George Stacey

George Stacey (1787–1857) was a leading English Quaker and abolitionist. He was active in trying to prevent a schism within the Quakers. Biography Stacey was born in Kendal. Stacey married a fellow Quaker and cousin, Deborah Lloyd, of the Lloyds banking family. Stacey was then living in Tottenham. He was a business partner in a Chemists business called Corbyn, Beaumont, Stacey and Messer. The Stacey's involvement in this partnership dated from 1772 when Thomas Corbyn took in another George Stacey; who were both Quakers. That George Stacey died in 1816. In 1823 the Anti-Slavery Society was formed with Stacey as a leading member. The society had many Quaker members and Stacey was also joining his fellow Quakers in business ventures like the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825.