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, July 28, 2019

A "Midnight Spree" at the Vicarage

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For centuries, the crocketed pinnacles of the tower of St. Goran's church, though a mile in from the sea, have been one of the landma...
Monday, July 8, 2019

"The Love Trials of a London Curate"

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O n 30 May 1878, an announcement appeared in the Births column of the London Standard :  DUCHESNE— May 24, at the house of the R...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Revolting Cruelty to Children

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Ruyton of the XI Towns is one of the more curious names in an English gazetteer. It is a cluster of Shropshire villages that a young doc...
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...
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