BISHOP GEORGE MISSION SCHOOL

George Edward Lynch, Bishop of Calcutta Autograph Letter signed G. E. L. Calcutta', to Mr. Clerk, a missionary, discussing at length the rules for evangelism in the Army, and defending the Government against the charge of interference, adding that he was forwarded extracts from Clark's letter of Lord Canning, Ravenswood, George Edward Lynch Cotton (1813-1866), Master in Marlborough Bishop of Calcutta from 1858, established a number of famous schools in India and worked closely with the MISSIONARY societies. His career was closed by the 'calamitous accident', when the Bishop's foot slipped on a platform above the Ganges at dusk on 6th October 1866. "For instance, if in an old order, (plainly not one issued with reference to these occurrence in the 24th Regt.). A captain in forbidden to go down to the Sepoy lines for the purpose of holding religious discussion with the heathen, it is an extraordinary inference to say that a missionary may not go down for the purpose of holding services for Christians.