Hackney Academy (later Hackney College)

As the changing names suggest, it did not spend all of its existence in what is now the London Borough of Hackney.

[citation needed] The Hackney Theological Seminary began in 1802 as a philanthropic non-denominational venture promoted by the Anglican Rev.

[citation needed] According to the Victoria County History: The academy was managed by a committee, with George Collison of Walthamstow (Essex) as tutor, and used Eyre's house in Well Street, where the students lived in converted stabling until new quarters were built after purchase of the freehold in 1843.

Training of Congregational ministers came to predominate over missionary work, although in 1898 the college's trustees had built or enlarged over 50 chapels, many of which they still maintained.

John Watson (1804–1859) of Union Chapel, Islington, who died when struck down by a vehicle on London Bridge.