Lawrence School, Lovedale

The Lawrence School, Lovedale
Location
Lovedale , Tamil Nadu , 643003 India
Coordinates	11°22′45″N 76°41′57″E / 11.379191°N 76.699258°E / 11.379191; 76.699258
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; 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.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.