Attercliffe Academy

Attercliffe Academy was a Dissenting academy set up in the north of England by Timothy Jollie.

Richard Frankland had founded Rathmell Academy at Rathmell, but was forced to move several times.^[1] The school moved to Attercliffe, a suburb of Sheffield, Yorkshire, leaving it at the end of July 1689, in consequence of the death of his favourite son, and returning to Rathmell. His pupil Timothy Jollie, independent minister at Sheffield, began another academy at Attercliffe on a more restricted principle than Frankland's, excluding mathematics ‘as tending to scepticism.^[2]

Notes

1. Parker, Irene (2009) [1914]. Dissenting academies in England: their rise and progress, and their place among the educational systems of the country. Cambridge University Press. pp. 64–69. ISBN 978-0-521-74864-3.
2. Gordon, Alexander (1889). "Frankland, Richard (1630–1698), nonconformist tutor". Dictionary of National Biography Vol. XX. Smith, Elder & Co. Retrieved 25 March 2009. The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: "Frankland, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

References

•   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Frankland, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.