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, January 19, 2023

A Clergyman at 80 - and his "Bastard" infant.

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Llanpumpsaint Church today In 1876, the Rev Henry William Powell was 80 years old. Citing health reasons, he resigned after more than 40 yea...
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...
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