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, October 22, 2017

A Canon Disgraced

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Going on thirty years, the Rev. Henry Russell Dodd had been the vicar of St. Matthew's church in the Cheshire village of Stretton. He ...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

A Curate's Imprudent Kiss

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Curates were ever a figure of great fun in Victorian England. In 1876,  Belgravia , a society magazine, published a rather lengthy discuss...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

"In a State of Helpless Intoxication"

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"That many of the clergy of the day were hard drinkers at a time when all men drank, there can be no question," one Victorian obse...
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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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