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IOR/L/MIL/9/333-357
- Record Id:
- 037-000664519
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000664519
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000026.0x0000cf
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/9/333-357
- Title:
- Addiscombe Military Seminary
- Scope & Content:
- By the end of the eighteenth century the East India Company had recognised that cadets for the technical branches of its armies needed a better training than that received under the 'direct' system, and from 1798, a number of artillery and engineer cadets were educated at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. This arrangement proved both expensive and unsatisfactory, and in 1809 the Company opened its own seminary for such cadets at Addiscombe Place near Croydon. A special Military Seminary Committee of the Court of Directors was created to govern the new institution and also to pass the 'direct' cadets for the cavalry and infantry; its functions were transferred to the Political and Military Committee in April 1834. Despite an extensive curriculum it was still found necessary, from 1815, to send engineer cadets to the Royal Engineers Establishment at Chatham for instruction in mining, and in 1816 permission was granted for non-technical cadets to be admitted to Addiscombe if a further period of general education seemed desirable. From 1851 the Addiscombe staff was also used as an examining body for 'direct' cadets. The 1858 Government of India Act provided for the continuation of the seminary as the Royal India Military College, with entrance through competitive examination, but it was eventually decided that Sandhurst and Woolwich offered adequate facilities. Addiscombe was closed in 1861 and the house and grounds were sold for building development.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000256868
036-000631099
037-000664519 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MIL : Records of the Military Department
IOR/L/MIL/9 : Entry to the military, medical and nursing services of the East India Company's Army (1753-1861) and the Indian Army (1861-1940)
IOR/L/MIL/9/333-357 : Addiscombe Military Seminary - Contains:
- IOR/L/MIL/9/333-336 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Registers of Seminary Cadets
IOR/L/MIL/9/337 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Lists of successful candidates in the examination for admission to the Royal India Military…
IOR/L/MIL/9/338 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Register of cadets admitted to the Royal India Military College
IOR/L/MIL/9/339-342 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Monthly Reports on Mathematics and Classics
IOR/L/MIL/9/343 : Addiscombe Military Seminary List of cadets to be brought forward for the final examination at Addiscombe
IOR/L/MIL/9/344 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Addiscombe Professors' Reports on 'Direct' Candidates The reports are labelled…
IOR/L/MIL/9/345 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Addiscombe Professors' Reports on 'Direct' Candidates The reports are labelled…
IOR/L/MIL/9/346 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Addiscombe Professors' Reports on 'Direct' Candidates The reports are labelled…
IOR/L/MIL/9/347 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Addiscombe Professors' Reports on 'Direct' Candidates The reports are labelled…
IOR/L/MIL/9/348 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Addiscombe Professors' Reports on 'Direct' Candidates The reports are labelled…
IOR/L/MIL/9/349 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Professors Reports on 'Direct' Candidates Register of candidates
IOR/L/MIL/9/350 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Professors Reports on 'Direct' Candidates: Register of candidates
IOR/L/MIL/9/351 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Monthly Progress Returns on Engineer Cadets at Chatham
IOR/L/MIL/9/352 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Monthly Progress Returns on Engineer Cadets at Chatham
IOR/L/MIL/9/353 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Monthly Progress Returns on Engineer Cadets at Chatham
IOR/L/MIL/9/354 : Addiscombe Military Seminary: Monthly Progress Returns on Engineer Cadets at Chatham
IOR/L/MIL/9/355 : Addiscombe Military Seminary Copy correspondence and minutes on arrangements for engineer cadets to attend Chatham
IOR/L/MIL/9/356 : Addiscombe Military Seminary Separate lists of Bengal, Madras and Bombay engineer, artillery and infantry cadets
IOR/L/MIL/9/357 : Addiscombe Military Seminary A history of Addiscombe
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- 032-000256868[0009]/036-000631099[0003]/037-000664519
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- Record Type (Level):
- SubSeries
- Extent:
- 22 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1809
- End Date:
- 1862
- Date Range:
- 1809-1862
- Era:
- CE
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- Related Material:
- See also IOR/L/MIL/1/9-27, Addiscombe, its heroes and men of note, Henry Meredith Vibart (London, 1894), and A guide to the records of the East India College Haileybury and other institutions, Anthony Farrington (London, 1976) pp 113-123.