Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707
- ISBN-10
- 0804734526
- ISBN-13
- 9780804734523
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 337
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Author
- Richard L. Greaves
Description
A towering figure in the history of Irish Quakerism, and friend of William Penn, Anthony Sharp left England in 1669 to settle in Dublin and carve out a place for himself in the woolen trade. This book is not only a biography of Sharp but a detailed portrait of Dublin’s community of Friends.
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