Anglican Church

EJ 's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism .

She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge says her father belonged to the higher professional class: an uncle, cousin, and brother all distinguished themselves in legal fields. It is not...

She was brought up in a wealthy, English, middle-class, evangelical Church of England household where prayer was read twice daily. By early adulthood she rejected the teachings of the Church, but she kept her views...

He was born into a family of the English country gentry, Foxite Whigs but without Percy's radical fire. They were conventionally practising Anglican s and were outraged at his early espousal of atheism.

She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The...

LJC was born to privilege and her father's career took her into the highest ranks of English society. He professed himself a devout member of the Church of England (into which his children followed him)...

In his political career and the high office which he attained, BD did something unprecedented in England for someone of his Jewish ethnicity. By the early twenty-first century he remained Britain's only Jewish Prime Minister...

Her Anglican piety extended to keeping a coffin by her bed to remind her of her latter end, but did not extend to submission to authority. I disputte nott your lordships rightt, and farr be...

Harriett remained committed to the Church of England throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological...

RP is an Englishwoman and a member of the Church ofEngland . Her surname bears witness to her father's ethnic origins as one of the Wends or Sorbs, a Slavic people hailing from the region...

SH had married as a RomanCatholic , but her new husband devoted himself with indefatigable Pains to bringing her back to the Church ofEngland . He recognized that he could hope to do this...

MK 's family was English and presumably white, but it embodied several internal contradictions. Through her father she belonged to the professional classes, but on her mother's side she sprang from the working class. Her...

EM came from a professional Anglican family. She was an advocate of social reform, particularly of educational reform, and of wider roles for women.

James Brabazon , her official biographer, describes her as deeply conventional despite her often unorthodox life decisions (particularly her sexual relationships and her child born outside wedlock). DLS was the daughter of an Anglican

Born into a nominally Anglican family of the middle or professional class, GA is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland