Society of Friends

DW died of a fever in London, according to early records, not long after her last published appeal to Quakers not to forget their heroic and radical past.

EA died on her Quaker missionary journey around Ireland, at a Friend's house in County Carlow.

Her death was reported to the Society of Friends in England by James Lancaster , who provided a loving presence for her at the end.

At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...

When she was eleven, Elizabeth Knight (later EJ ) began to attend Sibford School at Sibford Ferris in ruralOxfordshire, run by the Friends (Quakers) but open to children of other faiths as well.

She later spent the years 1813-16 at a Quaker school at Ackworth.

Her extensive travel during the 1650s (through all the component parts of Britain) was undertaken in the course of witnessing to her Quaker faith. Her ministry extended to distant parts of Britain and later overseas.

Anne Downer (later AW ) made her first, brief marriage, when already a Quaker and in her late thirties, to Benjamin Greenwell .

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.

William Tayler, Elizabeth's father, was deeply religious. Elizabeth later cherished the memory of his piety, and regarded his words, There is a day coming wherein truth will gloriously break forth, as a prophecy of the...

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...

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...

Anne Greenwell made her second marriage, to George Whitehead , a grocer, legal expert, and veteran of prison, about twelve years her junior, who was known for his defences of Friends both in court and...

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...