Unitarian Church

She belonged to the English middle class; her parents were members of the intellectual aristrocracy of English puritanism, as her father was a dissenting Unitarian minister. She was the first of six children, three daughters...

The English Martineaus came from French Huguenot stock: the first member of the family (according to HM herself) had settled in Norwich in 1688. She made a point, in a correction to the information provided...

Her parents were connected to the Unitarian tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood as well as to the largely Anglican evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect centred close to their home in South London...

MS became a Unitarian like John Taylor before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker in 1790.

As the daughter of a dissenting clergyman, AH was born into an English, middle-class, and presumably white family. Her father's parents were described in one source as of respectable character and station, engaged in agricultural...

SWM , born into a comfortable rank in British colonial society, became a proud American. She was proud also of her father's Welsh heritage. Her Lines to the Mansion of My Ancestors...

Her family were Unitarian s but her father converted to the Church of England . She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of...

The Roscoes were a well-known, presumably white, Unitarian , intellectual family who were well established in the Liverpool area.

She was born into the English urban middle class, but very little is known about her early life and education. It seems most likely that she came from white parents and that Joseph Parkes in...

She had a strong sense of her American identity, but in religion she was a seeker who found it hard to feel at home in any denomination. Rejecting the strict Calvinism in which she was...

She was deeply familiar with Victorian religious crisis. Brought up in her mother's faith, Huguenot-descended protestantism, while living through her father's successive shifts of belief and witnessing their negative impact on his family and his...

MH 's opinions on marriage were similar to those of other radicals and feminists in the Unitarian circles in which she travelled, and in which alternative unions were common. She argued that the...

Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale held strongly to his Unitarian background and was...

ER came from a long-established English family settled in Liverpool, with a tradition of industrialism, philanthropy, high culture, Liberalism, and Dissent (either Quaker or Unitarian ).

MH was a middle-class Englishwoman, born into a Rational Dissenting faith (ancestor of later Unitarianism ) which she found highly compatible with feminist ideas. As a young woman she flirted with deism. In Emma...