Lawrence School, Lovedale
The Lawrence School, Lovedale (formerly known as Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School, the namesake of its founder Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB), is a co-educational private boarding school located at Lovedale, which is a little town on the Nilgiri Mountains in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Lawrence had mooted the idea of establishing a chain of British Raj military-style boarding schools at the hill stations of India to educate the children of the deceased and serving members of the British Indian Army. Although Lawrence was killed at The Residency, Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 his dream took shape and four such schools, known as the Lawrence Military Asylums, were established: at Sanawar in 1847, and at Mount Abu in 1856, both during his lifetime; then at Lovedale, Ootacamund in 1858 and at Ghora Gali, Murree, in present-day Pakistan in 1860. The campus

The Lawrence School, Lovedale has its campus on 750 acres leased from the Ministry of Defence in Lovedale, which is 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) from Ootacamund. Located at a height of 7200 feet above mean sea level, it is slightly lower than the Dodabetta peak (altitude: 8650 feet), which is the highest peak of the Nilgiris mountain range. Many notable personalities, such as former Prime Ministers and Presidents of India Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Zail Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and others such as Sam Manekshaw, Venkaiah Naidu and Kiran Bedi, have visited this campus to grace the school's Founder's day and other special occasions. Architecture 

On May 31, 1988, a commemorative postage stamp was issued by India Post to commemorate 130 years of its existence with an image displaying the towering campanile section. Student Body 
The student body is from all over India and overseas, and is led by prefects headed by a head girl and head boy. The school also has a 40 percent reservation of seats and a 20 percent fee subsidy for children of Indian Defence personnel. Notable alumni
 Ram Charan, actor
 Nalini Ambady,  social psychologist
 Nomita Chandy, social worker
 Vice Admiral Anil Chopra (Retired), sailor, military officer, former Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command
Rear Admiral K. Raja Menon (Retired), sailor, military officer, author, former Assistant Chief of Naval Staff
Rear Admiral Philipose George Pynumootil, Flag Officer Naval Aviation
Arundhati Roy, writer and social activist
Thiru Vikram, inventor, entrepreneur, CEO Buffalo Automation
Nosthush Kenjige, cricketer, United States national cricket team
Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group
Senthil Sinniah Chengalvarayan, Executive Director, NDTV
Arun M. Kumar, Former Chairman and CEO, KPMG in India
Rigzin Lachic, Founder of Dolkhar, Ladakh

