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Businesses (4)
- Bombay Guardian Mission Press
- Henry Thomas Wake, antiquarian bookseller Fritchley, Derbyshire
- Hubert and Hubert Martin Lidbetter
- South Place Temperance Hotel Finsbury, Middlesex
Organisations (25)
- Association for Promoting the Training of Women Teachers
- Bedford Institute Association
- China Interest Group
- Dalton Hall, Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
- Faith Schools Concern Group
- Falcons Touring Cricket Club
- Francis Camfield Trust
- Friends Armenian Mission
- Friends Historical Society Committee
- Friends Service Council Polish Industries Committee
- India Conciliation Group
- Joan Dant Trust
- Joseph Sams's School for Friends, Darlington Darlington, Durham
- Joseph Smith Trust
- No More War Movement
- Peace Society: Margate auxiliary Margate, Kent
- Quaker Peace and Social Witness
- Religious Society of Friends
- Socialist Quaker Society
- Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade
- Tottenham and Edmonton Female Anti-Slavery Society Tottenham, Middlesex;Edmonton, Middlesex
- Uxbridge Society of Friends Uxbridge, Middlesex
- Wandsworth Friends and Occupational Centre Wandsworth, Surrey
- William Seaton Trust
- World Gathering of Young Friends
Persons (200)
- Aldam, Thomas, (d 1660), Quaker
- Alexander, Horace Gundry, (1889-1989), Quaker writer
- Alexander, Samuel Joseph, (1841-1936), Quaker
- Allen, William, (1770-1843), Quaker scientist and philanthropist
- Ames, William, (d 1662), Quaker
- Angell, Benjamin, (fl 1785-1792), Quaker
- Ashworth, Henry, (1794-1880), Founder of Anti Corn Law League
- Backhouse, James, (1794-1869), Quaker Missionary Naturalist
- Bailey, Vernon Gerald, (1903-1972), Pacifist
- Barclay, Robert, (1648-1690), Quaker
- Bartlett, Percy, (b 1888), Pacifist
- Barton, Bernard, (1784-1849), Quaker Poet
- Bedford, Peter, (1780-1864), Quaker
- Bellers, John, (1654-1725), Philanthropist and Quaker
- Bellows, John, (1831-1902), Quaker Printer and Lexicographer
- Benezet, Anthony, (1713-1784), Philanthropist
- Benson, William, (1848-1927), Quaker
- Bevan, Joseph Gurney, (1753-1814), Quaker, chemist and druggist
- Blow, Thomas Bates, (1854-1941), botanist
- Bracey, Bertha L, (1893-1989), Secretary Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens
- Braithwaite, Anna, (1788-1859), Quaker minister
- Braithwaite, Catherine Lydia, (1864-1957), Quaker
- Braithwaite, George, (1861-1931), Quaker
- Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan, (1818-1905), Quaker
- Braithwaite, Martha, (1823-1895), Quaker
- Braithwaite, William Charles, (1862-1922), Quaker
- Bright, John, (1811-1889), politician Rochdale, Lancashire
- Brooks, Edmund Wright, (1834-1928), Quaker
- Brown, Alfred Henry, (1860-1932), Quaker
- Brown, Ralph Vipont, (1898-1919), worker for the Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee, France France
- Burgess, Ann Mary, (1862-1943), medical missionary
- Burnyeat, John, (1631-1690), Quaker
- Burrough, Edward, (1634-1662), Quaker
- Burtt, Stuart, (1932-2018), teacher and Quaker
- Cadbury, Michael H., (1940s-1990s), Quaker
- Camm, John, (? 1604-1656), Quaker
- Carnall, Geoffrey D., (1927-2015), Reader in English Literature at Edinburgh University, peace activist
- Casson, Isabel, (1777-1857), Quaker
- Caton, William, (1636-1665), Quaker
- Chalkley, Thomas, (1675-1741), Quaker
