The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Haileybury College
HAILEYBURY COLLEGE, England, an
institution at Hailey, near Hertford 20 miles
north of London, founded by the East India
Company in 1806, as a training school for
admittance to the service of the company. It
attained a high reputation, and numbered among
its former pupils the most distinguished names
connected with the Indian administration of the
19th century and among its teachers such names
as Malthus, Sir James Stephen and Sir James
Mackintosh. After the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58,
and the government reorganization of the
Indian Civil Service, the college was closed for
four years. It was reopened under a royal
charter in 1862 as a public school, and while
maintaining many of the traditions of its
famous predecessor is no longer an Indian Service
training ground. Handsome modern buildings
have been added to the old college quadrangle,
built in 1809; the surrounding grounds cover
over 100 acres. Consult Lowell, ‘Colonial Civil
Service’ (1900); Monier-Williams, ‘Memorials
of Old Haileybury College’ (1894); and for
the new school, Milford, ‘Haileybury College,
Past and Present’ (1909).

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