L, M, N

People with names beginning in L, M, or N.

Thomas Livings, Mealman, 17th century member of meeting

John Loake, donated £1 for the building of the first meeting house.

Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971)
Crystallographer, established the structure of benzene by x-ray and neutron diffraction methods in 1929, and hexachlorobenzene by fourier spectral methods in 1931. During her career she was the first woman elected a fellow of the royal society, the first woman given tenure at University College London, the first woman president of the International Union of Crystalloraphy and the first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

She was born in Ireland, moved to England and for a time studied at Ilford County High School for Boys to sudy mathematics and science because the girls school did not offer these subjects. She obtained her Bsc at Bedford College in 1922, and graduated wih an Msc in physics from University College in 1924. She then joined the Royal Institution.

She married Thomas Jackson Lonsdale in 1927 and had three children. Though she had been brought up as a Baptist, she became a Quaker in 1935, with her husband.

She served a month in Holloway prison during the Second World War because she refused to register for civil defence duties or pay a fine for refusing to register.

After leaving prison Kathleen made suggestions to the Governor for prison improvements. Many of her suggestions were implemented and Kathleen later became a prison Visitor. She was also a tireless campaigner in the cause of international peace.

At the Britain Yearly meeting in 1953 she delivered the Swarthmore Lecture: Removing the causes of war.

On their return to London, the Londsdales began to go to the Uxbridge Meeting.

Thomas Lovett, donated fifteen shillings towards the building of the first meeting house.

Mathew Martin, of IVer, yeoman, mentioned on the 1692 indenture

Mivchael MArlyn, paid £5 towards the building of the first meeting house.

Phillip May, donated £1 towards the building of the first meeting house.

Ralph Nicolas, tenant of one of the Lynch cottages mentioned in the 1692 indenture for the land.

Richard Newsomb, donated one pound one shilling and sixpence towards the building of the first meeting house.Elizabeth Perk, tenant of the Catherine Wheel cottages as mentioned in the 1692 indenture.