Lawrence College (Ghora Gali)
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The Lawrence School, Ghora Gali (near Murree), Punjab, Pakistan, one of the few oldest co-educational boarding schools in the world, was established in 1860, and is named after Major General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence of the Army of the colonial India’s British Raj. It is now known as Lawrence College.
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Sir Lawrence had mooted the idea about the establishment of a chain of schools with a view to provide education to the children of the deceased and serving soldiers and officers of the British army. Lawrence was himself killed in the Indian rebellion of 1857, also called India’s First War of Independence. His dream took shape and four such schools, initially known as Lawrence Military Asylum, were established in different parts of then India: the first two during his lifetime in the year 1847 at Sanawar and the second at Mount Abu in 1856; the third at Lovedale, near Ootacamund on 6th September 1858, and the fourth in Ghora Gali in 1860.
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