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'''===External links:'''===
→Lawrence School, Sanawar
Maureen Evers has written about the school in "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]].
===History===
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MhooAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR4 ''The Lawrence Military Asylum :Being a brief account of the past ten years of the existence and progress of the institution established in the Himalayas by the late Sir H.M. Lawrence for the orphan and other children of European soldiers serving, or having served in India''] 1858 Google BooKs
*"The Lawrence Royal Military School, Sanawar India" by W Jaques Steel. ''The Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, Issue 45, August 1961'', pages 1-4. See also correspondence in ''Issue 47''. Available at the British Library
===Records===
The [[British Library]] holds a copy of ''Register of Marriages , Holy Trinity Church, Lawrence Asylum, Sanawar'' This covers a period from 1849-1948. Many girls are shown as orphans/wards of LMA and their fathers' names substituted with "Guardians and Principals , LMA" The book is on the open shelves under shelfmark OIR929.3
The British Library has Annual Reports from 1849-1873 (broken sequence) as follows: Oriental Collections ST 1257 Holdings: 1st (1849)-7th (1855), wanting: 6th (1854) and July 1858/Apr. 1859-1872/73, wanting: 1865/66, 1866/67.(Details in the Integrated Catalogue). In addition, the British Library also holds there are two later editions [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_3-1&cid=1-1-1-338#1-1-1-338 IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2300] 1934-1936, which are also available online, refer below. "The Lawrence Royal Military School, Sanawar India" by W Jaques Steel. ''The Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, Issue 45, August 1961'', pages 1-4. See also correspondence in ''Issue 47''. Available at the British Library
The Sanawar School website (refer below) has many Annual Reports availble online, some of which list names of the children at the School.
*[http://www.sanawar.edu.in Lawrence School, Sanawar], official site including
**[http://sanawar.edu.in/ParkerHall.aspx Parker Hall] (under the category Life in Sanawar)-now the school Library and Museum
*****Annual Report for the Year 1896-1897 page 148.
*****Annual Report for the Year 1897-1898 page 173.
**** Annual Repoers for the years 1921-23, 1928, 1930,1931,1935-1937, 1947 are also available
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