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==Entry==
Arriving in India in 1830, after 2 years patronage supported training at Hertford (1806-1809) and [[Haileybury ]] Hertfordshire, England (1809-1858) entrants seeking to gain “Writership” became a student [[writer]] at The East India Company's [[Calcutta]] College in [[Fort William]].
Students were lavishly rewarded with ₤400 a year, and encouraged to borrow heavily to acquire high status and comfortable lifestyle - often enabling them to stable 40 horses; not unexpectedly this was reformed. Reforms still allowed students sufficient finance to keep three horses and a buggy. Club memberships and mess parties continued to allow them to gain social influence in the capital.
