Catherine Payton Phillips

Catherine Phillips, born Payton (16 March 1727 – 16 August 1794) was a Quaker Minister, who travelled in England, Wales, Scotland, Holland and the American colonies.

[1] At an annual London meeting, she, Mary Peisley and four others proposed that a separate women's group should be formed within the Quakers.

Her letters and records of this journey "were to be seen 70 years later as prophesying the separations that took place within the Religious Society of Friends in 1827 and 1828".

She died on 16 August 1794 and was buried at the Quaker Burial Ground, Come-to-Good, in the parish of Kea, near Truro.

Her stepson, James Phillips, a Quaker printer, published her Memoirs and some other writing after her death.