Presbyterian Church

MDF was a fervent Protestant, who had dealings with the sect of Baptists , as well as attending an Independent or Presbyterian congregation headed by John Towers (who wrote one of the prefaces to her...

While the Scottish parliament, meeting at Edinburgh in summer 1621, sought to wrench control of the Scottish Church from its radical wing, anti-episcopal Presbyterian ministers gathered at nearby Sheens to await the result. There EM

KR was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her...

She was born into one of those families (in her case part Scottish, part Anglo-Irish) which manned the upper ranks of the British armed forces, but her upbringing was complicated by her father's death, her...

JSM 's father was Scottish and brought up as a Presbyterian . He later rejected his religious training for Utilitarianism.

AMKR 's parents were from Northern Irish farming stock, and she was a staunch Presbyterian . Her father's teaching had a serious influence on her, and she was persuaded at an early age that she...

Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland , MD was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly...

LA was a middle-class Englishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was...

Though she grew up in England, MLM 's Scottish roots, on both sides of the family, were important to her. Her parents were, however, Calvinist Presbyterian s, and this faith, which she later regarded as...

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...

QV was a devout Anglican , as befitted the head of the Church of England . (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian , that is Church of Scotland , parish church.)

It is not clear what sect HA was brought up in, but she was received, at about the time of her first marriage, into the London Presbyterian congregation of the influential preacher Edmund Calamy .

LMM was a white Canadian of Scottish and English heritage. In matters of religion, she said she was sceptical of the notion of a higher authority and once described herself as having no faith—a peculiar...

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...

SS was a Welshwoman but with strong ties to England, belonging to the professional classes but accustomed to the stigma of Nonconformity in a society where the Established Church was a vital plank in the...