Roman Catholic Church

HM became finally estranged from her brother, John Henry Newman (after years of intellectual argument), when he converted to Roman Catholicism .

Harriett's eldest brother, John Henry Newman , became first a clergyman and national religious leader of the Anglican Church , then a Catholic , and eventually a Cardinal. In 1828 John wrote to HM

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...

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

Lady Winifred's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis , came from an influential Catholic royalist family. One of her great-grand-mothers was the Renaissance translator Elizabeth Russell (one of the famous Cook sisters)...

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...

Winifred's father, William Herbert , was a major land-owner in the Welsh marches and Wales proper, a convinced and hereditary monarchist, as active in government as his Catholic religion allowed, a courtier and a soldier...

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...

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

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

By chance his father as well as his mother was with him. Though he had converted to Roman Catholicism he was buried with his younger brother.

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...

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

Thomas Burnet of Kemnay wrote the first of his surviving letters to CT ; he was at this date thinking of her as a potential wife, and was concerned to convert her from Roman Catholicism .