Anna Braithwaite

Anna Braithwaite
Born Anna Lloyd
27 December 1818
Birmingham
Died 18 December 1905
Kendal
Nationality United Kingdom
Occupation Quaker minister
Spouse(s) Isaac Braithwaite
Relatives Lloyd family

Anna Braithwaite born Anna Lloyd (27 December 1818 – 18 December 1905) was a prominent English Quaker minister. She visited the United States three times in an effort to avoid the schism created by the views of Elias Hicks.

Life

Braithwaite was born in Birmingham as Anna Lloyd of the influential Lloyd family in 1788. She married Isaac Braithwaite in 1808. Two years before her sister had married Isaac's brother. Their children included the Quaker minister Joseph Bevan Braithwaite.[1]

Isaac was Anna's husband. He travelled to the USA with Anna on her last two trips

Doctrinal differences within the Quakers were created by the views of Elias Hicks after 1808. As Hicks’ influence grew William Forster highlighted the issue in 1820.[2] Prominent English evangelical Quakers which included Elizabeth Robson, Forster and Braithwaite, decided to travel to the United States to denounce his views between 1821 and 1827.[3]

The visiting British Quakers exacerbated the differences among American Quakers, differences that echoed the 1819 split between the Unitarians and Congregationalists.[2] The influence of Anna Braithwaite was especially strong. She visited the United States three times between 1823 and 1827[4] and published her Letters and observations relating to the controversy respecting the doctrines of Elias Hicks in 1824[5] Hicks felt obliged to respond and in the same year published a letter to his ally in the Philadelphia Meeting, Dr. Edwin Atlee, in The Misrepresentations of Anna Braithwaite.[6] This in turn was replied to by Braithwaite in A Letter from Anna Braithwaite to Elias Hicks, On the Nature of his Doctrines in 1825.[7]

Braithwaite's family were affected by doctrinal differences. In 1835, the Beaconites separated from the Quakers and five of her children joined the new group.[1]

Braithwaite died in Kendal in 1905.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Edward H. Milligan, ‘Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan (1818–1905)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 9 April 2017
  2. 1 2 Thomas C. Kennedy (2001). British Quakerism, 1860-1920: The Transformation of a Religious Community. Oxford University Press. p. 23. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  3. ↑ Hugh Barbour (1995). Quaker Crosscurrents:Three Hundred Years of Friends in the New York Yearly Meetings. Syracuse University Press. pp. 123, 124, 125. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  4. ↑ William Lloyd Garrison (1971). A House Dividing Against Itself, 1836-1840. Harvard University Press. p. 658. ISBN 9780674526617. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  5. ↑ Anna Braithwaite (1824), Letters and observations relating to the controversy respecting the doctrines of Elias Hicks, Printed for the Purchaser, retrieved 2017-04-09
  6. ↑ Elias Hicks (1824). The Misrepresentations of Anna Braithwaite. Philadelphia. Printed for the Purchaser. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  7. ↑ Anna Braithwaite (1825). A Letter from Anna Braithwaite to Elias Hicks, On the Nature of his Doctrines. Philadelphia. Printed for the Reader. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
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