Haileybury
 Haileybury  (School, Deep state hub?)     | |
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| Predecessor | East India Company College |
| Formation | 1806 |
| Founder | • British East India Company • Charles Grant |
| Headquarters | Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, England |
| "The people who run the world go to Hailesbury" | |
Haileybury and Imperial Service College, commonly known as Haileybury, is an English co-educational public school (fee-charging boarding and day school for 11- to 18-year-olds) located in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, England.
The school is a direct successor of the East India Company College, founded in 1806 by the British East India Company (BEIC) to educate colonial administrators.
Pupils
Over 890 pupils attend Haileybury, of whom more than 550 board.
History
The East India Company College, or East India College, was an educational establishment situated at Hailey, Hertfordshire, nineteen miles north of London, founded in 1806 to train administrators for the British East India Company .[1]
Charles Grant, Chairman of the BEIC and a Member of Parliament (MP), was closely involved in the foundation of the college.
The East India Company itself was seen as too powerful. There was pressure for meritocracy to replace recruitment by patronage. Figures such as Benjamin Jowett of Balliol College pressed government ministers to break Haileybury's monopoly on Indian Civil Service training and to privilege graduates of the universities instead. In 1855, Parliament passed an act "to relieve the East India Company from the obligation to maintain the College at Haileybury". In the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and in anticipation of the winding-up of the affairs of the East India Company itself, the college was closed in January 1858.
Four years later, in1862, Haileybury College was set up as a boarding school for boys on the site. The new Haileybury College retained close links to those involved in colonial administration, and in 1942 it merged with the struggling Imperial Service College to become Haileybury and Imperial Service College.
Fletcher Prouty
Barbara Honegger told how Fletcher Prouty in a conversation offered "For someone of your intelligence and research ability, the people who run the world go to Hailesbury in the UK, and if you would ever like to join us...". Honegger took it as an attempt to recruit her for British intelligence by Fletcher.[2]
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus was a professor at Hailesbury. Ann Lawler wrote that "Malthus was not just any old country parson, but the official chief economist for the British East India Company (BEIC), the largest monopoly the world had ever seen, with an army in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that was larger than that of the British government itself. In fact, the slave-trading and dope-pushing BEIC was the British Empire. And when the BEIC set up its Haileybury College in 1805 to train its officials, they appointed Malthus as the very first professor of political economy in Britain, actually in the world. Malthus's students over the next several decades became the BEIC's administrators, and systematically applied his policies of genocide to keep the native populations under control. They killed tens of millions in India alone, including by forcing them to grow opium instead of food, which opium the BEIC then used to poison the Chinese. It is likely that the BEIC promoted Malthus precisely because he was a reverend, to justify the kind of mass murder which most even nominal Christians would find objectionable."[3]
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clement Attlee | 3 January 1883 | 8 October 1967 | UK | Soldier Politician Lawyer | |
| Scott Baker | 10 December 1937 | Judge | UK judge who sat as coroner for the inquests into the deaths of Princess Diana | ||
| Hugh Bayley | 9 January 1952 | UK | Politician | UK politician | |
| Lionel Curtis | 1872 | 1955 | UK | Academic Deep state operative | Senior UK deep state operative, the first honorary secretary of Chatham House |
| Barry Gardiner | 10 March 1957 | UK | Politician | Shadow International Trade Secretary under Jeremy Corbyn | |
| Nick Herbert | 7 April 1963 | ||||
| Rudyard Kipling | 30 December 1865 | 18 January 1936 | UK | Author Journalist Poet | |
| Christopher Mayhew | 12 June 1915 | 7 January 1997 | Politician Propagandist | UK propagandist who founded the Information Research Department | |
| John Slessor | 3 June 1897 | 12 July 1979 | UK | Pilot | Founder of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s |
| Rupert Smith | |||||
| David Trefgarne | 31 March 1941 |
