Andrew Bell

British priest and educationalist (1753-1832) · Doctors · Died at 78

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Andrew Bell was a Scottish Anglican priest and educationalist who pioneered the Madras System of Education in schools. He was the founder of Madras College, a secondary school in St Andrews, and helped fund other schools.

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Andrew Bell; mezzotint by Charles Turner (1825), after William Owen

Dr Bell's School in Leith

Inverness Public Library, built as Bell's School

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

About this person

Doctors born in the 1750s 6

Francisco Javier Balmis46.3

Everard Home45.6

Archibald Menzies48.2

William Babington42.2

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring48.5

Robert Willan41.8

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