Baldwin Boys High School
History
The Baldwin Schools are named after their benefactor, a philanthropist, John Baldwin of Berea, Ohio, U.S.A., who had a vision, which saw him start six educational institutions, the last of which were the Baldwin Schools. Baldwin Boys High School was founded in the year 1880 and is one the oldest schools in Bangalore. The funding for the school was done by Hon’ble John Baldwin and was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The schools was also know as the Episcopal Methodist School, took in boys as well as girls, also boarders.
Boarders were all treated as First Class, and lived with the Principal Rev. Ira A. Richards, B.A., and they ate at the same table. School hours were : in the cold weather, from 10 A.M. to 3.30 P.M.; and in the hot weather from 7 A.M. to 12 A.M. Christmas holidays were fixed fro 10th December to 10th January. The School in the late 1920’s was managed through a Board of Governors, of which the Resident Bishop of the Bangalore Area, the then Bishop B.T. Badley, D.D. was Chairman. The institution received a Government Grant-in-Aid and is annually inspected and reported on by the Government Inspector of Schools.
More Information
The school is famous for giving importance for sports along with academic important’s and overall development of the students. The school has swimming facility which was started in 1940 and one of the first school to provide this facility. It is traditionally strong in soccer and hosts the most prestigious inter-school soccer tournament of the year for the exclusive schools of old Bangalore, The Baldwin Shield.
The School Houses are
- Richards
- Oldham
- Buttrick
- Toussaint
- Pfeiffer
- Weston
Famous Alumi
- Venkatraman Movva (Bangalore millionaire )
- Sandeep Chowta (musician)
- Mahesh Dattani (playwright )
- Giri Balasubramaniam (quizmaster )
- Amit Heri (jazz musician )
Address of the School
Baldwin Boys High School,Hosur Road, Bangalore 560 025
References
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Boys_High_School
- http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~ahmed/baldwin.html
- http://www.baldwinboyshighschool.org/home.asp
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Comments
Dear Kishore,
Thanks for putting up a write up about Baldwins.The picture of the Oldham Hall is now worth millions as it no longer can be seen as new building have come up.
If at all there is a site where all the Old Boys connect please do let me know.
Regards.
Nader Ahmed (batch of 1986)
Join our alumni group http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=136327 . And you can also use the group on orkut.
Dear kishore,
though you have done a swell job by putting up this webpage you have wrongly interpreted that Baldwins was founded by British when actually John Baldwin is an American from ohio
alumni of Baldwin
Asad