Anglican Church

Born English, with a successful professional father who had risen socially by his own efforts, baptised as an Anglican , PL became in maturity an Anglican agnostic. He was an unbeliever, yet both knowledgeable...

JB 's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, but he later saw this...

SLC was a fervent Anglican : her husband felt her piety would wear out a parson, let alone a man of some religious scepticism like himself. When in 1701 she met the free-thinking philosopher...

MJY 's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England and...

While living with the Anglican sisterhood at Wantage inBerkshire, PR was baptised into the Church ofEngland by William Butler , together with her daughter, Manorama. She took the name Mary Rama.

AG 's parents were Irish Protestant land-owners whose estate, encompassing thousands of acres, was originally acquired in the seventeenth century. Her forebears were a mix of Irish and English, Catholic and Protestant. Her maternal grandmother...

MS was baptised into the Anglican Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes , a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper.

AL was a middle-class Englishwoman (with relatives in trade and the professions, and forebears in the nobility) who admired the political liberties of the new American colonies. She was an Anglican , but unusually relaxed...

She seems to have been of Welsh extraction, and was presumably white. Her brothers had solid professional careers; she presumably belonged, like others of her family, to the Church of England .

She was brought up in the Anglican church, but very definitely as one of the Anglo-Catholic minority. After her brother's death she turned against religion.

Critics Margaret Bradstock and Louise Wakeling write that AC 's faith was strongly challenged by the deaths of her first two children: this was probably . . . the beginning of her questioning of Divine...

After she married and had children, EMD converted to the Anglican faith.

MF came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican .

Daughter, wife, and mother of clergymen, AF was English, Anglican , and presumably white.

RP was baptised an Anglican as a baby by parents who had trained at Church of England colleges but were not churchgoers. Brought up between her father's scepticism and her mother's eclecticism in matters...