Roman Catholic Church

BWC 's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church , and...

MW was a pious Catholic as a child: she was said to shun sports and pastimes, preferring to read spiritual books, to perform exercises of penance like wearing a rough, uncomfortable girdle, and to humble...

HM quietly converted to Roman Catholicism .

Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG converted to Catholicism in 1896.

After converting to Roman Catholicism the previous year, MH was confirmed in that faith by the Prince-Bishop of Brixen (now Bressanone, a town in the Italian Tyrol).

MBL was born into the Roman CatholicChurch (to which her mother had converted and of which her brother later became a champion), and she remained a devout Catholic until her death, to the bafflement of...

EMD grew up in an upper-class family. Her father was descended from French Catholic aristocrats (whose title was not officially recognised in England), and her mother from English squires. She was given a strict Victorian...

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

Born into the professional middle class, NRS had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins. She became a central and well-known...

EN was born in the English middle class (though she had some Irish and Swedish blood) and brought up as an Anglican . She became a socialist and a feminist, although with some reservations and...

With the support of her older lover, Ladye , RH converted to Catholicism .

FTJ was brought up as a Catholic . Her paternal ancestors were writers, poets, theologians, and historians, while her maternal ancestors were colliery owners. By the time of her birth, her family had lost its...

CB 's mother practised strict Catholic ism while her father, who came from a fundamentalist dissenting home, professed agnostic beliefs. Raised and educated in the Catholic faith, CB married an English Roman Catholic. In regard...

FD belonged to the British nobility (with a Scottish father and English mother), but her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism (as well as other family circumstances) made her experience different from most members of her...

MAR 's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church and she was herself baptised as an Anglican.