Anglican Church

CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...

PL is, she says, an agnostic. She came out as such at around fifteen to her grandmother (a keen Anglican whose religion involved a commitment to serving the local community). She explained that she assented...

FNBA belonged to the English upper class, and to a network of relations who held or strove for power in the state. Judging by the known political allegiance of her eldest brother, she would have...

PB was confirmed into the Anglican Church while attending St John the Baptist School in New York City.

Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England clergyman, GC came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court. As...

Lucie Austin (later LDG ) was baptised and confirmed as an Anglican on the last Sunday of the year; she was sixteen.

Born into the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy (of a family with close ties on both sides to the Anglican, that is Protestant, Church ofIreland ), JMS grew up in his mother's atmosphere of Calvinistic fervour. He...

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...

EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction. Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...

This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant and her father a Catholic . They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage...

Born into the English professional class, to a family with strong connections with the law, JCM became deeply religious. When the Methodist movement got going (still within the Church of England ) it attracted her strongly.

AB sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian (in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was...

Baptised a Congregationalist , that is in contemporary terms a Dissenter , MMC later became a practising Anglican . She was deeply religious.

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...

Though born in Lisbon, she came from a presumably white, Anglican , English, high-ranking military family, and moved in upper-class circles. Her family were of the squirearchy and their name was derived from the...