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{{Short description|All-boys school in India}}
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{{Infobox school
| image = Bishop Cotton Schools crest.png
| caption = The School Arms
| image_size =
| name = Bishop Cotton Boys' School
| motto = Nec Dextrorsum Nec Sinistrorsum ([[Latin]])
| motto_translation = Neither to the right, nor to the left.
| established = {{start date and age|1865}}
| type = [[Private school]]
| founder = [[Samuel Thomas Pettigrew (East India Company chaplain)|Samuel Thomas Pettigrew]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cottonboys.com/?page_id=3233|title=About Us | Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore}}</ref>
| principal = S Edwin Christopher
| chairman = P.K. Samuel
| enrollment = approx. 7,000
| affiliation = [[Indian Certificate of Secondary Education]] Examination (ICSE) and the [[Indian School Certificate]] examination (ISC)
| campus_size = {{convert|14|acre|m2}}
| address = St. Mark's Road
| city = [[Bangalore]]
| state = [[Karnataka]]
| country = India
| coordinates = {{coord|12|58|7.0|N|77|35|55.6|E|type:edu_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| colors = [[Green]] and [[Gold (color)|gold]] {{color box|green}}{{color box|gold}}
| publication = ''The Cottonian'', ''The Cotton Mill''
| houses = Pope, Pettigrew, Elphick, Pakenham Walsh, Thomas
| free_label_1 = Former pupils
| free_1 = [[:Category:Bishop Cotton Boys' School alumni|Old Cottonians]]
| mascot =
| website = {{url|https://bishopcottonboysschool.edu.in/}}
| footnotes =
}}

'''Bishop Cotton Boys' School''' is an all-boys school for [[Boarding school|boarders]] and [[Day pupil|day scholars]] in [[Bangalore]], India, founded in the memory of Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, [[Anglican Diocese of Calcutta|Bishop of Calcutta]]. The school has been described as "The Eton of the East".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ebenezer |first1=Abraham |title=Eton of the East: The Story of Bishop Cotton Boys' School, 1865-1998 |date=1998 |publisher=WordMakers Pub |isbn=978-8185447124 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZqbAAAACAAJ}}</ref>

The school is bordered by Residency Road, St Mark's Road, [[Lavelle Road]] and Vittal Mallya Road, and is spread over {{convert|14|acre|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 200 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.

== Origins ==
The school's past extends back to the [[British Raj]] and the [[Victorian era]] with its beginnings in a house on High Grounds over which now stands the great ITC Windsor Hotel. It was started in 1865 by [[Samuel Thomas Pettigrew (East India Company chaplain)|Rev. S T Pettigrew]], the then [[Chaplain]] of [[St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore|St. Mark's Cathedral]] who had a vision of starting a school for the education of children of European and [[Anglo-Indian]] families. In his own words, he wanted to "establish a day and boarding School for the Children of [[Christians|Christian]] residents in the [[cantonment|station]] and its vicinity." The school was named in honour of [[George Cotton]], [[Anglican Diocese of Calcutta|Bishop of Calcutta]], under whose stewardship a scheme of education was organized for the [[Anglican]] Churches in India. After India gained independence from the British in 1947, the school began to be, and is still governed by the [[Church of South India]].

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 language|Tamil]] scholar (who translated the famed [[Tirukkuṛaḷ]] into English<ref name=Project_Madurai>{{cite web|last1=Pope|first1=G U|last2=Drew|first2=W H|last3=Lazarus|first3=John|last4=Ellis|first4=F W|title=Tirukkural: English Translation and Commentary|url=http://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/tscii/pmtsc0153.html|publisher=Project Madurai|access-date=29 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223102227/http://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/tscii/pmtsc0153.html|archive-date=23 February 2022}}</ref>) that the present site was acquired For Rs 47,500. The boys' school and the girls' school functioned on the same [[campus]] but under different heads. Under the stewardship of Pope, the school grew from strength to strength. A collegiate section was started and the school obtained recognition from the [[University of Madras]]. He gave the School its [[motto]] – 'Nec Dextrorsum Nec Sinistrorsum', meaning 'Neither to the right nor to the Left'.

When Pope left India in 1892 to take up the post of [[Professor|Reader]] at [[Oxford University]], the standard of the school began to decline. By 1906, closure of the school was contemplated.

