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, May 24, 2019

Notorious All Over Exeter

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Holy Trinity Church, Gidleigh “If there be any man to whose happiness marriage is more necessary than to that of another, it is a count...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

A Woman Who Has Done Me Grievous Wrong

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Queen St, Derby (St. Michael's) [PicClick UK] On Sunday, March 27, 1881, the Rev Thomas Howard Twist MA, vicar of St. Michael's...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

The "Reverend Scamp" Elopes

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Holy Cross Church, Uckfield, East Sussex The Rev. William John Thomas Hill Brooks-Hill brought that magnificent name to the Sussex town...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The Pre-quel: Slander the Midwife

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As a young clergyman, the Rev Gordon James Henry Llewellyn served the Free Church of England, a strict and evangelical offshoot of the sta...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

A Curate Caught Off Guard

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St. Michael & All Angels, Great Torrington The North Devon town of Great Torrington is “pleasantly seated on a bold eminence.” Fr...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

The Scandal in Hanging Heaton

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The village of Hanging Heaton in West Yorkshire gets its macabre name not from the gallows but from its topographical position on a steep...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

A Diabolical Slander

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Photograph by Dicky King In 1872, the Rev John Goodwin had been five years the vicar of St. Mary's in Moston. It was a new church ...
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