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
Warrington Academy in 1757
George Walker was a versatile English Dissenter, known as a mathematician, theologian, Fellow of the Royal Society, and activist.
Warrington Academy
…Among the other tutors who at some point joined the staff of the academy were Anna Barbauld (née Aikin), Johann Reinhold Forster, William Enfield, George Walker, Nicholas Clayton, and Gilbert Wakefield. The academy hit difficulties, with falling rolls and financial problems leading to its closure in 1782. The…
George Walker. Stipple engraving by R. Earlom. Wellcome V0006120