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 )...

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...

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...

By invitation, EU led an Anglican retreat at Canterbury Cathedral, the first woman to do this.

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...

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...

Bere had already preached against Young; he now demanded his dismissal. At this point, unfortunately, Patty More 's journal of the period ends. Young was encouraging his adult pupils to extemporary prayer—something strongly disapproved by...

MR was elected to the National Church Assembly , formed in this year to act as a kind of parliament for the Church of England , which opened its first session on 30 June.

GRAS was a response to the Church of England 's Episcopal Act of Synod, passed in 1993, which allowed for the Church of the future to divide into two bodies, one recognizing the ordination of...

CN 's public humiliation at the hands of George Norton drove her to campaign against current divorce laws and property laws concerning women. Although not associated with feminist organisations pursuing the cause, she was in...

MF and Elizabeth Williams , both north-country Quakers, arrived at Cambridge, where they spoke publicly of Sidney Sussex College (an Anglican institution) as an assembly of Antichrists and a Synagogue of Satan.

Lady Tyrwhit's fervent Protestantism was, at this date, a highly politicized position. She and her group of court ladies were hounded by highly-placed religious traditionalists, enemies of Katherine Parr , since the queen was well...

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...

AP was not merely an old Jacobin, but remained at least until 1810 a Bonapartist. She thought at that date that England would benefit from a French invasion to destroy the aristocracy and the...