Society of Friends

Born in the English gentry and brought up an Anglican , she became a Quaker in middle age. After this she quickly became a leader in the movement. Her class status, unusual among Quaker preachers...

MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian

MM came from northern England, was presumably white, and probably sprang from the middling ranks into which she married. In religion she was a Quaker all her life, since her husband, a fellow member of...

WP writes about her Quaker forebears, of great-grandparents who lived in middle-class comfort in villages since swallowed by urban encroachment.

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...

JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.

She was originally a Baptist and was converted to Quakerism by James Nayler . She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox . RT organised the first women's...

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...

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

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.

She was born into the Irish cottager or labouring class and into the Society of Friends . The family had a long tradition of Quaker belief and activism. She later observed that her father's cottage...

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.

KEI was buried in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, St Mary Bourne, Hampshire. After the funeral, the Society of Friends held a short service at the graveside, at which George, her husband of...

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...