Presbyterian Church

SJD was strongly influenced by a Calvinist, Liberal, Scottish father and attended Zion Presbyterian Church in her hometown. Her mother brought Irish influences. The legacy of her parents and of her early years in Canada...

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...

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.)

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 .

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...