Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801) was an English scholar and controversialist. He moved from being a cleric and academic, into tutoring at dissenting academies.
Gilbert Wakefield
Scholar
Gilbert Wakefield was an English scholar and controversialist. He moved from being a cleric and academic, into tutoring at dissenting academies, and finally became a professional writer and publicist. Wikipedia
Born: November 22, 1756, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Died: September 9, 1801 (age 44 years), London Borough of Hackney, London, United Kingdom
Books
Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield
1792
Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, B. A., Formerly Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge: In Two Volumes
Observations on Pope
1796
Evidences of Christianity, Or, A Collection of Remarks Intended to Display the Excellence ... and Evince the Authenticity of the Christian Religion
1793
Select Essays of Dio Chrysostom
1800
A Reply to the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq. to a Noble Lord
1796
Gilbert Wakefield was born on 23 April 1892 in Sandgate, Kent, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Divorce of Lady X (1938), Sally Bishop (1932) and ...
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Details: individual; academic/intellectual; journalist/critic; politician/statesman; British; Male. Life dates: 1756-1801. Biography: Scholar and critic, ...
Wakefield, Gilbert, 1756-1801: An examination of The age of reason: or an investigation of true and fabulous theology, by Thomas Paine: by Gilbert Wakefield, ..
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Gilbert Wakefield was a professional 'controversialist,' a polemical writer on disputed topics in religion, literature, education, and politics. His radical ...