Presbyterian Church

SM came from the Scottish middle class, though her father sometimes worked at manual jobs while she was growing up. She says she was brought up with quite liberal values but with a Presbyterian moral...

Her father had been impressed as a young man by the Morrisonian revival, a revolt against rigorous Calvinism. He was violently opposed to belief in predestination, and helped build a little Evangelical Union Church which...

Her parents were both Scots of the professional classes, with links on each side to the nobility, which AH emphasizes at a date when she had married into the latter class.AH was a...

Brought up a Presbyterian , SM was received into the Anglo-Catholic church in 1972 (the year of her marriage and of her husband's appointment as a parish priest) and later became a Roman Catholic .

She came from the professional class. Her family tradition was Scottish and Covenanting on her mother's side, Welsh with some Huguenot blood on her father's. She was brought up a Rational Dissenter and attended a...

IM was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland , had come down in the...

She was brought up in the Church of Scotland .

She was the daughter of a white American Presbyterian minister who came from nine generations of clergy. From her father's mother she learned piety and prudence. Her own mother instilled in her a love for...

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...

OM 's family was lower-middle-class. (The Braybrookes' biography remarks that having come from this narrowest, most prejudiced class in England . . . . she had successfully declassed herself.) Her father was English...

GM was born into the Scottish Presbyterian gentry; her parents were strongly committed to their religion and the generation before them had suffered as Covenanters for their commitment. In maturity she inhabited the slightly awkward...

IB apparently told Sarah Tytler , however, that they were also motivated by interest in, and a desire to join, the Free Kirk which had recently separated from the Church of Scotland .

She grew up Anglican like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian , so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before her...

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...

At the Presbyterian religious gathering later called the communion of [or at] Shotts,EM retired to pray privately in the bed (a curtained alcove), but then consented to pray aloud, while thousands gathered...