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Showing posts with label Claud Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Claud Martin. Show all posts

09 April 2017

Armenian College & Philanthropic Academy Rules and Regulations for 1843 - Lost, Found and Finally Preserved.



Delving once more into my private family archive, I notice an interesting correlation between the Armenian College and La Martiniere School in Calcutta.


The school Rules & Regulations of La Martiniere were published in 1835 based on the Will of their founder, the late Major General Claude Martin.


The school Rules & Regulations of the Armenian College & Philanthropic Academy were published 8 years later in 1843. It can clearly be seen that some of the wording of the Armenian College Rules and Regulations were copied exactly from those of La Martiniere School. 


Here is a montage I have put together of the Rules & Regulations of both.


In addition to this, the second image is the Forward to the re-print of the Armenian College Rules & Regulations. It was written by M.D. Arathoon, who eloquently tells the story of how the original copy was lost and found. Mack Arathoon, was a strong and steadying figure in the Armenian community in Calcutta, and was also David Malkum Khan Arathoon's grandfather.

 

09 March 2014

Sir Paul Chater: Remembered and Continually Acknowledged by La Martiniere School Kolkata




This is the commemoration stone of one of the new school blocks at La Martiniere school Kolkata in perpetual recognition of Sir Paul Chater's financial contribution which allowed the school to stay open in the 1920's and continues to flourish today. A second school block of the same type was also named after Claude Martin the founder of La Martiniere.

It is indeed a testament to La Martiniere School and each successive head master that they never allow the names of their founder and their benefactor to get lost in the annals of time. They appear PROUD to carry the Martin and Chater names on a daily basis in the school prayer. It is nice they have named one of their new school constructions after Sir Paul. It is here in the 1850's he attended and gained the education required to carry him through his pioneering and innovative career as a leading business figure in Hong Kong and South East Asia.