Abraham Shackleton

Born in West Yorkshire, he settled and established a school in Ballitore, County Kildare, Ireland.

His private boarding school, open to people of any faith, educated boys from France, England, and other foreign countries.

Abraham Shackelton was born at Shackleton House, at Harden, near Bingley, West Yorkshire in England on 27 October 1696.

Both of his parents were Quakers (Society of Friends)[1] His father was imprisoned at York Castle for three years because he had not attended church (likely before the Toleration Act 1688).

[1] He moved to Ireland in 1720, after he was recruited by Irish Quakers to become a tutor for the children of William Cooper and John Duckett.

[1][2] In the neighboring County Kildare, he opened a multi-denominational boarding school at the Quaker village of Ballitore on 1 March 1726.

[1] He was an extremely diligent and careful teacher, strong on fatherly oversight, and always set a good example of uprightness, temperance, and humility.