Milligan's Biographical dictionary of British Quakers in commerce and industry

The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920, by Edward H. Milligan, includes entries for some 2,800 people, arranged alphabetically. The last page is numbered 606.

The author is the former Librarian and Archivist of Meeting for Sufferings of Britain Yearly Meeting, who was responsible for the Library at Friends House, London and the co-operative biography project with two Quaker colleges in the United States. The author received the 2009 Besterman/McColvin Award for this work.

The work includes the following indices:

The Dictionary shows many kinship groups active in commerce and industry. It shows the female children of each subject, if they married a male who is also a subject. An example of kinship is the entries for people called "Fox":

For more about the Quaker Foxes, see Francis Fox of St Germans and the Fox family of Falmouth.

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