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...

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)...

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...

She was brought up a Catholic but became a sceptic, apart from a continuing superstitious feeling about religion.

Shortly after her first release from prison, Irish nationalist Constance, Countess Markievicz, became a Roman Catholic .

Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing...

MCC was so unfortunate as to have a great many Relations (most of them Roman Catholics ) who joined the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. When the head of the Clavering family, a man in...

Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic , she became a committed...