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1880-1889:
Mr. Aberigh Mackay died in 1881 and in the same year General
Sir Henry Daly retired. Money was collected to perpetuate the
memory of the latter’s career in Central India and it was
decided to erect a building for the Rajkumar classes of the Indore Residency College
and to call it ‘The Daly
College’.
As
a first step, in January 1882 the Rajkumar classes were moved
from the Indore Residency College to the Boarding House and
was called the Indore Residency Rajkumar
College. The same
year Col. Thompson, resident Engineer at Mhow, made the plan
for the new building, and construction was begun by the
Military Works Department. As a matter of interest it might be
mentioned that whereas in Indore and Centre India, generally,
the building was referred to as the Indore Residency Rajkumar
College, in Mhow it was always spoken of as the ‘Daly
College’.
The
Holkar Boarding House
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The
Daly College - Old Campus
The new building, which now forms a part of the Mahatma Gandhi
Memorial Medical College, was opened on 14th November 1885
by the then Viceroy of India, Lord Dufferin, and the Daly
College as such. came into existence with Mr. J.W.D.
Johnstone as its first Principal. The
founding date for Daly College has been fixed at 1882, the year when full separation from the Indore
Residency School took place , when the name Daly College was
first used and when it acquired its own campus. In
1889, the Holkar Boarding House was occupied. The
Holkar Boarding House is now the residence of the Chairman of
the MP Public Serive Commission. |
