Quaker, founder of the Religious Society of Friends
Margaret Fell
Born
Margaret Askew
1614
Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire
Died
23 April 1702(1702-04-23) (aged 87–88)
Occupation(s)
theologian, writer
Known for
founder of the Religious Society of Friends
Spouse(s)
Thomas Fell (1632 – d. 1658), George Fox (1669 – d. 1691)
Children
Sarah Fell, et al.
Margaret Fell or Margaret Fox (née Askew, formerly Fell; 1614 – 23 April 1702) was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends. Known popularly as the "mother of Quakerism," she is considered one of the Valiant Sixty early Quaker preachers and missionaries. Her daughters Isabel (Fell) Yeamans and Sarah Fell were also leading Quakers.
MargaretFell or Margaret Fox (née Askew, formerly Fell; 1614 – 23 April 1702) was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends. Known popularly as the...
tribe, 'the family and household of God'". Together with MargaretFell, the wife of Thomas Fell, who was the vice-chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and...
and Margaretfell in love at first sight; he proposed at a dinner held by Lord Cromer at the British Consulate in Egypt and was accepted. Margaret's parents...
Sarah Fell (1642–1714) was an English Quaker accountant and writer at Swarthmore Hall. She was the daughter of MargaretFell and Thomas Fell, and the eventual...
disapproving authorities. In 1669, he married MargaretFell, widow of a wealthy supporter, Thomas Fell; she was a leading Friend. His ministry expanded...
the historic county of Lancashire. The Hall was home to Thomas and MargaretFell, the latter an important player in the founding of the Religious Society...
included Isaac Penington, Robert Barclay, Thomas Ellwood, William Penn and MargaretFell. Quakerism pulled together groups of disparate Seekers that formed the...
Margaret of Valois (French: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), popularly known as La Reine Margot, was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who...
granddaughter, Margaret, Maid of Norway. As she was still a child and in Norway, the Scottish lords set up a government of guardians. Margaretfell ill on the...
built at the mouth of a River Leven. Ulverston is where George Fox and MargaretFell established the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) movement in 1652...
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and...
violent political activity as a desire to make their position clear. MargaretFell wrote a letter to King Charles II that was co-signed "in unity" by a...
Isabel Yeamans (née Fell, later Morrice; c. 1637 – 1704) was an English Quaker preacher, and daughter of MargaretFell and step-daughter of George Fox...
and practised successfully for several years. In 1632, he married MargaretFell, with whom he had eight children, and resided at Swarthmoor Hall, near...
life in the Middle Ages. The Book of Margery Kempe (1436) (1614–1702) MargaretFell was one of the founding members of the Religious Society of Friends...
Dempsey Lady Anne Clifford Len Wilkinson Lord Soulsby Malcolm Wilson MargaretFell Mark Cueto Mark Jenkinson Matthew Wilson Maurice Flitcroft Melvyn Bragg...
the founding of the Society of Friends in Lancashire by followers of MargaretFell and George Fox, and Midlands nonviolent political radicalism that led...
formulate direct biblical justification for this was Sarah Blackborow. MargaretFell, one of the Valiant Sixty and referred to as the "Mother of Quakerism"...
granddaughter, Margaret, Maid of Norway. As she was still a child and in Norway, the Scottish lords set up a government of guardians. Margaretfell ill on the...
to Margaret's wardship and marriage would be granted only to his wife. As Somerset was a tenant-in-chief of the crown, the wardship of his heir fell to...
or ministers. George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, and MargaretFell married using a modification of that procedure in 1669.[citation needed]...
early Quaker movement. When founder George Fox married local landowner MargaretFell, he took over Swarthmoor Hall and much of the land round Bardsea. There...
though Lady Margaret was required to renounce their relationship by King Henry's minister Thomas Cromwell. While in the Tower, Lady Margaretfell ill, and...
other leaders, and his speeches and journal were very influential. MargaretFell was one of the earliest sponsors of Fox and the Friends movement. She...
and Johnny, and were looked after by the Queen Mother when Princess Margaretfell ill. In the 1960s, children's author Maurice Sendak owned a Sealyham...