Edward Backhouse
1808–79
Quaker minister, philanthropist, and historical writer. Partner in family mining and banking businesses. Amateur painter and naturalist. Quaker minister, 1854. Author of a posthumously published book on early church history.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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