This is a list of dissenting academies, English and Welsh educational institutions run by Dissenters to provide an education, and often a vocational training as a minister of religion, outside the Church of England. It runs from the English Restoration of 1660, which created a parallel educational system as a side-effect, to the end of the 18th century.

East Anglia InstitutionDatesTutorsStudentsIpswichSurman Index: Ipswich Academy 1698–1734(?)John Langton or Langston (d. 1704)Palgrave Academy, SuffolkNot in Parker.1775–1785 under Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her husband RochemontRochemont BarbauldArthur Aikin, Charles Rochemont Aikin, Thomas Denman, Basil William Douglas, Thomas Douglas, William Gell, Henri de La Fite, Frank Sayers, William Taylor, Isaac WeldPupils mentioned in ODNB database. Gell is mentioned in the DNB biography of Weld.Saffron WaldenSurman Index: Saffron Walden Academy 1680-(?)John or William Payne, assisted by the Fund Board when it was first startedJohn GuyseWickhambrookSurman Index: Wickhambrook Academy, Suffolk , Surman Index: Bishops Stortford College 1670–1696(?) (when tutor removed to Bishop's Stortford)Samuel Cradock Edmund Calamy, Timothy Goodwin

London area InstitutionDatesTutorsStudentsBethnal Green, migratory (Highgate, Clerkenwell)1680(?)–1696(?)Bishop's Hall Academy, Bethnal Green Thomas Brand with John Kerr, M.D.ODNB article on Owen, Charles.Charles Owen, Samuel Palmer, John WardCheshunt, then Higham Hill, WalthamstowSurman Index: Cogan, Eliezer.1790–1816Eliezer CoganBenjamin Disraeli, Russell Gurney, Samuel SharpeCheshunt College, moved to Cheshunt from Trefeca1792–1906 (in 1906 moved to Cheshunt College, Cambridge)William Hendry Stowell (president 1850),Stowell is in the DNB. Henry Robert Reynolds (president 1860–94)Reynolds is in the DNB.John Abbs, Henry AllonNew College at Hackney1786–1796Andrew KippisWilliam ShepherdHighbury College (not in Parker)Hoxton Square, moved to Hoxton Square from Coventry1700–1729(?)Joshua Oldfield, John Spademan, William Lorimer, Jean CappelNathaniel LardnerIslington (1)As in Parker. Surman Index: Islington Academy, London (Thomas Doolittle) , suggests may not be distinct from Islington (2).1672–1680Ralph ButtonSurman Index: Button, RalphJoseph Jekyll, (it says Jekyll lived with Button in Islington, ODNB says a nonconformist seminary in Islington) Samuel PomfretIslington (2) Migratory (Woodford Bridge, Essex (plague), Battersea, Wimbledon, etc.).1672–1707(?)Thomas Doolittle, assisted by Thomas Vincent, It mentions that he assisted Doolittle in Bunhill Fields. Thomas Rowe (?)Samuel Bury, Edmund Calamy, The article contains extensive details of Calamy's schooling. Thomas Emlyn, John Kerr, M.D. (later tutor, Highgate and Bethnal Green), Matthew HenryMill HillAccording to Parker, p. 63, this precursor of the Mill Hill School founded 1807 had some connection, if tenuous.(?)–1701(?)Richard Swift (d. 1701), active at EdgwareSurman Index, record for SwiftTenter Alley, Moorfields (not in Parker)1710John Ward, from 1734 Isaac Kimber and Edward Sandercock, but it closed quite soon afterSamuel Dyer, Isaac KimberNewington Green (1) Migratory (Little Britain, Clapham)1665(?)–c.1706Theophilus Gale, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford (d. 1678), Thomas Rowe (d. 1706)Thomas and Benoni Rowe, John Ashford; Isaac Watts, John Evans, Daniel Neal, Henry Grove (later tutor at Taunton), John Hughes, Josiah Hort, Samuel SayNewington Green (2)1667 (?) to about 1706Charles Morton, who in 1685 went to New England, and was succeeded by Stephen Lobb; William Wickens,May be William Wickins, thought by Calamy to be an Emmanuel graduate, ejected minister of 1662. . Surman Index: Wickins, William identifies only where Wickins was a priest, gives dates 1614–1699. Francis Glasscock.William Hocker, Samuel Lawrence, Thomas