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.

Sunday, September 24, 2017

An Unfortunate Clerical First - in Divorce Court

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On the morning of 10 October 1858, the newly established court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes sat for the first time in London's an...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

An Exhumation in Bedfordshire

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The graveyard at Clapham church. Nothing quite brings out a crowd like an exhumation. On a dark, mild night in September 1876, in the gr...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

A Tale of Two Clergymen

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"Holy Trinity," Shanghai (courtesy TimeOutShanghai.) By all accounts, the Rev. Charles Henry Butcher (1833-1908) was an excep...
Monday, August 14, 2017

"A Commotion Raised Throughout Yorkshire"

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St. Mary the Virgin, Boston Spa The proper role of a clergyman’s wife was a familiar subject for discussion among churchmen in Victorian...
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Friday, August 4, 2017

The Rev. Sneyd-Kinnersley, played by Robert Hardy

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We mourn the passing of the great English actor, Robert Hardy, at the age of 91. The obituaries written today most frequently mention his ...
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Sunday, July 30, 2017

PARSON YOUNG'S NIGHT OUT

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An ebullient Yorkshireman, the Rev. Charles Gordon Young attended one of the lesser divinity schools and began his clerical career as a cu...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

A Suffolk Curate's Bad Hair Day

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In 1663, Robert Hooke, the great English polymath, published his "Observations on the Louse," accompanied by a four-page fold ou...
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