The Lawrence School, Lovedale
Location
Map
Lovedale
,
Tamil Nadu
,
643003

India
Coordinates11°22′45″N 76°41′57″E / 11.379191°N 76.699258°E / 11.379191; 76.699258
Information
Former namesThe Ootacamund Lawrence Asylum, Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School (L.M.R.M.S.)
TypePrivate boarding school
Motto"Never Give In"
Established6 September 1858; 165 years ago (6 September 1858)
FounderMajor General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence
School boardCentral Board of Secondary Education
School districtNilgiris
ChairmanSanjay Kumar, IAS
HeadmasterDhavala Venkata Someswara Rao
Number of pupils800 (approx.)
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.thelawrenceschool.org

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]

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.

The campus

The Lawrence School, Lovedale has its campus on 750 acres leased from the Ministry of Defence[4] in Lovedale, which is 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) from Ootacamund. Located at a height of 7200 feet above mean sea level, it is slightly lower than the Dodabetta peak (altitude: 8650 feet), which is the highest peak of the Nilgiris mountain range.[citation needed]

Many notable personalities, such as former Prime Ministers and Presidents of India Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Zail Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and others such as Sam Manekshaw, Venkaiah Naidu[5] and Kiran Bedi, have visited this campus to grace the school's Founder's day and other special occasions.[6][7]

Several movies, TV shows, and commercial advertisements have been filmed in the school campus. Some of the popular ones include:

Architecture

The Lawrence Asylum, Ootakamund, Madras Presidency, in 1873
Main Building, The Lawrence School, Lovedale

On May 31, 1988, a commemorative postage stamp was issued by India Post to commemorate 130 years of its existence with an image displaying the towering campanile section.[8]

Student body

The student body is from all over India and overseas, and is led by prefects headed by a head girl and head boy.[9] The school also has a 40 percent reservation of seats and a 20 percent fee subsidy for children of Indian Defence personnel.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ "Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB, 1856 (c) | Online Collection | National Army Museum, London". collection.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  2. ^ Ramadas, Rati (5 May 2008). "Lawrence School Lovedale celebrates 150 years". NDTV. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
  3. ^ "The Magic Mountains". publishing.cdlib.org. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Army lays claim to land held by Lawrence". www.sunday-guardian.com. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  5. ^ Staff Reporter (16 May 2022). "Vice-President expected to commence the Nilgiris visit on Tuesday". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  6. ^ Ravichandran, B. "Ooty Lawrence school rolls out red carpet to President". Deccan Chronicle.
  7. ^ ravichandran, b (30 July 2015). "Kalam had fascination for birds, say greens". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  8. ^ "A commemorative postage stamp on the 130th anniversary of the Lawrence School". iStampGallery. 21 June 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  9. ^ a b "Country needs honest people: AVM Rai". The Hindu. 5 April 2012. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Kabaddi deserves a league of its own: Anand Mahindra". The Economic Times. 10 April 2014.
  11. ^ News Network, NetIndian (29 October 2011). "Vice Admiral Anil Chopra appointed as FOC-in-C, Eastern Naval Command". NetIndian. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  12. ^ Siddhartha Deb, "Arundhati Roy, the Not-So-Reluctant Renegade Archived 21 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine", The New York Times, 5 March 2014. |access-date=9 April 2023
  13. ^ Warnick, J.E.; Landis, D. (2015). Neuroscience in Intercultural Contexts. International and Cultural Psychology. Springer New York. ISBN 978-1-4939-2260-4. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  14. ^ Narayanan, Chitra (16 April 2011). "Bonding for a lifetime". The Hindu Businessline. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  15. ^ "Rear Admiral Philipose George Pynumootil, NM Assumes Charge as Flag Officer Naval Aviation (FONA)". www.indiannavy.nic.in. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  16. ^ "Soldier2ndLife". soldier2ndlife.com. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  17. ^ "K Raja Menon". National Maritime Foundation. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

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