Warrington Academy

Warrington Academy, active as a teaching setting from 1756 to 1782, was the prominent dissenting academy, that is, a school or college brand up by those who dissented from the creation Church of England. It was located in Warrington then component of Lancashire, now within Cheshire, a town about half-way between the rapidly industrialising Manchester as well as the burgeoning Atlantic port of Liverpool. Formally dissolved in 1786, the funds then remaining were applied to the founding of Manchester New College in Manchester, which was effectively the Warrington Academy's successor, together with in time this led to the layout of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

A statue of Oliver Cromwell stands in front of the academy.

Alumni, staff, supporters

When the academy was dissolved in 1786, 393 pupils, many of whom entered the legal in addition to medical professions, had been on the books.

People associated with it include:

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