History


School Captain	Prefects	Arnould	Bishop's	Harding	Mansfield


Scouts shoulder flash	Tie & Prefects Tie Pin	The Mitre

Boxing Gold Medal	Head Boys Tie Pin	School Cap

The Class Rooms where the Table Tennis tables used to be outside

The Old Staff Room (The new Staff Room is now in a section of the Harding Hall)

The old Tennis court (now Lunn Block) 1945 with the lowers on the right and servants quarters behind the trees.

John Nayler (Head Boy '48) chats with the Mayor of Bombay, with Mr Lunn on the right.

Independence Day 15th August 1947

Standing: A.Pereira & R.Essai
Squatting: Mr B. Wright, B.Devlin, Mr P. Bunter& Mr A.Baakza

Construction of Playing field on site of Simba House with Vikram (Common Room Steward) Rudy Fox (Estate Manager) & Klyne Aitkins (Teacher) Aug '82


School Buses	Basketball Court

The Driveway	The Playground

The Junior Classes	The Harding (Assembly) Hall


View from Main Gate '72	Staff Room '72

Principal's Bungalow / Harding Hall in background '72	Administrative Offices & Library on right '72

The School Song

The School was founded at the instigation of the Rev.Fenton of Poona with the blessing of the Bishop of Bombay,to cater for the children of regimental families who had no means of obtaining an education.It commenced in barracks under Cpl.Mansfield on April 19th 1864 with 15 boys,mainly children of N.C.O's,and moved to its present site in 1868.(The present School roll is approximately 6000 pupils)

Corp. Mansfield 1864	Mr J Moore 1908-1909	Mrs E Cooper 1946-1947
Mr W W Clifford 1865-1868	Rev G Hewith 1910	Mr A E Lunn 1947-1972
Mr S Brierly 1868-1874	Mr A C Miller 1910-1911	Mr B W Roberts 1973-1999
Mr H C Macnee 1875-1900	Mr T Hider 1911-1919	Mr F Freese1999-
Mr Dunn 1901-1907	Rev A R Cooper 1919-1946

Since its inception there have been fourteen Headmasters (Principals).Some spent a few short years at Bishop's like Mr.S.Brierly. Mr.H Macnee spent twenty five years of his life at Bishops. From all accounts both were excellent Headmasters. In the 20th century just three men,all outstanding Principals governed the fortunes of the school between them for a period of eighty years.The Rev.A.R.Cooper and Mrs.Cooper from 1919 to 1946,Mr.A.E.Lunn from 1947 to 1972 and Mr.B.W.Roberts from 1973 to 1999. I (Bob Francis) was privileged to serve under two of them from 1945 to 1967 and visited The School several times when Mr Roberts was Principal.I revisited the School in September 2005.
Mr Freese the new Principal guides The School into the 21st century and I am sure he will take his place with the great men who have governed the fortunes of one of the best schools in India so well.


The Head Boys Room	St Mary's Church Inset: Father Wain


Soil from a camp fire	Bookmark


Swimming Finals 1952	Speech and Prize Day 1958