The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920, by Edward H. Milligan,[1] includes entries for some 2,800 people, arranged alphabetically. The last page is numbered 606.
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The author is the former Librarian and Archivist of Meeting for Sufferings of Britain Yearly Meeting, who was responsible for the Library at Friends House, London and the co-operative biography project with two Quaker colleges in the United States. The author received the 2009 Besterman/McColvin Award for this work.[2]
The work includes the following indices:
The Dictionary shows many kinship groups active in commerce and industry. It shows the female children of each subject, if they married a male who is also a subject. An example of kinship is the entries for people called "Fox":
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For more about the Quaker Foxes, see Francis Fox of St Germans and the Fox family of Falmouth.