Anglican Church

Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish and later belonged to the Church of Ireland . Her husband was a churchwarden. By the time that her children...

Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends and in local trade. Mary Jane was strongly religious. Stamp relays a story of her mother not only frightening her with stories about hell, but...

Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...

The Anglican baptism of CD 's children may—perhaps—represent a final severing of her Jewish roots.

SF 's family on both sides belonged to the English gentry; her father had noble relations. She was a practising Anglican .

MT 's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland .

After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker and Rousseauvian values...

SLP was born into the English gentry. Her poetry makes it clear that she was a pious Anglican , a convinced Whig, and a patriotic supporter of the Protestant succession. Allegations by Delarivier Manley that...

He was baptised into the Church of England , and as late as the age of twenty-five he was an assiduous church-goer, had some idea of becoming a clergyman, and involved himself deeply in such...

Susan E. Whyman locates JJ among English upper middling-sort women, below the level of gentry. Having married a clergyman, she was a strong Anglican , who was troubled by the prevalence of Dissent in...

She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The...

LJC was born to privilege and her father's career took her into the highest ranks of English society. He professed himself a devout member of the Church of England (into which his children followed him)...

In his political career and the high office which he attained, BD did something unprecedented in England for someone of his Jewish ethnicity. By the early twenty-first century he remained Britain's only Jewish Prime Minister...

Her Anglican piety extended to keeping a coffin by her bed to remind her of her latter end, but did not extend to submission to authority. I disputte nott your lordships rightt, and farr be...

Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.