New College London

The first was associated with William Coward (died 1738), a London merchant who used his money to train ministers for the "protestant dissenters".

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.

Its initial programme is laid out in the final chapter of The introductory lectures delivered at the opening of the college: October, 1851.

After closure in 1977 the New College buildings were leased to the Open University, which assigned its rights to the Paris Chamber of Commerce in 2001, as the campus of ESCP-EAP.

New College has gathered many leading thinkers from the Congregationalist, Calvinist and United Reformed traditions.