• 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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  • (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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  • 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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    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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    portal 17th century denominations in England Christian anarchism Dissenting academies Ecclesiastical separatism English Independents Freedom of religion...
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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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    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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  • History". Dissenting Academies Online. Retrieved 18 January 2019. Wesleyan Theological Institution: Southern Branch, Richmond (1843-1972) on "Dissenting Academies...
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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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  • 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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  • 1093/ref:odnb/27595. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) "Dissenting Academies Towgood, Matthew (1732-1791) (person id: 1835)". dissacad.english...
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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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  • catechist to Negro slaves, an educator who established two Dissenting academies for training Dissenting clergy, and "a very influential pastor". Winter was born...
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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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    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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    (1914–2009). Dissenting academies in England. Cambridge University Press. pp. 69–72. ISBN 978-0-521-74864-3. Surman Index: Sheriffhales Academy Archived 16...
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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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    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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    Abraham Rees (category Dissenting academy tutors)
    held the tenet of a universal restoration. He was the last of the London dissenting ministers who officiated in a wig. He died at his residence in Artillery...
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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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    Grammar School in Sleaford, Lincolnshire he passed aged 16 to the Dissenting academy at Northampton, of which Dr Philip Doddridge was then president. In...
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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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  • King's Head Society (category Dissenting academies)
    The King's Head Society was an 18th-century organisation funding dissenting academies in England. The King's Head Society was a group of laymen named after...
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  • "Coward College (1833-1850)". Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia. Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, Queen Mary Centre for...
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    attained a competency in Greek and Latin. He attended Timothy Jollie's dissenting academy at Attercliffe in Sheffield from 1708, but was frustrated by Jollie's...
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    home to Rathmell, where he founded a dissenting academy, which migrated to Manchester after his death. This academy was the germ of the institution now...
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