New College London

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New College London's history is entwined with that of Homerton College, another college with Congregationalist roots which is now part of the University of Cambridge. 'Homerton College Society' affiliated to the University of London in 1840, but divided into two colleges in 1850: the transfer of its theological function created New College London in 1850, while Homerton was refounded by the Congregational Board of Education and became solely concerned with the training of teachers.

In 1972, many English Congregationalists joined the United Reformed Church (URC). The college's work was reorganised. In 1976, the library of the college was donated [1]. Since the 1981, the work of the college has been continued by the New College London Foundation [2]: that organisation which trains ministers for the URC.

New College has gathered many leading thinkers from the Congregationalist, Calvinist and United Reformed traditions.

• Walter Frederic Adeney was educated at the college and was lecturer in Biblical and systematic theology at New College in the 1880s [3].
• Bertram Lee-Woolf, a leading authority on the work of Martin Luther [4] held a professorship at the college.
• Howard Scullard was governor of the college from 1930 until 1980 [5].
• The Revd. Dr G F Nuttall, Lecturer in Church History at the college [6], was elected to membership of the British Academy in 1991 [7].
• Ron Price, a New Testament scholar, studies at the college in the 1960s [8].
• The Revd. Elizabeth Welch, Moderator of the URC in the West Midlands, studies at the college [9].
• David Peel, the URC’s Moderator of General Assembly for 2005-2006, studied at the college [10].

Despite the name the college was never associated with Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.