Anne Docwra
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Anne Docwra
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Anne Waldegrave
| birth_date = 1624
| birth_place = Bures, England
| death_date = 1710
| death_place =
| death_cause =
| other_names =
| known_for = Writing
| education =
| employer =
| occupation =
| spouse = James Docwra
| partner =
| children =
| parents =
| relatives =
| signature =
| website =
| footnotes =
| nationality =
}}
Anne Docwra born Anne Waldegrave (1624 – 1710) was a Quaker minister, religious writer and philanthropist.
Life
Docwra was born in Bures in 1624. Her father was William Waldegrave and her grandfather was Sir William Waldegrave. Her family were Royalist and well connected. Her father was a Justice of the Peace and when he found her reading a book that he thought lightweight he encouraged her to learn by reading books about the law.{{cite book|author=Sarah Louise Trethewey Apetrei|title=Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=md9JA4xvuJIC&pg=PA160|date=22 April 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-51396-8|pages=160–164}}
She married James Docwra, who died in 1672. She was a Quaker minister and Quakers in Cambridge met at her house from 1672. In 1680 she gave the Quakers a 1,000 year lease on a yard in Jesus Lane in Cambridge.{{cite book|author=David Booy|title=Autobiographical Writings by Early Quaker Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Shp53fHkIfUC&pg=PA161|year=2004|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-0753-3|pages=161–}} Jesus Lane Local Quaker Meeting still meets at the meeting house there, which traces its foundation back to 1650. However the current building dates, in part, to 1777 as the meeting house has been rebuilt several times.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cambridgeshire-quakers.org.uk/meetings/jesus-lane|title=Cambridge Jesus Lane Local Quaker Meeting|website=www.cambridgeshire-quakers.org.uk|access-date=2017-12-27}}
Docwra wrote several tracts on the subject of religious toleration, including A looking-glass for the recorder and justices of the peace and grand juries for the town and county of Cambridge (1682).Mullett, M. (2004-09-23). Docwra [née Waldegrave], Anne (c. 1624–1710), religious writer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 26 Dec. 2017, see [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-45813 link] She was involved in controversies within the Quaker movement about organisational structure, and opposed the establishment of separate men's and women's meetings for church affairs.{{Cite book|last=Mack|first=Phyllis|title=Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England|publisher=University of California Press|year=1992|pages=315–318}}
Francis Bugg, her nephew and a former Quaker, conducted a long and bitter dispute with leading figures of the Quaker movement, including Docwra.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Bugg, Francis|volume=7}}
Docwra died on 14 September 1710.{{Cite web|url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=docwan|title=Anne Docwra|last=|first=|date=|website=Orlando Project|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2017-12-27}}
References
{{reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Docwra, Anne}}