Roman Catholic Church

Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS subscribed to the Church of England or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism . Supporters of the Catholic...

AB was received into the Catholic Church in Farm Street, London, by Father Charles Martindale .

GD was born into the nobility, of a Scottish father and an English mother. Her mother altered the course of her life by converting to Roman Catholicism , which her elder daughter also enthusiastically embraced.

AK was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church three years after her marriage, at least in part to avoid the duties of a vicar's wife.

Since he was born and faithfully remained a Catholic , he was excluded from university, from government jobs, and latterly from residing in London or owning a horse worth more than a certain sum.

Near the time of her marriage, CC converted to Catholicism , her husband's faith. From this point onwards she remained a devout Catholic.

Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...

Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican Church. AMH encountered many practising Catholic s while living with her maternal step-grandfather , who often entertained...

HM was born into a wealthy business family which struck Virginia Woolf as typical[ly] English (though in fact both of her parents were Scots). She converted to Roman Catholicism in the late 1920s....

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

Throughout her investigation into spiritualism, UT felt herself in conflict because the Roman Catholic Church , to which she still remained devoted, had vetoed all spiritualist practices and beliefs. She was able, however, to find...

Born of mixed English and German heritage, and on both sides of middle-class families deeply involved in the practice of the arts, FMF converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of nineteen, but hardly seems...

Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland , she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic .

She came from a family of Catholic farmers, middle-class people who were liked and respected by the local gentry.

FS was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's...