Anglican Church

A year and a half after the death of her partner George Henry Lewes , GE got married: to their young friend and banker John Walter Cross , in an Anglican ceremony at St George's...

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...

After about three years as a widow EB 's mother married again, when her daughter Elizabeth was about seven. Her second husband, Nathaniel Bradshaw , was a clergyman of the Church of England , a...

He denied the charges, but also argued that if adultery had taken place then she had condoned both it and his cruelty, and that there had been conduct on the part of the petitioner [Hobbes]...

CC 's elder son, Theophilus, was born in 1776. His mother was trying in 1799, after his graduation, to get him a parish, and in 1802 to get him a better one. Her younger son...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NJ 's father, Samuel Jacob , had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago...

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

Her husband's family was long-established at Ogbourne St Andrew in Wiltshire, England, but his marriage and his position with the Church of Ireland seem to have developed in him an Anglo-Irish consciousness. Anna sometimes...

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...

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...