SIR HENRY LAWRENCE
SCHOOL CREST
SIR HENRY LAWRENCE AND THE KINGS COLOUR
Friday, June 15, 2007
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Started as an asylum thanks to the efforts of a soldier-cum-civil administrator Sir Henry Lawrence, it was converted into a military school and made a public school after Independence. However, the tragedy was that Sir Henry did not live to see his work come to fruition, having died on July 4, 1857 in the Lucknow Mutiny. Before being christened The Lawrence School, it has over the years been referred to as the Ootacamund Lawrence Asylum, the Lawrence Memorial School and the Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School.