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====Free School====
*Maureen Evers, "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum Sanawar, Part 1: History," ''FIBIS Journal'' No 22 (Autumn 2009), pages 1-14. "Part II: parents, conditions, prospects" ''FIBIS Journal'' No 23 (Spring 2010), pages 5-14. For details of how to access these articles, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=416&s_id=229 FIBIS Database: Calcutta Free School Prizes 1878] The description of these records states that there were 395 children on the school roll, of whom 130 were girls, and that there were 10 times as many applicants as places.
The Free School is now known as [[Schools#S|St Thomas' School]], Kidderpore and the address is 4 Diamond Harbour Road, Kidderpore Kolkata 70023 West Bengal.