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==Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum==
[[Image:Madras map 1862.jpg|thumb|300px|Madras, 1862, showing the Military Male Asylum (centre)]]
*This Asylum was opened in 1789. <ref> Page 223 of this Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223 link],<ref> ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: With the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore''published 1855. google books </ref> published 1855.
*Information about the founding of both the Female and Male Military Orphan Asylums is contained in [http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe01penn#page/508/mode/2up''The church in Madras : being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the presidency of Madras''], page 508 by Rev Frank Penny (1904) Archive.org
*The Rev Dr Andrew Bell was the first Director and Superintendent of the Asylum at Egmore from 1789-1796. At the time of his appointment the system of teaching was inadequate and this lead to his founding the 'Madras System of Education' - a monitorial method whereby older pupils instructed those younger, in addition to receiving instruction from their seniors. The first monitor was a boy named John Frisken, who later became the printer of the Madras Courier. After Bell's return to the UK in 1796, this system of education was adopted in various schools both in England and also in his native Scotland.The Madras College, Fife, still recognises the influence of it's founder. For further details see [http://www.madras.fife.sch.uk/archive/articles/therevdrandrewbell.html The Rev Dr Andrew Bell] madras.fife.sch.uk.
