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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.
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.
William Gaskell. William Gaskell was born at Latchford, near Warrington, on 24th July 1805. Born into a staunch Nonconformist family, he was educated in Glasgow and York.. A divinity student, he joined John Gooch Robberds, the minister of the Unitarian Chapel in Manchester, in August 1828.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (born September 29, 1810, Chelsea, London, England—died November 12, 1865, near Alton, Hampshire) was an English novelist, short-story writer, and the first biographer of Charlotte Brontë. She was a daughter of a Unitarian minister.
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...
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.
