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School Foundations 1833 - 1913

The table below lists items relating to the above theme and era. If there is an enlarged image available for the item, it can be viewed by clicking on the picture. 


Title of item

Class No

Date

Description

Early Memories of The Madras College

    

Archive extracts of memories of pupils of the school in the 19th century, including:

  • W J MacDonald 1858 to 1868
  • Rev. Robert Forgan 1866 to 1876
  • Lord Sands 1869 to 1873
  • D S Salmond

William Ochter Lonie (1822-1894)
Mathematics Head Master from 1846

     A talk given in Romania to Mathematicians in 2014 by Prof. Edmund Robertson covering:
  • Andrew Bell
  • The Madras College
  • William Ochter Lonie
  • Lonie's ideas on teaching & education
  • James Walker's Fair Book

1831 Sasine

   1831 The text of the 1831 transfer of the grounds of Madras College, South Street

1831 Indenture

   1831 The text of the Indenture from Dr Andrew Bell settling funds for the establishment of Madras College and other schools.

Westminster Abbey Memorial to Dr Bell

 4-139   SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
ANDREW BELL, D.D., L.L.D.
PREBENDARY OF THIS COLLEGIATE CHURCH:
THE EMINENT FOUNDER OF THE MADRAS SYSTEM OF EDUCATION,
WHO DISCOVERED AND REDUCED TO SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE
THE PLAN OF MUTUAL INSTRUCTION;
FOUNDED UPON THE MULTIPLICATION OF POWER, AND DIVISION OF LABOUR,
IN THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL WORLD;
WHICH HAS BEEN ADOPTED WITHIN THE BRITISH EMPIRE,
AS THE NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
OF THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR,
IN THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.
DOCTOR BELL WAS BORN IN THE CITY OF ST ANDREWS N. B. 27TH OF MARCH 1753,
APPOINTED MINISTER OF ST MARY'S CHURCH MADRAS 1789,
MASTER OF SHERBURN HOSPITAL 1809,
PREBENDARY OF WESTMINSTER 1810,
DIED 27TH OF JANUARY 1832.

 

 
Replica of memorial

 

   This was located beside the
South Street quadrangle

William Burn, Architect of the school

 4-1442    

William Burn, Architect of the school

 4-1584    

William Burn as a young man

Courtesy of Mrs Anne Tynte-Irvine

 4-5223 c.1820

Asserted to be a picture of William Burn as a young man showing his portfolio to the older man (name unknown, but possibly his father who was the architect who designed the Nelson Tower on Calton Hill in Edinburgh).

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