Setting the scene
The establishment o
Biographies & Pen Portraits
City and Guilds of London Institute – more background.
(More background on City and Guilds of London Institute (CGLI), Finsbury Technical College, the Central Institution and the City and Guilds of London Art School).
Rev. Henry Solly (1813-1903).
(Founder of the Club and Institute Union, Social Reformer and a key player in Charity Organisation, the Artizans’ Institute and the Working Men’s Club Movement).</i
The Artizans’ Institute and The Trade Guild of Learning
Henry Solly, (see biographies on this website), was heavily involved in establishing both these organisations and it was his interest in
Institutions of Technical Education/Instruction in Britain in 1878
A special committee was established in 1877 by a number of Livery Companies under the chairmanship of George Bartley to enquire and inve
Livery Companies/Guilds
Some basic definitions:
Livery Companies: had their origins in England before 1066.
List of Dissenting Academies
Dissenting academies played an important part and made a major contribution to the development of the English educational system from the mid-17th to the 1
The Invisible College (1645-1658).
With the progress of science in the 17th century in such subjects as astronomy, anatomy, mechanics and physiology along with the multitude of inventions and the improvement of sc
Finsbury Technical College (1883-1924) and the Central Institution
One of the aims following the
Sir Philip Magnus (1842-1933)
Educationalist, First Secretary of the CGLI and Founding Principal of Finsbury Technical College.
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