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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ((10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781) was a major political and intellectual figure in pre-revolutionary France. He was a man of wide-ranging intellectual interests and is considered to be a symbol or exemplar of the Enlightenment. He is placed at the beginning of this timeline because his lifetime saw the development of modern ideas of social progress.
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Acquired a blacksmith's shop and a forge. Richard was the fourth of 7 generations of Richard Garretts who were an iron-working family, associated with Woodbridge and Wickham Market. He had three sons; Richard, Balls and Newson.
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Third child of Joseph Gurney and wife Catherine. 'Plain Quakers of the Goat Lane Meeting in Norwich. Born at Gurney Court, Magdalen St Norwich,
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Family rent Earlham Court where her mother dies in 1792
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Diary entry ' I do not know if I shall not soon be rather religious. Elizabeth starts a Sunday School and begins to visit the sick.
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ISays 'I have felt there is a God' after hearing a lecture by William Savery
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Questions her right to enjoy 'artificial things'. In Coalbrookdale Deborah Derby a preacher speaks to her about becoming 'a light to the blind, speech to the dumb and feet to the lame'. Recieves a proposal of marriage from Joseph Fry, a Plain Quaker.
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Marries Joseph Fry at Norwich Goats Lane Meeing House. Between1801 and1816 she bears 10 children whilst living in London. She is ill during all the pregnancies. Joseph becomes a banker.
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Appointed by Friends of Gracechurch St Meeting as a visitor to school and workhouse in Islington
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Elizabeth's last child, Samuel, known as Gurney is born
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Married Louisa Dunnell. Elizabeth was their second child.
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She was age 35 when the marriage took place at Scottish Presbytarian Church Upper George St London
