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Cultural formation Helen Maria Williams
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...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Melvill
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...
Cultural formation Sylvia Beach
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...
Cultural formation Elma Napier
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...
Cultural formation Alison Cockburn
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...
Cultural formation Brilliana, Lady Harley
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...
Cultural formation Isabella Bird
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 .
Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray.
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Cultural formation Margaret Oliphant
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.
Cultural formation Annie S. Swan
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...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Helme
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.
Cultural formation Mary Somerville
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...
Cultural formation Ann Bridge
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...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Delaval
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...
Cultural formation Sarah Tytler
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...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Melvill
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...

Timeline

13 August 1670: The British government declared that in Scotland...

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13 August 1670

The British government declared that in Scotland attendance at conventicles (the services conducted in fields or barns by ejected Presbyterian ministers) was punishable by death.

October 1690: William III addressed the General Assembly...

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October 1690

William III addressed the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland , speaking against extremism in the newly established national church. The more radical Covenanting Cameronians thereupon split from the main body.

1725: Allan Ramsay established a circulating library...

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1725

Allan Ramsay established a circulating library in Edinburgh which may have been the first in Britain. Another opened in Bath the same year.
Nicholson, Colin. “"Of Eminent Significancy": Allan Ramsay’s ‘British’ Poetics and Post-Union Construction of Cultural Space”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
25
, No. 2, pp. 203-16.
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Feminist Companion Archive.

June 1749: Elizabeth Bennis (born Patton), a Limerick...

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June 1749

Elizabeth Bennis (born Patton), a Limerick merchant's wife in her early twenties, converted to Methodism .
Dyer, Serena. “Review”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 74, pp. 37-8.

March 1763: At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic...

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March 1763

At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic farm workers rose in protest against working conditions and evictions.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, pp. 12-13.
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17 April 1774: The inaugural service was held at the first...

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17 April 1774

The inaugural service was held at the first Unitarian chapel, in Essex Street, London.

11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...

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11 May 1792

Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics , Presbyterian s, Quakers , and others.

18 May 1843: In what was called the Disruption, led by...

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18 May 1843

In what was called the Disruption, led by Thomas Chalmers , roughly a third of the ministers and half the members of the established Presbyterian Church of Scotland seceded on the issue of a...

16 August 1845-29 May 1846: Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and anti-slavery...

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16 August 1845-29 May 1846

Frederick Douglass , ex-slave and anti-slavery campaigner, visited Britain: Ireland, Scotland, and England.

: The first starvation deaths attributable...

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Winter1845-6

The first starvation deaths attributable to the potato blight in Ireland were reported; the Great Famine began in earnest.

1900: The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several...

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1900

The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several earlier seceders from the Church of Scotland joined to form the United Free Church of Scotland .

1900: The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several...

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1900

The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several earlier seceders from the Church of Scotland joined to form the United Free Church of Scotland .

1969: Catherine McConnachie became the first woman...

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1969

Catherine McConnachie became the first woman ordained in the Church of Scotland .

May 2004: Dr Alison Elliot took up her post as the...

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May 2004

Dr Alison Elliot took up her post as the first woman Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland .

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