Bishop's College, Calcutta is an Anglican

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establishment founded on 15th December 1820 at

Sibpur Shibpur or Sibpur is a neighbourhood in Howrah city of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). It is well known for being the location of the ...

Thomas Fanshawe Middleton Thomas Fanshawe Middleton (28 January 1769 – 8 July 1822) was a noted Anglican bishop. Life Middleton was born in Kedleston in Derbyshire, England, the son of Thomas Middleton, Rector of Kedleston and educated at Christs Hospital. He then w ...

the first bishop of the Anglican diocese of Calcutta. 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 Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST Shibpur), erstwhile Bengal Engineering College (also known as B.E. College), formerly Bengal Engineering and Science University (also known as BESU), is a public research u ...

( IIEST Shibpur).

Principals

*1849–1864 William Kay.

References

Educational institutions established in 1820 Anglican seminaries and theological colleges Education in Kolkata Seminaries and theological colleges affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University) 1820 establishments in British India Christian universities and colleges in India Seminaries and theological colleges in India

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