Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Anglican Church
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Louisa Catherine Shore | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Theresa Longworth | In a Scotch marriage ceremony, William Charles Yelverton
(later Viscount Avonmore) read the Church of England
marriage service aloud to MTL
in Edinburgh. Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003. 127 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Daryush | Her mother, born (Mary) Monica Waterhouse
, was the daughter of well-known architect Alfred Waterhouse
and a cousin of painter and critic Roger Fry
. Her family had converted from Quakerism
to the Church of England |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Gawthorpe | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Her brothers were Charles Cobbe
, born 1811 (who succeeded his father as landowner), Thomas Cobbe
, born 1813 (who was called to the bar, wrote music, edited Shakespeare, and wrote novels and history, all... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Jebb | AJ
's husband John Jebb
resigned his Church of England
preferments including his Cambridge
lectureship. Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, 1787, pp. 1: 1 - 227. 104 Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661. 600 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Mozley | Harriett's eldest brother, John Henry Newman
, became first a clergyman and national religious leader of the Anglican Church
, then a Catholic
, and eventually a Cardinal. Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962. xvi |
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Noel Streatfeild | Noel's father, William Streatfeild
, had grown up as the eldest of ten children of a clergy family in a rather grand house. He too went into the Anglican Church
, in which he was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Peck | Her two youngest brothers were remembered from her childhood as the Little Boys. Peck, Winifred. Home for the Holidays. Faber and Faber, 1955. 50 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Justice | Re-united with her younger daughter, EJ
found that the girl was ill, and had been converted to Roman Catholicism
in France. She took care of her daughter and re-converted her to the Church of England |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emma Marshall | Emma Martin
married Hugh Graham Marshall
, then a clerk in a bank but later a fully-fledged banker, whose father was the clergyman who had recently baptised her and mother and sister into the Church of England |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen's sister Annie Maye Mary
(born in 1875) married Allan Macnab Watson
, a Church of England
vicar at Hazlemere in Surrey, and later at Cove in Hampshire. They had no children. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 15-6 |
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