Addiscombe Military Seminary
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The East India Company Military Seminary was a British military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey, in what is now the London Borough of Croydon. It opened in 1809 and closed in 1861. Its purpose was to tr
East front of Addiscombe Place, the main building of Addiscombe Seminary, photographed c. 1859. Cadets pose in the foreground. The inscription Non faciam vitio culpave minorem can be seen on the entablature
Plan of the Seminary grounds
Addiscombe cadets sketched by fellow cadet George Girdwood Channer in 1826–27
Addiscombe cadets photographed in c.1858
Brigadier-General John Jacob was an officer of the British East India Company who served in colonial India for the major portion of his career. He is known for the cavalry regiment called 36th Jacob's
Brigadier General Jacob, engraving by Thomas Lewis Atkinson, 1859
Brigadier General John Jacob, CB. Marble bust at Taunton Shire Hall
Mausoleum of John Jacob