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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 ...
Scott Bader Commonwealth, British manufacturer of advanced resins and composites, founded by Ernest Bader in 1951; Sony (formerly Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, or Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering, Co.), TTK's founding board president was Tamon Maeda, a Japanese Quaker, prewar Japanese ambassador to ILO, and postwar Minister of Education
Historically, British Quakers had been especially reluctant to include music in their Meetings. [4] However, London Quaker youth arts group, The Leaveners, was founded in 1978 and have since brought organized music to the Quaker community. They have commissioned and performed multiple pieces, and developed the Quaker Festival Chorus.
Allen was born in 1770, the eldest son in the Quaker family of Job Allen (1734–1800), a silk manufacturer, and his wife Margaret Stafford (died 1830). He was educated at a Quaker school in Rochester, Kent, and then went into his father's business. [2] As a young man in the 1790s, he became interested in science.
CAMBRIDGE ‒ A Quaker City area man is facing two counts of murder with firearms specifications in the death of a Madison Township woman. Dalton John Leach, 32, is currently being held in the ...
The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends (1973), emphasis on social structure and family life. Frost, J. William. "The Origins of the Quaker Crusade against Slavery: A Review of Recent Literature," Quaker History 67 (1978): 42–58. JSTOR 41946850. Hamm, Thomas. The Quakers in America.
Santa Cruz County officials said California State Parks and Fire crews went to Sunset State Beach around 11:30 a.m. for reports of a man trapped under debris. Debris washed up by a large wave had ...
Benjamin Lay was born in 1682 to Quaker parents in Copford, near Colchester, England. [3]: 11 After working as a farmhand and shepherd, later as an apprentice glove-maker, Lay ran away to London and became a sailor at age 21.