[[Henry Whitehead (bishop)|Henry Whitehead]], [[Anglican Diocese of Madras|Bishop of Madras]], the [[chairman]] of the Board of Governors, as a last resort, invited the members of the [[Fraternities and sororities|Brotherhood]] of [[Saint Peter]] to save the school from closure. [[Herbert Pakenham-Walsh]], of the Brotherhood of St. Peter, later to become Bishop, revived the school. The school still celebrates [[Saint Peter|St. Peter]]'s day amongst other traditions such as [[Guy Fawkes]]' bonfires. In 1911, the girls' school was moved across the road. William Elphick worked for a quarter of century for the growth of the school.

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]].

==General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Trust==
The General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Trust pays tribute to the School, in memory of [[General Thimayya|General K. S. Thimayya]], Cottonian (1918 to 1922). The Trust organises the annual Thimayya Memorial Lecture, and awards the Thimayya Medal to Cottonians who have demonstrated exemplary public service. The Trust also operates a Benevolent Fund that supports former staff members of the School, monetarily.

==Notable alumni==
=== Science ===
* [[Nasir Ahmed (engineer)| Nasir Ahmedr]], invented the [[discrete cosine transform]]. {{cn|reason=attendance not sourced in his article|date=August 2022}}

=== Military ===
* [[Apparanda Aiyappa|Lieutenant General A C Iyappa]]
* Lieutenant General [[Jameel Mahmood]]
* Major General [[Sultan Mahmood (general)|Sultan Mahmood]]
* [[Lalit Rai|Col. Lalit Rai]], [[VrC]]
* [[William Leefe Robinson]], Victoria Cross awardee
* [[Vijai Singh Shekhawat|Admiral Vijay Singh Shekhawat]], former Chief of Naval Staff, Indian Navy
* [[Frank Simpson (British Army officer)|General Sir Frank Simpson]], former Chief of Army Staff, Great Britain
* [[General Thimayya|General K. S. Thimayya]], former Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army
* [[Air Marshall Wollen|Air Marshall Malcolm Wollen]]
* [[Vice Admiral]] [[Krishna Swaminathan]], [[Vishisht Seva Medal|VSM]]

=== Positions of responsibility ===
* [[Norman Majoribanks]], former Governor of Madras
* [[Gopal Krishna Pillai]], former Union Home Secretary, Government of India
* [[Dr. Raja Ramanna]], Padma Vibhushan, scientist and former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/rramanna.htm|title=India's Most Eminent Nuclear Physicist|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313220218/http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/RRamanna.htm|archive-date=2012-03-13}}</ref>
*[[Dinesh Gundu Rao]], former minister of state for food, civil supplies and consumer affairs in the government of Karnataka

=== Entrepreneurs ===
* [[Nandan Nilekani]], Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
* [[Philip Wollen]], ex-Vice President of Citibank; philanthropist and social justice advocate
* [[Rohan Murty]], Indian technical officer, junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and the founder of the Murty Classical Library of India
* [[Bharat Goenka]], Co-founder and managing director of Tally Solutions
* [[Varun Agarwal]], founder of Alma Mater

=== Arts ===
* [[Lucky Ali]], Bollywood singer
* [[Biddu|Biddu Appaiah]]
* [[Prabhu (actor)|Prabhu]]
* [[Ricky Kej]], composer, music producer
* [[Feroz Khan (actor, born 1939)|Feroz Khan]], actor
* [[Brodha V]], Hip hop artist
* [[Ashvin Mathew]]

=== Sports ===

* [[Brijesh Patel]], Cricketer
* [[Colin Cowdrey]], Cricketer
* [[Mayank Agarwal]], Cricketer
* [[Eugeneson Lyngdoh]], Footballer
* [[David Mathias]], Cricketer
* [[Amit Verma (cricketer)|Amit Verma]], Cricketer
* [[Nihar Ameen]], Swimmer

=== Other notable alumni ===
* Dr. [[N. Ahmed]], awarded the Pope Medal in 1954; Life Fellow<ref>[http://140.98.202.239/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_1985.html Life Fellow]</ref> 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
* [[Kenneth Anderson (writer)|Kenneth Anderson]], writer
*[[Makarand Paranjape]]
* Dr. [[Ajit Varki]]
* Prof. [[B. Jayant Baliga]]
*[[Varghese Mathai]], mathematician
*[[Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan]]

== References ==
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==External links==
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[[Category:Church of South India schools]]
[[Category:Boys' schools in India]]
[[Category:Bishop Cotton Boys' School alumni|*]]
[[Category:Bangalore Civil and Military Station]]
[[Category:Boarding schools in Karnataka]]
[[Category:Christian schools in Karnataka]]
[[Category:High schools and secondary schools in Karnataka]]
[[Category:Private schools in Bangalore]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1865]]
[[Category:1865 establishments in India]]

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