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Reverend Father A. J. Thurstan began a private specialized school in 1859 and kept up it out he could call his own trusts. This organization had been an agrarian and mixed media specialized preparing habitat for a long time yet must be shut down following a couple of years. In 1884, with the aid of the British government, a farming school was begun in the same spot. There is confirmation to demonstrate that around this rural school there had been a prospering cinnamon development, and today Colombo 7 is known as Cinnamon Gardens because of this development. The agrarian school was begun by the then Director of Education Mr. H. W. Green. In 1910 it was shut down.
In the 1930s free training idea brought by researcher and clergyman of instruction Dr. C. W. W. Kannangara. Another school was opened by then Minister of Education by Major E. A. Nugawela on 11 January 1950 named as the Government Senior School at Thurstan Road (now known as Kumarathunga Munidasa Mawatha), on one side was the old Royal College Colombo created in 1835 and on the other side was the University of Ceylon which was of made in 1922. It was shaped to suit the flood of understudies from Royal Preparatory School. They were the understudies who couldn't pick up admission to Royal College. The Government Senior School was later renamed as Thurstan College and 26 understudies who entered the evaluation one and 2 of from Royal Preparatory School to review six.[4] The central of the new school was Mr. D. E. A. Shokman. He presented a house framework for games, understudy initiative (officials), cadetting, and scholarly affiliations. He named the houses after the four chiefs of Education amid British govern in particular Denham, Macrey, Robison and Sandeman.
In the 1930s free training idea brought by researcher and clergyman of instruction Dr. C. W. W. Kannangara. Another school was opened by then Minister of Education by Major E. A. Nugawela on 11 January 1950 named as the Government Senior School at Thurstan Road (now known as Kumarathunga Munidasa Mawatha), on one side was the old Royal College Colombo created in 1835 and on the other side was the University of Ceylon which was of made in 1922. It was shaped to suit the flood of understudies from Royal Preparatory School. They were the understudies who couldn't pick up admission to Royal College. The Government Senior School was later renamed as Thurstan College and 26 understudies who entered the evaluation one and 2 of from Royal Preparatory School to review six.[4] The central of the new school was Mr. D. E. A. Shokman. He presented a house framework for games, understudy initiative (officials), cadetting, and scholarly affiliations. He named the houses after the four chiefs of Education amid British govern in particular Denham, Macrey, Robison and Sandeman.