Anglican Church

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.

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...

PDJ qualified to attend the high-school in Ludlow, but was not permitted to go; there was not enough money for the number of pupils offered places, and she was dropped from the list. Instead, she...

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...

JJ 's husband belonged to the conservative, not the evangelical wing of the Church of England . He was concerned at the influence of Dissenting beliefs in his congregation and in 1739, when George Whitefield

Her father's name was Andrew William Beer, though her mother called him John. He had been married before, and had been an Anglican before accepting the more rigorous faith of his second wife's family...

CR 's sister Maria was three years her senior and the bond between them was close. She became a governess and an author of textbooks (Exercises in Idiomatic Italian through Literal Translation from the...

The Church of England would not marry slaves; she insisted on Daniel's joining the Moravian church before she would agree to be his wife. Her marriage infuriated her owners. She later said, I had...

His treason consisted in refusing, for reasons of religious doctrine, to accept the style which Henry VIII had given himself, of supreme head of the Church of England . His courage at the scaffold extended...

Her father, James Graham, one of eight children, was a clergyman in the Church of Ireland (that is, the Anglican Church established in Ireland) at St Columb's Cathedral in what was then called Londonderry, Northern...

Mary Shackleton first met her future husband when he came as a boy to Ballitore School in 1777, brought there by his Anglican clergyman guardian and a friend who was a Roman Catholic priest. This...

HMB 's elder brother, John, trained as a lawyer but won modest fame as a Church of England writer. A memoir of him was published by one of his sons, another Thomas, in 1824. The...

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...