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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.
14 de sept. de 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.
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.
En 1832 se casó con William Gaskell, un clérigo unitario de Manchester en cuyo ministerio ella participó activamente y con el cual colaboró para escribir el poema “Sketches Among the Poor” [N. de T.: Esbozos entre los Pobres] en 1837.
23 de ene. de 2021 · William Gaskell (Cheshire, Inglaterra; 24 de julio de 1805 - Chorlton, Cheshire West and Chester Unitary Authority, Cheshire, Inglaterra; 12 de junio de 1884) fue un ministro unitario inglés, trabajador benéfico y pionero en la educación de la clase trabajadora del siglo XIX.
William Gaskell was born at Latchford, near Warrington, on 24th July 1805. Born into a staunch Nonconformist family, he was educated in Glasgow and York. A divinity student, he joined John Gooch Robberds, the minister of the Unitarian Chapel in Manchester, in August 1828.
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.