Reynolds, John Shower, under Morton; Joseph Hussey under Morton; also Daniel Defoe, Samuel Wesley, Kitt, Butterby, William JenkynSurman Index: Jenkyn, William. Jenkyn not the father, could be William Jenkyn the younger. The King's Head Society academies (1731–1769) included Samuel Parsons's Academy, Clerkenwell Green (1731–35); Abraham Taylor Gib's Academy, Deptford (1735–40); Stepney Academy (1740–44); (tutors: John Hubbard (1740–1743)); Zephaniah Marryat (1743–1744); John Walker (1742–1744) Plaisterer's Hall Academy (1744–54) (Tutors: Walker, Marryatt, John Conder and Thomas Gibbons); Mile End Academy (1754–69) (Tutors: Condor, Gibbons & Walker); The King's Head Society purchase of the estate at Homerton in 1768, with the students in residence by the end of 1769. The name of the institution changed over time; known as Homerton Academy and Independent College, Homerton. In 1850 the union of Homerton, Coward and Highbury Colleges resulted in the creation of New College London.1730–1744–1850Abraham Taylor, Samuel Parsons, John Hubbard after 1744, Zephaniah Marryat (d. 1754), Hubbard and Marryat were strict Calvinists; D.D., John Conder who became head at Homerton.Thomas Williams at Plasterers' Hall, under Zephaniah Marryat; Robert Robinson under Marryat; Thomas Marryat; Conder under Parsons at Clerkenwell; Thomas Cogan under Conder; John Stafford and John Fell under Conder at Mile End; Samuel Pike under Hubbard at Stepney; Ezekiel Blomfield at Homerton Academy, under Daniel Fisher.WappingSurman Index: Wapping Academy (Edward Veal) 1675(?)–1680/81Edward Veal. The DNB states that his congregation was at Wapping, but the academy was at Stepney.Joseph Boyse, Timothy Rogers, John Shower, Samuel WesleyWellclose Square (Coward Trust), largely supported by the bequest of William Coward d. 1738, moved to Hoxton Square in 1762.1744–1785Samuel Morton Savage, David Jennings, Andrew Kippis, Abraham Rees.All in DNB.Thomas Cogan, Philip Furneaux, Thomas Jervis, Abraham Rees, Joshua Toulmin, These five mentioned. William WoodLondon (various parts), supported by Fund Board. Migratory (Pinner, Moorfields: see Newington Green).1696–1744Thomas Goodwin,Thomas Goodwin the younger. Isaac Chauncy, Thomas Ridgley, D.D.,Surman Index record for Ridgley John Eames, Joseph Densham.Densham is mentioned in the ODNB article on Eames.John Conder under Ridgley and Eames at Moorfields; John Howard, David Jennings, Samuel Pike, David Williams, all under Eames.London. 'A less literary seminary but it continued only for a few years.'1760-(?)Samuel Pike

Midlands InstitutionDatesTutorsStudentsAlcesterSurman Index: Alcester Academy (?)–1720(?)Joseph Porter, on whose death (1721) students were moved to Stratford-on-Avon.BedworthSurman Index: Bedworth Academy 1690-(?)Julius SaundersSurman Index: Saunders, Julius and John KirkpatrickSurman Index: Kirkpatrick, John (d. 1750)BridgnorthSurman Index: Bridgnorth Academy 1726–1735(?)John Fleming, who moved to Stratford-on-Avon when John Alexander went to Dublin.Surman Index: Fleming, John (d. 1740)Edward PickardPickard is in the ODNB, an article that has a few facts about the academy.Bromsgrove (or Stourbridge)Surman Index: Bromsgrove Academy 1665–1692(?)Henry Hickman, B.D., Fellow of Magdalen, Oxford (d. 1692).Thomas CottonCoventrySurman Index: Coventry Academy 1663–1700 (moved 1700 to London by Joshua Oldfield)John Bryan (d. 1675),. Obadiah Grew (d. 1689), Thomas Shewell, M.A. (d. 1693),Surman Index: Shewell, Thomas Joshua Oldfield, assisted by William TongSamuel PomfretFindern, afterwards at Derby(?)–1754Thomas Hill (d. 1720), (Tentative identification). The DNB includes Hill in the article about his father, Thomas Hill (1628?