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. 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.

Between 1830 and 1850 he was chosen twelve times as the clerk to the influential yearly meeting of the Quakers in London. The Quakers as a whole were committed to ending slavery and Stacey was a leading figure in this endeavour. His business dealt with America and the West Indies The women from America, and England, were asked to sit away from the main area. The commemorative painting of the event shows Stacey in the important foreground of the painting and women with the exception of the main speakers daughter, Mary Clarkson, the women are huddled to the right and to the back of the assembled crowd.

Stacey was trying to deal with a difficult issue and Rachel Stacey did take a leading role as secretary of the London Ladies' Negro Friend Society,

In 1841, Forster's wife Dorothy died.