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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 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 had a tremendous influence on the people of Manchester. An outstanding lecturer, he was appointed professor of English history and literature at Manchester New College in 1846. He was also responsible for establishing evening classes at Owens College and from 1858 taught at the Working Man's College in Manchester .
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.
- R. K. Webb
- 1988
William Gaskell Senior 1777-1819. Diane Duffy continues her investigation into the lives and families of William Gaskell’s parents. See also Margaret Gaskell. The Gaskell family had originated in Upholland where the records go back to the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Oct 3, 2014 · The Manchester home of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell opens to the public on Sunday after a £2.5m restoration. The 19th Century novelist wrote Cranford, North and South, and Wives and...
