Bishop Cotton Boys' School
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.
| Bishop Cotton Boys' School | |
|---|---|
 The School Arms | |
| Address | |
St. Mark's Road , India | |
| Coordinates | 12°58′7.0″N 77°35′55.6″E |
| Information | |
| Type | Private boarding school Day school |
| Motto | Nec Dextrorsum Nec Sinistrorsum (Latin) (Neither to the right, nor to the left.) |
| Established | 1865 |
| Founder | Samuel Thomas Pettigrew[1] |
| School board | Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (year 10) Indian School Certificate (year 12) |
| Chairman | P.K. Samuel |
| Principal | S Edwin Christopher |
| 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 | Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations |
| Former pupils | Old Cottonians |
| Website | bishopcottonboysschool |
Origins
In the first five years of the school it had three principals. It was only with the arrival of George Uglow Pope, a distinguished Tamil scholar (who translated the famed Tirukkuṛaḷ into English.[2])
Notable alumni
- Dr. Raja Ramanna, Padma Vibhushan, scientist and former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.[3]
- Dr. N. Ahmed, awarded the Pope Medal in 1954; Life Fellow[4] of the IEEE for his "contributions to digital signal processing and education", 1985; best known for the development of the discrete cosine transform, a data compression transformation
References
- "About Us | Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore".
- 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.
- "India's Most Eminent Nuclear Physicist". Archived from the original on 13 March 2012.
- Life Fellow
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