William Gaskell 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.
- Occupation
- hymnwriter
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- July 24, 1805
- Died
- June 12, 1884
