Families
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A
Allen, Austin
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B
Backhouse,
Birkbeck, Buxton
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C
Cookworthy, Crewdson
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D
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E
Ellwood |
F
Fox, Fry
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G
Gurney
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H
Hancock,
Hogdkin, Hubbard
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I-K |
L
Lister, Lloyd
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M
Mollyneux
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N-O |
P
Pease, Penn,
Pollard
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Q
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R
Rathbone
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S
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Famous quakers
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A |
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B
Edmund Backhouse (1824–1906), banker and Member of
Parliament for Darlington
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James Backhouse
(1794–1869), botanist and missionary
George Birkbeck
(1776–1841), a founder of London Mechanics Institute, now
Birkbeck, University of London |
Robert Barclay
(1648–1690), theologian
Charles Roden Buxton (1875–1942), British parliamentarian |
C
George Cadbury
(1839–1922),
chocolatier
Henry Cadbury
(1883–1974), chairman of the
American Friends Service Committee
John Cadbury
(1801–1889), chocolatier
Cyrus Clark
co-founder of C&J Clark, shoe manufacturers in Street, Somerset
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James Clark co-founder of C&J Clark, shoe manufacturers in Street, Somerset
William Coddington (1601–1678), first governor of Rhode Island
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William Cooper (1754–1809), founder of Cooperstown, New York and father of author
James Fenimore Cooper |
D
James Dean (1931–1955), actor
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E |
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F
Barclay Fox
(1817–1855), Diarist
Caroline Fox
(1819–1871), Diarist
Joseph Fox (1729-1785) MD and bussinessman
Joseph Fox (1758-1832) MD
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Josiah Fox (1763-1847)
Robert Were Fox I (1754–1818), businessman
Robert Were Fox II (1789–1877), geologist
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), prison reformer
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Joan Mary Fry
(1862–1955), relief worker and social reformer
Joseph Fry (1777–1861),
tea dealer and an unsuccessful banker. Husband of Elizabeth Fry
Margery Fry
(1874–1958), penal reformer and Principal of Somerville College
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G
Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), reformer |
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H
Thomas Hodgkin
(1798–1866), physician who documented Hodgkin's lymphoma
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Herbert Hoover
(1874–1964),
U.S. President
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Luke Howard
(1772–1864), meteorologist |
J |
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K |
L |
M |
N
Richard Nixon
(1913–1994), U.S. President. |
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O
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P
Edward Pease, early railway owner in England.
Joseph Pease, first Quaker member of Parliament. |
Isaac Penington, Early Quaker. |
William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania |
Q
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R
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S
Alys Pearsall Smith
Hannah Whitall Smith
Robert Pearsall Smith |
Lawrence Southwick
Cassandra Burnell Southwick
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Joseph Sturge |
T
Philip E. Thomas, first president of the
B&O Railroad (the first railroad in the US)
Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–1895), physician and expert in mental
illness |
James Hack Tuke
(1819–1896)
Henry Tuke (1755–1814), co-founder of the York Retreat |
Samuel Tuke, wrote about treatment of mental illness.
William Tuke,
co-founder of the York Retreat |
V
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W
Ulysses S. Grant.
18th President of the USA |
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), poet
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Y
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People
with Quaker roots
Individuals whose parents were Quakers or who were Quakers
themselves at one time in their lives but then converted to another
religion, formally or informally distanced themselves from the
Society of Friends, or were disowned by their Friends Meeting |
Daniel Boone,
(1735–1820), American frontiersman and trailblazer of Kentucky.
Mother was a Quaker, and father was disowned for allowing some
of his children to marry outside.
Benjamin Chew,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1775–1777 who became an
Anglican in the 1750s.
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Ezra Cornell,
(1807–1874) Founder of Cornell University who was expelled for marrying outside the faith.
Samuel Tertius Galton (1783–1844), businessman and scientist
who converted to Anglicanism.
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Nathanael Greene (1742–1786), major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, expelled from the Quakers in 1773.
Maria Mitchell
(1818–1889), One of the first women in astronomy. She retained
ties to the Quakers, but became a Unitarian. |