List of dissenting academies (1660–1800)
London area

List of dissenting academies (1660–1800)

Section Title: London area
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Institution	Dates	Tutors	Students

Bethnal Green. Migratory (Highgate, Clerkenwell).	1680(?)-1696(?).	Thomas Brand with John Kerr, M.D.	Charles Owen, Samuel Palmer, John Ward.

Cheshunt, then Higham Hill, Walthamstow.	1790-1816	Eliezer Cogan.	Benjamin Disraeli, Russell Gurney, Samuel Sharpe.

Cheshunt College. Moved to Cheshunt from Trefeca.	1792-1906. In 1906 moved to Cheshunt College, Cambridge.	William Hendry Stowell, president 1850, Henry Robert Reynolds, president 1860-94.	John Abbs, Henry Allon.

New College at Hackney	1786-1796	Andrew Kippis	William Shepherd.

Highbury College. Not in Parker.

Hoxton Square, moved to Hoxton Square from Coventry.	1700-1729 (?).	Joshua Oldfield, John Spademan, William Lorimer, Jean Cappel.	Nathaniel Lardner.

Islington (1)	1672-1680.	Ralph Button.	Joseph Jekyll, Samuel Pomfret.

Islington (2) Migratory (Woodford Bridge, Essex (plague), Battersea, Wimbledon, etc.).	1672-1707 (?).	Thomas Doolittle, assisted by Thomas Vincent, Thomas Rowe (?).	Samuel Bury, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Emlyn, John Kerr, M.D. (later tutor, Highgate and Bethnal Green), Matthew Henry.

Mill Hill	(?)-1701 (?).	Richard Swift (died 1701), active at Edgware.

Tenter Alley, Moorfields. (Not in Parker.)	1710	John Ward. From 1734 Isaac Kimber and Edward Sandercock, but it closed quite soon after that.	Samuel Dyer. Isaac Kimber.

Newington Green (1) Migratory (Little Britain, Clapham).	1665 (?) to about 1706.	Theophilus 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 Say.

Newington Green (2)	1667 (?) to about 1706.	Charles Morton, who in 1685 went to New England, and was succeeded by Stephen Lobb; William Wickens, Francis Glasscock.	William Hocker, Samuel Lawrence, Thomas Reynolds, John Shower, under Morton; Joseph Hussey under Morton; also Daniel Defoe, Samuel Wesley, Kitt, Butterby, William Jenkyn.

The King's Head Society academies (1731-1769). included Samuel Parsons's Academy, Clerkenwell Green (1731–35); Abraham TaylorGib'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.	1730-1744-1850	Abraham Taylor, Samuel Parsons, John Hubbard after 1744, Zephaniah Marryat (died 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.

Wapping	1675 (?) to 1680-1.	Edward Veal. The DNB states that his congregation was at Wapping, but the academy was at Stepney.	Joseph Boyse, Timothy Rogers, John Shower, Samuel Wesley.

Wellclose Square (Coward Trust),largely supported by the bequest of William Coward who died 1738, moved to Hoxton Square in 1762.	1744-1785	Samuel Morton Savage, David Jennings, Andrew Kippis, Abraham Rees.	Thomas Cogan, Philip Furneaux, Thomas Jervis, Abraham Rees, Joshua Toulmin, William Wood.

London (various parts), supported by Fund Board. Migratory (Pinner, Moorfields: see Newington Green).	1696-1744	Thomas Goodwin, Isaac Chauncy, Thomas Ridgley, D.D., John Eames, Joseph Densham.	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.

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Abbs studied at the college of Cheshunt.

final_sentence: Abbs studied at the college of Cheshunt.