Anglican Church

AMH practised spirit drawing (letting invisible spirits guide her hand) and automatic or spirit writing; spiritualism also led her to vegetarianism. But she and her husband remained in the Church of England despite their belief...

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...

Born English, with a successful professional father who had risen socially by his own efforts, baptised as an Anglican , PL became in maturity an Anglican agnostic. He was an unbeliever, yet both knowledgeable...

AW came from a wealthy and socially prominent Protestant Irish landowning family; she was the god-daughter of the Irish nationalist Henry Grattan . Her family life was intellectual and enlightened, as well as prosperous: the...

HB 's writings demonstrate that she was not only Irish but also an Irish nationalist, a Whig, a Protestant (probably Church of Ireland ) and a sympathiser with freemasonry.

While living with the Anglican sisterhood at Wantage inBerkshire, PR was baptised into the Church ofEngland by William Butler , together with her daughter, Manorama. She took the name Mary Rama.

ASB 's family background is English, middle-class, and Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values, and eventually they...

AG 's parents were Irish Protestant land-owners whose estate, encompassing thousands of acres, was originally acquired in the seventeenth century. Her forebears were a mix of Irish and English, Catholic and Protestant. Her maternal grandmother...

AL was a middle-class Englishwoman (with relatives in trade and the professions, and forebears in the nobility) who admired the political liberties of the new American colonies. She was an Anglican , but unusually relaxed...

JW was born into the English middle class and the established Church. The careers of her male relatives suggest the upper middle class, while her own employment suggests the lower middle class.

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 Irish by birth and family, presumably white, and probably Protestant, which is to say a member of the Church of Ireland .

EH was an Englishwoman, baptised into the EstablishedChurch , in her own words born in obscurity, and never emerging beyond the lower stations in life.

She seems to have belonged to the upper range of the English middle classes; she had at least an impressive array of contacts, shown in her subscription lists. Baptised into the Church of England ...