Mayo School of Arts, Lahore (Today known as NCA – National College of Arts)

Mayo School of Arts, Lahore (Today known as NCA – National College of Arts)

The Mayo School of Industrial Art was set up to perpetuate the memory of Lord Mayo, the British Viceroy of India, who was assassinated in 1872. Lockwood Kipling (father of authorRudyard Kipling), a teacher of painting and sculpture working then in a J.J. School of Art in Bombay, was appointed its first Principal. Additionally, he was held the charge as the Curator of the Lahore Museum.

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