Quakers

===Friends in business and education===
{{See also|List of Quaker businesses, organizations and charities|List of Friends schools}}[[File:John Cadbury.jpg|thumb|upright|English Quaker [[John Cadbury]] founded Cadbury in [[Birmingham]], England, in 1824, selling tea, coffee and drinking chocolate.]]
Described as "natural capitalists" by the [[BBC]], many Quakers were successful in a variety of industries.<ref name=Jackson2010/><ref name="King">{{Cite book |last1=King |first1=Mike |title=Quakernomics: An Ethical Capitalism |date=2014 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=9780857281128 |page=51}}</ref> Two notable examples were [[Abraham Darby I]] and [[Edward Pease (railway pioneer)|Edward Pease]]. Darby and his family played an important role in the British [[Industrial Revolution]] with their innovations in ironmaking.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Adams |first=Ryan |date=27 July 2012 |title=Danny Boyle's intro on Olympics programme |work=Awards Daily |url=http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2012/07/27/danny-boyles-intro-on-olympics-programme/ |url-status=dead |access-date=20 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206135250/http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2012/07/27/danny-boyles-intro-on-olympics-programme/ |archive-date=6 February 2013}}</ref><ref name="Quaker Enterprise">{{Cite book|last=Burns Windsor|first=D|title=The Quaker Enterprise: Friends in Business |publisher=Frederick Muller Ltd |year=1980 |isbn=0-584-10257-7 |location=London}}</ref> Pease, a [[Darlington]] manufacturer, was the main promoter of the [[Stockton and Darlington Railway]], which was the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives.<ref name="King"/> Other industries with prominent Quaker businesses included banking ([[Lloyds Banking Group]] and [[Barclays PLC]]), pharmaceuticals ([[Allen & Hanburys]]), chocolate ([[Cadbury]] and [[J. S. Fry & Sons|Fry's]]), confectionery [[Rowntree's|(Rowntree]]), shoe manufacturing ([[C. & J. Clark|Clarks]]), and biscuit manufacturing ([[Huntley & Palmers]]).<ref name=Jackson2010/><ref name="Quaker Enterprise" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Palmer |first=M. |title=Made to Last: The Story of Britain's Best Known Shoe Firm |publisher=Profile Books |location=London |pages=19–20}}</ref>

Quakers have a long history of establishing educational institutions. Initially, Quakers had no ordained [[clergy]], and therefore needed no [[seminary|seminaries]] for theological training. In England, Quaker schools sprang up soon after the movement emerged, with [[Friends School Saffron Walden]] being the most prominent.<ref>On Quaker schools in Britain and Ireland, see [http://www.quaker.org.uk/subject-guides Quaker Schools in Great Britain and Ireland: A selective bibliography of histories and guide to records].</ref> Quaker schools in the UK and Ireland are supported by The Friends' Schools' Council.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Quaker Education {{!}} Discover Education in UK Quaker Schools |url=https://www.aquakereducation.co.uk/ |access-date=2019-06-13 |website=A Quaker Education |language=en-GB}}</ref> In Australia, [[Friends' School, Hobart]], founded in 1887, has grown into the largest Quaker school in the world. In Britain and the United States, friends have established a variety of institutions at a variety of [[Educational stage|educational levels]]. In Kenya, Quakers founded several primary and secondary schools in the first half of the 20th century before [[History of Kenya#Independence|the country's independence]] in 1963.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quaker Schools/Friends Schools |url=https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/66/Quaker-SchoolsFriends-Schools |access-date=18 October 2022 |website=Quakers in the World}}</ref>