Image supplied by Rosemary Field, Illustration from "A Quaker Saint of Cornwall: Loveday Hambly and her Guests", by LV Hodgkin, 1927
Loveday hambly
Religion and Spirituality
1604 - 1682
Suggested by Emma Hambly and Rosemary Field
EH: Loveday Hambly was a Quaker who hosted and supported George Fox and other early Quakers, sharing peace and equality, and suffering imprisonment for her work. Loveday endeavoured to cultivate non-hierarchical, egalitarian sentiment within a corrupt, patriarchal model of spirituality.
Myself a lifelong Quaker and relative of hers, I am still coming to understand the role of non compliance in a difficult world, and the empowerment of individuals in political acts.
RF: From her house, Tregangeeves, nr Launceston, Loveday Hambly provided hospitality and a base for the development of Quakerism in Cornwall from the mid-17th century. She visited George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, imprisoned for his beliefs in Launceston gaol in 1656.
Loveday was a woman of deep faith and was herself subject to persecution between 1658 and 1682, including seven weeks in Launceston Gaol for holding a Quaker Meeting at her house.