Anglican Church

The Becketts were of middle-class, solidly protestant, Anglo-Irish stock. Samuel's mother's family were a little higher socially than his father's, but his father was both popular and financially successful.SB regarded himself as an...

Her father's name was Andrew William Beer, though her mother called him John. He had been married before, and had been an Anglican before accepting the more rigorous faith of his second wife's family...

She was brought up in the Anglican church, but very definitely as one of the Anglo-Catholic minority. After her brother's death she turned against religion.

She belonged by birth to the English working class and was presumably white. Her parents were Anglicans .

Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her...

AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...

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...

Several of her works imitate the form of sermons and express Christian piety (anti-Methodist and probably Anglican ), but this may well be simply part of her stock-in-trade.

She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The...

Brought up an Anglican , she was initially disturbed at the King 's execution. In the bloody City of London she lived like the prodigal son after his riotous period had ended, feeding ....

English by birth and presumably white, she was raised in the Church of England , a religious upbringing that reflected her father's and grandfather's occupations as Church of England clergymen. From her final book-length...

MB was an upper-middle-class Englishwoman, whose male relations were active members of the establishment which governed the nation and empire. In religion she was an Anglican .

IB came from an English, professional, upper-middle-class family background, strongly religious in the Evangelical wing of the Church ofEngland . She grew up in an intellectually stimulating and encouraging environment.

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.

She was Irish by birth and family, presumably white, and probably Protestant, which is to say a member of the Church of Ireland .