Anglican Church

IM was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland , had come down in the...

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...

Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism . She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons.

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...

Her immediate, nuclear family was an enclave of agnosticism while her extended family was unanimously Anglican —though not uniformly, since it was sharply divided between High and Low Church. Her memoirs emphasise the moral strength...

SS was an Englishwoman born into a family in which a high proportion of the men became clergymen in the Church ofEngland .

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...

ER was born to presumably white, English, middle-class parents. She was a practising Anglican and leaned towards High Church doctrine. She became a staunch Tory who frequently published articles in the Conservative Quarterly Review.

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

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...

AO was born to English, presumably white, parents. She was one of a large gentry Northumberland family, and was brought up in the Church of England . She had eminent admirals among her forebears and...

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...

She came from a presumably white family with mixed English, Scottish, and French background on her mother's side, which also had strong literary connections. There is dispute among critics as to how far she was...