Lovedale,

Lovedale, an important educational and mission station in South Africa, 650 miles NE. of Capetown, and about 40 miles W. of King William's Town. It was founded in 1841, and has been generously supported by the Free Church of Scotland. Besides giving a general education, it aims specially at training teachers for native schools, and teaching such arts of civilised life as printing, bookbinding, telegraphy, smith and carpenter work, and the like. Its highest numbers—490 in 1876—have not since been equalled. There was printed at Lovedale in 1887 a brief individual record of over 2000 natives, as well as a few hundred Europeans, who had been educated here, and the result was creditable in a surprising degree to the institution. See KAFFIRS.