THE ORIGIN of the Calcutta Boys’ School is closely linked with the establishment of the Methodist Episcopal Church (now the MCI) in India. On January 9th,1873, the Reverend Dr. William Taylor, a famous evangelist, founded the work of the Methodist Church in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and established the first Methodist Church in Zigzag Lane, Bow bazaar, which in 1874 shifted to Dharamtalla Street (now Lenin Sarani) and was later named the Thoburn Methodist Church in memory of Rev. James Mills Thoburn (1836-1922) D.D.; LL.D., (later Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church).