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ANDREW See also: British divine and educationalist, was See also: born at St Andrews on the 27th of See also: March 1753
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He graduated at the university there, and afterwards spent some years as a tutor in Virginia, U.S.A
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On his return he took orders, and in 1787 sailed for
See also: India, where he held eight army chaplaincies at the same See also: time
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In 1789 he became See also: superintendent of the male See also: orphan See also: asylum at See also: Madras, and having been obliged from scarcity of teachers to introduce the See also: system of mutual tuition by the pupils, found the scheme answer so well that he 'became convinced of its universal applicability
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In 1797, after his return to See also: London, he published a small pamphlet explaining his views on See also: education
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Little public See also: attention was See also: drawn towards the " monitorial " See also: plan till See also: Joseph See also: Lancaster (q.v.), the Quaker, opened a school in See also: Southwark, conducting it in accordance with See also: Bell's principles, and improving on his system
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The success of the method, and the strong support given to Lancaster by the whole See also: body of Nonconformists gave immense impetus to the See also: movement
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Similar See also: schools were established in greatnumbers; and the members of the See also: Church of
See also: England, becoming alarmed at the patronage of such schools resting entirely in the hands of dissenters, resolved to set up similar institutions in which their own principles should be inculcated
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In 1807 Bell was called from his rectory of See also: Swanage in Dorset to organize a system of schools in accordance with these views, and in 1811 became superintendent of the newly formed " See also: National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church." For his valuable services he was in some degree recompensed by his preferment to a prebend of See also: Westminster, and to the mastership of Sherburn hospital, Durham
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He tried, but without success, to plant his system in Scotland and on the continent
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He died on the 27th of See also: January 1832, at See also: Cheltenham, and was buried in Westminster Abbey
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His See also: great See also: fortune was bequeathed almost entirely for educational purposes
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Of the £120,000 given in See also: trust to the provost of St Andrews, two city ministers and the professor of See also: Greek in the university, See also: half was devoted to the founding of the important school, called the Madras See also: College, at St Andrews; £1o,000 was See also: left to each of the large cities, See also: Edinburgh, See also: Glasgow, See also: Leith, See also: Inverness and See also: Aberdeen, for school purposes; and £1o,00o was also given to the Royal See also: Naval School
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See also: Southey's See also: Life of Dr Bell (3 vols.) is very tedious; J
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Meiklejohn's An Old Educational Reformer is concise and accurate
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