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.

Friday, October 28, 2016

Incapable of an Innocent Explanation - The troubles of a Lincolnshire curate.

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St. Nicholas, Fulbeck In one of those "advice to young curates" books that are now so much out of style, the newly fledged cle...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

A Vicar "on the Turf"

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“A more sensational Leger ... has never been experienced in the whole history of the race,” the sporting papers declared in September 1874...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

The Parable of the Mustard and Cress

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Sydling St. Nicholas Sydling St. Nicholas, in the remote folds of Dorset, seems an unlikely venue for one of the more curious clerical s...

Clergyman, Scholar, Murderer: The Rev. John Selby Watson

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The Rev. John Selby Watson - a respected scholar and former longtime headmaster at the Stockwell School in South London - had a long and d...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

The Cawston Rectory Scandal

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The Norfolk crowd gathered early on the morning of 15 July 1890, filling all the available space in the Town Hall in Aylsham. The Rev. The...
Saturday, September 3, 2016

The Vicar of Cowley and "a Most Unpleasant Enquiry"

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Cowley St. James The Rev. George Moore arrived as vicar of Cowley St. James in east Oxford in the late 1870's and remained for more...
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...
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