Aitchison College, Lahore

Aitchison College was established by the Britishers as an elite institution with the objective of educating the relatives of the Ruling Chiefs of the Punjab, youths of good family, and the minors under the guardianship of the Court of Wards. Originally named as Punjab Chiefs College on 2nd January 1886, its foundation stone at the current site was laid on 3rd November, 1886, by the Earl of Dufferin and Ava, Viceroy and Governor General of India in the presence of a very large and representative assemblage, European and native, including the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, the Countess of Dufferin, Sir Charles Aitchison, the Lieut. Governor of the Province and many of the Ruling Chiefs of the Province. Some days later on 13th November, 1886, it was renamed Aitchison College, thus honoring the services of Sir Charles Ump Herston Aitchison through whose efforts the College was established.