Anglican Church

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Her father, James Graham, one of eight children, was a clergyman in the Church of Ireland (that is, the Anglican Church established in Ireland) at St Columb's Cathedral in what was then called Londonderry, Northern...

Mary Shackleton first met her future husband when he came as a boy to Ballitore School in 1777, brought there by his Anglican clergyman guardian and a friend who was a Roman Catholic priest. This...

The Church of England would not marry slaves; she insisted on Daniel's joining the Moravian church before she would agree to be his wife. Her marriage infuriated her owners. She later said, I had...

HMB 's elder brother, John, trained as a lawyer but won modest fame as a Church of England writer. A memoir of him was published by one of his sons, another Thomas, in 1824. The...

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...

His father was a curate in the Church of Ireland (that is an Anglican) and also, to make ends meet, a small-scale farmer. He died in 1747.

In a Scotch marriage ceremony, William Charles Yelverton (later Viscount Avonmore) read the Church of England marriage service aloud to MTL in Edinburgh.

HB said that her father, Colonel Henry Jervis , owed his rigid cast of mind to his upbringing in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland (before a rather late conversion to Anglicanism ) and to his...

Although Fanny had previously expressed a desire to remain single and perhaps to join an Anglican sisterhood, her relationship with Kingsley accelerated quickly. Kingsley later referred to this first meeting as eye-wedlock and his real...

RC 's father, the Rev. Edward John Sewell Lamburn , came from a farming family and was ordained in the Anglican Church . He opted, however, to teach at Bury Grammar School, rather than taking...