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*'''Colonel Brown Cambridge School''', [[Dehra Dun]].
 
*'''Colvin Free School''', [[Allahabad]].
*'''Conference Middle Class School ''' [[Poona]], est 1879
*'''Lawrence Schools/Colleges''' at Mount Abu, Ghora Gali, Lovedale and Sanawar, the four [[Lawrence Military Asylum]]s, founded to provide education for the orphans of British soldiers in India.
* '''Loreto Convent''', [[Darjeeling]]. Fibis database contains [http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=929 List of pupils from roll of honour 1888- 1912]
*'''Lushington Boys' School''', [[Ootacamund]], now called '''Hebron School''' (see above).
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[[Image:La Martiniere College.jpg|thumb|300px|La Martiniere College]]
*'''La Martiniere College''', [[Calcutta]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Martiniere_Calcutta Wikipedia], [http://www.lmbcal.com/ La Martiniere for Boys, Calcutta], [http://www.lmgcal.edu.in/history.htm La Martiniere For Girls, Kolkata]
 
*'''[http://home.the-wire.com/~raga/lmc.html La Martiniere College]''', [[Lucknow]]. This is David King's website about La Martiniere College in Lucknow.
*'''Mission School''', [[Cawnpore]]. See '''Christ Church School'''
*'''Mission Orphanage Panch Haud Vernacular School''' [[Poona]], est 1882
 
*'''La Martiniere College''', [[Calcutta]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Martiniere_Calcutta Wikipedia], [http://www.lmbcal.com/ La Martiniere for Boys, Calcutta], [http://www.lmgcal.edu.in/history.htm La Martiniere For Girls, Kolkata]
*'''Mount Hermon School''', [[Darjeeling]]
:[http://oldmhs.com/ Old Mount Hermon Students' Association (UK)] (secretary: Cindy Gibbs).
:[http://www.success.co.th/mthermon/ Another alumni (unofficial) website].
 
*'''Mountain Home School''', Conoor, The Nilgiris.
:Originally founded by the [[Missionary#Home_Missionary_Society_of_India_.28HMSI.29|Home Missionary Society of India]] as an orphanage for destitute Anglo-Indian children.
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*'''Sherwood College''', [[Naini Tal]]. Originally the Anglican Naini Tal '''Diocesan Boys School''', founded 1867. [http://www.oldsherwoodians.com/about/1867.htm History of Sherwood College], oldsherwoodians.com , the Sherwood Alumni website.
 
*'''Stanes Schools''', [[Coonoor]] in the Nilgiris, and [[Coimbatore]].
:The first school was established by Thomas Stanes in 1858. [https://www.stanescoonoor.com/ Stanes School Coonoor] This was for Anglo-Indian children; now described as "a Christian, co-educational, residential school".
 
:In 1862 his youngest brother, the philanthropist Sir Robert Stanes, established a school in Coimbatore; official website [https://stanesschool.org/#home Stanes Higher Secondary School Trust Association]. Now open to all, but preference given to Anglo-Indian children in accordance with the founder's wishes.
*'''Station School''', [[Rawalpindi]]
*'''[http://www.st-georges.info/ St George's College]''', [[Mussoorie]], near [[Dehra Dun]]. Founded by the Capuchin Fathers in 1854, it has been run by the Patrician Brothers, a Catholic order, since 1894. Also known as '''Manor House'''.
**[http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/history/1950s/1219-locksley01.html Memoirs of an IAF Technical Signal Officer] Wg Cdr Locksley Percival Fegredo attended St George’s 1938-44. bharat-rakshak.com
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20190608170628/http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/LifeinIndia/Boarding_School.htm Life in the Hills] from [https://web.archive.org/web/20150426070344/http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/ An Indian Childhood] , now archived, by Eugene Blanchette born 1933 from his website. He attended the Irish Patrician Brothers boarding school from 1945 for two years, from age 11. his His parents then decided it had become too dangerous to travel by train to Dehra Dun.
*'''St Joan's School''', [[Kashmir]]. Ethel Fowle, aunt of John Fowle, was headmistress 1943-45.
*'''St Mary’s Girls High School''' [[Poona]], est 1867
*'''[http://www.dgrc.ca/sms/ St Mary’s High School]''', [[Mount Abu]]. This webpage has lists of the students in attendance at St Mary’s High School in various years. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190608170628/http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/LifeinIndia/Boarding_School.htm Life in the Hills] from [https://web.archive.org/web/20150426070344/http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/ An Indian Childhood] , now archived, by Eugene Blanchette born 1933 from his website. He attended the Irish Christian Brothers boarding school from 1942 for three years, from age 8.
[[Image:School crest.jpg|right|thumb|200px|School Crest of St Paul's School, Jalapahar]]
==Records==
*Results of the Junior and Senior Cambridge examinations are available from the Cambridge University Library Archives.<ref>''Rootsweb India List'' post [https://listsmlarchives.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.comlistindexes/emails?listname=&thread/=312052/ St Michael and All Angels School, Maymyo] by Michael Quin- Conroy dated 18 January 2014. Retrieved 6 November 201828 October 2020. Also see [http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/our-research/archives-service/ Cambridge Assessment: Archive service]</ref> These results were reprinted in Indian newspapers
==See also==
*This [http://www.archive.org/stream/annualreportofwo00meth#page/148/mode/2up link] includes the schools and colleges in India and Burma run by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (USA) c 1919. Archive.org
*Information about many schools in '''Britain''' is included in [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924101205643#page/n5/mode/2up ''Index Scholasticus: Sons and daughters. A guide to parents in the choice of educational institutions, preparatory to professional or other occupation of their children; clerical, ministerial ... educational ... etc''] by R. Kemp Philp 1872 Archive.org, with [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924101205643#page/n507/mode/2up Index]
 
=== Making Contact ===
*[http://www.batchmates.com/ Batchmates] This is a site where you can register your interest in a particular school in India that you attended in youth.
*[http://www.alumni.net/Asia/India/ Indian Alumni] This is a website to help alumni of Indian schools make contact with each other.
== References ==
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