Presbyterian Church

She came from the professional class. Her family tradition was Scottish and Covenanting on her mother's side, Welsh with some Huguenot blood on her father's. She was brought up a Rational Dissenter and attended a...

At the Presbyterian religious gathering later called the communion of [or at] Shotts,EM retired to pray privately in the bed (a curtained alcove), but then consented to pray aloud, while thousands gathered...

She was the daughter of a white American Presbyterian minister who came from nine generations of clergy. From her father's mother she learned piety and prudence. Her own mother instilled in her a love for...

EN was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian , the family attended a Presbyterian kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her...

She belonged to the established Church of Scotland (that is, Presbyterian). She was not, however, an orthodox Calvinist; she had enough belief to combat the atheism of her friend David Hume , but not such...

Born into the network of elite gentry and noble families, she was even from before her marriage a fervent Puritan , more specifically a Calvinist Presbyterian in religion. Eales and others have applied to her...

IB apparently told Sarah Tytler , however, that they were also motivated by interest in, and a desire to join, the Free Kirk which had recently separated from the Church of Scotland .

Her family were Dissenters . When Margaret was fifteen the Free Church of Scotland split from its parent body; her parents espoused the rigidly opinionated new sect.

Her father had been impressed as a young man by the Morrisonian revival, a revolt against rigorous Calvinism. He was violently opposed to belief in predestination, and helped build a little Evangelical Union Church which...

She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism compared with the Anglican church.

MS was born to parents who belonged to the Scottish gentry by birth and position (and were presumably white) but had little fortune; her father, Vice Admiral Sir William George Fairfax , was held his...

AB sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian (in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was...

ED possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group...

The Keddies raised their children in the Calvinistic, Presbyterian Church of Scotland. After 1843, when the Free Kirk , or Free Church of Scotland, seceded (on the issue of the right of congregations to choose...

EM was an upper-class Scotswoman who was born into the Church of Scotland and remained a fervent and radical member of it. She is presumed to have undergone a conversion experience within this church, and...