Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Anglican Church
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kingsley | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | Thomas Arnold
(father of the future MAW
) abandoned Roman Catholicism
and returned to the Church of England
. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 24 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Oliver Goldsmith | 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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel M. Arnold | 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... |
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. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. 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 | 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 | 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 | Mary Gawthorpe | |
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 | 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 | 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 | Ann Jebb | 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... |
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 |
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