Anglican Church

EF came from an upper-middle-class, Anglican family. While her childhood was apparently happy, she chafed at the restrictions imposed by her father, brothers, and other figures of authority, resenting the constraints placed on her...

Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church , JHN began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics and Dissenters led them to suppose that the...

Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism . She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons.

ER was born to presumably white, English, middle-class parents. She was a practising Anglican and leaned towards High Church doctrine. She became a staunch Tory who frequently published articles in the Conservative Quarterly Review.

MS was born to an Englishman and a New Zealander, into the middle class and the Church of England . Her family moved when she was a baby from Sunderland, where her father was...

She belonged to the English professional class (though her father had been an American colonist before the Revolution) and the Anglican Church . She was presumably white.

EG 's family were English, Anglican , and evidently upper middle class. The two youngest children ate their regular meals in the nursery with their Nanna, then after dinner were summoned by an electric...

Born English and white, to a leading family in a southern city of colonial America, Sophia descended through her mother from a family of Quaker heritage. Brought up in her father's Anglican religion, she for...

Brought up in the Church of England , she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died, or that in New Zealand when...

He became a Church of England clergyman, but after the accession of George I he refused to take the oath of allegiance (since he was a Jacobite). This made him a Nonjuror, ineligible for positions...

JB was born into a wealthy, presumably white family that instilled in its children Anglican and Evangelical piety and Liberal principles. Her religious activities were diverse and sometimes even seemingly contradictory. She recalls that her...

Though she grew up in England, MLM 's Scottish roots, on both sides of the family, were important to her. Her parents were, however, Calvinist Presbyterian s, and this faith, which she later regarded as...

MWD came from the rural middle class, from middle England and the established church . Her father not only owned his land but even considered himself a gentleman (though neither his income nor, probably, his...

As a child she knelt at bedtime to say her prayers: she loved praying and did it with great intensity. After the regulation Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, she would talk to Jesus (rather than...

An earnest Protestant, believing in the right and duty for men and women to read the Bible for themselves, she had a formative influence on the English Reformation and the birth of the Church of England