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Haileybury|ˈheɪlɪbərɪ|
The name of a school (Haileybury College) in Hertfordshire, orig. owned by the East India Company, used to designate the system of providing civil servants, or the civil servants themselves, for service in India.
1864in F. C. Danvers et al. Mem. Old Haileybury Coll. (1894) 95, I trust the new men will be found to furnish persons qualified to sustain the character of the Service..[and] also worthily to fill those high posts of trust..which we now see so happily filled by Haileybury civilians of the old school. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 451/2 Towards the latter years of the 19th century the last of the old Haileybury civilians, who entered the service as nominees of the East India Company's directors under the system abolished in 1857, were leaving India. 1931L. S. S. O'Malley Ind. Civil Service 241 A system of pass examinations, such as the Haileybury entrance examination. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 474/3 The modern Civilian is the descendant of the Haileybury students of the early nineteenth century. Whatever the merits or demerits of the Haileybury system, it at least ‘led to a tradition of service handed down from generation to generation’. |