SIR ROBERT STANES - OUR FOUNDER AND LEGEND
The Robert Stanes Institutions was a result of the realization of the vision of our Founder Sir Robert Stanes. He spent his life as a pioneering industrialist of South India, Coimbatore. The first school established was Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School which has contributed largely to the development of the nation period souring higher and higher over the years, Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School was founded upon Protestant Evangelical values and is renowned for its goal of producing “Good Citizens of India” and has contributed largely to the development of nation. Our Founder Sir Robert Stanes was born in London on 13th May, 1841. He was educated in Campdon House School, Brighton. Robert stains came to India and worked as a planter with his brother Thomas stains heated his first visit to Coimbatore in 1860.
Humble beginnings
Robert Stanes was compassionate towards the downtrodden. He was anxious to do some good amongst the people who were much neglected and started a Sunday School for children. Finding them entirely uneducated, he started a day school in a little rented house near ‘Kumaran Market’. The school commenced on 6th November, 1862 with two boys, two girls and two teachers. The school then imoved to a house near the TELC Church, where it continued for more than 50 years. The school then occupied the building which is presently the General Post Office. With Increasing number of students he bought the present campus on Avinashi road in 1927. The foundations for the buildings where laid on 23rd September 1927 by the Viscount Goschen, then Governor of Madras.
The present campus
With increasing number of students, Robert Stanes was particular that the school campus must be very spacious for Sports and Games facilities. He then bought the present spacious campus on Avinashi Road in 1927. The foundations for the buildings were laid on 23rd September 1927 by the Viscount Goschen, then Governor of Madras.
Contributions to Coimbatore
In 1864, Coimbatore was constituted a Municipality. Robert Stanes being the Council’s first Chairman at the age of 23, served as a backbone in modernizing the city. Sir Robert Stanes has left an indelible mark in the progress and development of his adopted homeland, Coimbatore and the Nilgris. It is an established fact that it was Robert Stanes who set the pace for the modernization of Coimbatore, the city, which later blossomed into ‘The Manchester of South India’.
The great and good work that our esteemed founder had done in the interest of education and industry was steadfastly acknowledged by the British Government, when he was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind medal in 1914 and received his knighthood in the year 1920.