Society of Friends

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Anne Downer (later AW ) made her first, brief marriage, when already a Quaker and in her late thirties, to Benjamin Greenwell .

Anne Greenwell made her second marriage, to George Whitehead , a grocer, legal expert, and veteran of prison, about twelve years her junior, who was known for his defences of Friends both in court and...

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...

William Tayler, Elizabeth's father, was deeply religious. Elizabeth later cherished the memory of his piety, and regarded his words, There is a day coming wherein truth will gloriously break forth, as a prophecy of the...

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...

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