Anglican Church

JWC became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk )...

At South Luffenham, MRvisited the needy, coached some girls who wanted to be teachers, took evening classes for those who had left school but still didn't know everything, [and] taught in the Sunday School...

Long lines of people stood outside the City Temple (a leading centre of London Nonconformity) waiting to hear her speak, and police were called in to control the crowd. Singer Dame Clara Butt was among...

When she gave her first sermon at the City Temple in March of that year, she had had no thought but that this would be the end of preaching for me.

An ordained clergyman, he held many positions in the Church of England , and lectured on divinity at St Paul's Cathedral. He was an adviser on Bentley's Miscellany and a founder member of the...

After taking his degree in 1842, he remained at Oxford and was elected to a Fellowship at Oriel College . Religious doubts led him to resign his fellowship before he was required to take orders...

WLB 's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied...

Back in England he established himself as a schoolmaster, having charge first of his nephews Edward and John Phillips, and then of a larger number of pupils. He was probably a teacher for seven...

After marriage and especially as help became more difficult to get, DW cooked, sewed, and sometimes picked fruit for sale. She partnered her husband at farming at their several Suffolk farms and was an indefatigable...

More than a decade after this, at sixty, PM returned to journalism, this time as an interviewer for The Observer colour magazine (only two years after this was launched, following the lead of the Sunday...

In Lichfield, with some local women, Susan Walker and Marie Noble , LED discussed resistance to Laud 's current reforms of the Church of England . At Lichfield Cathedral the altar had been moved away...

MM , at the palace of the Bishop of Chester and Lancaster, debated with Bishop Nicholas Stratford and other ecclesiastics on the legality, or rather the scripture authority for, compulsory payment of tithes to the...

DW 's anti-tithing campaign put her in the tradition of seventeenth-century writers like Mary Cary , Margaret Fell , and innumerable others; but whereas they condemned the Church of England for doctrinal reasons and in...

DW was arrested for repeatedly interrupting an Anglican service at Weymouth.

The College applied for incorporation as an Association under the Board of Trade in order to establish its legal existence. The document drawn up by the College's Committee professed the College's affiliation with both the...