New College London

About New College London

According to Wikipedia, New College London was founded as a Congregationalist college in 1850. Predecessor institutions New College London came into being in 1850 by the amalgamation of three dissenting academies. The first was associated with William Coward , a London merchant who used his money to train ministers for the "protestant dissenters". The trustees of his will supported, among others, the academy started by Philip Doddridge, taking it over after Doddridge's death in 1751. This establishment, founded at Market Harborough, moved to Northampton, to Daventry, back to Northampton, then to Wymondley, and finally in 1833 to London. Its final home was built by Thomas Cubitt the year before, and was located in Byng Place, Torrington Square, south of the Catholic Apostolic Church in the heart of Bloomsbury, when it was known as Coward College. Two of its principals were the Rev. Thomas Morell and Dr Thomas William Jenkyn. Despite the financial support of Coward, the college is probably best known as the Daventry Academy. Its best-known student was the polymath Joseph Priestley.