La martiniere Girls College

La Martiniere Girls College, Lucknow, was established in Moti Mahal premises in 1869 with but a 100 students and staff. Today, it's 2700 students (110 boarders) and 247 staff. It’s always ranked together of the leading schools of India, and academically, since 2015, it's consistently been rated within the top 10 all-girls boarding schools of India. The Founder, Major General Claude Martin (5th January, 1735 13th September, 1800) was a politician within the French, and later British , army in India. He rose to the position of Major General within the British Malay Archipelago Company's Bengal Army. Born in Lyon, France, he came from a humble background. He was a self-made man who left a considerable legacy within the sort of his writings, buildings and academic institutions that he founded posthumously. Claude Martin left the greater a part of his wealth to a spread of charities. Being almost entirely self-educated, he realized the worth of a proper education and put aside a huge portion of his estate for the founding of faculties at Kolkata, Lucknow and Lyon (France), the town of his birth.