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William Gaskell (24 July 1805 – 12 June 1884) was an English Unitarian minister, charity worker and pioneer in the education of the working class. The husband of novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, he was himself a writer and poet, and acted as the longest-serving Chair of the Portico Library from 1849 to his death in 1884.
14 de set. de 2002 · William Gaskell (July 24, 1805-1884), minister of Cross Street Chapel in Manchester, England for more than fifty years, was a pioneer in the education of the working-class and women. He helped to train men without previous academic background for the Unitarian ministry.
The 33 years from the marriage of William and Elizabeth Gaskell in 1832 to her death in 1865 coincided almost exactly with a generation-long crisis in English Unitarianism, a crisis that turned on the validity and relevance of the teachings of Joseph Priestley. In...
- R. K. Webb
- 1988
Elizabeth Gaskell: 1851 portrait by George Richmond. On 30 August 1832 Elizabeth married Unitarian minister William Gaskell, in Knutsford. They spent their honeymoon in North Wales, staying with her uncle, Samuel Holland, at Plas-yn-Penrhyn near Porthmadog.
In 1832 she married William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister, and settled in the overcrowded, problem-ridden industrial city of Manchester, which remained her home for the rest of her life. Domestic life—the Gaskells had six children, of whom four daughters lived to adulthood—and the social and charitable obligations of a minister’s wife ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In Manchester in 1831 Elizabeth met William Gaskell (1805–1884), assistant minister at the Unitarian Cross Street Chapel, a powerful centre of reform, with a congregation largely composed of the families of prosperous manufacturers and professional men.
The 33 years from the marriage of William and Elizabeth Gaskell in 1832 to her death in 1865 coincided almost exactly with a generation long crisis in English Unitarianism, a crisis that turned on the validity and relevance of the teachings of Joseph Priestley. In his zeal to extirpate what he saw as 'the corruptions of Christianity',
