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Name:
George Fox
Dates:
Born: July, 1624, at Drayton-in-the-Clay, in Leicestershire
Died: January 13, 1891
Biography:
George Fox, the son of a weaver, became famous as the founder of the Society of
Friends, a Christian sect more popularly known as the Quakers. Even as a child he was
known to have a serious and religious disposition and, when older, he objected to the
worldly and often immoral conduct of those who professed to be experts or leaders of
religion. As an adult he had a religious experience and underwent a conversion which
caused him to emark upon a public ministry despite lacking any official qualifications
or approval.
By all accounts his appeal was very powerful and, as a consequence, he attracted quite a lot of attention and many conversions to his way of thinking. In a few years the Society of Friends formed almost spontaneously under his leadership among the people he had brought around him. He was arrested quite a few times for violating a number of religious laws which forbade things like unauthorized religious worship and refusing to take an official oath. He persevered, however, and his organization grew in size not only in England but also in the American colonies.
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