Society of Friends

More commented, I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her Last Breath. As a Quaker she wrote a codicil to her will, revoking her order...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

When JV began to think about converting to Quakerism, her immediate family opposed it. In the end, however, they all followed her into the Society of Friends . She later wrote that her relationship with...

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...

Her father, John Wright, who had trained as a doctor and became a Quaker minister, settled by 1714 at Chester, Pennsylvania. In America he worked in various ways, as a farmer, a ferryman, 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...

MP was married at Mountrath to Samuel Neale , a paper-maker who had converted to the Society of Friends through her preaching; that very evening she addressed the assembled Friends, her guests.

Scandal engulfed him in spring 1699, when he was accused of raping and perhaps murdering a young Quaker woman named Sarah Stout . He claimed that the accusation was cynically brought by his political enemies...

EJ 's other brother, David Caldicott Heald Jenkins , was eight months old at the time of the British census in 1911. He became a successful solicitor first in Hitchin and then in London. During...