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.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Conduct Unbecoming to the Character of a Clergyman

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St. John the Baptist, Kinlet, Salop. The Shropshire village of Kinlet is quite remote, in a "wild and elevated" setting. Magni...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

The Hampton Court Scandal

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The position of Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen at Hampton Court sounds more impressive, perhaps, than it was. It was said that the stip...
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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Annoying the Vicar of Withernwick

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St. Alban's Church, Withernwick "Local affairs at Withernwick do not, generally speaking, present a very fruitful topic of disc...
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...
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