George William Benson (1808–1879) was an American Quaker abolitionist from Connecticut who assisted Prudence Crandall in her education efforts. He was...

George Benson (theologian) (1699–1762), English Presbyterian minister and theologian George Benson (Quaker) (1808–1879), 19th-century American Quaker...

Lewis Benson (1906–1986) was an expert on the scripts of George Fox, the founder of the Quaker denomination of Christianity. Lewis Benson was born in...

was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social...

writings, he made himself an authority on George Fox and his message. In 1966, Benson published Catholic Quakerism, a small book that sought to move the Society...

sweet savour, and a blessing. Benson, Lewis (1970). "That of God in Every Man" -- What Did George Fox Mean by It?. Quaker Religious Thought, Vol. XII,...

sympathetic to the new Quaker movement. George Fox may have preached in Airton in 1652, while another Quaker leader, Gervase Benson, definitely preached...

president of Earlham College Lewis Benson (1906–1986), American printer, expert in Early Quakerism, especially George Fox Anna McClean Bidder (1903–2001)...

of Friends (Quakers) as metaphors for Christ's light shining on or in them. It was propagated by the founder of the Quaker movement, George Fox, who "preached...

Everett Benson was born in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1939. His mother, Esther Fisher Smith Benson, spoke using the archaic pronouns of Quaker "plain speech...

Helen Eliza Garrison: A Memorial. Helen Benson was born in Providence, Rhode Island to George and Sarah Thurber Benson, who raised her in a merchant and abolitionist...

Australian missionary for the church called Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. Walker was born to Unitarian parents in London, the twenty-first child...

1786, Robert Benson, a Quaker, joined with William Rathbone IV of the existing house of William Rathbone & Co. to form Rathbone & Benson, a Liverpool...

Chirurgical Society of London in 1825. Birkbeck was born on 10 January 1776 to a Quaker family in Settle, West Riding of Yorkshire. His mother was Sarah and his...

1641 he had married Mabel (c. 1605–1692), later the wife of the Quaker Gervase Benson, and by her had a number of children, two of whom are known, Thomas...

Benson John Lossing (February 12, 1813 — June 3, 1891) was an American historian, known best for his illustrated books on the American Revolution and American...

Segal moved to New York City with his mother. He graduated from George School, a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania, in 1951 and attended Haverford...

Moorsom Constantin Niță Constantin Noe Constantine Overton (1626/7-?1690), Quaker leader in Shrewsbury, Shropshire Constantine Papadakis, Greek historian...

1954 on NBC and in a version in 1956 on ABC. The show was sponsored by Quaker Oats, and its products were advertised during the show. In promoting the...

Benson was born on 26 December 1885 in Anerley, London, England, to William Benson, a Quaker shipping manager, and his wife Emma Elizabeth Benson, who...

activists and itinerant preachers in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Mainly from northern England, they spread the ideas of the Friends in...

George Fox was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). George Fox may also refer to: George L. Fox (clown) (1825–1877), American comedian...

John Wakefield I (1738–1811) was an English Quaker merchant and entrepreneur, financier and banker, based in Kendal, at that time in Westmorland. His business...

amounts of Scottish and English, ancestry. Some of his ancestors were Quakers. Moore attended the parochial St. John's Elementary School, in John the...

children born to Samuel and Sarah Townsend in Oyster Bay. Her father was a Quaker and her mother was an Episcopalian. She never married and grew old with...

married Isaac's brother George), thus forging the union of two prominent Quaker dynasties. They had nine children, including the Quaker minister Joseph Bevan...

Philadelphia, he went to church on three occasions, attending Anglican, Quaker, and Catholic services. During his tours of the nation in his two terms...

poet Lionel George Curtis (1872–1955), writer on world government William Curtis (1746–1799), botanist Alice Curwen (c. 1619–1679), Quaker writer and preacher...

century. Founded in 1862, the company developed strong associations with Quaker philanthropy. Throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was one...

wounded troops. Rush was assisted in caring for the wounded by Quakers. Local Quakers continued to care for wounded troops from both Continental and British...