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<p> inventor of what is called the Lancasterian School System, was born at St. Andrew's, 1752, and educated at the University there. Taking orders in the [[Church]] of England, he was appointed chaplain at Fort St. George, and minister of St. Mary's church at Madras. Here he commenced instructing gratuitously the orphan children of the military asylum, and made the first attempt at the system of mutual instruction. On his return to [[England]] he published in London, in 1797, An [[Experiment]] made at the Mule [[Asylum]] at Malras, suggesting a System by which a School or [[Family]] may teach itself under the superintendence of the [[Master]] or Parent. The pamphlet attracted but little attention until, in the following year, [[Joseph]] [[Lancaster]] opened a school in [[Southwark]] for poor children, supported by subscription, and conducted upon this system. It was so successful that similar schools were established elsewhere. The education of the poor being undertaken on so large a scale by a sectarian, the subscribers being also in the main dissidents from the Church of England, caused some alarm in the leading members of that church. Bell was opposed to Lancaster, and in 1807 was employed to establish schools where the Church doctrine would be taught, and to prepare books for them. Funds were provided, and the rivalry, by stimulating both parties to exertion, resulted in nothing but good; though the particular feature, that of mutual instruction with the help of a master only, has been found to require very material modifications. Dr. Bell, as a reward for his labors, was made a prebendary of Westminster. He died at Cheltenham, January 28, 1832, leaving over $600,000 for educational purposes. </p>
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<p> Educationist, born at St. Andrews; founder of the [[Monitorial]] system of education, which he had adopted, for want of qualified assistants, when in [[India]] as superintendent of an orphanage in Madras, so that his system was called "the [[Madras]] system"; returned from India with a large fortune, added to it by lucrative preferments, and bequeathed a large portion of it, some £120,000, for the endowment of education in Scotland, and the establishment of schools, such as the Madras [[College]] in his native city (1753-1832). </p>
 
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<ref name="term_24043"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/bell,+andrew,+d.d. Andrew Bell from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_68749"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/bell,+andrew,+ll.d. Andrew Bell from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]

Educationist, born at St. Andrews; founder of the Monitorial system of education, which he had adopted, for want of qualified assistants, when in India as superintendent of an orphanage in Madras, so that his system was called "the Madras system"; returned from India with a large fortune, added to it by lucrative preferments, and bequeathed a large portion of it, some £120,000, for the endowment of education in Scotland, and the establishment of schools, such as the Madras College in his native city (1753-1832).

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  1. ↑ Andrew Bell from The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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