Society of Friends

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

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...

ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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.

After MS 's death, her husband moved to Manchester, where he opened a Quaker school. He died in 1817 at the age of sixty-four.

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...

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.

MF (who had once answered a magistrate enquiring her husband's name that she had no husband but Jesus Christ) married another notable Quaker spokesman, a ship's captain by trade, William Bayly .

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...

Alexander Bevington , LSB 's father, was also born on the edge of Colchester, at Lexden in Essex. His family had ties to George Fox (a founding member of the Society of Friends

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...