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Fox and he had a disagreement about his more radical behaviour, but he was one of the most influential Friends in that period. George Whitehead was a teenage preacher who travelled across England. Elizabeth Fletcher and Elizabeth Leavens were teenagers, too – as most probably were Jane and Dorothy Waugh, when they started in the work.
Mary Fisher, also Mary Fisher Bayley Crosse, (c. 1623–1698) was among the first travelling Quaker ministers. She counts as one of the Valiant Sixty, the group of early itinerant preachers whose mission was to spread the spiritual message of the founder of the Quakers, George Fox.
Thomas Goodaire (c. 1620 - ?) was an early member of the Society of Friends and an associate of George Fox. [1] He may have come from Wakefield. [2] He was later imprisoned in Warwick, and is regarded as one of the Valiant Sixty.
Elfrida Vipont Brown (3 July 1902 – 14 March 1992) [1] [2] [3] was an English writer of children's literature. She was born in Manchester into a family of Quakers.As a children's writer, she initially published under a man's name, Charles Vipont, which was a common marketing device by publishers at the time. [4]
James Nayler, with a "B" (blasphemer) branded on his forehead. James Nayler (or Naylor; 1618–1660) was an English Quaker leader. He was among the members of the Valiant Sixty, a group of early Quaker preachers and missionaries.
Earnie Shavers, who earned a reputation as the hardest puncher in the game during a golden era of heavyweight boxing in the 1970s, died Thursday, a day after he turned 78.
Memorial to Fox at his birthplace on George Fox Lane in Fenny Drayton in Leicestershire, England. Fox was born in the strongly Puritan village of Drayton-in-the-Clay, Leicestershire, England (now Fenny Drayton), 15 miles (24 km) west-south-west of Leicester, as the eldest of four children of Christopher Fox, a successful weaver, called "Righteous Christer" by his neighbours, [4] and his wife ...
Vikings running back Aaron Jones, 49ers tight end George Kittle and Chargers defensive end Morgan Fox are the finalists for the NFL’s 14th annual Salute to Service award presented by USAA. The ...