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Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801) was an English scholar and controversialist. He moved from being a cleric and academic, into tutoring at dissenting academies, and finally became a professional writer and publicist.
Gilbert Wakefield was a professional ‘controversialist,’ a polemical writer on disputed topics in religion, literature, education, and politics. His radical independence of expression led him to resign his Anglican ministry, but he soon found even Dissenting academies too constrictive.
Gilbert Wakefield - A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939. Gilbert Wakefield. At Cambridge Dyer met a fellow student, a scholarship boy at Jesus College called Gilbert Wakefield (Figure 8.3) (1756-1801), whose life story blends serious distinction as a prolific and sometimes ...
Nov 1, 2017 · Gilbert Wakefield (1756-1801) was a graduate of Cambridge and was ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church in about 1776. However, he soon regretted being ordained because he soon found himself unable to subscribe to the Anglican articles of faith.
Dec 28, 2020 · WAKEFIELD, GILBERT (1756–1801), scholar and controversial writer, born on 22 Feb. 1756 in the parsonage-house of St. Nicholas, Nottingham, was the third son of George Wakefield, for seventeen years rector of that parish, and subsequently for nine years vicar of Kingston-on-Thames, where he died in 1776. He was descended paternally from the ...
Gilbert Wakefield - Encyclopedia. GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES. GILBERT WAKEFIELD (1756-1801), English classical scholar and politician, was born at Nottingham on the 22nd of February 1756. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge (fellow, 1776).
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ABSTRACT. Gilbert Wakefield’s (1756–1801) reinterpretation of Lucretius set his philosophical poem, the De Rerum Natura, in a new context for the early nineteenth century. 1 The historical significance of Wakefield’s edition consists in this: for the first time in Epicurean studies, the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus and his Roman ...
