Roman Catholic Church

After a strong religious grounding at home, and after the idea of placing her in a French convent was abandoned because of the Seven Years War, MAR received a good education at the Bar Convent

Harriett's eldest brother, John Henry Newman , became first a clergyman and national religious leader of the Anglican Church , then a Catholic , and eventually a Cardinal. In 1828 John wrote to HM

Lady Winifred's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis , came from an influential Catholic royalist family. One of her great-grand-mothers was the Renaissance translator Elizabeth Russell (one of the famous Cook sisters)...

GG 's mother, born Margaret Mary Lafrank , known as Peggy, worked as a milliner and as a performer before she was married. Since she was a Roman Catholic , the Protestant man she married...

CR 's engagement to James Collinson ended, some time after he had returned to the Roman Catholic faith .

Winifred's father, William Herbert , was a major land-owner in the Welsh marches and Wales proper, a convinced and hereditary monarchist, as active in government as his Catholic religion allowed, a courtier and a soldier...

Despite her personal achievements, Margaret Roper's fame has and to some extent still does rest primarily on her status as the eldest and favourite daughter of Thomas More , Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII

Her mother, born Arabella FitzGibbon , was eldest daughter of John FitzGibbon, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to qualify for the law, in which career he proved highly successful. She was...

Her father, Thomas Arnold the younger, was the eldest and favourite son of Doctor Arnold , of Rugby . The Arnolds were a staunchly Anglican family, but her father shocked his family by converting to...

One of her most notable personal and professional relationships was with the novelist George Moore . The pair met in 1893, and Moore appears to have fallen in love with the then-still-married Hobbes. A break...

By chance his father as well as his mother was with him. Though he had converted to Roman Catholicism he was buried with his younger brother.

At HullPL established terms of easy friendship with the then small group of mostly female, young, and unmarried library staff. From the end of 1960 he developed a close or romantic friendship, eventually a...

The family of Thomas More were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again...

Re-united with her younger daughter, EJ found that the girl was ill, and had been converted to Roman Catholicism in France. She took care of her daughter and re-converted her to the Church of England

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