The New International Encyclopædia/Haileybury College
HAILEYBURY COLLEGE. An English
public school situated at Hailey, Hertfordshire,
nineteen miles north of London. This school is
often called New Haileybury, in distinction from
the older and more famous school which it
succeeded. , or more properly the
East India College, was a training-school for
young men entering the service of the East India
Company. It was founded by the Company in
1806, and occupying first Hertford Castle, moved
to the building erected for it at Hailey by
Wilkins, in 1809. Here it carried on its work till,
after a career of almost exactly half a century,
it ceased to exist, January 31, 1858. During
that time many of the most distinguished men
connected with Indian history and administration
were members of the college. Among the
professors are to be found the names of Malthus,
the political economist; Sir James Stephen, Sir
James Mackintosh, and William Empson, master
of the college and later editor of the
Edinburgh Review. Lord Lawrence, Sir Bartle Frere,
Sir Charles Trevelyan, Sir William Muir, John
Muir, Dean Merivale, Sir Richard Temple, and
Sir M. Monier-Williams may be instanced among
its students. The great days of the school seem
to have been in the principalship of Dr. Batten,
1815-37, when many of those most famous in the
Mutiny days were in Haileybury. It was indeed
in that trying time that the value of the school
and its training was best seen, and the proud
tradition of the school is the part its men took
in the suppression of that rising. Its importance
rests on even broader grounds than this. In the
influence it has had on Indian administration
by its spirit and traditions; in the model which
it set for the training of men for both Indian
and colonial service, now carried on elsewhere;
in the impetus it gave to Oriental studies in
England, as well as in the vigorous and varied
intellectual life it enjoyed during the greater
part of its career — the East India College deserves
a high place among English educational forces
of the nineteenth century. The fall of the East
India Company after the Sepoy Mutiny brought
with it the suspension of its great training-school.
The Indian Civil Service was reorganized under
Government control, and the training of men
for that service fell into other hands. For some
four years the buildings at Haileybury stood
vacant.

. Owing to the exertions of
certain gentlemen of Hertfordshire, chief among
whom was the publisher Stephen Austin of Hertford,
a sum was subscribed to buy the estate
and found a public school on the premises. This
was accordingly done, and the school was
incorporated by royal charter, and was opened in
September, 1862, as Haileybury College. This
foundation, beginning with an enrollment of some
fifty scholars, was successful from the start.
The estate has increased from the original 55
acres of the East India College to nearly double

that area; the number of students has grown
to nearly 600, and many new and handsome
buildings have been added to the great
quadrangle of the old school. Of that earlier foundation
more has been inherited by the new than
the estate and buildings; for while it is no
longer a training-school for the Indian service,
much of the old atmosphere and tradition
remains, giving it a tone and character which mark
it off to some extent from other schools. For
the East India College, consult Monier-Williams,
Memorials of Old Haileybury College (Westminster,
1894); for the new school, consult
handbooks of Public Schools. A. L. Lowell, Colonial
Civil Service (New York, 1900), devotes more
than 100 pages to Haileybury College to show
its value in securing good and fit men for colonial
offices.

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