Society of Friends

They had known each other as students at Birmingham Art School, and met again in 1907 when he designed the decor for a special dinner which CS gave at the Lyceum Club .

John Taylor had been a classical tutor in the Daventry Academy and a minister in the English Presbyterian church. By the time of his marriage his search for the truth had led him to join...

ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...

After MS 's death, her husband moved to Manchester, where he opened a Quaker school. He died in 1817 at the age of sixty-four.

ALW 's uncle Samuel Miller Waring had left the Society of Friends to join the Anglican Church, and had published Sacred Melodies (1826), a collection of hymns. Through her uncle's example she was strengthened in...

Glen , born on 24 April 1910, attended Ackworth School at Saffron Walden (a well-known Quaker boarding-school, still flourishing), where he was a gifted and brilliant scholar. At not yet eighteen he suddenly collapsed and...

MH 's mother, born Ann Wood , was an abolitionist who joined the Society of Friends in 1790 at the age of twenty-six. Her family were said to have originated as French Huguenots named Dubois...

MP was married at Mountrath to Samuel Neale , a paper-maker who had converted to the Society of Friends through her preaching; that very evening she addressed the assembled Friends, her guests.

EJ 's other brother, David Caldicott Heald Jenkins , was eight months old at the time of the British census in 1911. He became a successful solicitor first in Hitchin and then in London. During...

MF (who had once answered a magistrate enquiring her husband's name that she had no husband but Jesus Christ) married another notable Quaker spokesman, a ship's captain by trade, William Bayly .

Scandal engulfed him in spring 1699, when he was accused of raping and perhaps murdering a young Quaker woman named Sarah Stout . He claimed that the accusation was cynically brought by his political enemies...

Alexander Bevington , LSB 's father, was also born on the edge of Colchester, at Lexden in Essex. His family had ties to George Fox (a founding member of the Society of Friends

Her father, Samuel Galton , had intellectual interests; he belonged to the Lunar Society . By trade he was a gunmaker, an avocation which drew some disapproval from the Society of Friends , to which...

Mary Shackleton married William Leadbeater , who had become a farmer when his joining the Quakers closed to him the career he had intended to pursue.

KE 's husband was John Evans, a wealthy man from the area of Bath. Writing to him from a foreign prison after a separation of more than two years she calls him my right...