Gilbert Wakefield
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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.
Gilbert Wakefield
Wakefield (1798)
Memorial in St Mary Magdalene, Richmond to Gilbert Wakefield, placed there by the Rev. Thomas Wakefield, parish priest there and his brother
New College at Hackney
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The New College at Hackney was a dissenting academy set up in Hackney in April 1786 by the social and political reformer Richard Price and others; Hackney at that time was a village on the outskirts o
Gilbert Wakefield
…Wakefield thanked in his autobiography; but it was Robert who gave financial support when he was imprisoned. In 1790, Wakefield was appointed to the New College, Hackney, where Thomas Belsham had been recruited the year before, and Joseph Priestley arrived the year after. It was a contentious trio of hirings. Wakefield's…
New College, Hackney. Engraving from 1786.