Anglican Church

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...

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 confirmed in the Church ofEngland , and still believes Jesus to be a perfect model: of kindness, empathy, lack of pride. She even occasionally takes Communion, but says that ever since she was...

AB chose her own faith, joining first the Independents and then the Baptists . Her family belonged to the Church of England (though her elder brother seems to have been a dissenter like herself).

Born into the English gentry class, she was an Anglican and a fervent Tory and Jacobite , who believed, in fact, that these two terms were synonymous.

At an Anglican convent in Cornwall run by the Little Sisters of the Poor , Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later Morrell) met Mother Julian , one of her early mentors.

Although she was baptised in the Church of England (at three years old, in a naval dockyard chapel), she says that throughout her life she was happy to worship in any Christian church, no matter...

MD may have come from the lower classes. She became a middle-class Whig, proud of her Irish background and her status as widow of an Anglican clergyman.

Born into the English gentry class, Grace Sharington was brought up by her mother in the new Protestant, Anglican religion, in habits of daily prayer and meditation. She believed that salvation would come not through...

The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...

English-identified despite her Irish birth and cosmopolitan interests, and presumably white, she came from the intelligentsia although her family was very poor. By the time of her ninety-fifth birthday, after nearly forty years residence in...