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LMS seminary moves to Nagercoil

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LMS seminary moves to Nagercoil
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Charles Mead shifted the London Missionary Society's seminary from Mylaudy to Nagercoil, where it grew into Scott Christian College.

William Tobias Ringeltaube of the London Missionary Society opened a church school at Mylaudy, South Travancore (today's Kanyakumari district), in 1809. Charles Mead relocated this central school, also called the seminary, to Nagercoil in 1818. Under James Duthie, who took over in 1860, it was expanded further. In 1893 the University of Madras accepted the seminary as an affiliated second-grade college, and it later took the name Scott Christian College.

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