Warrington Acaderny, y 



Barbauld, written the work called * Evenings at Home ; * 

 but in his many literary works he also taught men, and 

 Mrs. Barbauld, with her feeling poems, almost upsets the 

 Oldham theory. 



Dr. Enfield's life belongs also to the nation ; we must not 

 forget him as one of those who taught at Warrington, 

 although he came from Sudbury in Suffolk. Dr. Reinhold 

 Forster and the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield need only be men- 

 tioned as showing the rank of men who were teaching in 

 this small academy at Warrington, even although the Rev. 

 Dr. Enfield taught theology to one pupil. Roscoe, of 

 Italian fame, as a young man visited the place, and was on 

 friendly terms with the teachers ; and another friend and 

 visitor was the benevolent Howard. 



The president of this academy, which might if it had 

 persevered have risen to fame, was the Honourable Hugh 

 Lord Willoughby of Parham, a zealous dissenter ; and the 

 first tutor in Divinity was the Rev. John Taylor, D.D. 

 When the academy opened on October 20, 1757, the name 

 of Thomas Percival stood first on the list of students. 



Amongst the teachers who conducted the academy 

 we find one who has often been taken for Jean Paul 

 Marat, the victim of Charlotte Corday. The following 

 note by Mr. Turner has given rise to inquiries, which 

 seem to render the criminal portion impossible.^ * It is 

 known that he (Marat) was in England about this time, 

 and published in London a philosophical essay on the 

 connection between the body and the soul of man. He 

 is said to have written a book on man and the mutual 

 influence of soul and body, and to have had it published in 

 Amsterdam in 1775. Mara, as his name is spelt in the 

 minutes of the academy, very soon left Warrington, whence 



* See Appendix A. 



