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[[File:The Bishop's College, Garden Reach, Calcutta 2007BM7338.jpg|thumb|A view of The Bishop's College, [[Garden Reach]], Calcutta]]
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{{Portal|Christianity}}'''Bishop's College, Calcutta'''<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/019pho0000247s1u00033000.html British Library]</ref> is an [[Anglican]] [[educational]] establishment founded  on 15th December 1820 at [[Sibpur]] by [[Thomas Fanshawe Middleton]]<ref>[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/chatterton1924/08.html Project Canterbury]</ref> the first [[Diocese of Calcutta of the Church of North India|bishop of the Anglican diocese of Calcutta]].<ref>[http://bishopscollege.ac.in/ College web site]</ref>   The College was started in Shibpur, on west bank of the Hooghly river, a location now occupied by the Bengal Engineering and Science University([[IIEST Shibpur]])
{{Portal|Christianity}}'''Bishop's College, Calcutta'''<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/019pho0000247s1u00033000.html British Library]</ref> is an [[Anglican]] [[educational]] establishment founded  on 15th December 1820 at [[Sibpur]] by [[Thomas Fanshawe Middleton]]<ref>[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/chatterton1924/08.html Project Canterbury]</ref> the first [[Diocese of Calcutta of the Church of North India|bishop of the Anglican diocese of Calcutta]].<ref>[http://bishopscollege.ac.in/ College web site]</ref> 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]]).


==Principals==
==Principals==
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*1849-1864 [[William Kay (scholar)|William Kay]].<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Kay, William|volume=30|page=250|first=William Alexander|last=Greenhill|authorlink=William Alexander Greenhill}}</ref>
*1849-1864 [[William Kay (scholar)|William Kay]].<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Kay, William|volume=30|page=250|first=William Alexander|last=Greenhill|authorlink=William Alexander Greenhill}}</ref>
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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 15th 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).

Principals[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  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.