Records of Huddersfield Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1769-1977.

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Records of Huddersfield Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1769-1977.

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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SNAC Resource ID: 7626507

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Taylor, Thomas, Captain.

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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...

Huddersfield Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.

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There were very few Quakers in Huddersfield before the Industrial Revolution. Edmund Horsefall, Edward Key and John Brook suffered distraint of goods in 1683 for being absent from the national worship; of these, the Brook family of Row in Lockwood continued to be Quaker into the 18th century. A Meeting known as Paddock was settled in the early 1770s to accommodate the large number of Friends, particularly those in the textile trade, who had removed to Huddersfield from High Flatts and Lumbroyd. ...

Rawdon School

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Ackworth School

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Celebrated Quaker school. From the guide to the ACKWORTH SCHOOL, RECORDS (C678), 1339-1988, (West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield) ...