Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Cultural formation | Sylvia Beach | 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... |
Cultural formation | Elma Napier | EN
was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian
, the family attended a Presbyterian
kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her... |
Cultural formation | Jane Hume Clapperton | 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. Chambers, William. Story of St. Giles’ Cathedral Church. W & R Chambers. 39 |
Cultural formation | Lesley Storm | She was brought up in the Church of Scotland
. Ravenhall, Chris. “Lesley Storm’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Three Goose Quills and a Knife</span>: A Burns Play Rediscovered”. Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. 32 , pp. 46-54. 46 |
Cultural formation | Brilliana, Lady Harley | Born into the network of elite gentry and noble families, she was even from before her marriage a fervent Puritan
, more specifically a Calvinist Presbyterian
in religion. Eales and others have applied to her... |
Cultural formation | Isabella Bird | 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
. Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray. 267-8 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Oliphant | Her family were Dissenters
. When Margaret was fifteen the Free Church of Scotland
split from its parent body; her parents espoused the rigidly opinionated new sect. |
Cultural formation | Alison Cockburn | 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... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Helme | She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism
compared with the Anglican
church. |
Cultural formation | Mary Somerville | MS
was born to parents who belonged to the Scottish gentry by birth and position (and were presumably white) but had little fortune; her father, Vice Admiral Sir William George Fairfax
, was held his... |
Cultural formation | Ann Bridge | AB
sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian
(in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was... |
Cultural formation | Annie S. Swan | 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... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
was an upper-class Scotswoman who was born into the Church of Scotland
and remained a fervent and radical member of it. She is presumed to have undergone a conversion experience within this church, and... |
Cultural formation | Frances Browne | Her family was Presbyterian
and apparently of Irish ancestry. She was raised in a lower middle-class family in a rural Irish town, and was presumably white. Accounts of her great-grandfather's squandered estates give Browne's family... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | 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... |
Timeline
13 August 1670: The British government declared that in Scotland...
National or international item
13 August 1670
The British government declared that in Scotland attendance at conventicles (the services conducted in fields or barns by ejected Presbyterian
ministers) was punishable by death.
October 1690: William III addressed the General Assembly...
National or international item
October 1690
William III
addressed the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
, speaking against extremism in the newly established national church. The more radical Covenanting Cameronians
thereupon split from the main body.
1725: Allan Ramsay established a circulating library...
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1725
Allan Ramsay
established a circulating library in Edinburgh which may have been the first in Britain. Another opened in Bath the same year.
Nicholson, Colin. “"Of Eminent Significancy": Allan Ramsay’s ‘British’ Poetics and Post-Union Construction of Cultural Space”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
25
, No. 2, pp. 203-16. 203
Feminist Companion Archive.
June 1749: Elizabeth Bennis (born Patton), a Limerick...
Women writers item
June 1749
Elizabeth Bennis
(born Patton), a Limerick merchant's wife in her early twenties, converted to Methodism
.
Dyer, Serena. “Review”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 74, pp. 37-8.
March 1763: At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic...
National or international item
March 1763
At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic
farm workers rose in protest against working conditions and evictions.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, pp. 12-13. 23
17 April 1774: The inaugural service was held at the first...
Building item
17 April 1774
The inaugural service was held at the first Unitarian
chapel, in Essex Street, London.
11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...
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11 May 1792
Edmund Burke
in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics
, Presbyterian
s, Quakers
, and others.
18 May 1843: In what was called the Disruption, led by...
National or international item
18 May 1843
In what was called the Disruption, led by Thomas Chalmers
, roughly a third of the ministers and half the members of the established Presbyterian Church of Scotland
seceded on the issue of a...
16 August 1845-29 May 1846: Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and anti-slavery...
Building item
16 August 1845-29 May 1846
Frederick Douglass
, ex-slave and anti-slavery campaigner, visited Britain: Ireland, Scotland, and England.
: The first starvation deaths attributable...
National or international item
Winter1845-6
The first starvation deaths attributable to the potato blight in Ireland were reported; the Great Famine began in earnest.
1900: The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several...
Building item
1900
The Free Kirk
(dating from 1843) and several earlier seceders from the Church of Scotland
joined to form the United Free Church of Scotland
.
1900: The Free Kirk (dating from 1843) and several...
Building item
1900
The Free Kirk
(dating from 1843) and several earlier seceders from the Church of Scotland
joined to form the United Free Church of Scotland
.
1969: Catherine McConnachie became the first woman...
Building item
1969
Catherine McConnachie
became the first woman ordained in the Church of Scotland
.
May 2004: Dr Alison Elliot took up her post as the...
Building item
May 2004
Dr Alison Elliot
took up her post as the first woman Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
.
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