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...

EB was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was her...

When Eirene, later Antonia, was seven years old, her father converted to Catholicism —a decision that had a profound effect on her. She too became a Catholic and remained a nominal one all her life...

Born into the English professional class, RS related closely to her American forebears. She and her sister were baptised as Catholics but brought up as Quakers .

She was born of a well-connected gentry or professional family on her father's side, of Welsh extraction (presumably white). She became déclassée through her career as a prostitute. It is not clear where her Roman Catholic

Alice Thompson (later AM ) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English...

EMC was a devoted and exemplary Catholic , from a presumably white, landowning-professional Irish family.

If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced...

She grew up with English and Irish Catholic parents of working-class background, living in council housing behind the Caledonian Canal at 92 St Valery in Inverness. The Smith family was fortunate to secure such...

For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything...

Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH was baptised into the Church ofEngland . Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family...

MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...

After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record and then from a vague indifference about religion, PF was received into the Roman Catholic Church .

LM was born into the English professional class or intelligentsia. She grew up in the heart of the Church of England , but later, despite the irreverence with which her writings handle religious topics, converted...

FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.