Sentence examples for devout anglican from inspiring English sources

He was a devout Anglican and a generous philanthropist.

A profoundly devout Anglican, Johnson was in dread at the prospect of death and judgment, for he feared damnation.

Upjohn was a devout Anglican who borrowed heavily from the style of the 13th and 14th centuries to design about 150 churches, including Trinity Church in Manhattan.

Wordsworth, a radical in his youth, was to become a devout Anglican and Tory in older age, but the Ode was written before this transformation.

"She is a genuinely devout Anglican, and has real convictions about the common good, duty, service – those traditional Anglo-Catholic virtues," she said.

The model of the good hypocrite in politics is William E. Gladstone, Britain's 19th-century prime minister, devout Anglican and passionate moral crusader.

The members of the Brittan family were devout Anglicans and had a close association with the neighbouring Holy Trinity Avonside, where Guise Brittan was a lay reader.

What first came to mind were the "Tracts" that devout Anglicans published and fiercely debated in the 1830s over the Church of England's 39 Articles of Belief.

The College itself remained loyal to the church above the king and allegiance to oaths and ceremony was enforced, even if college members themselves were not always devout Anglicans.

Boyle was a devout and pious Anglican who keenly championed his faith.

As a devout but undemonstrative Anglican, who read the Bible every day, George V assumed "a quasi-priestly role", both protective and fatherly towards his countrymen, says Cannadine.