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New College London (1850–1980) (sometimes known as New College, St. John's Wood, or New College, Hampstead) 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 (died 1738), 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. "Here it took the name of Coward College and remained as a residential College for Theological Students until May, 1850." Two of its principals were the Rev. Thomas Morell and Dr. Thomas William Jenkyn.〔'Coward College, Byng Place', Survey of London: volume 21: The parish of St Pancras part 3: Tottenham Court Road & neighbourhood (1949), pp. 91. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65179 Date accessed: 15 January 2010. The article itself states in its references that it depends on "information supplied by the Rev. J. B. Binns, Secretary and Librarian of New College, London, and also the articles on Dr. Doddridge and William Coward in Dictionary of National Biography. The date of the Agreement with Coward's Trustees under which New College was formed was 10th September, 1849."〕 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. The second dissenting academy, which ended up known as Highbury College, started out in Mile End in 1783, moved to Hoxton in 1791, and then to Highbury in 1826. Its most famous student was Christopher Newman Hall. The third, Homerton College, was split into two. Its theological function became part of New College, whereas the rest of it, refounded as a teacher training college, became part of the University of Cambridge. These three (Daventry, Highbury, and Homerton) merged as New College London. Its initial programme is laid out in the final chapter of ''The introductory lectures delivered at the opening of the college: October, 1851''.〔By New College (London, England), New College, London, England〕 Meanwhile, the Village Itinerancy Society (1796–1839) was transformed into the Hackney Theological Seminary (1839–1871), which was renamed as Hackney College in 1871.〔''New College, London - Annual Report,'' 1976-1977, p.1〕 Later this was relocated from its origins in Hackney to a fine new building in Hampstead, and became associated with Peter Taylor Forsyth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New College London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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