New College at Hackney

The writer William Hazlitt was among its pupils, sent aged 15 to prepare for the Unitarian ministry,[2] and some of the best-known Dissenting intellectuals spent time on its staff.

[3] The year 1786 marked the dissolution of Warrington Academy, which had been inactive since 1756 as a teaching institution.

Almost simultaneously the Hoxton Academy of the Coward Trust, under Samuel Morton Savage, closed its doors in the summer of 1785.

[4] Some of the funding that had backed Warrington was available for a new dissenting academy for the London area, as well as for a northern successor in Manchester.

The London building plans were ambitious, but proved the undoing of the New College, which was soon strained financially.