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Entry Type	Person
Surname	Fox
Forenames	George
Epithet	founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers)
Dates	1624-1691
Gender Identity	Male
History	He rejected the traditional clerical structures of Christianiaty in 1646 and claimed from 1647 that people could have access to God through Jesus Christ speaking to them and directly from the Bible and that they had no need of human teachers; he preached widely in the Midlands, and a group of followers emerged, originally known as the Children of Light or Friends of Light, eventually becoming the Religious Society of Friends, labelled as "Quakers"by a Derby justice called Gervase Bennett in 1650 on account of their shaking and trembling during meetings; he was himself a pacifist, which later came to characterise the group as a whole.
Source	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online
Authorised Form of Name	Fox; George (1624-1691); founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers)

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