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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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denominations such as early Unitarians, the churches of the English Dissenting Academies, then Seventh-day Adventists, Christadelphians, the Bible Students...
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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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Andrew Kippis (category Dissenting academy tutors)
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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"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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James Bennett (minister) (category Dissenting academy tutors)
James Bennett D.D. (22 May 1774 – 4 December 1862) was an English congregational minister and college principal. Bennett was born in London 22 May 1774...
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attending Oxford or Cambridge, compelling them to set up their own Dissenting Academies privately. The Tories tended to be in favour of these Acts and so...
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