New College at Hackney
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The New College at Hackney was a dissenting academy set up in Hackney in April 1786 by the social and political reformer Richard Price and others; Hackney at that time was a village on the outskirts o
New College, Hackney. Engraving from 1786.
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
New College at Hackney
…prepare for the Unitarian ministry, and some of the best-known Dissenting intellectuals spent time on its staff. The year 1786 marked the dissolution of Warrington Academy, which had been inactive since 1756 as a teaching institution. Almost simultaneously the Hoxton Academy of the Coward Trust, under Samuel Morton Savage…
Warrington Academy in 1757