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charitable subscriptions from their wide circle and promote longer-lasting changes from within the local bureaucracy, but also to understand the real concerns of those living in poverty, with whom he was probably more at ease. In 1833 he helped to found the non-denominational Manchester Domestic Home Mission, and he acted as its secretary for many years. Inspired by a visit from
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were directly inspired by her experiences as a minister's wife in the cotton-manufacturing city of Manchester. Gaskell always encouraged his wife's writing, advising her on dialect, editing her manuscripts and acting as her literary agent. He also supported her when some of her novels, particularly
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Gaskell was legendary in humanitarian efforts. To honor his fifty-year point in the Cross Street ministry, a soirée was held in Manchester Town Hall; it was attended by over one thousand people. The congregation honored him with a gift of silverware, and during the festivities a large sum of money
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Both the Gaskells taught at the two Mosley Street Sunday Schools, which instructed young mill workers. Lessons covered basic numeracy and literacy in addition to traditional Biblical teaching, and Gaskell defended the practice of giving non-religious instruction on a Sunday, saying that they were
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It was also a city of extreme social inequality between the so-called 'millocracy' and the workers; Elizabeth Gaskell once described an acquaintance attending a ball wearing ÂŁ400 of lace and ÂŁ10,000 in diamonds. The Gaskell family moved between the two worlds, allowing Gaskell not only to collect
203:. His father, also William, was a sailcloth manufacturer with a business on Buttermarket Street and also a Unitarian theology teacher; according to one source, his mother, Margaret Jackson, was a housemaid. He was tutored by a local minister, Joseph Saul. Barred as a non-conformist from attending 299:
He came to be numbered among the most prominent Unitarians in the country; in 1859, he was offered the ministry at Essex Street Chapel in London, the leading post in the British Unitarian ministry, but turned it down, preferring to remain at Cross Street. From 1865, he served as President of the
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in Manchester from 1828 to 1854, and senior minister thereafter, a position he held until his death. Founded in 1694, Cross Street was the major Unitarian chapel of the city, and its congregation contained many influential Manchester figures, at one time including five MPs. The prominent public
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The Ministers of the Chapel by and large abstained from overt political involvement, but they were active in social work, underpinning the thrust of their laypeople. William Gaskell led the congregation from 1828 to 1884, exercising wide influence within and outside the Unitarian movement. He
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supported the Manchester Domestic Mission Society, which assisted the poor “in such a way that at no time should any denominational or sectarian name or test be introduced”. He championed the Lower Mosley Street Schools, which the Cross Street Chapel sponsored to serve the areas near the
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When the New College moved to Manchester in 1840 Gaskell continued to lecture on literature. From 1846 to 1853, he was Professor of history, English literature and logic at New College (Another professor was Gaskell's contemporary from his studies at York, the prominent Unitarian
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which brought scientists from across the world to Manchester. Gaskell seemed to relish the immense teaching burden he accumulated in later life. Elizabeth Gaskell complained that 'you might as well ask St Pauls to tumble down, as entreat him to give up this piece of work; which
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interest him very much, & which no one could do so well certainly...' Though she was referring specifically to his Owens College lectures, he seems to have diligently pursued all his various projects, and found excuses to avoid giving up any obligation he had once started.
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Elizabeth died suddenly in 1865. William Gaskell survived his wife by almost two decades, working full-time until six months before his death, aided by his two unmarried daughters. He died of bronchitis in Manchester in 1884, and is buried beside Elizabeth at
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were all associated with the chapel. Contemporaries considered Gaskell to be a brilliant preacher, though he never spoke extemporaneously; he was certainly a hard-working one, often preaching three times on Sundays.
527:. His poetry varied in form, but always employed plain language and attempted sensitive portrayals of characters drawn from the working classes. The poem "Manchester Song" supplies two of the chapter epigraphs to 355:
Gaskell was a gifted teacher and lecturer, with a lifelong determination to expand the educational opportunities available to the working classes in Manchester. Such opportunities were limited in the 1830s; a
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In addition to his tutoring and lecturing, Gaskell campaigned for better education for the working classes, co-founding the Lancashire Public Schools Association in 1847. He served on the committee of the
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doing 'their Father's business' by teaching reading. He and others lobbied successfully in 1832 for the two schools to be moved to improved premises, and some 400 pupils had been enrolled by 1847.
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A Lecture on the Person of Christ, delivered in Bridge Street Chapel, Manchester, 9 February 1853. By Rev. W. Gaskell, MA, being one of a course on " The True and the False in Religion."
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Throughout his life, Gaskell worked for numerous local charitable concerns to alleviate poverty, improve living conditions and reduce the transmission of disease, particularly epidemic
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measures and housing reform, sitting on the committee of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association, as well as another committee formed to regulate beer halls in the area.
187:: 'to the working men of Manchester ... in the hope that they may act as another small weight on the right end of that lever which is to raise them in the scale of humanity.' 339:, the mission gave practical assistance such as food and blankets to the poor. He was also active in the District Provident Society, an organisation founded by James Kay and 570:
Despite differences in personality, the couple seem to have had a strong relationship, although they frequently spent long periods apart, and Elizabeth Gaskell's biographer
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describes her as breathing more freely when William was away, but still always longing for his return. Unfortunately, none of Elizabeth's many letters to him survives.
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Gaskell is said to have encouraged his wife to write her first novel as a distraction from her grief at the death of their infant son from
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In 1836, Gaskell started to give evening classes at the Manchester Mechanics' Institute, which was later to become the
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was raised for the founding of a scholarship for ministerial students at Owen's College (now Manchester University).
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minister, charity worker and pioneer in the education of the working class. The husband of novelist and biographer
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Assembly of Presbyterian and Unitarian Ministers of Lancashire and Cheshire. In 1861 he co-founded the
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Gaskell's portrait and bust are on display at the new Cross Street Chapel. Gaskell was portrayed by
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William Gaskell was supported in his educational and humanitarian work by his wife, the novelist
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contemporaries, Gaskell always favoured social and educational work above political lobbying for
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Hughes P. 'William Gaskell', Unitarian Universalist Historical Society (accessed 24 July 2007)
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Gaskell married Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson, daughter of the late Unitarian minister
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His poem, "Sketches among the Poor, No. 1" (co-written with his wife in the manner of
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Len Smith and others Unitarian to the Core: Unitarian College Manchester, 1854-2004
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William Gaskell on holiday in Scotland (photograph by Rupert Potter, father of
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and many other contemporary poets living in Manchester, including his friend,
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Head, Geoffrey 'The founders: John Relly Beard and William Gaskell' in
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Letter to Marianne Gaskell (December 1863) in Chapple & Pollard
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A portrait of William Gaskell as Minister of Cross Street Chapel:
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Gaskell had a fascination with language and was an expert on the
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in 1904). Beginning in 1858, Gaskell taught literature at the
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Letter to Anne Robson (10 May 1865) in Chapple & Pollard
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University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
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Webb RK. 'The Gaskells as Unitarians' in Shattock J (ed).
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British Unitarian minister and charity worker (1805–1884)
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Cross Street Chapel website (accessed 25 July 2007)
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The Reverend

Beatrix Potter
Latchford
Manchester
University of Glasgow
Manchester New College
Elizabeth Stevenson
Unitarian
Elizabeth Gaskell
Portico Library
Priestleian rationalism
original sin
Manchester
free trade
factory reform
Warrington
Dissenters
Oxford
Cambridge
Glasgow University
Manchester New College
York
Charles Wellbeloved
James Turner

Cross Street Chapel
Cross Street Chapel
James P. Kay
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