Author: Gilbank, William
Biography:
GILBANK, William (1740-1807: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 3 Oct. 1740 at York, the eldest son of Thomas Gilbank (1710-94), verger and sometime Sheriff of York (1785), and his wife Sarah Andrew, who had married in 1739. He was educated locally at Pocklington school and went up to St. John’s College, Cambridge (Matric. 1759, Scholar 1760, BA 1763, MA 1766). His first verse publication, while he was still a student, was an ode on the occasion of the marriage of George III in 1761. He entered the church and was Reader and then (1764-74) Preacher at Archbishop Tenison’s Chapel in King Street, London (off modern-day Regent Street). He was Rector of St. Ethelburga, Bishopsgate (1775-1807), and Royal Chaplain to the Duke of Gloucester (1781-1807). He married Elizabeth Driffield (1754-1804) on 16 Aug. 1781 at St. Luke’s, Charlton. They had at least six children who were all baptised at St. Marylebone. In addition to the work listed here, he published The Scripture History of Abraham (1773) and several sermons. He died at Titchfield Street, Marylebone, London, on 3 Jan. 1807 and was buried on 12 Jan. at St. James’s, Hampstead Road. He left his estate, including a marriage settlement of £3666 and a sum of £1666, to his wife and children, with his younger brother Thomas Gilbank (1748-1837), sometime Fellow and Vice-Master of Trinity College Cambridge, acting as executor. His wife died the following year. (ancestry.co.uk 1 Feb. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 1 Feb. 2022; CCEd 1 Feb. 2022; Bath Chronicle 16 Aug. 1781; GM Jan. 1807, 92; The Sun [London] 20 Jan. 1808) AA
Other Names:
- W. Gilbank