Roman Catholic Church

MAW 's father reconverted to Catholicism : a crushing blow to his family.

The close of MS 's erotic relationship with Howard Sergeant (with whom, however, her friendship continued for a while) coincided with a gradual movement towards Derek Stanford , a fellow-member of postwar London bohemia, who...

MD married Roy O. Stratton , a US naval commander, in Princeton, USA, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic church which would not allow a Protestant (Stratton) to be married in its sanctuary.

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.

Edward Heneage Dering , second husband of GC , converted to Roman Catholicism .

The widowed mother of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD ) converted to Roman Catholicism and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor ) with her younger children, lest their guardians should...

Lucy's father, William Herbert , owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War...

The marriage lasted only a little over a year. EW filed for divorce on 3 September 1929, after his wife was unfaithful to him. The rapid end of this marriage shook him badly. Since he...

ML 's father, Michael Laffan , was a Catholic , but had attended a Protestant school. He was the Custom House officer of Blackrock, County Dublin (a surprisingly high position for a Catholic to hold...

The marriage took place at her new mother-in-law's house in Blackfriars Road, London. Thomas Posthumous Hoby needed Margaret's money. A second son, born after his father's death, he was on bad terms with...

Charlotte's brother John became a Jesuit priest after converting to Roman Catholicism , without apparently upsetting the family.

VB named her daughter after Charlotte Brontë 's character. The child Shirley Catlin was already a Roman Catholic , a role she later combined with that of social democrat. She came second to Elizabeth Taylor

MCC was so unfortunate as to have a great many Relations (most of them Roman Catholics ) who joined the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. When the head of the Clavering family, a man in...

Stein's partner Alice Toklas converted to Catholicism in 1957, allegedly because she liked the idea of meeting up with Stein in heaven.

Her notoriety (following the war and from her later work) placed FN in the society of many important contemporaries, including every Prime Minister of her time. She maintained a correspondence with Cardinal Manning ...