Unitarian Church

The agnostic FPC wrote her best-known hymn, beginning For life, for health I bless Thee; it was popular later in the century in Unitarian and non-denominational hymn books.

She was born into the English urban middle class, but very little is known about her early life and education. It seems most likely that she came from white parents and that Joseph Parkes in...

Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale held strongly to his Unitarian background and was...

Both of MS 's parents were members of the Society of Friends , as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England after flirting...

EC was brought up as a respectable tradesman's daughter. Commentators are divided on whether this made her middle- or working-class, but her father had enough wealth to retire from active business while she was...

MH 's opinions on marriage were similar to those of other radicals and feminists in the Unitarian circles in which she travelled, and in which alternative unions were common. She argued that the...

AO , who had left the Unitarian church in 1814 and taken the decision to convert to Quakerism, had her application to join the Society of Friends accepted.

LTS 's family had a long history of involvement in the UnitarianChurch . Her great-great-grandfather, Joshua Toulmin , was a significant figure in the formation of the English Unitarian Church as a distinct denomination, and...

MH was a middle-class Englishwoman, born into a Rational Dissenting faith (ancestor of later Unitarianism ) which she found highly compatible with feminist ideas. As a young woman she flirted with deism. In Emma...

As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...

Presumably white, LDG grew up in a radical liberal, professional family of English descent. Both her parents were highly intellectual and prominent in political circles, and both were published authors. Her mother brought her up...

He came from an English family with Irish connections, of Dissenting or Unitarian faith.

She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent to Quakerism , her attitudes remained worldly in comparison with those...

She was born into a business family in that great and busy port, and brought up a Liberal and a Unitarian . In 1831 James Martineau became the Minister at the chapel in Paradise Street...

Despite her mother's Unitarian influence, LDG never entirely conformed to any denomination in her religious beliefs. Even at the age of fourteen she maintained her own views: my religion was that of the birds and...