- Clark, Margaret M, (fl1912), member of Newcastle Monthly Meeting, accompanied Gulielma Crosfield in India and Ceylon India;Ceylon
- Clarkson, Thomas, (1760-1846), philanthropist
- Collinson, Peter, (1694-1768), Naturalist Antiquary
- Copeman, Thomas Daniel, (1896-1980), editor of Eastern Daily Press; diarist
- Crisp, Stephen, (1628-1692), Quaker
- Crosfield, George, (1785-1847), Botanist
- Crosfield, Gulielma, (1851-1945), author, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) India;Ceylon
- Crosfield, Joseph, (1821-1879), Minister of the Society of Friends
- Cummings, Dugan, (b1941)
- Darby, Deborah, (1754-1810), Quaker
- Dewsbury, William, (1621-1688), Quaker Preacher and Author
- Dickinson, James, (1659-1741), Quaker
- Edmundson, William, (1627-1712), Quaker
- Eliott, Joseph Thompson, (1871-1947), Quaker
- Ellwood, Thomas, (1639-1713), Quaker and Friend of Milton
- Emmott, Elizabeth Braithwaite, (1858-1946), Quaker
- Evans, Thomas, (1798-1868), Quaker
- Farnell, Frank, (fl 1940-1949), Quaker, Conscientious Objector
- Farnworth, Richard, (d 1666), Quaker
- Fell, Leonard, (d 1700), Quaker
- Follows, Ruth, (1718-1808), Quaker minister
- Forster, Josiah, (1782-1870), Quaker
- Fothergill, John, (1712-1780), physician
- Fothergill, Samuel, (1715-1772), Quaker
- Fox, George, (1624-1691), Quaker
- Fry, Elizabeth, (1780-1845), penal reformer and philanthropist
- Gibson, George Stacey, (1818-1883), Botanist
- Gillett, George, (1837-1893), Quaker
- Gillman, Frederick J, (1866-1949), author
- Gough, John, (1721-1791), Master of Friends' School Dublin
- Grubb, Edward, (1854-1939), Quaker Author and Editor
- Grubb, Joseph Ernest, (1843-1927), Quaker
- Gurney, Anna, (1795-1857), Anglo Saxon scholar
- Gurney, Hudson, (1775-1864), antiquary and poet
- Gurney, John, (1750-1809), banker and quaker
- Gurney, John Henry, (1819-1890), MP, banker and ornithologist
- Gurney, Joseph John, (1788-1847), Quaker, philanthropist and writer
- Gurney, Samuel, (1786-1856), banker and philanthropist
- Hall, David J, (b1947), author
- Hanbury, Cornelius, (1796-1869), Quaker
- Hancock, Thomas, (1783-1849), physician
- Harrison, Agatha Mary, (1885-1954), Quaker, Secretary of India Conciliation Group
- Harvey, Thomas Edmund, (1875-1955), Quaker MP
- Heywood, Brian P, (1910-1941), Friends Service Council worker
- Hipsley, Henry, (1810-1899), Quaker
- Hobhouse, Stephen Henry, (1881-1961), Quaker
- Hodgkin, Harold Olaf, (1879-1981), Quaker missionary
- Hodgkin, Henry, (c 1900-2000), Quaker
- Hodgkin, Henry Theodore, (1877-1933), Quaker Missionary in China
- Hodgkin, John, (1800-1875), Barrister and Philanthropist
- Hodgkin, Jonathan Backhouse, (1843-1926), Banker Mayor of Darlington
- Hodgkin, Lydia, (1878-1965), Quaker missionary
- Holdsworth, Lucy Violet, (1869-1954), Quaker writer
- Holme, Benjamin, (1683-1749), Quaker
- Hooton, Elizabeth, (d 1672), Quaker Minister
- Hope Gill, Charles William, (c1900-2000), Quaker
- Howard, Elizabeth Fox, (1873-1957), Quaker
- Howard, Luke, (1772-1864), meteorologist and chemist
- Howgill, Francis, (1618-1669), Quaker
- Hubberthorne, Richard, (1628-1662), Quaker Writer
- Jones, William, (1760-1838), Quaker
- Kaempchen, Martin, (b1948), writer, journalist and social worker
- Kampchen, Martin , (b1948), author, journalist and social worker
- Kelly, Alison, (c 1900-2000), Quaker
- Kendall, John, (1726-1815), Quaker
