Records of Leeds Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1923-1989.
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Leeds Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends
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Leeds Monthly Meeting is the youngest Monthly Meeting within Yorkshire, created in 1924 when Brighouse Monthly Meeting was broken up. At the time of its creation it comprised the Meetings of Gildersome, Ilkley, Morley, Rawdon, and the Leeds Meetings of Burley Road (later Fellowship House), Carlton Hill, Great Wilson Street (later Beeston Hill) and York Road. By the end of 1924, it had a total of 622 members. In the late 1920s, Meetings were established in Adel and Roundhay. It is still in existe...
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...
