Ann Carr (evangelist)

Ann Carr (4 March 1783 – 18 January 1841) was a British evangelist who founded the Female Revivalist Society.

Carr was warned off allowing "ranters" into her meetings, but she reacted against this and went to Hull to join the Primitive Methodists.

In Morley the group caused a schism in the local Primitive Methodists as the women wanted to hear preachers from the Female Revivalists.

[5] In 1838 Carr and her friend Martha Williams published "A Selection of Hymns for the use of the Female Revivalist Methodists.

Martha Williams wrote her biography the same year as Memoirs of the life and character of Ann Carr: containing an account of her conversion to God, her devoted labours and her happy death.

Ann Carr's grave is one of several preserved 10 metres north of Woodhouse Chapel in Leeds
Close up of Ann Carr's grave recording her as the "Foundress of the sect of Female Revivalists"