Anglican Church

She was confirmed in the Church ofEngland in December 1791, and a letter written her by Henrietta Maria Bowdler on that occasion shows how seriously this was taken both as a spiritual experience and as...

They were apparently earnest in their Anglican religion. As an adult ER seems to have been a conservative in that religion, opposed to the radical reforms inflicted on the Church under the Commonwealth, such as...

JA 's family had links with the English nobility, but shortage of cash made their gentry status less than wholly secure. JA was a strong Anglican believer.

AB came from an Irish and English background, Anglican on both sides. Her father's tireless activity as rector in Haworth and surrounding areas made her a member of a prominent and respectable, if financially strapped...

EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction. Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...

Her parents were members of the English professional class, and were devout Anglicans .

This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant and her father a Catholic . They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage...

Born into the English professional class, to a family with strong connections with the law, JCM became deeply religious. When the Methodist movement got going (still within the Church of England ) it attracted her strongly.

GF , hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland , was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.

Beatrice Potter (later BW ) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions...

Brought up in the Church of England , she left the church in the Restoration period, with her stepfather and the rest of her family, to become a Dissenter . She remembered that she was...

CD was a teenager when her Jewish parents divorced; presumably she was brought up in Judaism until this event; probably she completed her upbringing as an Anglican gentlewoman. She must have been to a greater...

An earnest Protestant, believing in the right and duty for men and women to read the Bible for themselves, she had a formative influence on the English Reformation and the birth of the Church of England

GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...

As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...