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.

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

The Caterham Asylum Scandal

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Twas not for all young clergymen to find a cozy rectory in a pleasant village, dining a time or two each year with the cheerful squire u...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

A Deserter in the Vicarage

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When the (Second) Boer War began in 1899, the troopships bound for Cape Town were quickly filled with newly enlisted soldiers. But, as th...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Inquiry. The Vicar and the Trainer's Wife.

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Coverham Church (Holy Trinity) In 1880, fresh from Cambridge, the young Rev. Frederick Wade Dalton returned to his native North Yorkshi...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Seduction in the Bluebells? A Vicar's Denial

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The Rev. Jeremiah Woolsey of Norwich was just thirty when he was named the vicar of Brightwell, a small Suffolk village, midway between Ip...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

A Basket Case in London

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According to The Financial Times , the Church of England is testing a “tap and go” contactless payment system for donations. No more envel...
Friday, July 6, 2018

The Woman in the Vicarage: A Wolverhampton Scandal

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The magnificently spired church of St John, Wolverhampton, is justly proud of its Renatus Harris organ. But when the new vicar, the Rev....
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

An Intolerable Fear of Exposure

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The Rev. Peter William Browne was the vicar of St. Katharine's Church in the small Lancashire coal-mining village of Blackrod. He came...
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