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“...of varied design, including Hayes Court, the
residence of the Bishop, and the Archbishop of Port of
Spain’s Palace, which might appropriately be called
Trinidad’s Park Lane. Queen’s Royal College occupies
a handsome building, designed and built by the Public
Works Department of Trinidad, to which it does infinite
credit. It was opened on March 24th, 1904, by the then
Governor, Sir Alfred Moloney. The college, whose
students vary in age from nine to twenty years, has a
spacious lecture-hall, science laboratories and several
class-rooms. Founded in 1850 as the Queen’s Collegiate
School, under the Government Department for higher
education in the colony, its sphere of influence was
extended in 1870, when it was first called Queen’s Royal
College by permission of Queen Victoria. The clock and
chimes in the tower were the gift of the late Mr. W.
Gordon Gordon, a prominent citizen, to commemorate
the reign of King Edward VII.
Near the tramway terminus at Maraval corner (see
page 115), Lady C...”
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