Editing Homerton (section)

===Religion and education===
[[File:Sutton Place Hackney.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sutton Place, Hackney|Sutton Place]], [[listed building|Grade II listed]] terrace 1790–1806 in Homerton. (November 2005)]]
In the 18th century the availability of land, large houses and tolerance to [[dissenters]] made Homerton a popular place to found institutions. The educational ones were commonly known as [[English Dissenters|Dissenting Academies]]. The Kings Head Society moved to a large house here in 1768, forming [[Homerton College, Cambridge|Homerton College]] for the education of Calvinist ministers with between 12 and 20 students. Religious education moved to the new [[University College London]] in 1826, but Homerton College remained here as a teacher training college until 1896 when it moved to [[Cambridge]], eventually becoming a full college of the [[University of Cambridge]] in 2010. Students from Homerton college were principal in forming, in 1881, both the Glynn Cricket Club and Clapton Orient - which became [[Leyton Orient F.C.]] on its move to Leyton. The buildings of the college were rebuilt and expanded several times, but eventually lost to bomb damage in [[World War II]].

[[File:Richard Price West.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Richard Price]]]]
South of the Brook, by Money Lane,<ref>Money Lane is the modern Morning Lane</ref> the [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] [[Gravel Pit Meeting House]] was built between 1715 and 1716. This was the result of an acrimonious split in the congregation of the Lower Clapton meeting. Notable [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]] ministers preached at the Old Gravel Pit. The moral and political philosopher [[Richard Price]],<ref>[http://www.constitution.org/price/price_5.htm ''A Fast Sermon''] - Richard Price to the Old Gravel Pit Meeting - 21 February 1781 accessed 4 June 2009.</ref> known for his support of the [[American Revolution]], became morning preacher in 1770, while continuing his afternoon sermons at [[Newington Green Unitarian Church|Newington Green Chapel]], on the green where he lived. Those who attended his sermons in Homerton included American politicians such as [[John Adams]], who later became the second [[president of the United States]], and his wife [[Abigail Adams|Abigail]]. On the 101st anniversary of the [[Glorious Revolution]], he preached a sermon at [[Old Jewry meeting house]] entitled "[[A Discourse on the Love of Our Country]]", thus igniting a so-called "pamphlet war" known as the [[Revolution Controversy]], furiously debating the issues raised by the [[French Revolution]]. [[Edmund Burke|Burke]]'s rebuttal "[[Reflections on the Revolution in France]]" attacked Price, whose friends [[Thomas Paine]] and [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] leapt into the fray to defend their mentor. The reputation of Price for speaking without fear of the government on these political and philosophical matters drew huge crowds to his sermons, which were published and sold as [[pamphleteer|pamphlets]] (i.e. publications easily printed and circulated). Another eminent minister was the formidable [[polymath]], [[Joseph Priestley]], discoverer of oxygen. When [[Joseph Priestley and Dissent|his support of dissent]] led to the [[Priestley Riots|riots named after him]], he fled [[Birmingham]] and headed for London; he was appointed minister here in 1793. Today a [[Blue Plaque]] marks the site of the Gravel Pit Meeting House in Ram Place and a brown plaque marks the site of the Priestley's house at 113 Lower Clapton Road (on the corner of Clapton Passage).<ref name="hackney">{{cite web |url=http://www.hackney.gov.uk/ep-joseph-priestley.htm |title=Hackney - Archives and local history &#124; Joseph Priestley |publisher=hackney.gov.uk |access-date=31 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027051018/http://www.hackney.gov.uk/ep-joseph-priestley.htm |archive-date=27 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Priestley said of his time here, "On the whole I spent my life more happily at Hackney than I had ever done before". The meeting house is now used as a factory.