Hartley College

Hartley College

Hartley College is a college in Point Pedro, Sri Lanka, which was founded in 1838. It was named after Wesleyan priest and missionary Rev. Hartley.

History

The school was founded in 1838 by Rev. Dr. Peter Percival as the Wesleyan Mission Central School at the current site of the Methodist Girls' High School. In 1874, it moved to the current site. The name was changed to Christ Church School in 1912, and changed to its current name in 1916. Following a fire in 1984, the school moved to Puttalai from 1985 to 1990. In 1989, the school appeared on a postage stamp issued to commemorate its 150th anniversary. From 1996 to 2002, part of the school was occupied by the Sri Lanka Army, and the school remains in a high security zone. [cite web
title =HSZ blocks progress of Hartley and Methodist schools
publisher =TamilNet
date =2003-07-17
url =http://tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=9458
accessdate =2007-12-31 ] In 2005, part of the school was destroyed by a grenade thrown from a motorcycle. [cite web
title =Grenade attack on SLA sentry near Point Pedro schools
publisher =TamilNet
date =2005-11-19
url =http://tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=16373
accessdate =2007-12-31 ]

Notable alumni

* Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, Current Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
* K. B. Rathnayake, former Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
* Vaithilingam Sornalingam, former head of the Air Wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
* Captain Miller, first LTTE Black Tiger suicide bomber

External links

* [http://www.hartleycollege.com/ Hartley College Website ]

References

*


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Hartley — may refer to:Places;England *In Cumbria **Hartley, Cumbria (village) **Hartley Castle *In Devon **Hartley, Plymouth (see Places in Plymouth) *In Kent **Hartley, Kent **Hartley, Cranbrook *In Northumberland **New Hartley **Hartley, Northumberland… …   Wikipedia

  • Hartley Hall — was the first official residence hall (or dormitory) constructed on the campus of Columbia University, and currently houses undergraduate students from Columbia College as well as the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. The… …   Wikipedia

  • Hartley Burr Alexander — (* 9. April 1873 in Lincoln/Nebraska; † 27. Juli 1939 in Claremont/Kalifornien) war ein US amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Philosoph und Ethnologe. Hartley Burr Alexander studierte an der University of Nebraska und der University of Pennsylvania… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Hartley Burr Alexander — Hartley Burr Alexander, Ph.D (1873–1939) American writer, educator, scholar, philosopher, poet and iconographer, born Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 9, 1873. Family and early years Alexander s father, the Rev. George Sherman Alexander (1823 1894),… …   Wikipedia

  • Hartley T. Ferrar — was born in Dalkey, near Dublin in 1879, and moved to Durban, South Africa at an early age with his parents.He was sent back to Oundle School in England for his secondary education, and then went to Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University,… …   Wikipedia

  • College (2008 film) — College Theatrical Release poster Directed by Deb Hagan Produced by Malcolm Petal Julie Dangel …   Wikipedia

  • Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross — Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, GBE, PC, KC (4 February 1902 ndash; 10 July 2003), was a British barrister and politician and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal. Early life Hartley William Shawcross was… …   Wikipedia

  • HARTLEY, John Anderson (1844-1896) — educationist son of the Rev. John Hartley, governor of the Wesleyan College, Handsworth, Birmingham, was born in Yorkshire, England, on 27 August 1844. Educated at the Woodhouse Grove school near Leeds, and University College, London, where he… …   Dictionary of Australian Biography

  • Hartley Coleridge — Infobox Writer name = Hartley Coleridge imagesize = caption = pseudonym = birthdate = September 19, 1796 birthplace = Bristol deathdate = January 6, 1849 deathplace = occupation = nationality = British period = genre = Biographies subject =… …   Wikipedia

  • Hartley Shawcross — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Shawcross. Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, GBE, PC, KC (4 février 1902 – 10 juillet 2003) était un avocat et homme politique britannique. Il fut le procureur du Royaume Uni lors du …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”