Welham Boys' School is a boarding school located in

Dehradun Dehradun () is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislative As ...

, India. The school is a residential school for boys and is affiliated with CBSE. It is ranked amongst the top five boys' boarding schools in the country as per the Education World rankings 2021.

History

Welham was founded in 1937 as a preparatory school for boarding schools in England and India, by Miss Oliphant, an English lady, with a capital of £1000. There were no funds or staff, and no school buildings. Miss Oliphant recruited another retired English lady, Miss Grace Mary Linnell, to run the boarding school for girls, and Miss Linnell became the Founder-Principal of

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. Under Miss Linnell's guidance Welham Girls High School, as it was known then, established itself as a boarding school. Today the ratio of teachers to students on campus stands at 9:1. In 1956 Miss Oliphant donated all her assets to the Welham Boys' School, which presently is administered by a board of trustees. Mr. S. K. (Charlie) Kandhari took over as principal in January 1983. Today the Welham Boys' School (WBS) is an active member of the

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group of cooperation. The school hosts

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conferences as well as military awareness seminars

Campus

Some major sites are the Learning Resource Center (LRC), the Activity Center, the White House (the oldest structure on campus), Bethany (Dining Hall), the hospital, the main field, lower grounds and various other fields, courts and ranges for sports. The residencies are primarily the Oliphant House for Junior School, Shikhar Hostel for Jamuna and Ganga houses, Triveni for Cauvery house and Woodseats for Krishna house.

Notable alumni

* Lt. General Prabodh Chandra Bhardwaj - Ex-vice army chief and a War hero from the

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and member of the Board of Governors at the Welham Boys' School. *

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References

External links

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Welham Boys School, Dehradun , Ammissione, recensioni, tariffe - Edustoke
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