Anna Braithwaite

Anna Braithwaite born Anna Lloyd (27 December 1788 – 18 December 1859) 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.

Anna Braithwaite
Born
Anna Lloyd

27 December 1788
Birmingham
Died18 December 1859
Kendal
NationalityUnited Kingdom
OccupationQuaker minister
Spouse(s)Isaac Braithwaite
ChildrenJoseph Bevan Braithwaite
Parent(s)Charles Lloyd (philanthropist)

Life

Anna Lloyd was born in 1788 in Edgbaston Street, Birmingham, the daughter of Charles Lloyd and Mary (née Farmer).[1] The Lloyds were an influential Quaker banking family, and Anna's brother was the poet Charles Lloyd. In 1808, Anna married Isaac Braithwaite (two years earlier, her sister Mary had married Isaac's brother George), thus forging the union of two prominent Quaker dynasties. Their children included the Quaker minister Joseph Bevan Braithwaite.[2]

Doctrinal differences within the Quakers were created by the views of Elias Hicks after 1808; William Forster highlighted the issue in 1820, after the growth of Hicks’ influence.[3] Prominent English evangelical Quakers, including Elizabeth Robson, Forster and Braithwaite, travelled to the United States between 1821 and 1827 to denounce Hicks' views.[4]

The visiting British Quakers exacerbated the differences among American Quakers, differences that echoed the 1819 split between the American Unitarians and Congregationalists.[3] The influence of Anna Braithwaite was especially strong. She visited the United States three times between 1823 and 1827 (the last two journeys accompanied by her husband)[5] and published her Letters and observations relating to the controversy respecting the doctrines of Elias Hicks in 1824.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8]

Braithwaite's family were affected by doctrinal differences. In 1835, the Beaconites separated from the Quakers and five of Anna's children joined the new group.[2]

Braithwaite died in Kendal in 1859.

Children
  • Anna Braithwaite junior (1809-1860)
  • Isaac Braithwaite junior (1810-1890), married Louisa Masterman.
  • Charles Lloyd Braithwaite (1811-1893), married Susanna Wilson.
  • George Foster Braithwaite (1813-1888), mayor of Kendal, married Mary Savory (1823-1909).
  • Robert Braithwaite (1816-1882), married Charlotte Masterman.
  • Mary Caroline Braithwaite (1818-1887), married Joseph Savory (1808-1879).
  • Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (1818-1905), married Martha Gillett.

References
  1. Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (1905). Memoirs of Anna Braithwaite. London. Headley Bros. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  2. Edward H. Milligan, ‘Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan (1818–1905)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 9 April 2017
  3. Thomas C. Kennedy (2001). British Quakerism, 1860-1920: The Transformation of a Religious Community. Oxford University Press. p. 23. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  4. 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.
  5. William Lloyd Garrison (1971). A House Dividing Against Itself, 1836-1840. Harvard University Press. p. 658. ISBN 9780674526617. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  6. Anna Braithwaite (1824), Letters and observations relating to the controversy respecting the doctrines of Elias Hicks, Printed for the Purchaser, retrieved 2017-04-09
  7. Elias Hicks (1824). The Misrepresentations of Anna Braithwaite. Philadelphia. Printed for the Purchaser. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
  8. 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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