Scope and Contents Documents and correpondence relating to the educational activities of Prebendary Joseph Lloyd Brereton, founder of Cavendish College, Cambridge (1873 to 1892) which later became Homerton College (1894). The collection includes a selection of sources for the history of Cavendish College as well as records of Brereton's scheme for the education of girls through the Graduated County Schools Association. The Association was in existence between 1881 and 1887 to enable self-supporting schools...

Scope and Contents Letters written by Third Earl Hugh Fortescue to Joseph Lloyd Brereton concerning educational proposals/activities, political and rural issues and personal matters. The pair had a life-long friendship having met as neighbours in West Buckland where they opened a proprietory boarding school for farmer's sons. Fortescue was a considerable landowner, concerned with the welfare of rural England and sympathetic to the unsectarian religious views of Brereton. He became Brereton's first convert...

Scope and Contents Lecture notes written by Josephus Afranius Burrowes, student at Homerton Academy (c.1830-1836) from Lectures on Theology, prepared by Congregationalist Minisiter Reverend John Pye Smith (c.1820). Pye Smith was a Theological Tutor at Homerton for forty-five years between 1805/1806 and 1850, effectively acting as Principal for this period. He initially joined Homerton, aged thirty, in 1800/1801 as a classical and science tutor. One of Pye's key interests was in reconciling geological...