Bishop Cotton Boys' School
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Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for
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 Boarding has around 50 students from all over India and also International students from Thailand, Nepal etc. 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
In the first five years of the school it had three principals. It was only with the arrival of
When Pope left India in 1892 to take up the post of
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
Notable alumni
Science
- Nasir Ahmed, Indian-American electrical engineer, invented the discrete cosine transform. [7]
- Prof. 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
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
- 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 HAL
- 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[8]
- Dr. Raja Ramanna, Padma Vibhushan, scientist and former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.[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[11]
Entrepreneurs
- Nandan Nilekani, Padma Bhushan, co-founder of Infosys and chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)[12]
- 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[13]
- 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[14]
- Feroz Khan, actor
- Brodha V, Hip hop artist[15]
- Ashvin Mathew, stage actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter
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
Other notable alumni
- Sudi Devanesen, Canadian family medicine physician and educator
- Kenneth Anderson, Indian writer and hunter
- Makarand Paranjape, former director at Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla
- Dr. Ajit Varki, Indian American physician-scientist
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.
- ^ "Leadership Team - IPF". www.policefoundationindia.org. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
- ^ "India's Most Eminent Nuclear Physicist". Archived from the original on 13 March 2012.
- ^ Service, Express News (12 July 2014). "Alumni Join Cottonians for 150th Anniversary". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ TwoCircles.net (3 September 2011). "Akbar Khaleeli: Tennis champ, a debater with a passion for Persian poetry". TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ Iyengar, Vidya. "They were once tots too: Famous Bishop Cotton Alumni". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
- ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- 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.