Senior members of staff, whom they call ministers but who might easily be confused for bureaucrats, can benefit from perks such as the "parsonage allowance"—essentially tax-free money to pay their mortgage.Before seeking new legislation, Mr Grassley is waiting for religious organisations to respond to his report with proposals to minimise such abuses.
Dodgson's transition from a childhood with three brothers and seven sisters in a secluded Cheshire parsonage to adulthood if that is the word in the cloisters of Christ Church, where he lived from the age of 18 until his death, was a barely noticeable change.
He was born in a parsonage and brought up on the South Dakota prairie.
Hooker seems to have lived not in the parsonage of the Temple but with John Churchman, a good friend of the Church of England.
In 1844 Charlotte attempted to start a school that she had long envisaged in the parsonage itself, as her father's failing sight precluded his being left alone.
Parris had shrewdly negotiated his contract with the congregation, but relatively early in his tenure he sought greater compensation, including ownership of the parsonage, which did not sit well with many members of the congregation.
There were two reasons for this: first, the parsonage was not in good repair, and, second, Travers lived there.
First, he went to study drawing at the Brussels Academy; in 1881 he moved to his father's parsonage at Etten, Netherlands, and began to work from nature.
Charlotte completed Shirley: A Tale in the empty parsonage, and it appeared in October.
The Church of St. Michael contains their family memorials, and the adjacent parsonage (1779) has since 1928 housed the museum of the Brontë Society (founded 1893).
Also noteworthy are the title essay describing the parsonage and "Roger Malvin's Burial," a historical tale.
