William Gaskell
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 140 years ago |
Date of birth | July 24,1805 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Latchford |
Warrington | |
United Kingdom | |
Died | Manchester |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | June 12,1884 |
Spouse | Elizabeth Gaskell |
Education | University of Glasgow |
Harris Manchester College | |
Parents | William Gaskell |
Margaret Jackson | |
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ID | 4108181 |
William Gaskell Life story
William Gaskell 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.