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==Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum==
*This Asylum was opened in 1789. Page 223 of this Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223 link], published 1855.
*This [http://spuddybike.org.uk/familyhistory/madras/MadrasMFAsylum.html link] about the founding of both the Female and Male Military Orphan Asylums contains information from the book ''The church in Madras : being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the presidency of Madras'' by Rev Frank Penny (1904)
*The Rev Dr Andrew Bell was the first Director and Superintendent of the Asylum at Egmore from 1789. He wrote two books about the system of education he developed, giving details of the Asylum:
:*''An Analysis of the Experiment in Education, made at Egmore, near Madras'' Edition 3 (1807) 115 pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=eO9Prv4mOGkC Google Books] ([http://books.google.com/books?id=eO9Prv4mOGkC&pg=PP15 Contents])
