New College London - People Associated With IT

People Associated With It

New College has gathered many leading thinkers from the Congregationalist, Calvinist and United Reformed traditions.

• Rev John Harris DD was its first Principal, succeeded by Rev Robert Halley DD
• Walter Frederic Adeney was educated at the college and was lecturer in Biblical and systematic theology at New College in the 1880s.
• Bertram Lee-Woolf, a leading authority on the work of Martin Luther held a professorship at the college.
• Howard Scullard was a governor of the college from 1930 until 1980.
• The Revd. John Huxtable, Principal of the college 1953-64, helped to found the URC and became its first Moderator.
• The Revd. Dr Geoffrey Nuttall, Lecturer in Church History at the college, was elected to membership of the British Academy in 1991.
• Ron Price, a New Testament scholar, studied at the college in the 1960s.
• The Revd. Elizabeth Welch, Moderator of the URC in the West Midlands, studied at the college in the 1970s.
• David Peel, the URC’s Moderator of General Assembly for 2005–2006, came under the influence of the college while residing there as a student lodger ("hostelman").