Anglican Church

She was a devout Anglican . In 1631, as a small child, she underwent a kind of conversion experience: it pleased God to come into my soule by some beames of his mercy.

ALW converted from the Society of Friends to Anglicanism (with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire.

As the daughter of a dissenting clergyman, AH was born into an English, middle-class, and presumably white family. Her father's parents were described in one source as of respectable character and station, engaged in agricultural...

She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice.On atmosphere, she leaned to the Catholic Church (she had first...

BM was a middle-class, Anglican , Puritan, royalist Englishwoman.

Most of what was formerly believed about PA 's background has turned out to be mistaken. She was born out of wedlock to a mother in the English gentry and a father who was not...

AB 's family belonged to the British middle class, although her father's family was Irish and her mother was half-Scots, half-Spanish. As an adult she had a stronger sense of ruling-class consciousness than her father's...

JC came from an intellectually-minded, English, Anglican , presumably white family of the professional class.

AP was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and sister Bell , she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism .

Born into the Yorkshire gentry class and the Anglican faith, WE lived his whole life as a Bohemian as well as an academic, and became known in middle age for a combative anti-Christian stance.

Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS subscribed to the Church of England or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism . Supporters of the Catholic...

SW was born into the middle class and into the very heart of the English Dissenting movement. Her father accepted her choice (made at twelve years old on the basis of her own careful reasoning)...

According to biographer Edward Maitland , AK first became deeply interested in Anglican theology after the birth of her daughter, while her husband Algernon was studying for the ministry. She began attending classes with him,...

JB 's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, but he later saw this...

SLC was a fervent Anglican : her husband felt her piety would wear out a parson, let alone a man of some religious scepticism like himself. When in 1701 she met the free-thinking philosopher...