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.

Thursday, August 25, 2016

The Dean of Norwich and an Unwanted Biographer

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The Rev. William Lefroy It may appear from these entries that Victorian clerical scandals were somehow limited to the lowly curates of t...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

The Queen's Chaplain and his Housekeeper

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The Rev Timothy Fyshe Foord-Bowes was rector of St. Nicholas church in the Bedfordshire village of Barton-le-Clay. He was a chaplain to...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

The Curate Goes for Butter. Once.

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The plight of underpaid, overworked curates was a fervently debated subject in the late Victorian years. The Curate's Augmentation Fu...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

Singular Death of a Clergyman

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Stenbock (Wikipedia) In any of the numerous accounts of late-Victorian "decadence," the name of the "Count" Eric Ste...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

A Clergyman Wanting in Ordinary Humanity

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St. Germanus, Germansweek, Devon (Creative Commons) Jennie Burgess arrived in Exeter, via the Okehampton train, one November night in 1...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

A Curate in the Limelight

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The Rev Frederic Forshall held numerous curacies around the Home Counties - but with a wife and four children to support - he found he co...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Down to the Pub with the Vicar of Henley

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St. John the Baptist church, High Street, Henley-in-Arden The Rev. Thomas Jones was for 25 years the vicar of St. John the Baptist, Henl...
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