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    Digging up a Royal ethos and tradition By Yomal Senerath-Yapa Source:Sunday Times From Hill School Academy in Wolfendhal to Moor Street as a state school; the first 35 years of one of Colombo’s leading boys’ schools is vividly brought to light in D. L. Seneviratne’s book, From Marsh to Boake: The Founding Fathers of Royal College “Beneath the sway of Marsh and Boake Where it all began: Rev. J. Marsh started his Hill Street Academy in Wolfendhal 1835 where now stands the tiny chapel-Oratory of St. Paul’s built in 1932 Thenceforth did Lanka’s learning thrive.”So sing the boys of Royal College. Yet how many can- at will- reach back over the long decades and conjure a cameo- at least- of those men who laid the foundation of a school that has a tradition as solid as any English public school? ...