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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
Sep 14, 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.
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.
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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.
In 1854 William Gaskell became the senior minister of Cross Street Chapel, but, despite her current preoccupation with Manchester in her novel, from this point Elizabeth Gaskell herself spent less and less time in the city.
Sep 5, 2018 · Page-Turner. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. By Hannah Rosefield. September 5, 2018. Unlike her contemporaries George Eliot and the Brontë sisters, Gaskell was...
Apr 24, 2012 · Gaskell was a woman whose religious commitment was as profound as that of her husband, William, a leading Unitarian minister; she lived in Manchester and was immersed in its radical and liberal culture, and she numbered several men of science among her acquaintance, including Charles Darwin (who was a cousin).
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