Anglican Church

WM entered Exeter College, Oxford , with the intention of going into the 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...

TH attended a succession of local schools: first a dame-school, then a Church of England national school in nearby Bockhampton, then a Dissenting British School in Dorchester and lastly a commercial academy set up...

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 .

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...

In a Scotch marriage ceremony, William Charles Yelverton (later Viscount Avonmore) read the Church of England marriage service aloud to MTL in Edinburgh.

HB said that her father, Colonel Henry Jervis , owed his rigid cast of mind to his upbringing in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland (before a rather late conversion to Anglicanism ) and to his...

RC 's father, the Rev. Edward John Sewell Lamburn , came from a farming family and was ordained in the Anglican Church . He opted, however, to teach at Bury Grammar School, rather than taking...

Despite EU 's religious commitment, she was not particularly close to her paternal uncle Ernest , an Anglican vicar and the only other family member who expressed more than casual interest in the Church.

Although Fanny had previously expressed a desire to remain single and perhaps to join an Anglican sisterhood, her relationship with Kingsley accelerated quickly. Kingsley later referred to this first meeting as eye-wedlock and his real...

Three of Catherine's brothers, George, John, and William, have entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which reflect their achievements in their respective fields of politics and the Anglican Church .

His father was a curate in the Church of Ireland (that is an Anglican) and also, to make ends meet, a small-scale farmer. He died in 1747.

The close of MS 's erotic relationship with Howard Sergeant (with whom, however, her friendship continued for a while) coincided with a gradual movement towards Derek Stanford , a fellow-member of postwar London bohemia, who...

EAD 's father, Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn , owned a spelter works, Dillwyn and Co. , in Llansamlet, a little to the north of Swansea. He later entered into a business partnership with William Siemens

AJ 's husband John Jebb resigned his Church of England preferments including his Cambridge lectureship.