Editing Codrington College (section)

=== 1800s ===
Beginning around 1824 and influenced by the first Bishop of the new See of Barbados and the Leeward Islands, Bishop William Hart Coleridge, Codrington made substantial steps towards teaching at the college level.<ref name="Simmons" /> While some advanced studies had been offered as early as 1748, these were usually taken up by sons of the local gentry (who had tutors at home) before they went to an English university. The first graduate had been [[ordained]] in 1759. The grammar school was moved to the Chaplain's lodge so that the college could focus on higher studies and became known as [[The Lodge School]].

On 9 September 1830, Codrington College opened formally<ref name="Simmons" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Klingberg |first=Frank Joseph |url=https://archive.org/details/codringtonchroni0000klin/mode/2up?q=1830 |title=Codrington chronicle; an Experiment in Anglican altruism on a Barbados Plantation, 1710-1834 |date=1949 |publisher=Berkeley, Univ. of California Press |others= |pages=24, 108, 120 |quote=Finally, on September 9, 1830, with Bishop Coleridge presiding, the college was formally opened. (p. 120)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Edghill |first=J. Y. |url=https://archive.org/details/aboutbarbados00edgh/mode/2up?q=1830 |title=About Barbados |publisher=London, England : C. Tallis & Co. |others=Boston Public Library |year=1890 |location=London, England |quote=Finally, on September 9, 1830, with Bishop Coleridge presiding, the college was formally opened.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Schomburgk |first=Robert Hermann |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbarbado00schouoft/historyofbarbado00schouoft/page/118/mode/2up?q=1830 |title=The history of Barbados; comprising a geographical and statistical description of the island; a sketch of the historical events since the settlement; and an account of its geology and natural productions |date= |publisher=Longman |others=Robarts - University of Toronto |year=1848 |location=London, England |pages=119, 121 |quote=On Thursday, September 9th, 1830, the day appointed for the opening of the College (on which day, in 1745, the school was first opened), the students repaired to Codrington College, and all persons of official rank having been invited to attend, the ceremony began about noon.... From the opening of the College in December 1830, to December 1845, ninety-eight students matriculated; of these, forty have been ordained.}}</ref> focussing exclusively on training students for [[ordination]]. This marked it as one of the first [[theological colleges]] of the [[Anglican Church]]; only [[University of Wales Lampeter|St. David's College Lampeter]], [[St Bees Theological College]], the [[General Theological Seminary]] and [[Virginia Theological Seminary]] pre-date it.

In 1875, Codrington entered a new stage by entering into an affiliation with Durham University in England. Thus, graduates of Codrington received a Durham degree in classics or theology. Codrington was the first overseas institution to have the right to grant a degree from a British university. This affiliation in the classics lasted until 1958 by which 283 Codrington graduates had obtained Durham degrees.<ref name="Simmons" /> The terms of the affiliation read (in part):

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1. Students of Codrington College, Barbados and [[Fourah Bay College]], [[Sierra Leone]], may have their names placed on the Register of the University as Matriculated Students of the same, provided that the Principal of their College, or other person authorized to act in his behalf, shall have certified to the Warden that they have passed an examination similar to that required for the admission of student, in the several faculties, in the University of Durham.

2. Students of the affiliated Colleges, having been so matriculated shall be admissible to the Exercises and Public Examinations required for proceeding to Degrees, Licenses, and Academical ranks in the several Faculties, provided that they have forwarded to the Warden certificates of having fulfilled the same conditions as to residence, attendance at lectures, and conformity to discipline, in their own Colleges, as are required from other Students of the University so admissible, terms of residence being counted from the time of passing the Admission Examination of their own College.<ref name="Simmons" />}}