Society of Friends

Not long after her conversion JV became a Quaker minister and missionary. She and her sister Jane Sansom became local leaders of the movement, strong supporters of the women's meetings which in the later 1670s...

He was a Quaker who worked as an engraver and printer in Manchester and Belfast. He is credited with the invention of the published railway timetable. Nothing on the scale of his comprehensive railway...

She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. In England she met with all kinds of recognition which most Quaker preachers never dreamed of....

At the end of her first day in BuzulukES felt that a corpse lying face down in the snow was the happiest thing she had seen all day. Within only a few days...

DW worked for her faith as a minister and preacher for the Society of Friends .

RT 's visible ministry in London belongs to the years 1659-61. Her co-religionists trusted her to persuade Joan Whitrow to submit the manuscript of a proposed publication to their committee according to their regulations...

She duly took up the role of minister and missionary for the Society of Friends . She was active in this calling over the course of her life, preaching in Britain, North America, and Holland...

KEI became Secretary of the Society of Friends ' influential Peace Committee ; she remained in this position, which paid the considerable sum of £300 per year, for ten years.

MP became a Quaker minister and preacher, and very soon afterwards a great traveller on missionary journeys.

HB began her Quaker ministry of travelling and preaching.

MF was an important Quaker preacher; yet her own preaching was probably eclipsed in importance by her publications and by her facilitation of the publishing of other Quakers. George Fox 's journal includes a defence...

Before she embarked on the Quaker activism that made her famous, MF worked as a servant to a couple named Tomlinson (Richard and Elizabeth) who lived at Selby in Yorkshire. As a Quaker minister...

During her interval of time in England in 1828-30, HK spoke to meetings of Friends about her anti-slavery concerns. Disregarding difference of faith, she quoted Hannah More in these talks.

The reception in Izmir of MF and her associates shows that Quakers were as unacceptable to the English establishment abroad as at home. Her celebrated audience with Mehmet IV was reported in print a few...

George Fox later reported meeting HB in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell was persecuting Quakers . She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II