Roman Catholic Church

COCE went to school at Upton Hall , near Birkenhead in England, a Roman Catholic convent school for girls founded in 1849 by nuns of the then fairly new teaching Order of the Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus

Lucy's father, William Herbert , owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War...

Despite her personal achievements, Margaret Roper's fame has and to some extent still does rest primarily on her status as the eldest and favourite daughter of Thomas More , Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII

Her mother, born Arabella FitzGibbon , was eldest daughter of John FitzGibbon, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to qualify for the law, in which career he proved highly successful. She was...

Her father, Thomas Arnold the younger, was the eldest and favourite son of Doctor Arnold , of Rugby . The Arnolds were a staunchly Anglican family, but her father shocked his family by converting to...

ML 's father, Michael Laffan , was a Catholic , but had attended a Protestant school. He was the Custom House officer of Blackrock, County Dublin (a surprisingly high position for a Catholic to hold...

The marriage took place at her new mother-in-law's house in Blackfriars Road, London. Thomas Posthumous Hoby needed Margaret's money. A second son, born after his father's death, he was on bad terms with...

Charlotte's brother John became a Jesuit priest after converting to Roman Catholicism , without apparently upsetting the family.

Thomas Arnold (father of the future MAW ) abandoned Roman Catholicism and returned to the Church of England .

MAW 's father reconverted to Catholicism : a crushing blow to his family.

MD married Roy O. Stratton , a US naval commander, in Princeton, USA, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic church which would not allow a Protestant (Stratton) to be married in its sanctuary.

Edward Heneage Dering , second husband of GC , converted to Roman Catholicism .

Stein's partner Alice Toklas converted to Catholicism in 1957, allegedly because she liked the idea of meeting up with Stein in heaven.

CR 's engagement to James Collinson ended, some time after he had returned to the Roman Catholic faith .

The widowed mother of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD ) converted to Roman Catholicism and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor ) with her younger children, lest their guardians should...