Lawrence School, Lovedale
The Lawrence School, Lovedale (formerly known as Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School, the namesake of its founder Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB), 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.
| The Lawrence School, Lovedale | |
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| Location | |
Lovedale , Tamil Nadu , 643003 India | |
| Coordinates | 11.379191°N 76.699258°E |
| Information | |
| 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 |
| 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. 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.