Anglican Church

AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. She...

She was born into a well-educated, strictly Anglican family. Both her grandfathers were clergymen and most of her brothers had distinguished careers in public life. Her father's position as a prominent solicitor and land agent...

She was confirmed in the Church of England , noticing the formalistic, bureaucratic way this was carried out.

EB 's parents were Anglo-Irish landowners; hers was an upper-middle-class, Protestant Unionist family. Her paternal ancestors, the apOwens, had come to Ireland from Wales with Oliver Cromwell's army at the time of the English Civil...

In her later life MLC was an earnestly Anglican Englishwoman; she came from the gentry class. Yet her family partook significantly of Dissenting and anti-monarchist traditions.

She was Anglo-Irish, born into the Protestant (Church of Ireland ) land-owning class. This group at this date produced a number of individuals who sought the political, religious, and technological reform of Irish society...

Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican variety). JG gave up her church-going when she was free to do...

EW was born into the rising English urban middle class, but her husband, who spent much time among the upper classes, later wrote that both he and she were obscure Persons of low Degree.

She was deeply influenced by her father, an Irish Nationalist politician from the gentry class, who taught her to be proud of her Irish descent. She was a Protestant for the first four decades of...

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...

Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King , or by John Henry Newman , EH converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism , which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance.

Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican church.

AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican

ME wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her...

She was English, a descendant of the Palmer family of Wingham inKent. Although they claimed to have some aristocratic forebears (notably the Roman Catholic, Jacobite diplomatist Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine ),