Presbyterian Church

Susanna's stepfather, whose name was Harcourt Leighton , was a Shropshire man whose religious and political allegiances were the opposite of her royalist father's. He was a Presbyterian in religion, and when the Civil War...

His mother, Helen Jane Masterton, was a farmer's daughter who epitomized Free Church virtues of thrift and strictness. She was eighteen when John was born and was a difficult and demanding mother to him and...

MS recalls that as a young child my mother taught me to read the Bible, and to say my prayers morning and evening; otherwise she allowed me to grow up a wild creature.

Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland , MD was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly...

LA was a middle-class Englishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was...

JSM 's father was Scottish and brought up as a Presbyterian . He later rejected his religious training for Utilitarianism.

AMKR 's parents were from Northern Irish farming stock, and she was a staunch Presbyterian . Her father's teaching had a serious influence on her, and she was persuaded at an early age that she...

QV was a devout Anglican , as befitted the head of the Church of England . (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian , that is Church of Scotland , parish church.)

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...

PSB was born into a cohesive, coercive, and highly judgmental Presbyterian society, whose disapproval of her father's intense originality made her family close ranks against the majority of their own kind. She later...

SS was a Welshwoman but with strong ties to England, belonging to the professional classes but accustomed to the stigma of Nonconformity in a society where the Established Church was a vital plank in the...

SJD was strongly influenced by a Calvinist, Liberal, Scottish father and attended Zion Presbyterian Church in her hometown. Her mother brought Irish influences. The legacy of her parents and of her early years in Canada...

She was born a Presbyterian Northern Irishwoman with the distant Scottish roots that implies, into a highly educated family that was presumably white. Her biographer calls her temperament basically Irish, not Anglo-Saxon or monarchical

She grew up in the Puritan part of the Anglican faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist s, and later still of the Presbyterian s or Independents . She then...

It is not clear what sect HA was brought up in, but she was received, at about the time of her first marriage, into the London Presbyterian congregation of the influential preacher Edmund Calamy .