George Fox

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English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691)

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Following extensive travels around the various American colonies, George Fox returned to England in June 1673 confident that his movement was firmly established there. Source: Internet

Marsh 1847, p.364 George Fox knew people who were "professors" (followers of the standard religion), but by the age of 19 he had begun to look down on their behaviour, in particular drinking alcohol. Source: Internet

Suffering and growth 19th-century engraving of George Fox, based on a painting of unknown date The persecutions of these years—with about a thousand Friends in prison by 1657—hardened George Fox's opinions of traditional religious and social practices. Source: Internet

The Journal of George Fox. Source: Internet

The name of George Fox is often invoked by traditionalist Friends who dislike modern liberal attitudes to the Society's Christian origins. Source: Internet

Two days after preaching, as usual, at the Gracechurch Street Meeting House in London, George Fox died between 9 and 10 p.m. on 13 January 1691. Source: Internet

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