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    had been indebted for a considerable proportion of their most respectable ministers . In this alarming state of the dissenting interest in the North of England , the public * spirited activity of Mr . John Seddon , then a young and highly popular minister

    at Warrington ( see M . R . vol . v # p . 428 . ) succeeded in stimulating the principal merchants and others in Manchester , Liverpool , Birmingham , Warrington an < J other places , to attempt the establishment of an academical institution , which should " unite as far as was

    possible , the advantages of the pub-Hcand more private method of education ; " should be calculated at once , for the education of ministers , on the principle of their being " free to follow the dictates of theirown judgments , in their

    enquiries after truth , without any undue bias imposed on their understandings ; ** and , at the same time , " to give some knowledge to those who were to be engaged in commercial life , as well as in the learned professions , in the more useful branches of literature .

    and to lead them to an early acquaintance with , and just concern for the true principles of religion and liberty , of which principles they must , in future life , be the supporters . "—Accordingly ,

    the annual sum ot 217 / . haying been engaged for , through Mr . Seddon ' s instigation chiefly , at the above-mentioned four places , proposals were circulated from Manchester , by nine of the principal Dissenters there , ** for

    establishing a public academy , in or near Warrington ^ to be under the management of a President , Vice * President , Treasurer , Secretary , AQd Committee of twelve , who

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    should elect tutors , of known abf ~ lity and good character , in theology , moral philosophy , including logic and metaphysics , natural philosophy , including the mathematics , and in the languages and polite literature ; form a proper system of rules and orders for

    the government and discipline of the students ; and to conduct the institution , though intended to be open to all persons , with a particular view to the encouragement of young persons designed for the ministry , especially to such as may want assistance to defray the expense , of their education . "

    On the 30 th of June , 1757 , the first General Meeting of Subscribers ( the subscriptions amounting to 469 £ « annually ) was held at Warrington ; when the Right Hon . Hugh Lord Willoughby of Farham , was elected President , John

    Lees , Esq . of Manchester , Vicepresident , Arthur Heywood , Esq . of Liverpool , Treasurer , and the Rev . John Seddon , of Warrington , Secretary ; and the Rev . John Taylor , D . D . of Norwich , was elected Tutor in Divinity , the Rev .

    John Holt , of Kirkdale , near Liverpool , Tutor , in the Mathematics and Natural Philosophy , and Mr . Samuel Dyer , of London , Tutor in the Languages and Belles Lettres ; at a salary of 1 Q 01 . to each , besides a fee of 2 / . 2 « s . from the

    several students who should attend their respective Lectures 5 except the divinity students on the foundation , who were exempted from paying any fees .

    Dr . Taylor , whose great merits as a scriptural theologian are known and acknowledged , even by his keenest adversaries , accepted the invitation ; and , impressed with an earnest desire to serve the cause

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    2 Historical Account of the Warrington Academy .

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