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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Dissenter (redirect from Dissenting minister)
(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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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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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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England. Retrieved 12 February 2017. Parker, Irene (1914–2009). Dissenting academies in England. Cambridge University Press. pp. 69–72. ISBN 978-0-521-74864-3...
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld (category Dissenting academy tutors)
of which Barbauld was an important part of – particularly at the Dissenting academies – had by the end of the 19th century come to be associated with the...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Originally run by English Presbyterians, it was one of several dissenting academies that provided religious nonconformists with higher education, as...
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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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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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Philip Doddridge (category Dissenting academy tutors)
page 112. Concerned at the small number of students attending the Dissenting academies, in 1750 Doddridge initiated a Youth's Scheme, to provide capable...
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John Jennings (tutor) (category Dissenting academy tutors)
minister and tutor of an early dissenting academy at Kibworth, Leicestershire, the original institution that became Daventry Academy. Jennings through his teaching...
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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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denominations such as early Unitarians, the churches of the English Dissenting Academies, then Seventh-day Adventists, Christadelphians, the Bible Students...
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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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eccentric Dissenting Minister, and has been accused of being controversial and belligerent. Born about 1726, Robinson was educated at the dissenting academy at...
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Instead, he attended another grammar school. After that, he studied at dissenting academies under Edward Veel in Stepney and then Charles Morton in Newington...
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found institutions. The educational ones were commonly known as Dissenting Academies. The Kings Head Society moved to a large house here in 1768, forming...
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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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