Jacob Post
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Post at the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention. On his left is
Lady Byron
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Born | 1774 |
Died |
1855
Islington
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Resting place | Winchmore Hill , Middlesex |
Nationality | British |
Known for | Writing |
Jacob Post (1774–1855) was an English Quaker [1] and a religious author. He wrote accounts of two founding Quakers: George Fox and William Penn .
Life
Jacob Post was born in Whitefriars, London , on 12 September 1774. His parents, John and Rosamund Post, enrolled him at the relatively new Ackworth School in Yorkshire, which was run by the Society of Friends. [2]
By 1787 Post had moved to Islington and was writing on behalf of the emerging evangelical section of the Quakers. In 1812 he founded a local section of the Bible Society for North London and Islington. In 1837, his eighteen-year-old son died. In the following year he published Extracts from the Diary of Frederick James Post under joint authorship.
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In 1840 Post's portrait featured in a painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London. [1] His wife Elizabeth Post died in 1844; Post died on 1 April 1855 at his house in Islington .
Post's output includes two children's books, accounts of founders of the Society of Friends – George Fox and William Penn , the founder of Pennsylvania – and matters of religious dispute in his time. [2]
Works include
- Extracts from the Diary of Frederick James Post and other Manuscripts, with a Memoir (1838)
- Some Popular Customs amongst Christians questioned and compared with Gospel Precepts and Examples (1839)
- On the History and Mystery of (those called) the Sacraments; shewing them to be Jewish Institutions... (1846)
- The Bible: the Book for All (1848) [3]
- Popular Memoir of W. Penn (1850) [4]
- A Brief Memoir of George Fox... for the Information of Strangers (1854)
- The Lord's Supper its origin and history (1854) [5]
References
- 1 2 3 The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 , Benjamin Robert Haydon , 1841, National Portrait Gallery , London, NPG599, Given by British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1880
- 1 2 Charlotte Fell-Smith, "Post, Jacob (1774–1855)", rev. K. D. Reynolds, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004 Retrieved 19 January 2010 .
- ↑ POST, Jacob (1856). The Bible the Book for All. Second Edition .
- ↑ Post, Jacob (1850). A popular memoir of William Penn . C. Gilpin.
- ↑ Post, Jacob (1854). The Lord's supper; its origin and history: shewing that devotionally partaking of bread and wine is an ancient Jewish ceremony .
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