Provide[s] much interesting and invaluable information on how those who sought a career in the church prepared themselves for ordination, and it also throws light on the social mores of the clerical profession. FACHRS NEWSLETTER A detailed, analytical and scholarly work that is successful in identifying fresh sources to bring new insight to an important era in ... Read morethe life of the Anglican Church. HISTORY OF EDUCATION A valuable corrective to received opinion. JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, LITERATURE AND CULTURE Both academically rigorous but also surprisingly readable for a scholarly prosopographical study. Although it is a valuable work of Church history, it deserves to be read by any scholar interested in the social history of Britain in the late Hanoverian period, and indeed by anyone interested in the history of the Church of England more broadly. READING RELIGION Demonstrates that Church of England clergy were socially, culturally, and educationally a more diverse group than has been previously recognised. CHURCH TIMES Show Less