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Cultural formation Penelope Mortimer
Welsh by birth (although she lived her adult life in England and the USA), she was, as a clergyman's daughter, brought up in the Church of England . Her father's Communist affiliation seems not to...
Cultural formation Isabella Bird
To dedicate herself to her medical missionary work, she had herself baptized in a ceremony of total immersion. She did not, however, leave the AnglicanChurch for the Baptist church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Susan Smythies
SS was an Englishwoman born into a family in which a high proportion of the men became clergymen in the Church ofEngland .
“Genealogical Notes to the Pedigree of the Smythies Family”. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol.
4: 4
, pp. 276 - 86, 306.
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Cultural formation Marianne Chambers
MC was born into the English professional class and the Anglican religion.
Cultural formation Jane Williams
Her writings evince considerable pride in being Welsh as well as a certain chauvinism with respect to the English. Though not a native speaker, she learned Welsh while still young. She had prominent Nonconformist ancestors...
Cultural formation Sophia Jex-Blake
Both of SJB 's parents descended from well-established Norfolk families, presumably white, and belonged to the Anglican Church . Sophia and her siblings were denied many social indulgences in favour of the work expected of...
Cultural formation Rose Macaulay
Her brother's death impelled her to search in Anglican ritual, liturgy, and sacraments for a faith to sustain her.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Ashbridge
She grew up in a pious Anglican household, and confirmed into the Church at thirteen.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press.
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She also loved visiting the poor, and giving them money when she had any; and she was upset when...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Strickland
Her High Anglican family was well-positioned in the English middle class at the time of her birth, but although her father had aspirations to rise higher, the opposite happened. They became more and more short...
Cultural formation Queen Elizabeth I
Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...
Cultural formation Laurence Hope
Adela Cory's English parents were living in India at the time of her birth, as did many Britons throughout the period of British rule over the sub-continent. Her mother's family heritage was Irish. Adela was...
Cultural formation Annie Keary
Having found she could live with Broad Church theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists...
Cultural formation Mary Masters
MM was an English Anglican of the lower middle class.
Cultural formation Sarah Pearson
She belonged to the (presumably white) English, Anglican , middling ranks. The idea that she was a servant and a Baptist has arisen from confusion with Susanna (Flinders) Pearson.
Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press.
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Cultural formation Louisa Baldwin
The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society.
Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler.
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Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
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Baldwin's father, a Wesleyan minister, was more liberal in his religious influence than her mother. He hoped Louisa would grow up to be...

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23 December 1919: The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as...

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23 December 1919

The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act: this gave the Church of England greater control over its own affairs, thereby reducing the power of the institutional connection...

23 December 1919: The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as...

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23 December 1919

The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act: this gave the Church of England greater control over its own affairs, thereby reducing the power of the institutional connection...

31 March 1920: The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished...

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31 March 1920

The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished the Anglican Church in Wales, came into effect.

1921: Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's physician,...

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1921

Lord Dawson of Penn , the King's physician, advocated birth control on medical, social and especially personal grounds
Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm.
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in his address to a Church of England congress in Birmingham.

15 June 1928: A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the...

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15 June 1928

A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the Church of England had been working for years and which among other details deleted the word obey from women's marriage vows, was rejected by Parliament .

October 1928: The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican...

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October 1928

The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican monthly, ended publication in London.

1936: The Church of England Archbishops' Commission...

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1936

The Church of EnglandArchbishops' Commission on Women and the Ministry drew its conclusions and published its report.

After June 1936: Under the Tithe Act, the British government...

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After June 1936

Under the Tithe Act, the British government paid the Church of England something over seventy-two million pounds in lieu of the tithes it would have received over the next sixty years. But payment of tithes...

1942: The Anglican Church relaxed its expectation...

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1942

The Anglican Church relaxed its expectation that women should invariably wear hats in church.

1944: The Bishop of Hong Kong, Dr R. V. Hall, ordained...

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1944

The Bishop of Hong Kong, Dr R. V. Hall , ordained the first Anglican woman priest, Lei Tim Oi . Hall's church colleagues, however, asked her to resign, and she did so in 1946.

1944: Deaconess Florence Li Tim Oi was ordained...

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1944

Deaconess Florence Li Tim Oi was ordained by Bishop R. O. Hall as the first woman Anglican minister in the world.

1958: The Lambeth Conference of bishops from the...

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1958

The Lambeth Conference of bishops from the Church of England gave its seal of approval to the practice of birth control.

2 December 1960: Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher, Archibishop...

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2 December 1960

Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher , Archibishop of Canterbury, at the Vatican.

11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...

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11 October 1962

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church .

After 5 March 1971: Following an important meeting of the Anglican...

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After 5 March 1971

Following an important meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council at Limuru in Kenya, the bishop of Hong Kong and Macao (the diocese in which Florence Li was in 1944 ordained the world's first female...

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