Anglican Church

Like all her siblings but one, MG had been taught to read before she went to the local Church of England infants' school, St Michael's, at the age of five. The whole family had...

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 .

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...

The ten-year-old Ethel Bryant (later EW ) was enrolled in Miss Jessie Gordon 's Anglican school for girls, Crofton House in Vancouver.

In the late seventeenth century Swift worked for Sir William Temple (husband of the letter-writer Dorothy Osborne ), became an ordained clergyman, and embarked on a career of political pamphleteering. He took on his first...

Her father, Thomas Shore , received his education at Oxford and was a Church of England clergyman until his reservations about the Thirty-Nine Articles led him to redirect his energies to private tutoring. He educated...

NJ 's father, Samuel Jacob , had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago...

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

He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement...

Her husband's family was long-established at Ogbourne St Andrew in Wiltshire, England, but his marriage and his position with the Church of Ireland seem to have developed in him an Anglo-Irish consciousness. Anna sometimes...

Rochemont Barbauld came from a French Huguenot family and had a strong foreign accent as a result of spending his childhood abroad. He was ALB 's junior by six years, small in stature, emotionally unstable...

Mary's other grandmother spoke Yorkshire dialect like her husband, and was conservative in dress (wearing a lace net on her hair), but eclectic in religion, attending church and chapel alternately. It was from this...

JJ 's husband belonged to the conservative, not the evangelical wing of the Church of England . He was concerned at the influence of Dissenting beliefs in his congregation and in 1739, when George Whitefield

Noel's father, William Streatfeild , had grown up as the eldest of ten children of a clergy family in a rather grand house. He too went into the Anglican Church , in which he was...

Her father's name was Andrew William Beer, though her mother called him John. He had been married before, and had been an Anglican before accepting the more rigorous faith of his second wife's family...