HAI'LEYBURY 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 suc ceeded. OLD IIAILEYIIURY, 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 Wil kins, 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 pro fessors are to be found the names of Malthus, the political economist; Sir James Stephen, Sir James and William Empson, mas ter of the college and later editor of the Edin burgh 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 placc 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.