–1677?). Ebenezer Latham (d. 1754)Lincoln1668–1680Edward Reyner, but d. c.1660John DisneyDisney is in the DNB.Market Harborough, moved to Mile EndNot in Barker. Surman Index: Addington, Stephen.Surman Index: Mile End Academy From 1758 to 1781, boarding pupilsStephen Addington, after John Aikin left the areaNettlebed (Oxfordshire)1666–1697Thomas Cole, M.A. (Christ Church, Oxford)John Locke was a student of Cole's, but before his ejectment. James Bonnell was at NettlebedNewport Pagnell, merged in Cheshunt (?)1783William Bull,Records concerning those members of the Bull family, who are descendants of or connected with the Rev. William Bull (of Newport Pagnell) (1895) J. Bull, M.A., J. Watson, W. FoggartJohn Leach (judge). Samuel GreatheedNorthampton (see Daventry Academy for continuity). Migratory, it started at Kibworth under John Jennings, moved to Hinckley, Market Harborough under Philip Doddridge, and in 1729 to Northampton After 1752 to Daventry, back to Northampton, Wymondley, Byng Place, and 1850 merged into New College, London1715(?)John Jennings (d. 1723), Philip Doddridge, Caleb Ashworth, Surman Index: Ashworth, Caleb Thomas Robins,Surman Index: Robins, Thomas Thomas Belsham, John Horsey in Northampton,Surman Index: Horsey, John (1754–1827) William Parry in Wymondley.Surman Index: Parry, William (1754–1819)John Cope and John Mason under Jennings; Stephen Addington, Philip Holland (with brothers John and Henry) and Andrew Kippis under Doddridge; John Stafford under Doddridge at Northampton; Benjamin Fawcett under Doddridge; Samuel Dyer; Henry Moore under Doddridge and Ashworth;Dictionary of National Biography, Moore, Henry (1732–1802), unitarian minister and hymn-writer, by Alexander Gordon. Published 1894. Samuel Palmer under Ashworth; John Alexander, Eliezer Cogan, who became a tutor; Timothy Kenrick under Ashworth and Robins, became a tutor under Belsham. William Stevenson from 1787. William Shepherd under Belsham. John Curwen, David Everard Ford, Edward Miall, John Deodatus Gregory Pike at Wymondley CollegeTheir ODNB articlesNottingham1680-(?)Edward Reynolds and John Whitlock. John Hardy (?Thomas; perhaps not the academy in Parker), about 1714 to 1727Caleb Fleming, John Brekell, John Johnson (Lambeth librarian) under Hardy.Sheriffhales1663–1697 (closed before Woodhouse went to London)Surman Index: Sheriffhales Academy John Woodhouse, assisted by SouthwellRobert Harley (?),The ODNB says a dissenting academy run by Samuel Birch at Shilton, Oxfordshire, followed by a Huguenot academy in London. Henry St John (?),The ODNB article on St John mentions that this time at Sheriffhales has been postulated, but says there is no evidence for this, nor for the suggestion he was educated at Eton College; see though final note here. Thomas Foley,ODNB mentions Foley's education at Sheriffhales and Utrecht. Thomas Hunt, Benjamin Bennet.The ODNB article on Woodhouse by David L. Wykes confirms the attendance of Robert Harley, Edward Harley (1664–1735), St John and Foley. It also mentions the future ministers Chewning Blackmore, John Newman, Benjamin Robinson, and Ferdinando Shaw. The ODNB articles on Matthew Clarke the younger, Thomas Hill, and Timothy Manlove give them as students at Sheriffhales.Shrewsbury1663–1730(?)Francis Tallents (d. 1708),Tallents was an ejected minister and a tutor, but the DNB and ODNB articles do not make clear that he had an academy, rather than individual pupils. John Bryan (?) (d. 1699), James Owen (d. 1706), Samuel Benion, M.A. (d. 1708), John Reynolds (d. 1727), Dr Gyles (d. 1730?).(Under Benion), Ebenezer Latham (tutor at Findern), etc.Stratford-on-Avon1715 (?) at Gloucester (?)John Alexander, who 1729 went to Dublin; John Fleming, who had begun an academy at Bridgnorth (1726–1727), then went to StratfordSulby, near Welford, Northampton1680–1688John ShuttlewoodMatthew Clarke the younger, Thomas Emlyn, Joshua Oldfield, and John Sheffield.Whitchurch1668–1680(?)J. Maulden (d. 1680)

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