Camden College was an independent, Congregational Union of Australia,

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for boys from 1864 until 1877 and theological college for the training of Christian ministers from 1864 until 1974.

History

Thomas Holt and the Congregational Church founded a boys school and theological college at ''Camden'', the former home of Robert Bourne, on 12 July 1864. Camden College, as the institution became known, was just north of the present Camden Street on the border of Newtown and Enmore in New South Wales. Samuel Chambers Kent, the Congregational minister in Newtown from 1861, became the founding warden and resident chaplain of Camden College from 1864 to 1872. Kent's portrait hangs in the library of the Uniting Theological College in Parramatta. Camden College and its garden were subdivided in 1877 and the college moved to Glebe. The college buildings, including ''Camden'', were demolished in 1888. In 1974 prior to the formation of the Uniting Church in Australia from the Congregational Union, the

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, Camden College merged with Leigh College and St Andrew's Theological Hall to form the United Theological College, a part of the theology school at Charles Sturt University.

Notable alumni

* Arthur Aspinall * Alexander Petrie Campbell * Joseph Cullen * Hubert Cunliffe-Jones * Harry Kent * Kenneth Mackay *

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