Category: Mile End Dissenting Academy

Categories: England, Dissenting Academies


The Mile End Academy (1754-1769) was funded by the KIngs Head Society to train dissenting ministers of religion. The principle Tutors were John Conder D.D. (1714-1781), Thomas Gibbons (1720-1785) and John Walker (-abt.1770).

The Dissenting Academies Online has details of the tutors and students who attended the Academy and a detailed history of the academy is available.

The Kings Head Society funded the following academies from 1731 to 1769 Samuel Parsons's Academy, Clerkenwell Green (1731-35); Abraham Taylor's Academy, Deptford (1735-40); Stepney Academy (1740-44); Plaisterer's Hall Academy (1744-54); Mile End Academy (1754-69).


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England - abt 1758
abt 1725 Northamptonshire, England
abt 1740
abt 1734 Olney, Buckinghamshire, England - 02 Jul 1804
abt 1724 - 1794
12 Nov 1737 Bristol, Somerset, England - 1791
abt 1741 - 1802
abt 1740 - 1795
abt 1735 - abt 1784
abt 1728 Leicester, Leicestershire, England - abt 1800
abt 1745 - abt 1796
abt 06 Feb 1739 Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England - 23 Nov 1788
abt 1748 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England - 1801
abt 1748 London, England - abt 1826
abt 1730 - abt 1781




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