- Knight, Anne, (1786-1862), Radical Reformer and Quaker
- Knowles, Mary, (1733-1807), Quaker
- Konig, Hans, (c1920-1980), Waffen SS and Civilian Intern, Sandbostel Germany
- Lamb, Joseph, (d 1870), Quaker
- Lawson, Thomas, (1630-1691), Quaker and Botanist
- Letchworth, Thomas, (1720-1775), Quaker
- Lindsey, Robert, (1801-1863), Quaker
- Littleboy, Wilfred Ernest, (b1885), Quaker, conscientious objector
- Mikosz, Paul , (b1896), Quaker Relief Service worker
- Milligan, Edward Hyslop, (1922-2020), Quaker historian and librarian
- Montgomery, James, (1771-1854), poet
- Morland, Oliver, (1871-1959), Quaker
- Murray, Lindley, (1745-1826), Grammarian
- Musk, Stanley, (fl1939-1952), Quaker
- Nayler, James, (? 1617-1660), Quaker
- Neave, Joseph James, (1836-1913), Quaker
- Newman, Edward, (1801-1876), Botanist
- Newman, Henry Stanley, (1837-1912), Quaker minister
- Nickalls, John Lawrence, (b 1892), Quaker
- Opie, Amelia, (1769-1853), novelist and poet
- Parker, Alexander, (1628-1689), Quaker
- Pease, Henry, (1807-1881), Quaker, railway promoter and MP
- Peet, Hubert William, (1886-1951), Quaker
- Penington, Isaac, (1616-1679), Puritan and Quaker
- Penn, William, (1644-1718), Quaker Founder of Pennsylvania
- Perrot, John, (d ? 1671), Quaker Sectary
- Phillips, Catherine, (1727-1794), Quaker minister
- Phillips, William, (1775-1828), Mineralogist and Geologist
- Pickard, Daniel, (1828-1905), Quaker
- Pole, Thomas, (1753-1829), Quaker and Physician
- Pugh, Ellis, (1656-1721), Quaker
- Pumphrey, Caroline Westcombe, (1846-1925), Quaker
- Pye, Edith, (1876-1965), midwife and relief worker London;Street, Somerset
- Ramamurthy, N, (1970s-1990s), Quaker
- Randall, Edwin , (1942-1946)
- Ransom, Edwin Rayner, (1841-1927), Quaker
- Rasche, Louis, (1831-1895), Quaker
- Reynolds, Reginald Arthur, (1905-1958), Quaker
- Reynolds, Richard, (1735-1816), Quaker Ironmaster and Philanthropist
- Richardson, George, (1773-1862), Quaker
- Rickman, John, (1891-1951), Quaker physician and psychoanalyst
- Rigg, Ambrose, (? 1635-1705), Quaker
- Robinson, Mary, (1740-1824), Society of Friends' minister
- Robson, Elizabeth, (1771-1843), Quaker Minister
- Robson, Isaac, (1800-1885), Quaker Minister
- Robson, Thomas, (1768-1852), Quaker
- Rogers, Mary, (1771-1852), Elder of the Society of Friends
- Rous, John, (fl 1656-1695), Quaker
- Routh, Martha, (1743-1817), Quaker
- Rowntree, Arnold Stephenson, (1872-1951), Quaker MP
- Rowntree, John, (1788-1845), Quaker
- Rowntree, John Stephenson, (1834-1907), Quaker Minister
- Salthouse, Thomas, (1630-1691), Quaker
- Seebohm, Benjamin, (1798-1871), Quaker
- Sharp, Isaac, (1806-1897), Missionary
- Shillitoe, Thomas, (1754-1836), Quaker
- Silcock, Henry Thomas, (1882-1969), Vice President of West China Union University
- Smiley, Sarah Frances, (? 1832-1918), Quaker
- Smith, Richard, (1784-1824), Quaker
- Southall, Joseph Edward, (1861-1944), artist and designer
- Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet, journalist and biographer
- Sparkes, Malcolm, (1882-1933), Quaker Businessman
- Squire, Harold, (b 1908), Quaker, Conscientious Objector
- Stacey, George, (1786-1857), Quaker
- Stephenson, Isaac, (1765-1830), Quaker
- Stevens, Henry C, (1896-1972), writer and translator
- Stewart, William Cormack, (1875-1954), Quaker
- Story, Thomas, (1662-1742), Quaker Treasurer of Pennsylvania Land Co
