T. Edmund Harvey: Liberal Ascendant - Paperback

by Mark Frankel (Author)

T. Edmund Harvey (1875-1955) is a unique figure, a Quaker who was a member of the British parliament in both world wars. He began as a Liberal Radical MP under Asquith and ended as an Independent Progressive in Churchill's wartime Parliament. He was a child of the Quaker Renaissance, a post-Victorian Christian gentleman whose religious and political life coincided with the era in Quaker history of 'liberalism ascendant', an era he helped shape. Harvey's career evinces a fourfold typology of British Quakers, as liberals, socialists, anarchists and experientialists.

Author Biography

Mark Stanley Frankel is a independent scholar of Quaker studies from New Malden UK. In 2023 he completed a Ph.D., 'T. Edmund Harvey (1875-1955): liberal Quaker, Quaker liberal and politician of conscience' with the University of Birmingham UK.