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Whitehead, George (c.1636–1723)| English religious leader. After being persuaded to join the Society of Friends (‘Quakers’) by its founder George Fox, he travelled around England preaching its message, and wrote many tracts. |
| Whitehead was born near Orton, Westmorland. In 1661 he presented a defence of the Society to Parliament prior to the reading of the anti-Quaker bill. He was imprisoned for his beliefs on a number of occasions, spending an almost continuous spell of ten years in jail from 1662 onwards. |
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