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List of Quaker businesses, organizations and charities

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This is a list of notable businesses, organizations or charities founded by Quakers. Many of these are no longer managed or influenced by Quakers. At the end of the article are businesses that have never had any connection to Quakers, although some people may believe that they did or still do.

See separate List of Friends schools

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Businesses, organizations or charities with Quaker origins

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  • Barclays Bank, finance{{cite web|url=http://www.decision-finance.co.uk/barclays_sales_finance_about_the_bank.html |title=Business Insurance - tailored cover with up to 50% no claims bonus |publisher=Decision-finance.co.uk |date=2009-11-06 |access-date=2011-08-10}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/history/slavery_2.shtml |title=Religions - Christianity: Atlantic slave trade and abolition |publisher=BBC |date=2007-01-29 |access-date=2011-08-10}}{{cite web|url=http://www.visitdarlington.com/site/heritage/quaker-heritage |title=Quaker Heritage |publisher=Visit Darlington |access-date=2011-08-10}}
  • Bethlehem Steel, founded by Quaker entrepreneur Joseph Wharton
  • Bewley's, Irish hot beverage company founded by Samuel and Charles Bewley. The Bewleys were one of Ireland's most well known Quaker families.
  • Bradshaw's, Victorian and Edwardian publisher of the most widely used railway timetables in Britain, Europe and India, founded by Quaker George Bradshaw
  • Bryant and May, former match manufacturing company, founded by two Quakers, Francis May and William Bryant

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  • Duane Morris, now one of the 100 largest law firms in the US, and still committed to Quaker values{{cite web|url=http://hbr.org/product/duane-morris-balancing-growth-and-culture-at-a-law/an/407025-PDF-ENG?Ntt=boris+groysberg |title=Duane Morris: Balancing Growth and Culture at a Law Firm - Harvard Business Review |publisher=Hbr.org |date=2006-08-07 |access-date=2011-08-10}}

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  • Earlham College, liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana, founded in 1847 as the Friends Boarding School, a boarding high school for the religious education of Quaker adolescents

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  • Gilkes Wilson and Company, British locomotive manufacturer
  • Goodbody Stockbrokers, Irish Stockbrokers. Known for many years as "Goodbody & Webb", it was founded by two Quakers, Jonathan Goodbody and Richard Webb.
  • Guilford College
  • Greenpeace, campaigning environment organization; the four{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} founding members include Irving Stowe{{cite web|url=http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/vrml/rw/text/def/stowe.html |title=Stowe |publisher=Archive.greenpeace.org |access-date=2011-08-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604013638/http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/vrml/rw/text/def/stowe.html |archive-date=2011-06-04 }} and Dorothy Stowe of Vancouver Monthly Meeting.

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  • Lloyds Bank, finance{{cite book|last = Levy| first = Barry| title = Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley| publisher = Oxford University Press| year = 1992| isbn =0-19-504976-4}}

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  • Oxfam, charity{{cite web|url=http://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/jacksoncole.html |title=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme |publisher=Oxonblueplaques.org.uk |date=2011-07-18 |access-date=2011-08-10}}

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  • [https://www.pqcorp.com/brands/pq-corporation PQ Corporation], or [http://findingaids.hagley.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/1865.xml Philadelphia Quartz Company], was originally founded by Philadelphia Quaker businessmen, Joseph Elkinton and Thomas Elkinton.
  • Priestman Brothers, Kingston upon Hull engineering company founded by Quaker William Dent Priestman and his brother Samuel Priestman, which built the earliest recorded railway locomotive powered by an internal combustion engine
  • [http://www.penington.org Penington Friends House], founded in 1897 to provide shelter and meals to Quakers and friendly people coming to New York City. Long term and short stay guest rooms are still provided.
  • The Plymouth China Factory, founded by William Cookworthy, the first person in Britain to discover how to make hard-paste porcelain.

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  • Sandy Spring Bank, founded in 1868 by Quaker farmers, now the largest bank in the state of Maryland, US{{cite web | url=https://www.sandyspringbank.com/aboutus/history/timeline.aspx | title=Sandy Spring Bank Timeline | publisher=sandyspringbank.com | access-date=2012-11-05 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022201646/https://www.sandyspringbank.com/aboutus/history/timeline.aspx | archive-date=2012-10-22 }}
  • Scott Bader Commonwealth, British manufacturer of advanced resins and composites, founded by Ernest Bader in 1951
  • Sony (formerly Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, or Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering, Co.), TTK's founding board president was Tamon Maeda, a Japanese Quaker, prewar Japanese ambassador to ILO, and postwar Minister of Education
  • Stockton and Darlington Railway, established in 1825 by Quaker Edward Pease, operated the world's first permanent steam locomotive-hauled railway line
  • Strawbridge and Clothier (now part of Macy's), department store chain, US (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware)

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  • Truth Legal Solicitors, founded in 2012 by Quaker solicitor Andrew Gray.{{cite web | url=https://www.truthlegal.com/truth-legal-the-quaker-solicitors/ | title=Truth Legal - Quaker Solicitors | publisher=truthlegal.com | access-date=2018-03-06}}

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Businesses with no Quaker connection

References

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External links

  • [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8467833.stm BBC article on Quakers successes in business]

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