- Sykes, Marjorie, (1905-1995), educator, writer, campaigner for Indian Independence
- Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, (1851-1916), Physicist
- Thompson, Thomas, (1775-1861), Quaker
- Thorne, Stephen James, (b 1896), Quaker
- Thorp, Annie Sturge, (1860-1931), Quaker
- Timms, Mavis E, (b 1934), Quaker writer
- Tuke, Daniel Hack, (1827-1895), Physician
- Tuke, James Hack, (1819-1896), Philanthropist and Quaker
- Turner, William Edward, (1836-1911), Quaker Minister Editor of the British Friend
- Upton, Christopher, (b1911), Friends' Relief Service Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Upton, Sybil, (b1912), Friends' Relief Serice Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Virtue, George, (? 1793-1868), publisher
- Wake, Henry Thomas, (1831-1914), dealer in books, manuscripts and antiquities
- Weston, Mary, (1712-1766), Quaker Diarist and Traveller
- Wheeler, Daniel, (1771-1840), Quaker Missionary
- White, Dorice, (1920s-1930s), Quaker worker in Russia, writer
- White, Winifred M, (20th cent), Quaker
- Whitehead, John, (1630-1696), Quaker
- Whitney, Janet Payne, (1889-1974), Quaker and Novelist Biographer and Historian
- Wilkinson, Arthur Denby, (1900-1994), agricultural scientist, Quaker
- Wilkinson, John, (fl1814), Quaker
- Wilman, Leonard Ernest, (b1897), conscientious objector, World War I
- Wilson, Alexander Cowan, (1866-1955), Quaker and philanthropist
- Wilson, Stephen Shipley, (1904-1989), Civil Servant and Historian
- Woolley, Alfred Herbert , (20th cent), Quaker
- Woolman, John, (1720-1772), Quaker Essayist
- Yeardley, John, (1786-1858), Quaker Missionary
Diaries (19)
- Arnold, J, (fl 2007), Quaker
- Austin, Reginald, (1891-1987)
- Boake, Jane, (fl 1790), Quaker
- Braithwaite, J Frederick, (fl 1916-1918), Quaker
- Butler, David M, (fl 1999), Quaker historian
- Cash, Helen Beaumont, (fl 1962-1972), Quaker
- Glass, Norman, (fl 1941-1947), Quaker
- Major, Katherine, (fl 1913-1945), Quaker Cumbria
- Matyasi, Z, (fl 1956) Hungary
- Pearson, Arthur, (c1891-1963), Friends' Ambulance Unit
- Shipstone, James, (c1879-1974), conscientious objector
- Sidney, Alexandra M Russia
- Silcock, Henry T, (b1882), Quaker China;Japan
- Waddle, William Henry, (fl1890-1960), conscientious objector
- Whiting, Joshua, (1820-1909), Quaker Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- Wilson, Harold, (fl 1915-1919), conscientious objector
- Wood, John Duncan, (1911-2006), Quaker
- Worrall, Clifford, Conscientious Objector
- Wright, Alfred Australia
Families (6)
- Allis family and Bleckly family
- Armfield family of London Finsbury, Middlesex
- Braithwaite family, Quakers
- Catchpool family
- Lawson family, Quakers
- Ransom family of Hitchin and Kempston Hitchin, Hertfordshire;Kempston, Bedfordshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (9)
- NRA 41687 Gurney family of Earlham and Keswick: corresp
- NRA 8135 TE Harvey collection
- NRA 16356 Howard League for Penal Reform
- NRA 12652 No More War Movement: minute book
- NRA 8785 Robson family collection: corresp and papers rel to Quakers
- NRA 7629 JS Rowntree: Society of Friends collection
- NRA 20087 Society of Friends: inventory of MSS acquired 1940-1967
- NRA 20017 Society of Friends: rough register of MSS compiled for Library Association Survey, 1960-61
- NRA 3438 Uxbridge Society of Friends
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