Anglican Church

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...

Elizabeth Lawrence (later EB ) was much sought after, implicitly for marriage, by members of the Established Church who wished to reclaim her for orthodoxy: her second husband, writing about fifty years after the event...

Maria Susanna Bransby married Samuel Cooper , who had taken his BA degree only the year before, but who was ordained in the Church of England in 1763 and was then appointed Rector of Yelverton...

Her two youngest brothers were remembered from her childhood as the Little Boys. The elder of the two, Wilfred Lawrence Knox , became a scholar, a pacifist, and an Anglican Canon who called...

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

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

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.

Her father, Thomas Arnold the younger, was the eldest and favourite son of Doctor Arnold , of Rugby . The Arnolds were a staunchly Anglican family, but her father shocked his family by converting to...

John Jebb was then moved to a parish in Cambridge. Once back there he lectured in theology at Cambridge University, and took pupils to tutor. He had published a commentary on Sir Isaac Newton in...

SV 's father, the Reverend William Douglas Veitch , was born on 5 August 1801, a younger son of a landed family with an estate at Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire. After serving as rector of...

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

Joan's daughter, Susannah , was born about 1662, and in youth attended the local Anglican church, which later, after becoming a Quaker , she came to regard as that abominable House, where they commit their...

Her father, Philip Chamberlaine, a Church of Ireland clergyman, was a repressive parent, not sympathetic to his daughter's tastes or talents. He became senile while Frances was still unmarried.

Her mother, the former Aileen Church , would have been christened Eileen if the Church of England vicar hadn't objected that that was an Irish name. Her parents (near neighbours of those of her future...

Her mother, born Ellen Sarah Fitzgibbon , was probably the niece of Gerald Fitzgibbon , Master of Chancery in Ireland. Ellen's family was originally from County Limerick—but had settled in Dublin before her lifetime—and...