Category talk:English Quakers

Value of this category

Can someone explain the value of this category? Recently someone created several small sub-categories for Quakers, and there is some concern by those of us working on the Quaker Wikiproject that they are too small to be useful. --Ahc 20:44, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Sir Edmund Backhouse - A Quaker? and other gripes

What evidence is there that Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet ever entered a Quaker Meeting House? His Grandfather, also called Edmund Backhouse started out Quaker but became part of the Squirearchy. Sir Edmund's father, Jonathan Backhouse, the First Baronet, does not seem to have played much part in Quaker life.

It would anyone tell me why it is useful to have Kenneth E. Boulding, an American citizen, born in Liverpool, listed here?

Has anyone got any reason for this very short list of ??English Quakers to be maintained or continue to exist?

Do we have the energy to maintain this list and the List of Quakers? -- Vernon White 22:57, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

William Cookworthy certainly started off as a Quaker but he died as a fully fledged member of the New Church (Swedenborgian) and did much translating of Swedenborg's works into English. For this reason he should be removed from the list.

Proposed Additions to the List

I wonder if it might be considered that two additions be made to the list:-

Lewis Weston Dillwyn, Ceramicist & Botanist.

William Weston Young, Artist, Ceramicist and Inventor of the Blast-furnace Brick.

They may not be of the same global importance as some on the list, but Dillwyns contribution to the study of freshwater algae stands to last as does his involvement in the Cambrian Pottery, South Wales, similarly does Young's silica firebrick, out of which the Blast-furnaces of the Industrial revolution were built. Young is also a first cousin of Dr. Thomas Young (scientist) but of a line which retained it's Quaker ties for much longer.