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William Gifford (April 1756 – 31 December 1826) was an English critic, editor and poet, famous as a satirist and controversialist. Life [ edit ] Gifford was born in Ashburton , Devon, to Edward Gifford and Elizabeth Cain.
Mar 28, 2024 · William Gifford (born April 1756, Ashburton, Devonshire, Eng.—died Dec. 31, 1826, London) was an English satirical poet, classical scholar, and early editor of 17th-century English playwrights, best known as the first editor (1809–24) of the Tory Quarterly Review, founded to combat the liberalism of the Whig Edinburgh Review.
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William Gifford was born in Dutchess County in the British Colony of New York in 1758. When he was approximately 17 years old in 1776, when he enlisted in Captain Benjamin Hick's Company of the 1st NY Regiment for ten months. He was stationed at Fort George the at Johnstown, NY. After being discarged at Johnstown he enlisted in Captain ...
Feb 15, 2024 · William Gifford, a tailor, born probably around 1615, was in Sandwich, Massachusetts, by 1647 and died there 21 December 1687. He became a Quaker in 1658. He married, as his second or later wife, on 16 v [July] 1683, at Sandwich, Mary Mills. He had a total of six sons and two daughters.
- 1st Wife of William Gifford, Mary Gifford
- England
- circa 1615
- December 21, 1687
William Gifford. William Wallace Gifford devoted much of his time to students who were literally no longer his. A professor of English at Vassar College for over forty years, from 1955 to 1996, he maintained a close correspondence with some graduates that lasted even longer. Though years past graduation and advancing in literary careers of ...
Some people wanted it, at least. Just after the American Revolution, an English essayist named William Gifford reported that some Americans planned to substitute Hebrew as the official language of the United States. Gifford got the story from an aide to Comte de Rochambeau, Marquis de Chastellux, who had traveled in America in 1780.
William Gifford, the editor of the Quarterly Review, was born in April 1756. He was the son of Edward Gifford, whose great-grandfather had ‘possessed considerable property at Halsbury,’ near Ashburton, Devonshire. Gifford's grandfather was extravagant, and was disinherited or spent what fortune he received.
