HUGGINS COLLEGE, a recently founded institution in Northfleet parish, Kent; on an eminence, near Stone Bridge. It is a handsome edifice, comprising forty residences and a chapel with beautiful lofty spire; it is occupied by ladies and gentlemen of reduced circumstances, who have a weekly allowance of £1 each; and it was founded and is superintended by John Huggins, Esq. of Sittingbourne.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))