Presbyterian Church

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...

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 .

LMM was a white Canadian of Scottish and English heritage. In matters of religion, she said she was sceptical of the notion of a higher authority and once described herself as having no faith—a peculiar...

Burns had a strong sense of his identity both as a Scot and as a member of the labouring class. His father was both a tenant farmer and head gardener to a man of property...

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...

AF was born into the Scottish working class and into the Protestant faith—the latter signified by yelling Dirty Papes at rival gangs of small children who yelled back Proddy Dogs, while neither understood what...

Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress...

From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ). She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...