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THE ORIGIN of the Calcutta Boys' School is closely linked with the establishment of the Methodist Episcopal Church (now the MCI) in India. On January 9th,1873, the Reverend Dr. William Taylor, a famous evangelist, founded the work of the Methodist Church in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and established the first Methodist Church in Zigzag Lane, Bow bazaar, which in 1874 shifted to Dharamtalla Street (now Lenin Sarani) and was later named the Thoburn Methodist Church in memory of Rev. James Mills Thoburn (1836-1922) D.D.; LL.D., (later Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church). Rev. Dr. William Taylor was succeeded by Rev. James Mills Thoburn in 1874. It was Bishop J.M. Thoburn who founded the Calcutta Boys' School in March 1877 with 6 children. The school was first located on the rear veranda of the Thoburn Church Parsonage (then located opposite the Thoburn Church on Dharamtalla Street) with its opening in Mott’s Lane, which had been rented for Rs. 175/- per month and was occupied Rev. Dr. J. M. Thoburn and his colleague Frank A Goodwin. In August the same year, the seat of learning was shifted to the old Church Building (now Central Methodist Church on Lenin Sarani), till its relocation to a room in Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. building on Corporation Street in 1882. All this while the resident students continued to live in the Parsonage.