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Alfred Forbes Sealy (25 October 1831 – 29 October 1894) was a British clergyman, educationist and naturalist. He worked as the first principal of the Rajah's High School (now Maharaja's College) in Cochin in India where he died. He was a founding member of the 
Sealy was born in Clevedale near Bristol to Major General Benjamin Dowden Sealy of the Honorable East India Company and his wife Mary Annie Byers. He went to study under Rev. G. Despard, of Redland, Clifton and Rev. C. Pritchard at Clapham before joining as a pensioner at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1850. He received a BA in 1854 and an MA in 1857 with a Junior Optime in the Mathematical Tripos and a second class in the Natural Science Tripos. He made collections of insects and birds eggs which were presented to the Cambridge University museum. He was a founding member of the British Ornithologists' Union. He moved to India to become the founding principal at the Rajah's High School, Ernakulam while also being a deacon at Madras from 1893. He established a zoology museum at the Maharaja's College in 1874. He also helped found the
Alfred Forbes Sealy (25 October 1831 – 29 October 1894) was a British clergyman, educationist and naturalist. He worked as the first principal of the Rajah's High School (now Maharaja's College) in Cochin in India where he died. He was a founding member of the British Ornithologists' Union
The British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) aims to encourage the study of birds ("ornithology") and around the world, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation. The BOU was founded in 1858 by Professor Alfred Newton, Henry ...
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Sealy was born in Clevedale near Bristol to Major General Benjamin Dowden Sealy of the Honorable East India Company and his wife Mary Annie Byers. He went to study under Rev. G. Despard, of Redland, Clifton and Rev. C. Pritchard at Clapham before joining as a pensioner at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1850. He received a BA in 1854 and an MA in 1857 with a Junior Optime in the Mathematical Tripos and a second class in the Natural Science Tripos. He made collections of insects and birds eggs which were presented to the Cambridge University museum. He was a founding member of the British Ornithologists' Union. He moved to India to become the founding principal at the Rajah's High School, Ernakulam while also being a deacon at Madras from 1893. He established a zoology museum at the Maharaja's College in 1874. He also helped found the Ernakulam Public Library
Ernakulam Public Library is a public library in Kochi in the state of Kerala, India. Established in 1870, it is the oldest public library in Kerala. The library serves as the most important information store and cultural centre of Ernakulam and ...
in 1870. He also served as a Chaplain at St Francis Church, Cochin and later became a Director of Public Instruction for South India during which time he passed rules to stop corporal punishment of students by teachers, only allowing headmasters from ordering it under special circumstances. He was elected Fellow of the Madras University. He died at Cochin from apoplexy.
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