Benjamin Furly (13 April 1636 – March 1714) was an English Quaker merchant and friend of John Locke.
Furly was born at Colchester 13 April 1636, began life as a merchant there, and joined the early Quakers.
George Fox records that this work was finished in 1661, and that Furly took great pains with it.
Subsequently Furly renounced quakerism, again embraced it, but is supposed finally to have left it.
Edward's grandson, Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster, inherited much of Furly's correspondence, and printed part of his collection as 'Original Letters of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Sydney' in 1830, reissuing it in his privately printed 'Epistolarium' in 1830, 2nd edit.