who In India Burma Amp Ceylon (1939) |date=1939 |pages=56, 94 |publisher=The Sun Publishing House, Bombay}}</ref>
|-
|Joravarsinhji
|
|[[Varsoda]]
|While he was at Sadra, he attained first rank in his class and in the whole college in English, and obtained the Ferris Medal for proficiency in [[English language|English]]. He was then admitted to [[Mayo College]], [[Ajmer]].
|-
|Shivsinhji
|
|[[Ilol State|Ilol]]
|He studied at the college for seven years and then went to [[England]] for higher education.
|}

==See also==

* [[Rajkumar College, Rajkot]]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1887]]
[[Category:Educational institutions disestablished in 1934]]
[[Category:Defunct schools in India]]
[[Category:Embedded educational institutions]]
[[Category:Schools in Gujarat]]

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