George Walker was a versatile English Dissenter, known as a mathematician, theologian, Fellow of the Royal Society, and activist.
George Walker. Stipple engraving by R. Earlom. Wellcome V0006120
Warrington Academy
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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 who dissented from the established Church of
George Walker (mathematician)
…filled by Joseph Priestley, but declined it (1772) owing to his approaching marriage. He accepted in the same year the office of mathematical tutor at Warrington Academy, in succession to John Holt (died 1772). Here he prepared for the press his treatise on the sphere, himself cutting out all the illustrative figures…
Warrington Academy in 1757