11 Facts About Isaac Crewdson

Isaac Crewdson was a minister of the Quaker meeting at Hardshaw East, Manchester.

Isaac Crewdson wrote A Beacon to the Society of Friends, a work published in 1835 which had a schismatic effect on English Quakerism.

Isaac Crewdson was born into a Quaker family in Kendal in the English Lake District.

Isaac Crewdson entered the cotton trade and became a successful mill owner in Manchester.

Isaac Crewdson was appointed as a Quaker minister in 1816.

Isaac Crewdson's book highlighted the distinction many Manchester Quakers drew between the guidance of Scripture and the central feature of Quakerism, the Inner Light, the direct and personal experience of God.

Isaac Crewdson was then suspended from his ministry to prevent further internal strife.

The discord was effectively determined when Isaac Crewdson tendered his resignation from the Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting, this being accepted on 15 December 1836, along with those of 38 of his supporters.

Together with his brother-in-law, the former Hardshaw East Quaker elder William Boulton, Isaac Crewdson founded the short-lived "Evangelical Friends", who were termed "Beaconites" by Quakers.

An active abolitionist, Isaac Crewdson attended the June 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.

Isaac Crewdson died at Bowness on 8 May 1844 and was buried at Rusholme Road Cemetery, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester.