Robert Ould (1788–1840), educator, was born in London and educated there by Joseph Lancaster. A proponent of the Lancasterian model of instruction, which relied heavily on older students teaching younger ones, Ould was tapped late in 1811 by Lancaster himself to be the first of his protégés to relocate to the United States as a teacher. Ould agreed to the move provided that he could bring along Henry Ould, his younger brother and fellow teacher. Robert stayed at the Georgetown Lancaster school while Henry was soon running an academy of his own in Washington, also in the District of Columbia. The elder Ould was employed by the Georgetown school until at least 1821. In 1828 he introduced the Lancasterian system to an academy for Choctaw Indians in Kentucky. Ould died in Georgetown (Edson B. Olds and Susan S. Gascoyne Old, The Olds (Old, Ould) Family in England and America [1915], 318–9; Lancaster, British System of Education, 124–5, 128–30; John Clagett Proctor, “Joseph Lancaster and the Lancasterian Schools in the District of Columbia, with Incidental School Notes,” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 25 [1923]: 6–7, 18–20; Ronald Rayman, “Joseph Lancaster’s Monitorial System of Instruction and American Indian Education, 1815–1838,” History of Education Quarterly 21 [1981]: 403; Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 11 Apr. 1821, 24 July 1840).