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In England, Quaker schools sprang up soon after the movement emerged, with Friends School Saffron Walden being the most prominent. [89] Quaker schools in the UK and Ireland are supported by The Friends' Schools' Council. [90] In Australia, Friends' School, Hobart, founded in 1887, has grown into the largest Quaker school in the world.
A Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area Horace ...
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.
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations." [2]: 1
Herbert Fox Standing was an English Quaker that served as a medical missionary in Madagascar. Satyananda Stokes (born Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr.) was an American Quaker that settle in India. He spent his life serving the people there. Clifford Morgan Stubbs was a New Zealand Quaker who did missionary work in West China.
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.
William Penn (24 October [O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.
Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony.