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www.quaker.org.uk The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain , also known as Britain Yearly Meeting (and, until 1995, London Yearly Meeting ), is a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Joan Vokins (née Bunce) was an early Quaker missionary from England. She preached in British Colonial America, the West Indian Islands, Ireland, and England. The Valiant Sixty were a group of Quaker preachers from northern England that made missionary efforts Great Britain, Europe, North America, and Turkey. Some of the members of this group ...
He died in Kilconner, County Carlow, on 11 July 1690, aged about 59, and was buried at the New Garden burial-ground, near Dublin, having been a quaker minister for twenty-three years. He left one son, Jonathan, who became a quaker minister at the age of twelve, and died in Cumberland in 1709.
The first Quaker connection to Russia came in 1656 when British Quaker George Fox sent an epistle to the Tsar of Muscovy Aleksei Mikhailovich. In 1697, Peter the Great visited England as part of the Grand Embassy where he was presented with Barclay's Apology and other Quaker works. [ 6 ]
Diana Francis (born 1944 in Lancashire) [1] is a British peace activist, Quaker, [1] and author.. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford, and has a Ph.D. from the University of Bath, earned in 1998 with the thesis Respect in cross-cultural conflict resolution training. [1]
Henry Theodore Hodgkin (H. T. Hodgkin; 21 April 1877 – 26 March 1933) was a medical doctor and a British Quaker missionary who, in the course of his 55-year life, co-founded the West China Union University in Chengdu, co-founded and led the first Christian pacifist movement, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, and founded the Pendle Hill Quaker meeting and training center, in ...
British Quakers (5 C, 123 P) E. Quakerism in England (4 C, 17 P) M. ... Quaker organisations based in the United Kingdom (6 P) S. Quaker schools in the United Kingdom ...
Robert Forster (1791 – 11 October 1873) was a British Quaker. He was a surveyor, an estate manager and an abolitionist. He took a lifelong interest in education. He was cared for by his younger sister Anne Forster who died three days after him. He had notable brothers as well as sisters Mary Forster and Sarah Forster who were leading Quakers.