Lawrence School, Lovedale
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The Lawrence School, Lovedale (formerly known as Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School, the namesake of its founder Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB),[1] is a co-educational private boarding school located at Lovedale, which is a little town on the Nilgiri Mountains in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.[2]
The Lawrence School, Lovedale | |
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Location | |
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Coordinates | 11.379191°N 76.699258°E / 11.379191; 76.699258 |
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Former names | The Ootacamund Lawrence Asylum, Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School (L.M.R.M.S.) |
Type | Private boarding school |
Motto | "Never Give In" |
Established | 6 September 1858; 165 years ago (6 September 1858) |
Founder | Major General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence |
School board | Central Board of Secondary Education |
School district | Nilgiris |
Chairman | Sanjay Kumar, IAS |
Headmaster | Dhavala Venkata Someswara Rao |
Number of pupils | 800 (approx.) |
Language | English |
Website | www |
Lawrence had mooted the idea of establishing a chain of British Raj military-style boarding schools at the hill stations of India to educate the children of the deceased and serving members of the British Indian Army.[3] Although Lawrence was killed at The Residency, Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 his dream took shape and four such schools, known as the Lawrence Military Asylums, were established: at Sanawar in 1847, and at Mount Abu in 1856, both during his lifetime; then at Lovedale, Ootacamund in 1858 and at Ghora Gali, Murree, in present-day Pakistan in 1860.