Anglican Church

Like all her siblings but one, MG had been taught to read before she went to the local Church of England infants' school, St Michael's, at the age of five. The whole family had...

All that SH says about her education is that it was carried out in the principles of her father; that is, those of the Church of England .

AF (like the future Naomi Mitchison before her) attended the Dragon School in Oxford (a boys' preparatory school, taking children from about eight to thirteen). In her day it had twenty girls out of a...

The ten-year-old Ethel Bryant (later EW ) was enrolled in Miss Jessie Gordon 's Anglican school for girls, Crofton House in Vancouver.

In the late seventeenth century Swift worked for Sir William Temple (husband of the letter-writer Dorothy Osborne ), became an ordained clergyman, and embarked on a career of political pamphleteering. He took on his first...

Her mother, born Arabella FitzGibbon , was eldest daughter of John FitzGibbon, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to qualify for the law, in which career he proved highly successful. She was...

He later assumed his mother's birth-name, becoming Warre Cornish. He was older than his wife by seventeen years, and had fallen love with her when she was only sixteen.They had eight children together: in the...

He denied the charges, but also argued that if adultery had taken place then she had condoned both it and his cruelty, and that there had been conduct on the part of the petitioner [Hobbes]...

NJ 's father, Samuel Jacob , had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago...

Thomas Arnold (father of the future MAW ) abandoned Roman Catholicism and returned to the Church of England .

He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement...

Her father, Thomas Shore , received his education at Oxford and was a Church of England clergyman until his reservations about the Thirty-Nine Articles led him to redirect his energies to private tutoring. He educated...

Her husband's family was long-established at Ogbourne St Andrew in Wiltshire, England, but his marriage and his position with the Church of Ireland seem to have developed in him an Anglo-Irish consciousness. Anna sometimes...

Rochemont Barbauld came from a French Huguenot family and had a strong foreign accent as a result of spending his childhood abroad. He was ALB 's junior by six years, small in stature, emotionally unstable...

Mary's other grandmother spoke Yorkshire dialect like her husband, and was conservative in dress (wearing a lace net on her hair), but eclectic in religion, attending church and chapel alternately. It was from this...