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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...

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...

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...

CD grew up in the Church of Scotland , but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 after a decade living in France.

ED possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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