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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[GILPIN 
his Historical Survey. He then removed to London and 
opened a chemist’s shop in the Strand. He died there 
May 30, 1831. Of. N. and Q. 3rd ser., x. 417 (1866), and 
Wallis’s Cornwall Register , p. 312. 
The account of Cornish birds in Vol. I. is partly compiled 
from Borlase and other preceding authorities, with a few 
original observations added ; together forming an account 
of some slight importance. 
1817-20. An | Historical Survey | of the | County of Cornwall : | to which 
is added | a complete | Heraldry | of the same ; | with numerous 
engravings. | By C. S. Gilbert. | In Two Volumes. | Vol. I. [II.] 
| Plymouth Dock | [etc. 4 lines] | 1817[-20]. 
Short collation — 2 vols. roy. 4to. Birds, at pp. 316-20 of Vol. I. 
Gilpin (William), 1724-1804 
This celebrated writer on landscape was born, June 1724, 
at Scaleby Castle, near Carlisle, and was the son of Captain 
John Barnard Gilpin, and Matilda, daughter of George 
Langstaffe. He was educated at Carlisle and St. Bees, and 
in 1740 matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford, where he 
graduated B.A. in 1744, and proceeded M.A. in 1748. He 
was ordained in 1748 by the Bishop of Carlisle, and was 
appointed to the curacy of Lethington, of which parish his 
uncle, the Bev. James Farish, was vicar. After his return 
to Oxford he held a curacy in London for a short time, and 
then took a school at Cheam, Surrey, where he remained 
nearly thirty years, and during his summer vacations under- 
took the sketching tours which were afterwards to make him 
famous. 
In 1777 he was presented to the vicarage of Boldre in 
the New Forest, which became his home for the rest of his 
life, and here he died at his house at Vicars Hill, Boldre, 
April 5, 1804, and was buried in the parish churchyard. He 
left a wife and two sons, two daughters having died in infancy. 
Of all his works, the only one which relates to our sub- 
ject is that on the New Forest as set forth below. 
1791. Bemarks | on | Forest Scenery, | and other | Woodland Views, | 
