Anglican Church

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...

Hester Ley was born into a large and upwardly-mobile English gentry family whose religion was Anglican and whose menfolk were expected to serve (and do well for themselves) in public life: elected to parliament, loyal...

Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church , EG was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of...

EJ was a lifelong Londoner, a High Tory, and an Anglican . As a printer for fifty years, she had some standing in the urban middle class.

Growing up Anglican , she was intensely or excessively religious as an adolescent. Her beliefs began to alter when her reading led her to perceive a parallel between the stories of the Bible and those...

From a family which was financially precarious though middle-class by birth, MW seems to have questioned the religious fervour typical of its other members (at first Anglican , in due course Methodist ), while also...

The Veitch family were presumably white, and belonged to the Scottish gentry, with male members holding professional positions. They were Anglicans with (judging by the positions held by Sophie's father) distinctly Low-Church leanings.

She was born into the English middle class, and became a sincere and earnest Anglican . She grew up in an industrial, working-class area, in which her family was clearly marked out as superior to...

FAR came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican in religion. Mary Russell Mitford represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were...

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...

In her later life MLC was an earnestly Anglican Englishwoman; she came from the gentry class. Yet her family partook significantly of Dissenting and anti-monarchist traditions.

She was Anglo-Irish, born into the Protestant (Church of Ireland ) land-owning class. This group at this date produced a number of individuals who sought the political, religious, and technological reform of Irish society...

Irish in origin, the Harkness family belonged to a long line of Anglican clergymen. They had aristocratic connections—through MH 's paternal grandfather's marriage—reaching back to the time of Edward I, although they were not particularly...