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{{Infobox school<br />
|name = St. George's College<br />
|image = St. George's College.jpg<br />
|caption = <br />
|location = 3 Garden Road, Baluganj, [[Agra]],<br>[[Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
|country = India<br />
|coordinates = {{Coord|27.165736|78.015794|format=dms|display=inline,title}}<br />
|schoolboard = [[Indian School Certificate|ISC]] (Class XII), <br>[[Indian Certificate of Secondary Education|ICSE]] (Class X) <br />
|staff = 100+<br />
|type = [[Christian Minority Institution]]<br />
|authority = [[Diocese of Agra, Church of North India (CNI)]] <br />
|houses = Saunders(Red)<br/>Westcott(Blue)<br/>Robinson (Green)<br/>Clifford (Yellow)<br />
|campus_size = {{convert|40|acre|m2}} approx.<br />
|campus_type = [[urban area|Urban]]<br />
|motto = ''Press Onwards''<br />
|founded = 1875<br />
|students = 3500+ <br />
|homepage = {{url|stgeorgesagra.org}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''St. George's College''', [[Agra]], is one of the oldest convent schools in India. It is a Minority [[Anglo-Indian]] Christian Institution granted Minority Rights under Article 30 of the [[Constitution of India|Indian Constitution]]. It is located near Mall Road and near to Targhar. The [[campus]] is approximately {{convert|40|acre|m2}}.The students are widely named as Georgians in the city. The school is accredited under the [[Indian Certificate of Secondary Education]] board for grade 10th and under the [[Indian School Certificate]] board for [[Grade 12]]. The school was established in 1875 as an Army School for British Armed Forces at Agra. With the passing by of time it started admitting students from civilian background as well.<br />
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The college originates in a school set up by Irish priest [[Joseph Rooney (priest)|Joseph Rooney]] in the late 1840s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ujc7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA616|title=The Irish Ecclesiastical Record|year=1887|pages=603–18|first=William|last=Brady|chapter=Some Catholic Reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny, 1857, pt. II}}</ref><br />
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== Headmasters and principals ==<br />
===Headmasters===<br />
*Edward W. Maylor (1875 - 1882)<br />
*G. H. Johnson (1888 - 1894)<br />
*Rev. L. F. Philips (1895 - 1910)<br />
*S.T. Rollo (1895 - 1910)<br />
*Rev. Ben Colton (1911 - 1912)<br />
*Rev. F. H. Smith (1913 - 1915)<br />
*Norman H. Tubby (1916 - 1919)<br />
*Rev. N. Rose Burnett (1920 - 1923)<br />
*H. A. Phillips (1924 - 1926)<br />
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===Principals===<br />
*T. D. Ayo (1926 - 1933)<br />
*Capt. M. C. Ellis (1933 - 1934)<br />
*E. C. Ellis (1943 – 1946)<br />
*Maj. M. C. Ellis (1946 – 1947)<br />
*I. Montes (1947 – 1948)<br />
*Richard Stephen Law (1949 - 1970)<br />
*B. Roberts (1970 - 1972)<br />
*A. R. David (1973 - 1979)<br />
*I. V. Phillips (1980 - 1992)<br />
*J. S. Jeremiah (1992-)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.stgeorgesagra.com/ Official Website] {{dead link|date=September 2021}}<br />
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