1880 East India Queen Victoria Quarter Anna card to Kottayam C.M.S. College (21 Feb) from Trivandrum (19 Feb).
CMS College..
Travancore's first & India's first western styled & oldest existing college (two years older than the Bengal's Hindu College), founded by the Church Missionary Society of England, was started under the reign of Queen Gouri Parvati Bai, when Col. John Munro (East India Company - Resident) was the Dewan of Travancore) in 1815.
Rev: Benjamin Bailey was the first principal of the college.
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