Society of Friends

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Her family were Quakers , said to be in humble life, which suggests that the school where the father taught was an unpretentious one for children of the local poor.

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 .

Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.

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....

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.

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.

EH became a Quaker , and began to dress in plain Quaker style.

MS seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland . As an...