ABSTRACT
Extracts from J. Yates, Thoughts on the Advancement of Academical Education in England (London, 1826), pp. 172–5, 183–4.
Dissatisfaction with Oxford and Cambridge also led to positive proposals for alternative universities elsewhere. The Rev. John Yates’s book appeared in the same year as the beginning of University College, London, of which he was an active proprietor and benefactor. Yates was a Liverpool-born Unitarian clergyman, who had also worked in Sheffield and Birmingham. His Northern antecedents doubtless prompted his concern for a university in the North. The subsequent founding in 1832 of the University of Durham, strictly Anglican and largely devoted to the production of Church of England clergymen, was shortly to fulfil his demands in its locale though not in its purposes.
