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.

Thursday, October 10, 2019

A Thousand and One Rumours

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St. Swithun's, Hempstead All was in readiness for the wedding feast at Hempstead Court, the country home of the Rev. Samuel Lysons ...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Charles Darwin & the Curate

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The Rev John Warburton Robinson was an Irishman, educated at Trinity, and ordained at Oxford in 1864. In August 1868, he arrived in the...
Monday, August 19, 2019

“A Vicar and His Housemaid”

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One April day in 1891, the vicar of Wilmington, the Rev. William Augustus St. John Dearsley, known as Sinjin, was in his study with his w...
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...
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