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The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775 1920

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Originally published
  
2007

Author
  
Edward H. Milligan

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The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920, by Edward H. Milligan, includes entries for some 2,800 people, arranged alphabetically. The last page is numbered 606.

Contents

Author

The author is the former Librarian and Archivist of Meeting for Sufferings of Britain Yearly Meeting, who was responsible for the Library at Friends House, London and the co-operative biography project with two Quaker colleges in the United States. The author received the 2009 Besterman/McColvin Award for this work.

Indices

The work includes the following indices:

  • Illustrations (copious black and white)
  • Occupations
  • Places (Arranged by County and Town)
  • Apprentice masters
  • Schools attended

    • The prelims (xviii pages)

  • Prologue
  • The Quaker background
  • Entry arrangement (a somewhat lengthy explanation, but highly relevant)
  • Abbreviations.

    • The appendices

    1. The Quaker calendar
    2. Editions of the Book of Discipline of London Yearly Meeting/Britain Yearly Meeting.
    3. Queries and general advices
    4. Regional and local area structure
    5. Census of attendance at Meetings 1851
    6. York apprentices
    7. Friends Provident directors: an outsider's view
  • Glossary (Mini-essays on 50 Quakerese terms and issues, such as the Beacon Controversy, The Contagious Diseases Acts, Disownment, the Manchester Difficulty, Plain Dress, Women's Meetings . . .
  • Bibliography
  • Epilogue (which envisages the setting up of a revision committee for this work).

    • The entries

    The Dictionary shows many kinship groups active in commerce and industry. It shows the female children of each subject, if they married a male who is also a subject. An example of kinship is the entries for people called "Fox":

    For more about the Quaker Foxes, see Francis Fox of St Germans and the Fox family of Falmouth.

    References

    The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920 Wikipedia
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