• This is a list of dissenting academies, English and Welsh educational institutions run by Dissenters to provide an education, and often a vocational training...
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  • The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, Protestants...
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  • nonconformist theological colleges. See List of dissenting academies (16601800) for the earlier history. See also List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th...
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  • Thomas Dixon (nonconformist) (category Dissenting academy tutors)
    dissenting minister at Thame; from this Browne has extracted an account of the introduction of Methodism into Norwich. List of dissenting academies (1660–1800)...
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    William Harris Murch William Parry List of dissenting academies (16601800) Notes Historic England suggest a capacity of 24 students; however, Simon Dixon...
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    Gilbert Wakefield (category Dissenting academy tutors)
    controversialist. He moved from being a cleric and academic, into tutoring at dissenting academies, and finally became a professional writer and publicist. In a celebrated...
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    were very involved in education, by running Dissenting Academies, where, in contrast to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and schools such as Eton...
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    they reported deficient standards of personal morality. By the 1760s, dissenting Protestants, especially Baptists and Methodists, were proliferating and...
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  • the Congress of the Confederation Joshua Toulmin (A.M. 1769) – English dissenting minister James Mitchell Varnum (A.B. 1769) – leader of 1st Rhode Island...
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    matriculated at Daventry, a Dissenting academy. Because he was already widely read, Priestley was allowed to omit the first two years of coursework. He continued...
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