Anna Braithwaite

Anna Braithwaite
Born	Anna Lloyd 27 December, 1818 Birmingham
Died	18 December, 1905 Kendal
Nationality	United Kingdom
Occupation	Quaker minister
Spouse(s)	Isaac Braithwaite
Relatives	Lloyd family

Anna Braithwaite born Anna Lloyd (27 December 1818 – 18 December 1905) was a prominent English Quaker minister. She visited the United States three times in an effort to avoid the schism created by the views of Elias Hicks.

Braithwaite was born in Birmingham as Anna Lloyd of the influential Lloyd family in 1788. She married Isaac Braithwaite in 1808. Two years before her sister had married Isaac's brother. Their children included the Quaker minister Joseph Bevan Braithwaite.

Doctrinal differences within the Quakers were created by the views of Elias Hicks after 1808. As Hicks’ influence grew William Forster highlighted the issue in 1820. Prominent English evangelical Quakers which included Elizabeth Robson, Forster and Braithwaite, decided to travel to the United States to denounce his views between 1821 and 1827.

The visiting British Quakers exacerbated the differences among American Quakers, differences that echoed the 1819 split between the Unitarians and Congregationalists. The influence of Anna Braithwaite was especially strong. She visited the United States three times between 1823 and 1827 and published her Letters and observations relating to the controversy respecting the doctrines of Elias Hicks in 1824 Hicks felt obliged to respond and in the same year published a letter to his ally in the Philadelphia Meeting, Dr. Edwin Atlee, in The Misrepresentations of Anna Braithwaite. This in turn was replied to by Braithwaite in A Letter from Anna Braithwaite to Elias Hicks, On the Nature of his Doctrines in 1825.

Braithwaite's family were affected by doctrinal differences. In 1835, the Beaconites separated from the Quakers and five of her children joined the new group.

Braithwaite died in Kendal in 1905.

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