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Addiscombe Military Seminary

The East India Company Military Seminary was a British military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey, in what is now the London Borough of Croydon. It opened in 1809 and closed in 1861. Its purpose was to train young officers to serve in the East India Company's own army in India.

Addiscombe Military Seminary

1809–1861

 United Kingdom

 British Army

Training

Army Officer Training

Addiscombe, Surrey

The institution was formally known as the East India Company Military Seminary (a name the cadets always disliked) until 1855, when the name was changed to the East India Company Military College.[1][2] In 1858, when the college was taken over by the government, it was renamed the Royal India Military College. Colloquially, it was known as Addiscombe Seminary, Addiscombe College, or Addiscombe Military Academy.


The Seminary was a sister institution to the East India Company College in Hertfordshire, which trained civilian "writers" (clerks). In military terms it was a counterpart to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

1809–22: , styled Superintendent and Head Master

James Andrew

1822–24: , styled Resident Superintendent (this appointment was regarded as temporary)

Henry Carmichael-Smyth

1824–34: , styled Lieutenant-Governor

Sir Robert Houston

1834–50: , styled Lieutenant-Governor

Sir Ephraim Stannus

1851–60: , styled Lieutenant-Governor

Sir Frederick Abbott

Sir , Lieutenant-Governor 1851–61

Frederick Abbott

Dr , Superintendent 1809–22

James Andrew

Lecturer in Geology 1845–61

David T. Ansted

Lecturer in Civil Drawing 1855–61

John Callow

Revd , Senior Professor of Mathematics 1822–61

Jonathan Cape

Professor of Chemistry 1835–45

John Frederic Daniell

Lecturer in Civil Drawing 1826–50

Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding

Professor of Chemistry 1859–61

Edward Frankland

Lecturer in Civil Drawing 1836–55

John Christian Schetky

Professor of Hindustani, 1809–29

John Shakespear

Lecturer in Science and Philosophy 1824–50

William Sturgeon

Lecturer in Civil Drawing 1813–36

William Frederick Wells

Birbeck, Kate (2023). Addiscombe Military College and the Cadets who Forged an Empire. Ugley Green: Dreadnought.  9781999958770.

ISBN

Bourne, J. M. (1979). "The East India Company's Military Seminary, Addiscombe, 1809–1858". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 57: 206–222.

Broadfoot, W. (1893). "Addiscombe: the East India Company's Military College". Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. 57: 647–57.

Farrington, Anthony (1976). The Records of the East India College, Haileybury, & other institutions. London: H.M.S.O. pp. 111–23.

Gent, John B., ed. (1987). Victorian Croydon Illustrated (2nd ed.). Croydon: . pp. 20–21. ISBN 0-906047-00-5.

Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society

Paget, Clarence G. (1937). Croydon Homes of the Past. Croydon: Croydon Central Library. pp. 34–45. (mainly on Addiscombe Place)

Stearn, Roger T. (1994). "Addiscombe: the East India Company's Military Seminary". Soldiers of the Queen: The Journal of the Victorian Military Society. 79: 1–3.

Vibart, H. M. (1894). Addiscombe: its heroes and men of note. Westminster: Archibald Constable.  23336661M.

OL

Sutton, Annabelle (2000). . Families In British India Society Database. Families In British India Society. Retrieved 18 June 2019. (based on Vibart 1894)

"Index of Addiscombe officers"

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