Editing Addiscombe (section)

===Addiscombe Military Seminary===
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[[File:Addiscombe Seminary photo c.1859.jpg|thumb|right|[[Addiscombe Military Seminary]], photographed ''c''.1859, with cadets in the foreground]]
In 1809, Emelius Ratcliffe sold Addiscombe Place to the [[British East India Company]] for £15,500, whereupon it became a military academy known as the [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]].<ref name="Willey"/> Cadets were trained as officers for one of the Company's three [[Presidency Armies]]. Its counterpart, [[East India Company College]] in Hertfordshire, trained the Company's administrators. The [[Indian Mutiny of 1857]] led to strong criticism of the Company, and in 1858 it was nationalised by the British government. The military seminary was closed in 1861 and the remaining cadets transferred to the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].<ref name="Willey"/> 

In 1863, the seminary buildings were sold for £33,600 to developers who razed most of them to the ground.  Five parallel roads were laid out on the site, to the south of the former college site – Outram, Havelock, Elgin, Clyde and Canning Roads. They were all named after individuals who were prominent in either the military or civil governance of [[British India]] namely; [[James Outram (British officer)|Sir James Outram, Bt]], [[Henry Havelock|Sir Henry Havelock]], [[James Bruce, eighth Earl of Elgin|The Earl of Elgin]], [[Colin Campbell, first Baron Clyde|The Lord Clyde]] and [[Charles Canning, first Earl Canning|The Earl Canning]]. All that survives of the Seminary itself are two buildings called 'Ashleigh' and 'India', on the corner of Clyde Road and Addiscombe Road, and a former gymnasium on Havelock Road, now private apartments.<ref name="Willey"/>