Bishop Cotton Boys' School
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Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for boarders and day scholars in Bangalore, India, founded in the memory of Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta.
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Bishop Cotton Boys' School | |
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St. Mark's Road , India | |
Coordinates | 12°58′7.0″N 77°35′55.6″E |
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Type | Private school |
Motto | Nec Dextrorsum Nec Sinistrorsum (Latin) (Neither to the right, nor to the left.) |
Established | 1865; 159 years ago (1865) |
Founder | Samuel Thomas Pettigrew[1] |
Chairman | Rt Rev Martin C Borgai
Bishop-In-Charge (KCD) |
Principal | Alistair RA Freese |
Enrollment | approx. 7,000 |
Campus size | 14 acres (57,000 m2) |
Houses | Pope, Pettigrew, Elphick, Pakenham Walsh, Thomas |
Color(s) | Green and gold |
Publication | The Cottonian, The Cotton Mill |
Affiliation | Indian Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (ICSE) and the Indian School Certificate examination (ISC) |
Former pupils | Old Cottonians |
Website | bishopcottonboysschool |
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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 sister school Bishop Cotton Girls' School is located on the opposite side of St. Mark's Road.[2]