Camden College (Congregational Church school)

Camden College was an independent, Congregational Union of Australia, day and boarding school for boys from 1864 until 1877 and theological college for the training of Christian ministers from 1864 until 1974.[1]

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.[2][3] Kent's portrait hangs in the library of the Uniting Theological College in Parramatta.

Camden and its garden was subdivided in 1877 and the college moved to Glebe. The college buildings, including Camden, were demolished in 1888.[4]

The Congregational Church made Camden available to the Baptist Union, who had no college of their own.[5]

In 1974 prior to the formation of the Uniting Church in Australia from the Congregational Union, the Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church, 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.[6]

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ^ Camden College: A Centenary History by John Garrett and L. W. Farr (Syd 1964)
  2. ^ "Kent, Samuel Chambers (1826-1911)". Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  3. ^ Elizabeth Ann Curtain (nee James) (31 July 2008). "The Reverend Samuel Chambers Kent 1825–1911" (PDF). Mid Gippsland Family History Society Incorporated. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  4. ^ A Short History of the Streets of Newtown
  5. ^ "A Baptist College". Christian Colonist. Vol. VII, no. 339. South Australia. 10 April 1885. p. 6. Retrieved 13 May 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "UTC History". Uniting Theological College. Retrieved 3 November 2017.


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