Roman Catholic Church

She came from an ancient, noble, Roman Catholic family, who were English with some claim to be Welsh. Sheffield Grace , who wrote comments on her famous letter in 1827, ascribed her qualities to her...

He was born into the gentry class, or rather at a level of Polish society which had something of that and something of the British nobility. He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church and...

Her well-to-do father moved from the middle class into the gentry by means of marrying his daughter to a future peer. Brought up a Protestant, she early acquired from her reading a distrust of that...

In the aftermath of his trial, OW was widely pilloried in the press, his homosexuality abused by all of the covert means available. He became a convert to Roman Catholicism .

Presumably white, she was baptised a Catholic and was descended from two ancient Irish families of great consideration. Throughout her life (which she said was too quiet to be of interest to the public) she...

A Roman Catholic , FM also developed an interest in spiritualism.

BRP , who had long ceased to be a Unitarian and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism .

At twenty-one, having come of age, Edmée de la Pasture (later EMD ) entered a Catholic convent, the mother house of an enclosed order in Belgium.

At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.

GF , hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland , was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.

FK was presumably white, although Brenda Colloms describes her physical appearance as dark and handsome in a buxom, Spanish style. Her family was English and engaged in commerce on her father's side, Anglo-Irish and aristocratic...

Charlotte Mew was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with...

Her parents, members of the English yeoman class (farmers who worked their own small piece of land themselves), were devout Catholics . This meant that they belonged to a minority to whom various civil rights...

Although in her student days she practised witchy activities like casting spells, she was, says Marina Warner (the recipient of an unsuccessful spell to cure a painful unrequited love), a quietly practising Catholic most of...

She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church , which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism , EG and...