The Robert Money School was founded in 1836 in memory of Robert Cotton Money of the Honourable East India Company, second son of Sir W.T.Money, Consul General of Venice. Money served in the Bombay State, first on the Revenue Department and later in the Educational Department as Secretary to Government. In this capacity, he worked earnestly to realise his dream of imparting to the youth of this co
untry the benefits of a sound English education. One statement of his is worthy of note because we have it now as a truism: "I would assume it as an undisputed truth that it is the duty of every Government to educate its subjects". Money was an enthusiastic lover of India and the Indians, and it is interesting to note that he asked government to send him to a rural district so that he could try and ameliorate the condition of the depressed cultivators of that district. This was his last appointment, for, as the old record has it: "In the midst of these benevolent desires, and in the strength of his days, for he was only 32, he had an attack of jungle fever which caused his death in January 1835" . Shocked by this untimely arrest of a most promising career, his many friends in India determined that his work should not die with him, and, collecting funds, enabled the Church Missionary Society to found the School which was opened the following year and named after him "that his memory might be perpetuated and that his virtues might be handed down to the imitation of posterity." In December 1936, the Robert Money School celebrated its Centenary when His Excellency the late Lord Brabourne, Governor of Bombay at the time, presided. In the course of his address, His Excellency the Governor remarked: "There can be a few school in India with such a long history or so well-maintained a reputation as this one. It is a very remarkable tribute to Robert Cotton money that is friends should have chosen to give his name, which would otherwise have been forgotten with the lapse of time, to a school intended to be moulded on his character, and to have founded scholarship to enable that class of boy to attend the school which it had always been his chief object to assist." Referring to the school, His Excellency said: "What pleases me most in the record of the school is the evidence of the Inspectors of the consistently good tone. That is more valuable than academic proficiency. I am glad too that the relations of the staff and the boys are so good, and that some of those who were boys are now members of the staff". Reporting at the time, "The Evening News of India" wrote: "The institution in its way has a unique record of public service in this city deserving of official recognition and public gratitude. By graciously consenting to preside over the centenary celebrations, Lord Brabourns provides expressions to both in a most fitting and deservedly distinguished manner". From 1836 until 1947 the Robert Money School was a purely academic school. Considering that a merely academic type of education did not in any way meet the country's industrials needs, the Bombay Government initiated steps for the establishment of technical schools in various cities within the state with a view to training technical personnel which was so badly required in the country after she won her independence and become a free, sovereign, democratic Republic. The Robert Money School, though not a Government school, was accordingly converted in 1948 in to a full-fledged Technical High School in conformity with the Bombay Government policy. The technical subject at present taught in the school are Mechanical-Electrical Engineering, Workshop Technology, both theory and practices, Engineering Drawing. In 1948 this was one of only four Technical High School in the state of Bombay. Today there are about twenty such schools in the state.
