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:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=eO9Prv4mOGkC ''An Analysis of the Experiment in Education, made at Egmore, near Madras'' Edition 3 (1807) 115 pages] Google Books ([http://books.google.com/books?id=eO9Prv4mOGkC&pg=PP15 Contents])
:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC ''The Madras School: or, Elements of Tuition: comprising the Analysis of an Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum, Madras; with its facts, proofs, and illustrations'' (1808) 348 pages] Google Books ([http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PR11 Contents]). [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PA212 Page 212] onwards contains letters written by his former pupils to Dr Bell, including a listing of names from the bottom of [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PA218 page 218] to page 223.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-02/1298802118] post is about the training of boys from the Madras Male Orphanage in the Survey school from 1794. Page 13 of this [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:wY04OFGLYWUJ:www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b66_317.pdf+Science+in+%22British+India%22&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgniwZQ9F5fkYnPJsb8-jftV0U23uCpu9sna-ItH20a319oZSJypsk4xOg7SSAaX3Kz3jPeEyQpSMGUaYTYgZdiLxcbZVkP88-1q2DLnKQqAEG8YhKqXsf4eG834yglY9tFK7Yc&sig=AHIEtbTyaXkzEc8uK-F_M8gtYcePXCA_Sw link] states "Madras Observatory ran a surveying school from 1794 to 1810 to train teenager European orphaned boys as practical revenue surveyors".<ref>"Science in British India" by RK Kochhar ''Indian Journal of History of Science'' 34(4) 1999 pp317-346 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:wY04OFGLYWUJ:www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b66_317.pdf+Science+in+%22British+India%22&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgniwZQ9F5fkYnPJsb8-jftV0U23uCpu9sna-ItH20a319oZSJypsk4xOg7SSAaX3Kz3jPeEyQpSMGUaYTYgZdiLxcbZVkP88-1q2DLnKQqAEG8YhKqXsf4eG834yglY9tFK7Yc&sig=AHIEtbTyaXkzEc8uK-F_M8gtYcePXCA_Sw html version], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b66_317.pdf original pdf] (page 329, page 13 of the link)</ref>
*1829 letter by W Webbe, former pupil, regarding his schooldays c 1790’s, footnotes [http://books.google.com/books?id=xgNPsoCD9i4C&pg=PA397 pages 397-398]. He appears as William Webbe in the list of Foundation Boys for 1790 in the listing of names on page 222 of ''The Madras School''
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=210&s_id=56 Entries to the Madras Military Asylum in 1825-1826] in FIBIS Search. In the majority of the cases the ” Person Recommending Boy” was stated to be the Poonamallee Asylum, (see below) perhaps suggesting transfer from this Asylum at a particular age, or amalgamation of the two Asylums, as happened with the Girls' Asylums. This could imply the boys were orphaned some years earlier.
*In 1903, the [[South Indian Railway]] requiring for its new terminus at Egmore, the buildings occupied by the Civil Orphan Asylums, Goverment suggested that the Civil Orphan Asylums move to the premises of the Military Female Orphan Asylum in Poonamallee Road, and that the girls from the latter Asylum move to the Lawrence Asylum at Lovedale. The transfer took place in October 1904. [http://books.google.com/books?id=luXS-8vTrJQC&pg=PA263 Limited View Google Books] page 263,'' The Nilgiris Volume 1 of Madras District Gazetteers'' by W Francis 1994 reprint of an earlier book, probably 1908.
*The name was changed to St George’s School and Orphanage in 1954 according to this [http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/23/stories/2003042300110300.htm article] in The Hindu [Newspaper]. It continues on today.
 
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