List of dissenting academies (19th century)
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List of dissenting academies (19th century)

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Institution	Dates	Tutors	Students

Birmingham, Spring Hill College. Founded as a seminary for the Congregational ministry in 1838, and closed in 1886 when the institution moved to Mansfield College, Oxford.	1838–1886	John Massie; Henry Rogers; Thomas Richard Barker.	Robert William Dale

Blackburn Academy. Refounded in Whalley Range, Withington, Lancashire, as Lancashire Independent College in 1843, by George Hadfield, Thomas Raffles and William Roby.

Cheshunt College. Moved to Cheshunt from Trefeca, Wales.	1792-1906. In 1906 moved to Cheshunt College, Cambridge.	Early presidents were: Isaac Nicholson, Andrew Horne, Richard Owen, Henry Draper, Josiah Richards, John James, William Kemp, Jacob Kirkman Foster. Tutors Joseph Sortain (1838–1850),John Harris (1839–1850); Philip Smith (1840–1850).	Henry Allon.

Hackney Theological College, a Congregational seminary, going by a number of names (Hoxton Academy, Hackney Academy, Highbury College, but see below).	1803	George Collison

Madras House school, Hackney	1817	John Allen, Alexander Allen	William Smith

Homerton Academy, later merged into New College, London	In operation 1800, merged c.1840.

Idle, became Airedale Independent College in 1826. From 1834 in Undercliffe, and from 1877 in Bradford.	1800-1888	William Vint, tutor from 1795; William Benton Clulow; Andrew Martin Fairbairn, principal 1877 to 1886. Robert Harley.	Charles Albert Berry, John Kelly, John Waddington.

Manchester Academy; then in York, Manchester again, London, and Oxford. Became Harris Manchester College, Oxford.	Operating in 1800.

New College London. It was a Congregational academy formed by the amalgamation of the final form of Daventry Academy as Coward College, Highgate Academy, and Homerton College.	1850–1900. In 1900 it became part of the University of London,	John Harris, Robert Halley.

Cavendish College, in Manchester, became Nottingham Congregational Institute in 1863. The founder Joseph Parker withdrew after a quarrel in the very early stages (1860–1) and John Brown Paton became principal; John Radford Thomson was also on the teaching staff.

Penryn, Cornwall	1800–1820	Richard Cope	Thomas Byrth, John Nichols Thom.

Rotherham Independent Academy	Opened 1795	Edward Williams to 1813.

Stepney Academy, became ultimately Regent's Park College, Oxford	1810	A Baptist foundation, growing out of the Baptist Education Society (1804) set up in London by Abraham Booth and others.

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Idle became the Airedale Independent College in 1826.

final_sentence: Idle became the Airedale Independent College in 1826.