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, December 11, 2022

"She never more will return."

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“If there be any man to whose happiness marriage is more necessary than to that of another, it is a country clergyman.” Trollope wrote that ...
Friday, November 11, 2022

"Dreadful Death of a Clergyman's Wife."

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A furious 14th Century storm destroyed the coastal village of          Skinburness, on the Solway - the firth that separates Scotland and  C...
Friday, September 30, 2022

The Hampstead Prima Donna

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The Rev Sherrard Beaumont Burnaby of Hampstead Parish Church was proud of his choir. He'd arrived at St. John's in 1873 and - under ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Sins of the Flesh

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In 1841, the Bishop of London, the Right Rev. CJ Blomfield, consecrated the new church of St. Peter in de Beauvoir town, a planned suburb fo...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The Black Sheep of Chipping Warden

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(chippingwarden.org)   Not far from Banbury, just over the   Oxfordshire border in Northants, lies   the quiet, "pleasantly situated...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

"It's only me, Emma. I won't hurt you."

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St. Swithin's, Wellow (geograph.org) A modern guide book describes the small Notts village of Wellow as "chocolate-box pretty, an i...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

A Jubilee Scandal

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Canon Fleming (Vanity Fair) The anticipation for Queen Victoria's 50th Jubilee, being celebrated in June of 1887, would have seemed fami...
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