Anglican Church

Rochemont Barbauld came from a French Huguenot family and had a strong foreign accent as a result of spending his childhood abroad. He was ALB 's junior by six years, small in stature, emotionally unstable...

Her mother, the former Aileen Church , would have been christened Eileen if the Church of England vicar hadn't objected that that was an Irish name. Her parents (near neighbours of those of her future...

Her father's name was Andrew William Beer, though her mother called him John. He had been married before, and had been an Anglican before accepting the more rigorous faith of his second wife's family...

Her father, Thomas Shore , received his education at Oxford and was a Church of England clergyman until his reservations about the Thirty-Nine Articles led him to redirect his energies to private tutoring. He educated...

He denied the charges, but also argued that if adultery had taken place then she had condoned both it and his cruelty, and that there had been conduct on the part of the petitioner [Hobbes]...

Thomas Arnold (father of the future MAW ) abandoned Roman Catholicism and returned to the Church of England .

NJ 's father, Samuel Jacob , had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago...

Her mother, born Ellen Sarah Fitzgibbon , was probably the niece of Gerald Fitzgibbon , Master of Chancery in Ireland. Ellen's family was originally from County Limerick—but had settled in Dublin before her lifetime—and...

Joan's daughter, Susannah , was born about 1662, and in youth attended the local Anglican church, which later, after becoming a Quaker , she came to regard as that abominable House, where they commit their...

Noel's father, William Streatfeild , had grown up as the eldest of ten children of a clergy family in a rather grand house. He too went into the Anglican Church , in which he was...

Her husband's family was long-established at Ogbourne St Andrew in Wiltshire, England, but his marriage and his position with the Church of Ireland seem to have developed in him an Anglo-Irish consciousness. Anna sometimes...

HMB 's elder brother, John, trained as a lawyer but won modest fame as a Church of England writer. A memoir of him was published by one of his sons, another Thomas, in 1824. The...

His treason consisted in refusing, for reasons of religious doctrine, to accept the style which Henry VIII had given himself, of supreme head of the Church of England . His courage at the scaffold extended...

HB said that her father, Colonel Henry Jervis , owed his rigid cast of mind to his upbringing in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland (before a rather late conversion to Anglicanism ) and to his...

RC 's father, the Rev. Edward John Sewell Lamburn , came from a farming family and was ordained in the Anglican Church . He opted, however, to teach at Bury Grammar School, rather than taking...