Charles Morton, Cornish nonconformist minister (died 1698)

Charles Morton was a British nonconformist minister and founder of an early dissenting academy, later in life associated in New England with Harvard College. Morton was raised with strong Puritan influences in England and attended Oxford (1649-1652). As a result of the English Revolution, he was arrested and excommunicated for promoting progressive education, forcing his immigration to relative safety in Massachusetts Bay Colony (1685-1686), although he was soon arrested for sedition in Boston.