Bt/ Methodist Central College in Batticaloa

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  sabesh shiva

  :: 10 December 2017 12:14:46

  Methodist Central College was the first educational institution in Batticaloa and the first English Boys School in Ceylon (established). It was founded in 1814 by the Rev. William Ault, one of the pioneer Methodist Missionaries who came from England to Sri Lanka (Ceylon). According to the history of the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), the first Methodist missionaries landed in Weligama - Galle on the 29th of June 1814. Rev. William Ault, one of the first five missionaries, left Galle on the 14th of July in a small boat to Batticaloa and arrived after eight days. He lived only eight months and died in April 1815. During that eight month period he started eight schools. The first one is the Methodist Central College. He started the school with just five students. They gathered every morning on the cow dunged floor of a veranda in a small one roomed Kadjan thatched house to learn English alphabets from the missionary. After the death of Rev. William Ault, until Rev. Elija Jackson arrived from England in July 1816, Mr. Thomas Johns, an army Captain, helped to run the school. The school students helped in singing of songs at the worship services.

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  Tharshan Sriranganathan

  :: 24 October 2017 19:29:07

  Methodist Central College was the first educational institution in Batticaloa and the first English Boys School in Ceylon (established). It was founded in 1814 by the Rev. William Ault, one of the pioneer Methodist Missionaries who came from England to Sri Lanka (Ceylon).

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  nirmal sanru

  :: 22 May 2017 18:45:10

  OLDEST SCHOOL IN SRILANKA,,,1814

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  Mayuran Sansu

  :: 26 April 2017 15:23:44

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  Murali Tharan

  :: 14 March 2017 08:55:10

  This is the first ever established school in Sri Lanka in the year 1814 by the English Methodist Missionary Rev.William Ault who came from England. This is also the first school celebrated the 200 the anniversary in 2014.