Isaac Crewdson (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Isaac Crewdson (6 June 1780 - 8 May 1844) was a minister of the Quaker meeting in Manchester who published a book, A Beacon to the Society of Friends, that triggered a split that affected Quakers throughout England. The book was said to have "set off ... a volcanic explosion." Isaac Crewdson was born in 1780 in Kendal but moved in his teens to Manchester. He successfully entered the cotton trade and became a mill owner. He had been brought up in the Society of Friends but it was not until later that he became empowered by evangelism. Crewdson married Elizabeth Jowitt of Leeds in about 27 July 1803 and he was said to be related to many Quakers around the country. He rose to be a traditionalist Quaker minister from 1816 in the Society of Friends although his convictions were later questioned by his studies. In January 1835 he published, at a book fair in Frankfurt, A Beacon to the Society of Friends which highlighted a dichotomy he saw between the Bible's teachings and the doctrines of his church.