Docwra [née Waldegrave], Anne (c. 1624–1710), religious writer, was the eldest daughter of Sir William Waldegrave of Bures, Suffolk, of a leading gentry family and a justice under Charles I. When she was about fifteen her father stimulated what became her considerable study of the law by directing her to read the statutes of the realm, since women '...
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Docwra [née Waldegrave], Anne (c. 1624–1710), religious writer
Michael Mullett
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Furly, Benjamin (1636–1714), merchant and religious writer
Richard L. Greaves
Furly, Benjamin (1636–1714), merchant and religious writer, was born on 13 April 1636 at Colchester, Essex, the fifth son of a linen draper, John Furly (c.1590–1673), later alderman and mayor of Colchester, and his wife, Ann. He was admitted to Colchester School...
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Newton, Benjamin Wills (1807–1899), leader of the Plymouth Brethren and religious writer
Timothy C. F. Stunt
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Newton, Benjamin Wills (1807–1899), leader of the Plymouth Brethren and religious writer, was born at Plymouth Dock on 12 December 1807, the only child of Quaker parents, Benjamin Newton, a draper of Plymouth Dock, who died eleven days before the birth of his son, and his widow, ...
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Penington, Isaac (1616–1679), Quaker and writer
Richard L. Greaves
Penington, Isaac (1616–1679), Quaker and writer, was born in London, the eldest son of Isaac Penington (c. 1584–1661), alderman, and his first wife, Abigail (b. 1588), daughter of the London merchant John Allen. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1634 and called to the bar on 3 November 1639. In the meantime he matriculated from ...
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Penington [née Proude], Mary [other married name Mary Springett, Lady Springett] (bap. 1623, d. 1682), Quaker and writer
Marie H. Loughlin
Penington [née Proude], Mary [other married name Mary Springett, Lady Springett] (bap. 1623, d. 1682), Quaker and writer, was born at Goodnestone Court, near Faversham, Kent, and baptized on 13 December 1623 at Canterbury Cathedral. She was the only child and heir of ...
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Stephen, Caroline Emelia [Milly] (1834–1909), religious writer
Margaret M. Jensen
Stephen, Caroline Emelia [Milly] (1834–1909), religious writer, was born on 8 December 1834 at Kensington Gore, later 42 Hyde Park Gate, London, the youngest child and only surviving daughter of Sir James Stephen (1789–1859), permanent under-secretary for the colonies, and Jane Catherine Venn (1793–1875)...
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Tomlinson, William (fl. 1650–1696), religious writer
Richard L. Greaves
Tomlinson, William (fl. 1650–1696), religious writer, was probably from the North Riding of Yorkshire, and may have been the person of this name who matriculated as a sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge, in Michaelmas term 1632 and graduated BA in 1637. According to ...
