BOOK 1: 1858 TO 1908 : GLIMPSES OF A GLORIOUS PAST
This link takes you to Book 1 of Glimpses in the pdf format for you to read at leisure.
Book 1 covers the first 50 years of the School's history.
Some of the important topics/ events include:-
Major General Sir Henry Lawrence and his wife Lady Honoria Lawrence decide to found Asylums primarily for the orphans of British soldiers serving the East India Company in India or who died in such service.
Sir Henry was killed in Lucknow during the Mutiny of 1857
On September 6, 1858 the Lawrence Asylum was set up in Ootacamund in memory of Sir Henry Lawrence
Lovedale was selected to be the site for the new campus and the Asylum shifted once the buildings were constructed.
The Asylum was run as a Military Asylum with the Principals being, without exception well-qualified ordained priests of the Church of England
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