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A Presbyterian Scot of the professional class by birth, with no drop of non-Scottish blood in his veins, JB became to some extent anglicized by spending most of his adult life in England.

His mother, Helen Jane Masterton, was a farmer's daughter who epitomized Free Church virtues of thrift and strictness. She was eighteen when John was born and was a difficult and demanding mother to him and...

His father, another John, was a Free Church of Scotland minister, and—in spite of his vocation—a sociable person with a love of traditional Scottish ballads, both words and music.

PSB was born into a cohesive, coercive, and highly judgmental Presbyterian society, whose disapproval of her father's intense originality made her family close ranks against the majority of their own kind. She later...

Burns had a strong sense of his identity both as a Scot and as a member of the labouring class. His father was both a tenant farmer and head gardener to a man of property...

Brought up in the Church of England , she left the church in the Restoration period, with her stepfather and the rest of her family, to become a Dissenter . She remembered that she was...

TC 's family belonged to a dissenting branch of the Presbyterian church .

She grew up in a strictly Scottish Presbyterian environment. According to her son John Carswell, CC 's parents were God-fearing middle-class Glaswegians and Wee Frees: the familiar name for members of the Free Church of Scotland

Both of CC 's grandfathers were ministers who left the Church of Scotland in May 1843 in the Disruption over the issue of state interference with the appointment of ministers to parishes. They gave up...

KC published with her initials a broadside entitled Good Counsell, to the Petitioners for Presbyterian Government.

The title exhorts him to begin the new yeare, with new fruits of love, first to God, and then to his brethren. The Introduction or Epistle, To the Godly Reader explains why she has taken...

Against a background of Charles I 's continuing war against Scotland (despite the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant in September 1643) in the attempt to impose Episcopacy in place of Presbyterianism, KC argues...

JHC 's large, wealthy middle-class, Scottish family had Liberal leanings, and was presumably Presbyterian , having affiliations with the parishes of St Giles's and St Cuthbert's in Edinburgh.JHC remained committed to the...

She belonged to the established Church of Scotland (that is, Presbyterian). She was not, however, an orthodox Calvinist; she had enough belief to combat the atheism of her friend David Hume , but not such...

The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...