Rev John Collett Ryland's Scholars

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Surnames/tags: Ryland Nonconformist Sources

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Contents 1 Rev John Collett Ryland's Scholars 2 List of Boarders 3 Relevance for Genealogy 4 Text template to add to profiles

Rev John Collett Ryland's Scholars

John Collett Ryland (1723-1792) was a Baptist Minister who also ran a number of schools.

He was a born in 1723 and became the Minister of the baptist church in Warwick. He started a school which he ran at the same time. After 13 years he moved to College Street Baptist Church Northampton were he was for 26 years, also running a school. In 1786 he left Northampton and settled in Enfield, where again he established a school.

List of Boarders

The roll for the school contains the names of 345 boys and one girl and there is a separate list of 88 of the boys who were "The honest and worthy young men educated in our school". The list includes a range of comments on the personalities of the children, ranging from "insipid" to "mad, filthy, Wicked malicious"

The list has published in the Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, No 1, Volume 6, January 1926, a copy held by Trevor Pickup accessed on 4 July 2021.

Relevance for Genealogy

As well as being a list of children, this document provides a list of nonconformist families who were able to afford to send their sons to a boarding school to obtain an education. Many of the children have been linked to nonconformist families in London and across England.

Year	name	comments in original	WT id	Research notes
1760	Mordecai Andrews	Sensible, plausable, now worthy		about 6 people with this name, from a nonconformist family in Essex and London
1760	Samuel Heyward	Proud passionate scondrel	Samuel Hayward	Probably Samuel Hayward, born 1752
1761	William Hervey	Weak as water		poss sons of James Hervey, 1714-1758, Northamptonshire preacher
1761	james Hervey	Proud as Satan
1763	Thomas Watson	serpent and dog
1763	John Coles	Insipid
1764	Thomas Ribright	Poor slave
1764	Frederick Glanville	Poor slave		poss relative of Glanville-635
1766	Arnold Haywood
1766	Benjamin Flower		Benjamin Flower	born 1755
1766	David Watson
1766	Joseph Button			poss linked to London baptist family
1767	Thomas Rutt		Thomas Rutt	born 1759
1767	Joseph Pattison		Joseph Pattisson	born 1756
1767	Thomas Uffinton		Thomas Uffington	Son of Thomas Uffington, who opposed Sandemanian's in London
1767	Ebenezer Button
1769	William Lyon
1769	John Coverly
1770	John Rutt
1770	John Sowell Rutt		John Towill Rutt	Born 1760
1771	Edward Rutt	Jan 26th	Edward Gibbons Rutt	Born 1763
1771	Willam Andrews	jan 28th
1771	Sam Rutt	9th July

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Name attended the school run by Rev John Collet Ryland, in Northampton, from add year and was recorded in Rev John Collett Ryland's Scholars.

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