During the 1930s A. J. Vereker, secretary of the Crusaders' Union, Sir John Laing and others set up a meeting to propose a Bible college in London which would provide high quality academic training for Christian teachers in the City.
[4] In November "The Bible College Council" was founded: It was a nice blend of Anglicans and Freechurchmen, ordained men and lay, veterans and young blood.
Youth and home missions had their spokesmen in F. P. Wood of the National Young Life Campaign and men like Montague Goodman and F. D. Bacon.
[8] Its faculty has included New Testament scholars Donald Guthrie, R. T. France, Ralph P. Martin[9] and Max Turner as well as Derek Tidball, a practical theologian and sociologist of religion.
LST also had strong connections with the Anglican theologian John Stott, an important supporter and former council member of the college.