Editing James Callaghan (section)

==Personal life==
Callaghan's interests included [[rugby football|rugby]] (he played lock for [[Streatham-Croydon RFC|Streatham RFC]] before the Second World War), tennis and agriculture. He married [[Audrey Callaghan|Audrey Elizabeth Moulton]], whom he had met when they both worked as Sunday School teachers at the local Baptist church,<ref>{{cite news|author=Julia Langdon |url=https://www.theguardian.com/print/0,3858,5149827-103684,00.html |title=Audrey Callaghan |work=The Guardian  |date= 17 March 2005|access-date=30 April 2010 | location=London}}</ref> in July 1938 and had three children{{snd}}one son and two daughters.
* [[Margaret, Baroness Jay of Paddington]], who married first [[Peter Jay (diplomat)|Peter Jay]] and later [[Michael Adler (doctor)|Professor Mike Adler]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Geraldine Bednell |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/a-woman-of-affairs-1340033.html |title=A Woman of Affairs |work=The Independent |location=London |date=3 March 1996 |access-date=29 May 2019 |archive-date=29 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529075008/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/a-woman-of-affairs-1340033.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Julia, who married Ian Hamilton Hubbard and settled in Lancashire
* Michael, who married Jennifer Morris and settled in Essex.

In 1968, Callaghan purchased a farm in [[Ringmer]], [[East Sussex]], and in his retirement he and his wife commenced full time farming there.<ref name="DWB"/>

Although there is much doubt about how much belief Callaghan retained into adult life, the Baptist nonconformist ethic was a profound influence throughout all of his public and private life.<ref name="ODNBCallaghan">{{Cite ODNB|id=94837|title=Callaghan, Leonard James [Jim], Baron Callaghan of Cardiff|last=Hattersley|first=Roy|author-link=Roy Hattersley|year=2013}}</ref> It is claimed that Callaghan was an [[atheist]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/132223|title=Why Don't Britain's Leaders Pray in Public?|first=Luke James |last=Reader|publisher=History News Network|access-date=13 December 2021}}</ref> who lost his belief in God while he was working as a trade union official.<ref name="infobritain">{{cite web|url=http://www.infobritain.co.uk/James_Callaghan.htm|title=James Callaghan|publisher=infobritain.co.uk|access-date=16 August 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034742/http://www.infobritain.co.uk/James_Callaghan.htm|archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref> His son Michael Callaghan disagrees: "My father, Jim Callaghan, was brought up as a practising Baptist and as a young man was a Sunday school teacher. As a young man embracing socialism, he had difficulties reconciling his new beliefs with the teachings of his church, but he was persuaded to stay in his Baptist chapel. [...] Incidentally, the title of his autobiography is 'Time and Chance', a quote from Ecclesiastes 9:11."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/letters/2023/01/12/letters-to-the-editor |title=James Callaghan's religion |last1=Callaghan |first1=Michael |date=12 January 2023 |newspaper=[[The Economist]] }}</ref>