Anglican Church

Adela Cory's English parents were living in India at the time of her birth, as did many Britons throughout the period of British rule over the sub-continent. Her mother's family heritage was Irish. Adela was...

Lady Elizabeth Cavendish's birth family was not remarkable for its piety, but she may have been an exception among them. As an unmarried girl she wrote her name in a copy of St Peter's Complaint...

MAK thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller 's Memoirs. She felt her unhappiness as a child and young woman was good for...

Born into the English middle class, PDJ was a believing Anglican whose religious commitment was unaffected by her ability to cast a disenchanted eye on the workings of the Church of England as an institution.

He was born into the northern English minor country gentry, but he grew up (as an Anglican ) in Ireland, spending his childhood and youth there.

She was born into the Anglo-Irish middle class and brought up as a member of the Church of Ireland . A friend said that her faith was essentially a religion of brightness and of love.

KE grew up an Anglican , but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists , then the Independents , before becoming one of the Society of Friends very soon after its inception...

AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...

More commented, I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her Last Breath. As a Quaker she wrote a codicil to her will, revoking her order...

She was buried, according to her own instructions in the garden of Mathias Perkins , her executor, beside the main road in Twickenham, across from the theatre. Her burial place was magnificently marked, in...

MF died of cancer at Umberleigh in Devon. She was called the Church of England 's most influential and creative layperson of the post-war period by the Rev. Mary Robins in a brief obituary...

It appeared though Curll and Rivington , dedicated to the Countess of Nottingham (an Anglican who was said to be a Catholic sympathiser). Its frontispiece is an engraving of the Crucifixion. It has recently been...

AF (like the future Naomi Mitchison before her) attended the Dragon School in Oxford (a boys' preparatory school, taking children from about eight to thirteen). In her day it had twenty girls out of a...

PDJ qualified to attend the high-school in Ludlow, but was not permitted to go; there was not enough money for the number of pupils offered places, and she was dropped from the list. Instead, she...

All that SH says about her education is that it was carried out in the principles of her father; that is, those of the Church of England .