Records of the Society of Friends (Quakers), East Yorkshire 1669-1993

Friends' School Croydon, Surrey

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Brookfield Agricultural School Ulster

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Bootham School York

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Wigton School Carlisle, Cumberland

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Mount School York

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Leighton Park School Reading, Berkshire

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Ackworth School Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire

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Friends' School Great Ayton, North Riding of Yorkshire

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Rawdon School Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...