Samuel Fothergill (1715 1772), wasaccepted as a Quaker minister in 1736; not long after he married Susanna Croudson of Warrington, also a Quaker minister. In 1739 he pastorally visited the Friends in Wales and the west of England, and in the following year those in Yorkshire and Durham. 

Early in 1744, he visited Ireland, where he made great efforts to revive Quakerism, which was losing followers there. In 1754 he obtained a certificate to pursue his work abroad, whereupon, he immediately traveled to North America, where he remained till 1756, visiting nearly all the Quakers' meetings in the northern and many in the southern colonies. He laboured to reconcile the colonists and the Indians, and was part of a group encouraging tax resistance. On his return to England he resumed his ministerial work and worked to ameliorate the effects of poverty.

Complete title:

Samuel Fothergill. The Necessity and Divine Excellency of a Life of Purity and Holiness, set Forth With Pathetic Energy, by an Eminent Minister of the Gospel Amongst the People Called Quakers. In Seven Discourses and Three Prayers, and Epistle to his Brethren in Religious prosession in the Island of Tortola. 1780