King's Head Society

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The King's Head Society was an 18th-century organisation funding dissenting academies in England.

The King's Head Society was a group of laymen named after the pub behind the Royal Exchange at which they met. From 1730 they worked to promote Calvinism, by sponsoring young male scholars to attend dissenting academies. There nonconformists could learn the necessary "grammarian," or classical education, which was a pre-requisite for the four-year "academical" course of the Congregational Board. [1] A classical education included the demanding and lengthy training period required for learning to read Greek and Latin texts in their original form.

A secret society and discussion club at Homerton College, Cambridge (a descendent institution of one set up by the King's Head Society) is named after the Society.

The King's Head Society Academies (1731–1769) included:

Notes

  1. ↑ Parker, Irene (1914). Dissenting academies in England: their rise and progress, and their place among the educational systems of the country. Cambridge University Press. pp.  54-55. ISBN   978-0-521-74864-3.
  2. ↑ "Parsons, Samuel (?-c.1752)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Samuel Parsons's Academy, Clerkenwell Green (1731-1735)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "Taylor, Abraham (fl. 1726-fl. 1740)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "Abraham Taylor's Academy, Deptford (1735-1740)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "Stepney Academy (1740-1744)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "Hubbard, John c.1692-1743". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "Marryatt, Zephaniah (c.1684-c.1754)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  9. ↑ "Walker, John (?-1770)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  10. ↑ Nicholas Hans (1998). New Trends in Education in the 18th Century. Routledge. p. 57. ISBN   0-415-17611-5.
  11. ↑ "Plaisterer's Hall Academy (1744-1754)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  12. ↑ "Conder, John (1714-1781)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  13. ↑ "Gibbons, Thomas (1720-1785)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  14. ↑ "Mile End Academy (1754-1769)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  15. ↑ "Homerton Academy (1769-1850)". Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2013.

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