Start year: | 1757 | |
End year: | 1786 | |
Short description: | Warrington Academy | |
Medium description: | Warrington Academy, a college funded by subscriptions from leading manufacturers in Manchester Liverpool and Birmingham. The most influential of the academies set up to provide education for those excluded by the Act of Uniformity (Simon, 1960), the opening of the college was proposed by a local dissenting minister, John Seddon. Had 393 students over its years of which 23 read medicine, 24 law, 52 divinity, 98 commerce and 197 unspecified. | |
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