Methodist Church

Although strongly influenced by her Methodist grandfather, FT grew up in the Anglican Church. She remained an Anglican even though she was attracted to the Catholic Church in later life.

Brought up in all the fervour of early Methodism (to which each of her parents had devoted their life before she was born), EF seems to have retained no trace of it after she was...

As a Methodist Hannah Spurr (later HK ) was deeply distressed in August 1797 by the split between the bulk of the sect and the New Connection founded by her future husband. After long wavering...

Born into the EnglishDissenting middle class, she held a strong religious faith which was the guiding principle of her life.

Though she was and remained, she said, a staunch Churchwoman myself, and yield to no one in pure love and reverence for my own form of worship, she was nonetheless warm in her tribute...

As an English boy and then man in India, Rudyard must have been constantly aware of his status as one of the white race and administrative ruling class. His earliest memories of India were impressions...

EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction. Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...

Born in South Africa to white parents of British origin but later settled in Canada, and accustomed in later years to a high professional standard of living, EW had a Methodist , comfortable, sheltered upbringing...

She grew up in a nonconformist environment that encouraged reading and learning. Her religious faith was deeply influenced by the strong Evangelical Methodist beliefs of her mother.

LB was born into a wealthy and strict EnglishWesleyan family. She generally saw her parents only once a day, at prayers, and on Sunday for both Chapel and dinner. She later refused to be...

The mother and grandmother of Anne and her sister Elizabeth were Methodists, and the girls themselves were baptised Methodists in 1786, the year after their mother's death, during a missionary visit to Antigua. After their...

Born into the English professional class, to a family with strong connections with the law, JCM became deeply religious. When the Methodist movement got going (still within the Church of England ) it attracted her strongly.

As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...

Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans (following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were...

From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley 's fairly new religious group called the Methodists (then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon