Anglican Church

JJ 's husband belonged to the conservative, not the evangelical wing of the Church of England . He was concerned at the influence of Dissenting beliefs in his congregation and in 1739, when George Whitefield

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...

Her father, James Graham, one of eight children, was a clergyman in the Church of Ireland (that is, the Anglican Church established in Ireland) at St Columb's Cathedral in what was then called Londonderry, Northern...

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...

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...

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...

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.

The Church of England would not marry slaves; she insisted on Daniel's joining the Moravian church before she would agree to be his wife. Her marriage infuriated her owners. She later said, I had...

Through her work to raise the status and opportunities of women in the Anglican ministry, MR not only formed a working friendship with Susan Miles , but also (in 1912 or 1913) met Edith Picton-Turbervill

The words of the title are used to describe marriage in the Church of England 's Book of Common Prayer. In her foreword to the novel, VB explained that Honourable Estate purports to show...

The title intentionally mangles the opening of a prayer for late evening from the AnglicanThe Book of Common Prayer: Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord. This funny, bitter, rough-edged play...

The Critical Review declined to comment on this book or to differentiate it from other religious novels. The Eclectic Review of November 1805, too, found similarities with other recent works, but dignified Interesting Conversations by...

But the memory of her political (anti-tithing) activity has not always been favourable. In 1997 Adrian Brink (head of one of her publishers, the Lutterworth Press ) wrote that abolishing tithes had to some extent...

George Hickes had strongly supported the forthcoming edition. He thought Elstob's work the most correct I ever saw or read,and that her edition will be of great advantage to the Church of England against...

From the first, however, MD 's preaching was polarizing, attracting not only praise but also criticism more hostile than Cookworthy's. She was blamed for her social manner, for being visibly of a higher rank than...