Presbyterian Church

Travelling In, because it described in positive terms the author's experience of taking LSD, was banned from bookshops run by the Church of Scotland .

These two editions (both in English) witness the continuing importance of the text to Presbyterians . The same century saw a total of seven reprints, with two in the early eighteenth century. The poem was...

EM was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content...

HA was a diarist and spiritual autobiographer (of the Presbyterian sect) of the later seventeenth century.

As a member of the Council of State (instituted after the king 's death as chief executive body) John Hutchinson found himself with power over his old opposites and enemies of . . . the...

ST 's career as a writer introduced her to many leading literary figures (especially those of Scots origin) whom she entertainingly describes in Three Generations. She became an especially good friend of Dinah Mulock Craik

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...

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.

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

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 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.