Jacob Post

Jacob Post (1774–1855) was an English Quaker and a religious author. He wrote accounts of two founding Quakers: George Fox and William Penn.

Jacob Post
Post at the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention. On his left is Lady Byron
Born	1774
Died	1855 Islington
Resting place	Winchmore Hill, Middlesex
Nationality	British
Known for	Writing

Life

Jacob Post was born in Whitefriars, London, on 12 September 1774. His parents, John and Rosamund Post, enrolled him at the relatively new Ackworth School in Yorkshire, which was run by the Society of Friends.

By 1787 Post had moved to Islington and was writing on behalf of the emerging evangelical section of the Quakers. In 1812 he founded a local section of the Bible Society for North London and Islington. In 1837, his eighteen-year-old son died. In the following year he published Extracts from the Diary of Frederick James Post under joint authorship.

<imagemap> File:The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 by Benjamin Robert Haydon.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Post is on the right near the ladies in this painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention. Move your cursor to identify Post or click icon to enlarge

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Harfield Tredgold - British South African (secretary) circle 722 1477 97 Josiah Forster - Quaker leader circle 573 1448 117 Samuel Gurney - the Banker's Banker circle 374 740 67 Sir John Eardley-Wilmot circle 263 772 82 Dr Stephen Lushington - MP and Judge circle 164 807 76 Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton circle 366 907 99 James Gillespie Birney - American circle 278 980 94 John Beaumont circle 114 962 126 George Bradburn - Massachusetts politician circle 143 1181 105 George William Alexander - Banker and Treasurer circle 1225 1173 58 Benjamin Godwin - Baptist activist circle 1298 1196 58 Vice Admiral Moorson circle 1228 1272 58 William Taylor circle 1263 1094 58 William Taylor circle 1377 1053 58 John Morrison circle 1334 1105 58 GK Prince circle 1459 1035 58 Josiah Conder circle 1570 1024 50 Joseph Soul circle 1527 1088 58 James Dean (abolitionist) circle 1503 1208 58 John Keep - Ohio fund raiser circle 1576 1202 58 Joseph Eaton circle 1421 1181 82 Joseph Sturge - Organiser from Birmingham circle 1684 1056 35 James Whitehorne circle 904 936 58 Joseph Marriage circle 1652 997 35 George Bennett circle 1620 1088 58 Richard Allen circle 766 769 58 Stafford Allen circle 854 1062 64 William Leatham, banker circle 833 784 58 William Beaumont circle 793 652 58 Sir Edward Baines - Journalist circle 684 635 58 Samuel Lucas circle 600 658 58 Francis Augustus Cox circle 681 749 70 Abraham Beaumont circle 389 570 73 Samuel Fox, Nottingham grocer circle 594 798 70 Louis Celeste Lecesne circle 503 719 88 Jonathan Backhouse circle 196 477 70 Samuel Bowly circle 290 602 61 William Dawes - Ohio fund raiser circle 123 567 79 Robert Kaye Greville - Botanist circle 816 918 58 Joseph Pease - reformer in India) circle 711 912 58 W.T.Blair circle 734 1059 73 M.M. 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Isaac Bass circle 2176 1176 58 Henry Sterry circle 2512 1293 70 Peter Clare -; sec. of Literary & Phil. Soc. Manchester circle 2395 1298 61 J.H. Johnson circle 2106 1032 32 Thomas Price circle 2205 1070 35 Joseph Reynolds circle 2319 1050 35 Samuel Wheeler circle 2243 1029 35 William Boultbee circle 53 608 76 Daniel O'Connell - "The Liberator" circle 2375 1062 35 William Fairbank circle 2439 1050 44 John Woodmark circle 2515 1056 41 William Smeal from Glasgow circle 2345 1170 58 James Carlile - Irish Minister and educationalist circle 2436 1158 58 Rev. Dr. Thomas Binney circle 2497 1173 58 Edward Barrett - Freed slave circle 2559 1176 58 John Howard Hinton - Baptist minister circle 2623 1202 58 John Angell James - clergyman circle 2685 1313 64 Joseph Cooper circle 2685 1100 47 Dr. Richard Robert Madden - Irish circle 2749 1053 35 Thomas Bulley circle 2816 1067 35 Isaac Hodgson circle 2869 1053 35 Edward Smith circle 2819 1290 58 Sir John Bowring - diplomat and linguist circle 2854 1149 44 John Ellis circle 2904 1296 58 C. 