Lady Brabourne took the initiative in establishing this institution following complaints from Muslim girls that they were discriminated by the Hindu establishment at the elite Bethune College, which is incidentally the first women's college in India.
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The college is named after Lady Brabourne, the wife of then-governor of Bengal, Lord Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, till February 1939.
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It was off the Mullaghmore coast in August 1979 that Lord Mountbatten, along with The Dowager Baroness Brabourne, The Hon. Nicholas Knatchbull and County Fermanagh teenager Paul Maxwell, were killed by a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA.