Society of Friends

Born in the English gentry and brought up an Anglican , she became a Quaker in middle age. After this she quickly became a leader in the movement. Her class status, unusual among Quaker preachers...

MM came from northern England, was presumably white, and probably sprang from the middling ranks into which she married. In religion she was a Quaker all her life, since her husband, a fellow member of...

Both of MS 's parents were members of the Society of Friends , as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England after flirting...

WP writes about her Quaker forebears, of great-grandparents who lived in middle-class comfort in villages since swallowed by urban encroachment.

A year later she was still seeking a mentor; but in due course she joined the Society of Friends . After she was well established in her faith, she retained the habit of retiring alone...

AA and her first husband, John Audland , were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .

Born into an English gentry family, AD was an Anglican during the Interregnum, when Anglicans were persecuted and reduced to holding their services in field conventicles. Her husband joined the Society of Friends in...

JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.

She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The...

MAH 's forebears were Quakers on the maternal side, and on both sides soberly respectable and artistic, but her Irish Home-Ruler grandfather, who had joined Friends after his marriage, had been expelled by the Friends...

This HMR came from a north-country family of Quaker origins, whose involvement in industrial manufacturing had put them squarely in the upper middle class.

VW was the daughter not only of an educated man, but of one of the most influential intellectuals in late Victorian England. Her family on both sides was part of the intellectual ascendancy....

She was born into the Scottish professional classes, with Quaker heritage on her father's side; the family left Scotland in the year of her birth.

HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.

MP came from the English middle class, and was born into the Anglican church. After an early disregard for religion, then a long period of spiritual struggle, she became a Quaker .