Anglican Church

Welsh by birth (although she lived her adult life in England and the USA), she was, as a clergyman's daughter, brought up in the Church of England . Her father's Communist affiliation seems not to...

Growing up Anglican , she was intensely or excessively religious as an adolescent. Her beliefs began to alter when her reading led her to perceive a parallel between the stories of the Bible and those...

MS was baptised into the Anglican Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes , a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper.

She seems to have been of Welsh extraction, and was presumably white. Her brothers had solid professional careers; she presumably belonged, like others of her family, to the Church of England .

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...

Irish in origin, the Harkness family belonged to a long line of Anglican clergymen. They had aristocratic connections—through MH 's paternal grandfather's marriage—reaching back to the time of Edward I, although they were not particularly...

Leaving Olney as a widow, JJ wrote with an evident sense of moral righteousness of her conservative resistance to AnglicanEvangelicalism . I made a strong proof of my Courage, made a Bold Stand against...

The ex-Anglican leader and Tractarian JHN completed his conversion by being received into the Roman Catholic Church.

JCM was confirmed in the Church of England by Thomas Secker , probably at St James's, Piccadilly, having apparently not received this sacrament as a child.

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.

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...