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Lalbagh Isabella Thoburn School, Lucknow
The Lalbagh Girls' Intermediate College was founded in Lucknow on April 18th 1870 in a rented room in nazirabad Bazar by Miss Isabella thoburn, an American missionary of the Methodist church in the USA. The school then called the Christian Day School was started with only 6 girls but by November of that very near the enrollment rose to twenty five.
In 1871 the present site of Lal bagh was purchased. It was the residence of the old nawabs of Awadh and the legend is that they buried here with their treasures, a ruby. The name Lalbagh (Garden of Rubies) originated from that legend.
In 1886 the first High School class of only two girls passed the Entrance Examination (which is now called High School Examination) from Calcutta University in 1888 the first F.A (Inter) class of two successfully passed the examination of Calcutta University.