Anglican Church

HM was brought up in the Church of England .

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...

She created her own, millenarian religious sect after the Methodists and the Church of England (both of whose services she attended) had rebuffed her unconventional advances. She is, however, often associated with the Methodists.

After several years of struggling with her religious beliefs, SG was baptised into the Church of England .

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...

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...

Born into the English country gentry (with yeoman connections further down the rural social scale), MBE became a radical in social politics and a nonconformist and anti-clerical in religion. Presumably white herself, she was finally...

EC was an English, middle-class Anglican .

EAD came from an upper-middle-class, Liberal, Welsh, presumably white family. Her paternal grandfather had been a Quaker , but he had left the Society of Friends to marry a non-Quaker woman. Their children were born...

SW was born into the middle class and into the very heart of the English Dissenting movement. Her father accepted her choice (made at twelve years old on the basis of her own careful reasoning)...

She was christened on 11 September 1844 at Christchurch Greyfriars in London. Her family belonged to the English middle class and was presumably white. After an Anglican upbringing, she moved away from conventional religious...

MAR 's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church and she was herself baptised as an Anglican.

Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish and later belonged to the Church of Ireland . Her husband was a churchwarden. By the time that her children...

Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends and in local trade. Mary Jane was strongly religious. Stamp relays a story of her mother not only frightening her with stories about hell, but...

EB 's parents were Anglo-Irish landowners; hers was an upper-middle-class, Protestant Unionist family. Her paternal ancestors, the apOwens, had come to Ireland from Wales with Oliver Cromwell's army at the time of the English Civil...