Imprint Record

Fundamental Rules & Regulations of the Lancastrian Institution.

• Imprint Number: 1817.038
• Title: The fundamental rules & regulations of the Lancastrian Institution within this city.
• Sequence Number: 38
• Year: 1817
• Place Issued: Richmond
• Issuing Press: Ritchie, Trueheart, & DuVal
• Author: Richmond Lancastrian School.
• Notes: The Richmond Lancastrian (or Lancasterian) School was incorporated by Act of Assembly on February 22, 1816, with a board of trustees that included Thomas Ritchie, newspaper editor Louis Hue Girardin, and evangelical journalist John Holt Rice, among others; Ritchie had been advocating this "monitorial system" of education in his Richmond Enquirer since early 1809.
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • Philip DuVal
  • Louis Hue Girardin
  • Rev. John Holt Rice
  • Thomas Ritchie
  • Daniel Trueheart

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