Society of Friends

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.

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...

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 .

Her mother, born (Mary) Monica Waterhouse , was the daughter of well-known architect Alfred Waterhouse and a cousin of painter and critic Roger Fry . Her family had converted from Quakerism to the Church of England

Wilfrid Meynell was the seventh child of eight in a Quaker family. In 1875 he read a poem by Alice Thompson in the Pall Mall Gazette and told Father Lockhart , a friend, that she...

IOF 's father, Robert Lawson Ford , was a solicitor and landowner, and a Quaker who belonged to the radical wing of the Liberal Party . He supported local Quaker MP John Bright in his...

Her half-brother, another Abraham , who took over the school when their father retired, was a man of deep thought, immense conscientiousness, and oppositional temperament. His pacifist convictions caused him to strike a number of...

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...

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...

Mary Shackleton first met her future husband when he came as a boy to Ballitore School in 1777, brought there by his Anglican clergyman guardian and a friend who was a Roman Catholic priest. This...

Joan's daughter, Susannah , was born about 1662, and in youth attended the local Anglican church, which later, after becoming a Quaker , she came to regard as that abominable House, where they commit their...

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.

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

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.