Anglican Church

Religion was a source of conflict in SM 's personal life and in her husband's professional life. An early relationship with a Nonconformist distanced SM from the high Anglican tradition embraced by her parents and...

She was brought up in a wealthy, English, middle-class, evangelical Church of England household where prayer was read twice daily. By early adulthood she rejected the teachings of the Church, but she kept her views...

Both her parents were exceedingly religious, her father from a lineage of Evangelical or hot-gospellingAnglican s while her mother's family had been Plymouth Brethren . Together, they administered heavy doses of religion...

She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic , Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts...

He came from a white, English, and Anglican family. His father was a successful financier who brought the family up in great comfort at their Essex mansion. The patriarch's death in 1847 left the Morris...

He was born into a family of the English country gentry, Foxite Whigs but without Percy's radical fire. They were conventionally practising Anglican s and were outraged at his early espousal of atheism.

The Methodist Church had broken away from the Church of England in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean.

SG came from the English, presumably white, gentry or professional class, and married into an Irish gentry family which was just securing ties, through socially upward marriage, with the nobility. She belonged to the Church of England

AL was born into the flourishing urban bourgeoisie of her time. She was apparently English, though the names of both her parents suggest Welsh extraction. Her father said he was neither Lutheran nor yet Tyndalin...

JB was a Scottish writer: though she lived most of her adult life in London, her letters show her vividly aware of her Scots identity, not least in her deliberate use of the Scotticisms which...

EN was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian , the family attended a Presbyterian kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her...

James Brabazon , her official biographer, describes her as deeply conventional despite her often unorthodox life decisions (particularly her sexual relationships and her child born outside wedlock). DLS was the daughter of an Anglican

BWC 's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church , and...

SLP was an Englishwoman, born into the professional class, presumably white, who was married for her money. By her marriage moved into the upper reaches of the gentry. She became déclassée on the breakdown of...

CF 's family belonged to genteel and cultured London society. She was a member of the Church of England and a conservative in politics.