Anglican Church

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...

CC 's elder son, Theophilus, was born in 1776. His mother was trying in 1799, after his graduation, to get him a parish, and in 1802 to get him a better one. Her younger son...

Her father, Philip Chamberlaine, a Church of Ireland clergyman, was a repressive parent, not sympathetic to his daughter's tastes or talents. He became senile while Frances was still unmarried.

The Church of England would not marry slaves; she insisted on Daniel's joining the Moravian church before she would agree to be his wife. Her marriage infuriated her owners. She later said, I had...

Maria Susanna Bransby married Samuel Cooper , who had taken his BA degree only the year before, but who was ordained in the Church of England in 1763 and was then appointed Rector of Yelverton...

Her mother, born (Mary) Monica Waterhouse , was the daughter of well-known architect Alfred Waterhouse and a cousin of painter and critic Roger Fry . Her family had converted from Quakerism to the Church of England

Three of Catherine's brothers, George, John, and William, have entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which reflect their achievements in their respective fields of politics and the Anglican Church .

JJ 's husband belonged to the conservative, not the evangelical wing of the Church of England . He was concerned at the influence of Dissenting beliefs in his congregation and in 1739, when George Whitefield

Her brothers were Charles Cobbe , born 1811 (who succeeded his father as landowner), Thomas Cobbe , born 1813 (who was called to the bar, wrote music, edited Shakespeare, and wrote novels and history, all...

SV 's father, the Reverend William Douglas Veitch , was born on 5 August 1801, a younger son of a landed family with an estate at Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire. After serving as rector of...

Her father, James Graham, one of eight children, was a clergyman in the Church of Ireland (that is, the Anglican Church established in Ireland) at St Columb's Cathedral in what was then called Londonderry, Northern...

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...

Her mother, born Arabella FitzGibbon , was eldest daughter of John FitzGibbon, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to qualify for the law, in which career he proved highly successful. She was...

He later assumed his mother's birth-name, becoming Warre Cornish. He was older than his wife by seventeen years, and had fallen love with her when she was only sixteen.They had eight children together: in the...

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