Malacca High School

On 7 December 1826, MHS was officially established; just after Malacca was made a British colony on 17 March 1824, when the Dutch ceded Malacca to the English after the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.

The establishment of the school (then known as Malacca Free School) was initiated by Thomas H. Moor who came to Malacca in 1825 on orders by William Milne who was one of the educators at the Anglo-Chinese College. In his letter dated 4 January 1825, he stated his wishes to Arundel in London to establish a school. The establishment of the school was also supported by some influential people including James Humphrey, a Superintendent in the London Missionary Society. The startup of Malacca High School was directly related to the closing of the Dutch-Malay school which was established in January 1815 by Christian missionary during the Dutch reign. The school was closed when Malacca was handed over to the British by the Dutch.

This old main motto stands for "Here We Strive For Better Things". The motto was introduced by the Principal of Malacca High School L.W. Arnold. He was stationed in the school from 1931 to 1934. The use of the motto coincided with the shifting of the school from the High Court Building to the current location. The official opening of the school was in October 1931. The Motto obviously was chose to coincide with the abbreviation of MHS for the school. And that Headmaster Arnold was definitely purposeful in giving the translation of Meliora Hic Sequamur (=MHS) for the Malacca High School (=MHS) as such according to his own interpretation.A check with its actual Latin meaning, shows that the translation should have been "Let us follow (sequamur) the melody ( meloria) here (hic)"

• Lim Guan Eng, MP for Bagan, and former Chief Minister of Penang and Finance Minister of Malaysia
• Mohd Ali Rustam, Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Melaka
• Abu Zahar Ithnin (Former Malacca Chief Minister)
• M.K. Rajakumar
• Tan Cheng Lock (one of the founding fathers of modern Malaysia and the founder of the Malaysian Chinese Association)
• Tan Siew Sin (former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Finance Minister and former president of the Malayan Chinese Association)[4]

• Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (UCLA Professor of English who chairs the School of Education of UCLA, winner of Commonwealth Poetry Prize and National Book Award)

• Anuwar Ali currently President of Open University Malaysia[5]

The house system was introduced in 1923. Every student was assigned a "house" named after historical figures. The sports houses in the school are:

• Albuquerque  
• Famosa  
• Raffles  
• St Francis {{Color box|red|border=darkgray}

Starting from January 2014, all the sports houses were changed from 6 to 4. The new names for the sport houses are:

• Red   St. Francis
• Yellow/Orange   Raffles
• Blue   Albuquerque
• Green   Famosa