College Name	City	Country	Start Date	End Date	Affiliation	Other Information	Source
Isabella Thoburn College	Lucknow	India	1870			Isabella Thoburn opened a girls' school in the Lucknow bazaar in 1870. The following year the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society bought for her the seven-acre Lal Bagh estate, formerly the palace of a nobleman of the kingdom of Oudh, and she was able to begin operating a boarding school.   The Lal Bagh school became the Girls' High School in 1887 and later added a collegiate department. In 1893 a teachers' course and a kindergarten were added. While serving as principal, Thoburn also edited the semimonthly Hindi-language Rafiq-i-Niswan (Woman's Friend) newspaper. A charter for a full woman's college was granted by the Indian government in 1895, and her efforts thereafter were devoted to its establishment and support. She fell ill and died in Lucknow, India, on September 1, 1901. The Lucknow Woman's College was renamed Isabella Thoburn College in 1903 and later became the woman's college of Lucknow University.	Thurston and Chester. Ginling College. 1955. http://wwwa.search.eb.com/women/articles/Thoburn_Isabella.html http://www.methodistmessage.com/aug2003/thoburn.html
last update:  2/16/04
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