e men who founded businesses succeeded because they both looked after their employees, - in some cases even providing them with housing, schooling and medical care, - and were honest and ethical in their business dealings. In a sense they lived Christianity as it was intended to be lived. And they were very successful as a result. Examples include
- banking - including Lloyds Banking Group (founded by Sampson Lloyd), Barclays PLC, Backhouse's Bank and Gurney's Bank;
- life assurance - Friends Provident;
- pharmaceuticals - Allen & Hanburys;
- chocolate - Cadbury, Terry's, Fry's;
- confectionery - Rowntree;
- biscuit manufacturing - Huntley & Palmers;
- match manufacture - Bryant & May, [Francis May and William Bryant]
- shoe manufacturing - Clarks.
Quakers were also very prominent in providing schools. In England, many Quaker schools sprang up, with Friends School Saffron Walden being the most prominent.
Later in America they founded both schools and colleges – for example, Wilmington Friends School (1748), Haverford College (1833), Guilford College (1837), Pickering College (1842), Earlham College (1847), Swarthmore College (1864), Wilmington College (Ohio) (1870), Bryn Mawr College (1885), Friends Pacific Academy (now George Fox University) (1885), Friends University (1898), and Whittier College (1901).
Some Quakers in North America and Great Britain also became well known for their involvement in the abolition of slavery.
Quakers are also still against war and campaign ceaselessly against the use of violence in any conflict.
As Jesus said ‘blessed are the peacemakers’.
- Let your words be true – Symbolism of Speaking and Silence amongst 17th C Quakers – Richard Bauman
- The Beginnings of Quakerism – William C Braithwaite
- A Brief Recollection of Remarkable Passages and Occurrences relating to Margaret Fell – Margaret Fell
- The Later Periods of Quakerism – Rufus Jones
- Theology in Post Liberal perspective – Daniel Leichty
- The Quaker way
- The Journal of George Fox – John Nickalls
- Faith and Practise – various books of discipline published by Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends e.g. North Carolina, North Pacific, Oregon, California, South West, Britain etc
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- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mr E. G. West, a Quaker, of Salcombe, Devon has a NDE
- George Fox – Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield
- Isaac Hopper (a Quaker) – In illness, his spirit left his body for several hours during which time he saw visions of heavenly glory
- Professor Haslam and Mr. John H. Williams [a Quaker] have a prophetic indication of the winners of a horse race
- Quakers - From Death Bed Visions - A Quaker death
- Quakers - George Fox - Die in the silence
- Quakers - George Fox - Now was I come up in spirit
- Quakers - George Fox and The Witches of Pendle Hill
- Quakers - Holy rollers rolling
- Quakers - Joseph Salmon
- Quakers - Kirk describes his rebirth
- Quakers - Margaret Fell and George Fox's sermon
- Quakers - Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield
- The conversion of Captain Drury
- The near death experience of Thomas Say, the Quaker
- The Quaker lady, who lived in Philadelphia, heard a still, small voice say 'Thou wilt lose a son; and he is a pleasant child’
- Thomas Ibbott - who not only had a premonition of the Great Fire of London of 1666, but acted it out in the streets of London.
- William Howitt - Happier far are those who are too humble for conceit and feel the guidance of angel-fingers