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Fort William College (also known as the College of Fort William) was an academy of oriental studies and a centre of learning, founded on 18 August 1800 by Lord Wellesley, then Governor-General of British India, located within the Fort William complex in Calcutta. Wellesley started the Fort William College with the original intention that it ...
Tarini Charan Mitra (c. 1772 – 1837) was a famous Bengali prose writer and the head munshi at the Department of Hindoostanee Language at Fort William College. Tarinicharan taught in Fort William College from 1801 to 1830. He was fluent in several languages like Persian, English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and Bengali.
The Fort William College was established in 1800. The Hindu College was established in 1817, renamed the Presidency College in 1855. [2] William Carey established the Serampore College in the city of Serampore in 1818. It went on to become India's first modern university in 1827 when it was incorporated by a Royal Charter as a Danish University.
Fort William Collegiate Institute (FWCI) was a collegiate institute operated by the Lakehead District School Board in Thunder Bay, Ontario from 1907 to 2005. [1] The school's teams were called the "FWCI Blue Bears". The building was granted Historical Heritage Site status in 1983, and was designated a historic building on May 15, 1983.
Fort William College at Calcutta (1800) The Subsidiary Treaty of Bassein (1802) [5] and Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805) [6] Raj Bhavan at Calcutta was established (1803) Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) 30 July 1805 5 October 1805 George Barlow, 1st Baronet (acting) (1762–1847) 10 October 1805: 31 July 1807
That particular period of William's life features prominently in the final season of The Crown, so we're taking a look back at real photos from William's university years. September 21, 2001
A view of Calcutta from Fort William (1807) Plan (top-view) of Fort William, c. 1844. There are two Fort Williams. The original fort was built in the year 1696 by the British East India Company under the orders of Sir John Goldsborough which took a decade to complete. The permission was granted by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
The Imperial Library was formed in 1891 by combining a number of Secretariat libraries in Calcutta. Of those, the most important and interesting was the library of the Home Department, which contained many books formerly belonging to the library of East India College, Fort William and