Society of Friends

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...

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

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

She had first met him in prison the year before; he shared her Quaker beliefs and activism. After her death he testified that he had decided in prison that he wanted to marry her, but...

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 .

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...