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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.
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- 12 June 1884 (aged 78), Manchester, England
- 24 July 1805, Latchford, Cheshire, England
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.
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...
- R. K. Webb
- 1988
Gaskell, William I Mr. Gaskell I 1805–1884, Unitarian minister. M.A. University of Glasgow, 1825 ( Graduates of the University of Glasgow ); thereafter divinity student at Manchester College, York. From 1828 to his death, minister of Cross Street Chapel, Manchester. Professor of English history and literature at Manchester New College ...
Life and times of the leading member of society in Bath, a story of the British gentry in the 21st century.
