A famous, well-connected Quaker, Priscilla Wakefield, led a life pursuing social reform. She was actively engaged in social action and the alleviation of poverty in Tottenham focussing on charities concerned with women and children
The works of John Fothergill by John Fothergill (1712-1780)
Dr John Fothergill was well-known for his love of natural history. The garden that he created is today known as West Ham Park, and is open to all. To find out more about Dr Fothergill, see the blogpost about him on Quaker Strongrooms.
Medical botany, containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended on the catalogues of the materia medica ... with ... their medicinal effects ... Volume I by William Woodville (1752-1805)
The Library copy of this book has coloured versions of the plates. Dr William Woodville ran the smallpox hospital in St Pancras, and worked on inoculation against the disease. He appears to have been disowned at some stage for accidentally shooting a man through his window, but was ultimately buried in the Friends burial ground at Bunhill Fields.
On 23 May 1804, two months before his daughter’s wedding, John Coakley Lettsom threw open his estate in Camberwell. Some 800 guests made their way to Grove Hill, with its panoramic views across the Thames to London. A leading doctor and noted philanthropist, a prolific author on matters medical, social and moral, Lettsom was famously
The naturalist's and traveller's companion by John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815)
Coakley Lettsom was a Quaker doctor from the island of Tortola who was a student of John Fothergill. He owned a ten-acre garden in Camberwell, which included a menagerie and a museum of shells, corals and other natural history exhibits.
The natural history of the tea-tree, with observations on the medical qualities of tea, and effects of tea-drinking by John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815)
