Anglican Church

After several years of struggling with her religious beliefs, SG was baptised into the Church of England .

He became a Church of England clergyman, but after the accession of George I he refused to take the oath of allegiance (since he was a Jacobite). This made him a Nonjuror, ineligible for positions...

Though she grew up in England, MLM 's Scottish roots, on both sides of the family, were important to her. Her parents were, however, Calvinist Presbyterian s, and this faith, which she later regarded as...

Harriett remained committed to the Church of England throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological...

Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...

The Anglican baptism of CD 's children may—perhaps—represent a final severing of her Jewish roots.

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...

SF 's family on both sides belonged to the English gentry; her father had noble relations. She was a practising Anglican .

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.

MAR 's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church and she was herself baptised as an Anglican.

Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish and later belonged to the Church of Ireland . Her husband was a churchwarden. By the time that her children...

Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends and in local trade. Mary Jane was strongly religious. Stamp relays a story of her mother not only frightening her with stories about hell, but...

CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .

Brought up an Anglican , she was initially disturbed at the King 's execution. In the bloody City of London she lived like the prodigal son after his riotous period had ended, feeding ....

JC , daughter of Welsh and English parents, came from the lower middle class (she mentions her humble station). She grew up with her father's fierce critiques of Anglican practice, yet attended Anglican...