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and brother of lord Redesdale, the 

 Reverend William Gilpin, M. A. of 

 Queen's college, Oxford, and also 

 prebendary of Salisbury. He kept 

 for many years a respectable board- 

 ing school at Cheam, in Surry, in 

 a house built for the purpose, with 

 rooms 25 feet square, by his prede- 

 cessor the Reverend Daniel Sanxay. 

 This establishmeut he resigned to 

 his youngest son William, who yet 

 keeps it. He first attracted notice 

 by his merit as a biographer, begin- 

 ning, 1753, with the life of his 

 lineal ancestor, the celebrated Ber- 

 nard Gilpin, commonly called "the 

 northtern appptle," rector of Hough, 

 ton le Spring, co. Durham ; a strik- 

 ing instance of the effect of attention 

 and perseverance of an incumbent 

 on the reformation of an extensive 

 parish in the northern wilds. Mr. 

 W. Gilpin ■was a successful imitator 

 of his example; and there are not 

 wanting instances, in these modern 

 times, where patient waiting in an 

 incumbent and his wife has been 

 followed by the same good conse- 

 quence in southern parishes ; and 

 a conscientious incumbent will never 

 despond. This life was accompa- 

 nied, 1753, by that of Latimer, 

 and followed by others of John 

 Wiclific, John Huss, Jerome of 

 Prague, and Zisca, 1765, and arch- 

 bishop Cranmer, 1784. Upon his 

 retirement into the country, he 

 took a strong propensity to drawing 

 its various scenery. Ifc printed, 

 1788, two sermons preached at the 

 visitations of the bishop, 1788, 

 and the chancellor of Winchester, 

 1780. " Lectures on the Church 

 catechism," 1779, 12mo, reprint- 

 ed 1792. " Exposition of the 

 New Testament,'' 1790, reprinted 

 in two volumes 8vo. In the same 

 year J 1790, " Observations rela« 



tive chiefly to pi6turesqne beaufy, 

 made in the year 1776, on several 

 parts of Great Britain, particularly 

 the Highlands of Scotland," 1789; a 

 second edition 1792. " Observa- 

 tions relative chiefly to picturesque 

 beauty, made in the year 1772, on 

 several parts of England, particu-, 

 larly in the mountains and lakes of 

 Cumberland and Westmorland," 

 1776, 2 volumes 8vo; two succeed- 

 ing editions : again, 1792, " Re- 

 marks on forest scenery," 1791, 2 

 volumes 8vo. " Essays [three] on 

 pidluresque beauty," " Picturesque 

 travel, and the Art of sketching 

 landscape," two editions, 8vo. " Fo-- 

 rest scenery," 2 volumes 8vo. 1791 

 and 1794. " Essay on prints," 4 

 editions. " Observations on the 

 river Wye, and several parts of 

 South Wales, &c. relative chiefly 

 to picturesque beauty, made in the 

 summer of the years 1770 and 1782," 

 1793, 8vo. of which two more 

 editions.— " Picturesque rcmarksi. 

 on the western parts of England,'' 

 1798, 8vo. " Sermons to a coun- 

 try congregation ; and Hints for 

 sermons," 1800, 2 volumes 8vo. a 

 third 1803. " Moral contrasts ; op 

 the power of religion cxemplilit^ 

 under different characters," 1798, 

 8vo. " Amusements of clergy- 

 men," 1796, 12mo. " Life of 

 John Trucman and Richard At- 

 kins, for the use of servants'-halls, 

 farm-houses, and cottages.'' " Ac- 

 count of Wm. Baker." 



Mr. G. having appropriated a 

 collection of his sketches for the en- 

 dowment of a parish school at Bol- 

 dre, under the inspection of certain 

 of his friends, of wliifh an account 

 may be seen in the second report of 

 the society for bettering the con- 

 dition of the poor ; they were sold 

 by auction by Mr. Christie, in May 



1802, 



