Presbyterian Church

AF was born into the Scottish working class and into the Protestant faith—the latter signified by yelling Dirty Papes at rival gangs of small children who yelled back Proddy Dogs, while neither understood what...

Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress...

From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ). She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...

MS recalls that as a young child my mother taught me to read the Bible, and to say my prayers morning and evening; otherwise she allowed me to grow up a wild creature.

HB 's father, the Rev. Robert Boog Watson was a minister in the Free Church of Scotland .

John Taylor had been a classical tutor in the Daventry Academy and a minister in the English Presbyterian church. By the time of his marriage his search for the truth had led him to join...

HB said that her father, Colonel Henry Jervis , owed his rigid cast of mind to his upbringing in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland (before a rather late conversion to Anglicanism ) and to his...

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...

Her father, the Rev. William Cowie , was a minister in the Church of Scotland .

HMW was brought up by her mother, Helen Hay, who came from Naughton in Scotland, was known for her Presbyterian piety, and to a later observer was an old Scotch, high-blooded lady.

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...

Susanna's stepfather, whose name was Harcourt Leighton , was a Shropshire man whose religious and political allegiances were the opposite of her royalist father's. He was a Presbyterian in religion, and when the Civil War...

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.

She had two brothers with successful public careers. George Drummond , who was more than twenty years her elder, had worked on the terms of the Union of Scotland and England before she was born...

Matthew Henry (two years older than SS , and her only surviving brother) became a celebrated Presbyterian minister like his father, who was able to participate in his ordination in 1687. He was eminent both...