George Fox
✓ Source-basedstableEnglish founder of Quakers (1624-1691)
George Fox was a Christian mystic and an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war.
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Memorial to Fox near the site of his birthplace, George Fox Lane, Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire
The 'Dog Yard', George Fox's presumed birthplace and childhood home in Fenny Drayton, photographed c. 1890 prior to its demolition.
Medieval parish church of St Michael and All Angels, Fenny Drayton, where Fox was baptised and worshipped growing up.
The old baptismal font in St Michael's and All Angels, Fenny Drayton. It is almost certain Fox was baptised there during the year of his birth. Objection to external water baptism, both paedobaptism and credobaptism, in favour of spiritual baptism would come to be a defining and distinctive feature of Fox's message and later Quaker theology.
The Boyhood of George Fox by Frederick Cayley Robinson, an illustration for Lucy Violet Hodgkin's Book of Quaker Saints.
A Catalogue of the Severall Sects and Opinions in England and other Nations, a London broadsheet denouncing English dissenters printed in 1647, a few years after Fox first visited London and in the inaugural year of his preaching mission. It depicts, among others, a Roman Catholic Jesuit, an Arminian, an Arian (probably a Socinian), a nudist Adamite, a Soul Sleeper, an Anabaptist performing credobaptism, a Familist, and one of the Seekers (Fox's own ill-defined group in his early years).
Cook Street Gate today. One of the twelve gates in Coventry town walls where Fox received the first of his three initial "openings", his term for a vision or revelation.In their orbit 1
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George Fox was a Christian mystic and an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual, uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, performed hundreds of healings, and was often persecuted by the disapproving authorities.
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