specifications of Lancaster himself. It is at the British Schools Museum, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. Works Improvements in Education (London, 1803; New York, 1807) The British System of Education (Washington, 1812) Epitome of the Chief Events and Transactions of my own Life (New Haven, 1833). See Life of Lancaster, by his friend William Corston. Family Lancaster married: In 1804, Elizabeth Bonner (died 1820), daughter of Henry Bonner of Southwark; they had a daughter, Elizabeth (known as Betsy). Elizabeth suffered from mental illness, and died in Baltimore. In 1827, Mary Robinson, in Caracas. She was the widow of John Robinson, a British miniature painter who had moved to Philadelphia in 1817, and had three children from her first marriage. Robinson had been Betsy's drawing master in 1819, and died in 1825. On 20 April 1824, Betsy married Richard Madox Jones in Philadelphia: he had crossed the Atlantic with the Lancasters, and formed part of the household. This wedding took place shortly before the family moved to Caracas. Jones was trained in the System at Borough Road in 1812, and had then taught at Godalming, followed by a period in Cornwall. He became a Lancasterian organiser in Mexico, dying in 1855. Joseph Lancaster's descendants still live in Mexico: see Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea. References External links British & Foreign School Society British Schools Museum, Hitchin, UK A Film about Lancasterian Monitorial School English Quakers Heads of schools in London English educational theorists Road incident deaths in New York City 1778 births 1838 deaths Founders of English schools and colleges British emigrants to the United States