She had helped found the Academy several years earlier with a gift of £2,000.

From 1970s to 1980s, the art community brought up the question a number of times of founding the Academy and its corresponding institutions.

Three years later he helped found the Mexican Academy for Human Rights.

In 1765 he also founded a small academy, which, however, was speedily dissolved owing to disunion among the members.

Founded an academy at Prairie Hill, Missouri, and served as its president.

Adams purchased two adjacent plots and founded an all-female academy which ultimately failed.

Law moved to Florida in 1881, planning to found a military academy that would be modeled after The Citadel.

In 1840 he founded an academy of arts and literature in Santiago, bringing together the best in the region.

In 1990 he founded the Indian Academy of Fiction.

In 1943 he helped found the Armenian Academy of Sciences and was formally elected into its body.