Anglican Church

Born into the English peerage, Frances married into its topmost ranks. She was a devout Anglican all her life, brought up in the Non-juring tradition but latterly embracing an earnest and consistent Evangelicism. She took...

Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...

MJ was a middle-class Anglican Englishwoman.

She was by birth an Englishwoman of the professional class dependent on the nobility, politically monarchist and presumably Anglican .

AR was born into the English professional class. As a baby and small child she always had a nurse-maid. She was confirmed in the Church of England , while at boarding-school, at fifteen and...

Her writings evince considerable pride in being Welsh as well as a certain chauvinism with respect to the English. Though not a native speaker, she learned Welsh while still young. She had prominent Nonconformist ancestors...

The Webster children were baptised Presbyterian s, as befitted their Scottish heritage, but attended the local Anglican parish church. Flora was the only one of the family to be confirmed as an Anglican.

She was born to rural working class parents. They were both fine story-tellers, though her father belonged to the oral rather than the literary tradition. As a child she was sent, by a mother whose...

FB was from an upper-middle class English family in which many men were Anglican clergymen. The family's social position meant that, as a child, she enjoyed the luxury of self-education in libraries collected by her...

The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland in about 1660.

Brought up as an Anglican , she developed in the 1890s a strong interest in eastern mysticism and the occult, and played an active role in the Order of theGolden Dawn and then in the...

Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism ...

LAM had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English...

She says her family had gentry status but no money. She was Welsh by domicile and probably by birth. Her Christian (presumably Anglican ) faith appears to have been important to her.

She came of ecclesiastical families on both sides. Her male relations had risen high in the Church, and were gentry with links to the aristocracy. But despite their connections, her father's death ensured that she...