The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, Protestants...
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18th century. List of dissenting academies (19th century) Category:Dissenting academy tutors This list includes the academies (except where otherwise...
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This is a list of dissenting academies in England and Wales, operating in the 19th century. Over this period the religious disabilities of English Dissenters...
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Warrington Academy, active as a teaching establishment from 1756 to 1782, was a prominent dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by those...
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(3rd ed.), USA: Oxford University Press, p. 490. Parker, Irene (2009). Dissenting academies in England: their rise and progress, and their place among the educational...
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often they set up educational establishments, known in general as dissenting academies, which were intellectually and morally more rigorous than the universities...
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Highbury College, London (redirect from Highbury College (Dissenting Academy))
Highbury College was a dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by English Dissenters. Its most famous student was Christopher Newman Hall...
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New College at Hackney (category Dissenting academies)
College at Hackney (more ambiguously known as Hackney College) was a dissenting academy set up in Hackney in April 1786 by the social and political reformer...
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academy). And, mainly, since 17th century academies spread throughout Europe. In the 17th century the tradition of literary-philosophical academies,...
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portal 17th century denominations in England Christian anarchism Dissenting academies Ecclesiastical separatism English Independents Freedom of religion...
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known for founding a significant Dissenting academy at Tewkesbury. He was the son of Malachi Jones (died 1729), a dissenting preacher from Herefordshire,...
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Originally run by English Presbyterians, it was one of several dissenting academies that provided religious nonconformists with higher education, as...
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mathematics ‘as tending to scepticism. Parker, Irene (2009) [1914]. Dissenting academies in England: their rise and progress, and their place among the educational...
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college. The use of the term 'college' set Trevecca apart from the Dissenting Academies, but was controversial in the mid-eighteenth century, implying some...
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them attended the dissenting academies. After finishing his education at Leiden, Samuel Jones moved to Gloucester, opening his academy in the Barton Street...
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into the tradition of the so-called dissenting academies, as her father John Aikin taught first at Kibworth Academy, where she received a better education...
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influence in the Northampton Academy. In the second quarter of the 18th century, it was "undoubtedly one of the best dissenting academies" according to Priestley's...
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Independent College, Homerton (redirect from Homerton Academy)
barred by law to English Dissenters. Around 35 of these so-called dissenting academies arose during the 18th century, offering education without the requirement...
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John Aikin (Unitarian) (category Dissenting academy tutors)
theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy, a prominent dissenting academy. Aikin was born in 1713 in London. His father, a linen-draper...
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Coward College (category Dissenting academies)
Matthew Atmore Sherring Daventry Academy Dixon, Simon N. (June 2011). "Wymondley Academy (1799-1833)". Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia...
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William Coward (merchant) (redirect from Wellclose Square Dissenting Academy)
pious disquisitions of the English dissenting divines." In the spring of 1734 he contemplated founding a dissenting academy at Walthamstow, for the education...
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Joseph Priestley (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
his theological studies and, in 1752, matriculated at Daventry, a Dissenting academy. Because he was already widely read, Priestley was allowed to omit...
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History". Dissenting Academies Online. Retrieved 18 January 2019. Wesleyan Theological Institution: Southern Branch, Richmond (1843-1972) on "Dissenting Academies...
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John Taylor (1694–1761) was an English dissenting preacher, Hebrew scholar, and theologian. The son of a timber merchant at Lancaster, he was born at Scotforth...
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Gilbert Wakefield (category Dissenting academy tutors)
controversialist. He moved from being a cleric and academic, into tutoring at dissenting academies, and finally became a professional writer and publicist. In a celebrated...
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denominations such as early Unitarians, the churches of the English Dissenting Academies, then Seventh-day Adventists, Christadelphians, the Bible Students...
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Congregational Board of Education (category Dissenting academies)
Cambridge universities. A system of dissenting academies developed, including Homerton Academy and Hoxton Academy in London. With liberalisation, the...
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1784, the Compendium Theologiae was replaced with work from the new dissenting academies in England. Philip Doddridge (1712-1749) whose "Course of Lectures...
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Charles Morton (educator) (category Dissenting academy tutors)
attacked the dissenting academies, including Morton's, in his ‘Letter from a Country Divine'. A pamphlet war ensued, with the academies defended by the...
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Wymondley College (redirect from Wymondley Academy)
Wymondley College was a dissenting academy at Wymondley House in Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire, England. Intended for the education of future nonconformist...
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