amalgamate with the Daventry Academy of Thomas Belsham had come to nothing. Buildings In 1981, the listed Academy building on Bridge Street was lifted from its foundations and moved 19m to the North. It was subsequently demolished and rebuilt with no original features retained. Alumni, staff, supporters When the academy was dissolved in 1786, 393 pupils, many of whom entered the legal and medical professions, had been on the books. People associated with it include: Students Thomas Barnes William Bruce John Prior Estlin John Goodricke Samuel Heywood Thomas Malthus Thomas Percival Francis Peirson Archibald Hamilton Rowan John Simpson (Unitarian) Georg Forster Staff In addition to those mentioned above: Joseph Priestley Gilbert Wakefield Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her brother John Aikin were the children of the tutor John Aikin Johann Reinhold Forster Financial supporters Thomas Bentley, Trustee William Russell Notes References P. O'Brien, Warrington Academy 1757-86, its predecessors & successors. Wigan: Owl Books Attribution External links Photograph of Warrington Academy, Edgar Fahs Smith Collection Schoenberg Center for Electronic Texts and Image, Accessed 05/10/2006. Defunct schools in Warrington Anna Laetitia Barbauld Dissenting academies Educational institutions established in 1756 1756 establishments in England Educational institutions disestablished in the 1780s 1782 disestablishments in England Demolished buildings and structures in England