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Regulations for the Establishment and Government of the Royal Military Asylum.
1805158331London: T. Egerton 1805. A groundbreaking school for the working class First edition of this detailed record of the founding warrant and regulations of this remarkable institution Britain's "first large-scale system for the education of working class children" Cockerill nearly 70 years before the Elementary Education Act. Instigated by the commander-in-chief Frederick duke of York the RMA offered co-educational facilities for orphans and the children of destitute enlisted men. Rare just two locations world wide British Library and Koninklijke Bibliothek. Set up in 1801 the institution was modelled on the Royal Hibernian Military School Dublin established in 1765 and at the height of the "Great War" against France 1793-1815 the RMA was caring for over 1000 boys and 500 girls in its grand purpose-built home in Chelsea now widely known as the Duke of York's Barracks and home to the Saatchi Gallery. "To govern the new Asylum the commander-in-chief formed a board of commissioners from among his most senior generals at the Horse Guards officers who had been under his command when campaigning against the revolutionary army of France in the Low Countries these included David Dundas Harry Calvert John Whitelocke and Robert Brownrigg. The RMA was intended to replace the dependence of military families on regimental depots and the charity of the officers. Alternatively destitute families of soldiers had to rely on the workhouse system which meant that families first had to travel from the regimental depot to the parish in which the father had been born. This could mean a long and arduous journey for which the Commanding Officer of the regiment in question had to provide a signed pass of safe conduct through parishes along the way to avoid being charged with vagrancy" ibid. The boys' education in reading writing and the "four rules" of arithmetic was based in Lancaster's monitorial system with older pupils relaying the lessons from one or two teachers to larger groups of younger boys. Male pupils were trained for a military career or indentured apprenticeships and the young women taught by an all female staff fitted for life in domestic service. The text sets out the terms for the acceptance of an applicant and the specific duties and remuneration of the various members of staff. The forms annexed to the volume give a diet table for pupils and for staff separate applications for boys and girls and a template for marriage birth and health certificates. In 1892 the RMA became the Duke of York's Royal Military School in 1909 moving to premises in Dover where it continues to the present day. Octavo 206 x 130 mm. Four folding specimen forms at the rear one of them double-sided. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco paired gilt rules to the spine black morocco patch label to the front board double gilt fillet panels to the boards dotted roll to the board edges scrolled roll gilt to the turn-ins finely patterned Shell marbled endpapers all edges gilt dark blue silk page marker. Spine just a touch sunned some light chafing at the extremities pale toning else very good indeed. A. W. Cockerill Duke of York's Military School history site on line. hardcover
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