Hannah Chapman Gurney

Hannah Chapman Backhouse (née Gurney; 9 February 1787 – 6 May 1850) was an English diarist and Quaker minister. Her work in America was influential in strengthening evangelicalism in American Quakerism.

Life Hannah Chapman Gurney was born in Norwich on 2 February 1787 to Joseph and Jane Gurney (née Chapman). One cousin was Elizabeth Fry. and the couple settled at Darlington. Isaac Stephenson. She described Kirkbride as "a gay, animated young person, who, through a succession of afflictions, had become quite serious." Kirkbride and Backhouse travelled the southern states of the US, where Backhouse wrote about the evils of slavery.

Later years In 1835, they returned to England, and for the next ten years, Hannah continued to travel across England and Scotland. During this time, her eldest surviving son, aged 17, her husband, and a daughter all died.

During late 1849, her health began to decline. She died on 6 May 1850 at Polam Hall in Darlington.