Victoria College (Alexandria, Egypt)

Victoria College, Alexandria, (Arabic: كلية فيكتوريا) is an Egyptian private school, operating under the supervision of Ministry of Education, located in the city of Alexandria, Egypt. It was founded in 1902. The school was founded under the impetus of the recently ennobled Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, of the Barings Bank, that was heavily invested in Egyptian stability. For years the British consul-general was ex officio on the board of Victoria College. The new college was to raise the standard of imperial education and free it from the influences of the madrassas and the ubiquitous Jesuits, both of whom made the British foreign office uneasy. Among prominent subscribers to the project were members of the prominent internationalized Jewish and Maltese minority in Egypt including members of the Egyptian royal family. Prior to the 1930s establishment of Baghdad College, members of the upper class of Iraq sent their children to Victoria College.