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*Photographic print of Kidderpore House in 1851 from the British Library's [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/m/019pho0000247s2u00034000.html Online Gallery]
*[http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/287843 Photograph: Orphan School, Calcutta] by Captain R. B. Hill 1850s Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Probably Richard Barton Hill 1835-1873, who joined the Bengal Army in 1853.
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=775&s_id=229 FIBIS database: Bengal Military Orphan Society] including **[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=691&s_id=775 FIBIS database: Bengal Military Orphans 1798]. Alphabetical list of all orphaned children of officers of the Bengal Army who had been/were in the care of the Bengal Orphan Military Society from the inception of the Society to 31 December 1798. Includes children both in England and India. Based on ''The Continuation or Supplement to the Code of Bengal Military Regulations'' by Henry Grace, pages 369-380, published 1799, with some additional remarks , probably added by Sir Patrick Cadell . ''The Continuation'' is available at the [[British Library]], and also on the [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories|subscription website]] Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) **[httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=899&s_id=775 FIBIS database: Bengal Upper Orphan School 1820-1857] . "Alphabetical list of orphaned children of officers of the Bengal Army, 1820-1857. The data include Dates of Birth, Dates of Admission to and Discharge from the Asylum, Name of father, etc." These were orphans who had returned to Britain and whose guardians had received payment there from the Bengal Military Orphan Society. They were not physically in an Asylum, so the date of discharge from the Asylum is rather the date of discharge from the Society, when benefits were finalised, as indicated by the British Library catalogue entry “alphabetical lists of orphans, admitted to pension c 1820-c 1857, giving dates of birth, admission and discharge” <ref>[http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_3-1&cid=1-1-7-8&kw=IOR/L/AG/23/7/7#1-1-7-8 Bengal Military Orphan Society IOR/L/AG/23/7/7 c1820-c1857] Access to Archives. Retrieved 3 August 2014</ref> These records are also now available on the pay website [[Findmypast|findmypast]].
*[[FamilySearch Centres|LDS microfilm]] catalogue entry [https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=643841&disp=Bengal+military+orphans+society%2C+1818++ Bengal military orphans society, 1818-1873].The original records are available at the [[British Library]] and are in respect of Officers’ orphans. Some of these records have been transcribed by FIBIS, and are available on the FIBIS database (refer above)
*An advertisement for a teacher at the Upper Orphan School in 1789 may be seen at [[Calcutta schools c late 1700s#Advertisements for teachers|Calcutta schools c late 1700-Advertisements for teachers]]
====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://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/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.
