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    HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

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    Historical Account of the War * rington Academy . Newcastle , Dec . 20 , 1812 . Sir , I now at length enter on the

    fulfilment of my promise ( M . Repos * vol . v . p . 4290 to furnish you with some account df the Warring ton Academy , fromits first establishment in 1757 to its dissolution in 1783 . If 1 had been aware

    of the difficulties which I should have had to encounter in clearing up various circumstances connected with its early history , I might

    not , perhaps , have been so forward in offering my services , to pay the best tribute in my power to the memory of my alma mater . But when it is considered that more than half

    q . century has elapsed , since many important particulars connected with its history occurred , that all the persons engaged in its direction have , for several years , been dead ,

    and that Very few remain of those who were students during its mor ^ early periods , * your readers , I trust , will excuse any imperfections which may appear in the following historical sketch .

    The period between the years 1750 and 17 ^ 4 , was experienced by the Protestant Dissenters , in the North of England , rooxe especi-

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    ally , as particularly critical in respect to their interests as a religious body , which had , from the first separation of the Nonconformists from the Church of England , been served by ministers respectable both for character and learning . The race of ministers who had been bred in the

    seminaries of Frankland , Sheffield , Benyon , Coningham * Dixon , Jollie , Owen , were fast retiring from the stage , while the failure , one after another , of the academical institutions which had succeeded

    those above-enumerated , and on which the northern congregations had rested their dependance for the supply of vacancies as they occurred , created a general and reasonable alarm . Dr . Doddridge ' s

    death , in 1750 , had caused a removal of the Northampton academy to Daventry , where the talents of the new tutor , Dr . Ashworth , were not , as yet at least , appreciated as they probably deserved : the death of Dr . Rotheram , in

    1751 , had been followed ( as has been seen , vol . v . p . 218 ) by the entire dissolution of the academy atKendal , and that of Dr . Latham , at Findern , near Derby , in 1 7 ^ 4 , brought to a close an institution to which tke Protestaut Dissenters

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    THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/1/