Camden College was an

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, day and

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for boys from 1864 until 1877 and

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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

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. 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

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. The college buildings, including ''Camden'', were demolished in 1888. In 1974 prior to the formation of the

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from the Congregational Union, the

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and the

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, Camden College merged with

Leigh College Leigh College was from 1915 until 1974 a Methodist Theological College located at 416-420 Liverpool Road, Strathfield South, New South Wales. It was the successor to Wesleyan Theological Institution. The site includes three significant historic ...

and St Andrew's Theological Hall to form the United Theological College, a part of the theology school at

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Notable alumni

Arthur Aspinall The Reverend Arthur "Ashworth" Aspinall (23 June 1846 – 9 June 1929) was a co-founder and the first Principal of The Scots College, Bellevue Hill, Sydney, Australia. He was a Congregational and Presbyterian Minister, and a joint founder of the ...

Alexander Petrie Campbell The Reverend Alexander Petrie Campbell OBE (4 June 1881 - 13 December 1963) was an Australian-born Congregational church minister and chairman of the Congregational Union of Australia and New Zealand from 1937 until 1939. Immediate family Alex ...

Joseph Cullen Joseph Francis Cullen (1 February 1849 – 31 March 1917), Australian journalist and politician, was a Member of Parliament in New South Wales and Western Australia. Born in Jamberoo, New South Wales around 1849, Joseph Cullen was the son of f ...

Hubert Cunliffe-Jones Hubert Cunliffe-Jones (30 March 1905 – 3 January 1991) was an Australian-born Congregational Church minister and author, who became chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales and a professor at the University of Manchester. ...

* Harry Kent * Kenneth Mackay * Frederick Pratt

References

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History

Notable alumni

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