About William Gaskell

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.

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William Gaskell

British minister (1805-1884)

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July 24, 1805

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June 12, 1884

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