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McDonnell circle 3427 1047 58 Mrs John Beaumont circle 3473 1286 58 Anne Knight - Feminist circle 3565 1116 85 Elizabeth Pease - Suffragist circle 3138 1307 64 Jacob Post - Religious writer circle 3223 1296 58 Anne Isabella, Lady Byron - mathematician and estranged wife circle 3305 1291 76 Amelia Opie - Novelist and poet circle 3506 1278 105 Mrs Rawson - Sheffield campaigner circle 395 1208 58 Thomas Clarkson's grandson Thomas Clarkson circle 2778 1141 58 Thomas Morgan poly 839 1211 885 1108 916 1007 969 950 1031 918 1073 881 1051 861 1053 798 1105 751 1185 745 1240 792 1236 838 1212 890 1205 915 1217 933 1273 950 1339 934 1414 863 1471 776 1467 741 1472 701 1489 700 1496 661 1509 661 1511 719 1518 705 1556 736 1524 806 1528 814 1447 966 1407 1008 1356 1029 1263 1054 1238 1119 1214 1212 840 1212 840 1212 Thomas Clarkson - main speaker poly 2943 2001 2919 1901 2971 1823 3054 1807 3140 1827 3167 1743 3238 1636 3271 1601 3272 1572 3266 1559 3293 1530 3293 1498 3332 1440 3377 1435 3427 1453 3471 1484 3483 1541 3459 1612 3443 1626 3441 1672 3476 1712 3531 1745 3546 1776 3546 1850 3553 1923 3519 2005 3265 1918 3207 1942 3216 2008 2947 2008 2947 2008 George Head Head - Banker from Carlisle poly 924 2026 899 1933 850 1861 756 1820 726 1809 778 1696 833 1641 913 1582 908 1553 908 1524 958 1483 1017 1463 1063 1461 1135 1495 1144 1523 1127 1541 1122 1585 1131 1613 1133 1631 1114 1632 1117 1650 1108 1670 1101 1690 1080 1697 1109 1737 1177 1729 1285 1834 1299 1912 1268 1956 1256 1967 1227 2025 1217 2028 1192 2043 1197 2178 1226 2237 1208 2306 1152 2356 1091 2501 853 2440 830 2442 William Allen poly 2098 1965 2118 1919 2107 1882 2080 1852 2109 1756 2143 1718 2195 1707 2221 1682 2258 1632 2226 1631 2252 1621 2231 1606 2245 1585 2244 1576 2245 1550 2234 1535 2248 1522 2268 1503 2268 1480 2289 1451 2318 1435 2355 1420 2393 1423 2426 1442 2439 1462 2455 1514 2461 1545 2440 1598 2421 1615 2411 1639 2437 1699 2483 1731 2511 1746 2554 1830 2561 1855 2228 1860 2160 1979 2101 1984 2117 1939 2117 1939 John Scoble poly 1235 1783 1322 1777 1369 1786 1350 1810 1354 1816 1384 1831 1414 1820 1442 1812 1467 1791 1496 1789 1560 1746 1603 1734 1664 1685 1728 1652 1807 1631 1808 1625 1826 1617 1801 1601 1807 1580 1796 1563 1798 1547 1810 1538 1800 1521 1800 1516 1815 1509 1818 1497 1815 1484 1831 1454 1842 1425 1872 1396 1939 1395 1967 1410 1993 1433 2011 1487 2003 1541 1965 1594 1949 1607 1939 1627 2045 1712 2101 1754 2089 1823 2051 1849 1682 1844 1582 1874 1505 1894 1429 1898 1319 1852 1254 1791 Henry Beckford - emancipated slave and abolitionist rect 0 0 3600 2793 Use your cursor to explore (or Click "i" to enlarge) desc bottom-left </imagemap> In 1840 Post's portrait featured in a painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London. His wife Elizabeth Post died in 1844; Post died on 1 April 1855 at his house in Islington.

Post's output includes two children's books, accounts of founders of the Society of Friends – George Fox and William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania – and matters of religious dispute in his time.

Works include

• Extracts from the Diary of Frederick James Post and other Manuscripts, with a Memoir (1838)
• Some Popular Customs amongst Christians questioned and compared with Gospel Precepts and Examples (1839)
• On the History and Mystery of (those called) the Sacraments; shewing them to be Jewish Institutions... (1846)
• The Bible: the Book for All (1848)
• Popular Memoir of W. Penn (1850)
• A Brief Memoir of George Fox... for the Information of Strangers (1854)
• The Lord's Supper its origin and history (1854)