CLERICAL ERRORS --- A VICTORIAN SERIES

An early Victorian observer decried the "superfluity of naughtiness" among the men of the Church of England. It was indisputable that whenever a clergyman was involved in a scandal of morals, the public attention it received was magnified exponentially. Clerical Errors: A Victorian Series, Volume 2, newly published in paperback and for Kindle, recalls the scandals that enmeshed five such Victorian clergymen.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Mary Crawley (not of Downton) and the Newdigate Rectory Scandal

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St. Peter's Church, Newdigate, Surrey A clergyman must set an example. "The Clergyman and his house is as it were a light place...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

The Vicar Fights a Duel

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Victorian dueling pistols, from Purdey's of Mayfair The last clerical duelist in England was the Rev. Edwin Crane, vicar of Crowle. ...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

The Bishop's Daughter

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J.P. Lee, Bishop of Manchester On the morning of 11 July 1857, 26 year old Sophia Katherine Lee slipped out of her parent's home to ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Mysterious Death of a Clergyman's Wife

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Golcar and the spire of St. John's Church On Christmas Day 1862, the Rev J.E. Downing, longtime vicar of Golcar, near Huddersfield, ...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

A Somerset Clerical Scandal

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St. James the Less, Halse, Somerset In 1889, a pretty Somerset village was the setting for a "strange clerical scandal which has ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

A Vicar Charged with Assault

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The Old Vicarage, Cramlington The pits are now closed, replaced by bedroom estates and leisure centers but Cramlington was a coal mining...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

The Modern Curate

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Published in 1881, "The Modern Curate," was a collection of unsigned articles that had previously appeared in The Graphic , a Lo...
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