East India Company College

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The East India Company College, or East India College, was an educational establishment situated at Hailey, Hertfordshire, nineteen miles north of London, founded in 1806 to train "writers" (administrators) for the East India Company. It provided general and vocational education for young gentlemen of sixteen to eighteen years old, who were nominated by the Company's directors to writerships in its overseas civil service. The college's counterpart for the training of officers for the company's Presidency armies was Addiscombe Military Seminary, Surrey. The East India Company was nationalised and the college closed in 1858. It reopened in 1862 as Haileybury College, an independent fee-paying school (traditionally known in England as a public school). In 1942 it merged with the separate Imperial Service College to become Haileybury and Imperial Service College.

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