Anglican Church

She was born into the Anglo-Irish upper middle class, with dignitaries in the Church of Ireland on both sides of her family, whose origin was French Huguenot.

FS was born a middle-class Anglican Irishwoman (though her father was English, and after her death her grand-daughter-biographer chose to think of her as English).

MA was a middle-class Englishwoman with strong High Anglican and Tory opinions. At the same time, her sustained and intense application to the issue of women's status puts her squarely in the category of early...

MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...

CC , granddaughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge , was named after his poetic heroine Christabel. She grew up in an English, presumably white, middle-class, literary, Anglican family. She later held Conservative views, especially on women's rights.

Her family was English, white; most of her male relations were merchants or clergymen. Various members of her family belonged to the EvangelicalAnglican group called the Clapham Sect , a coterie of social reformers and...

EAB was baptised into the Church of England . Her religious belief was broad-minded, liberal, tolerant. Faced with the Evangelical tendencies of the family of her future husband, who disapproved of many of her Sunday...

Her parents were both Scots of the professional classes, with links on each side to the nobility, which AH emphasizes at a date when she had married into the latter class.AH was a...

Both Edith's parents were from wealthy, land-owning families. She was educated and influenced by European aesthetics, and prides herself on her cosmopolitanism. Her several languages include English, German, and French; her first was Czech. She...

While working for the Daily HeraldGHS developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard , who was one influence towards her conversion to...

The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society. Baldwin's father, a Wesleyan minister, was more liberal in his religious influence than her mother. He hoped Louisa would grow up to be...

With Irish forebears, BB felt she was mainly Irish despite her English nationality and American inheritance. Though the beliefs of her mother's sect affected her upbringing, she was baptised an Anglican . As an...

She was brought up an agnostic, and not christened until about 1894, by which time, under the influence of the Christian message delivered in works like Charlotte Yonge 's The Daisy Chain, she had...

Born in the English gentry and brought up an Anglican , she became a Quaker in middle age. After this she quickly became a leader in the movement. Her class status, unusual among Quaker preachers...

In youth she acquired the habit of walking several miles each week to hear a Puritan preacher. When she was married, she and her husband considered leaving the Anglican church for the Independents, but decided...