ADELAIDE'S DISSENTING HEADMASTER

ADELAIDE'S DISSENTING HEADMASTER
ADELAIDE'S DISSENTING HEADMASTER

 

Diana Chessell

ISBN  9781743052402 (pbk)

Wakefield Press, 

‘Adelaide’s Dissenting Headmaster’ documents the vocation of John Lorenzo Young, who taught the sons of Adelaide’s dissenting majority from 1852-1880. The dissenters found in the rational base of the ‘sciences of the enlightenment’ Young studied at King’s College, London the power they needed to reject biblical creationism and ‘popish languages’.