Ashurst Turner Gilbert (14 May 1786 – 21 February 1870) was an

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churchman and academic,

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, from 1822 and

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Life

The son of Thomas Gilbert of Ratcliffe,

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, a captain in the

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, by Elizabeth, daughter of William Long Nathaniel Hutton, rector of

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, Buckinghamshire, was born near

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, Buckinghamshire, 14 May 1786, and educated at

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from 1800. He was nominated to a school exhibition, and matriculated at

, on 30 May 1805. At the Michaelmas examination of 1808 he was placed in the first class in '' literis humanioribus'', one of his four companions being

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. He graduated B.A. 16 January 1809, and succeeded to one of Hulme's exhibitions on 8 March following. Having been elected to a fellowship, he proceeded M. A. 1811, and B.D. 1819. He was actively engaged for many years as a college tutor, and in 1816–18 was a public examiner. On the death of

Frodsham Hodson Frodsham Hodson (1770–1822) was an English churchman and academic, the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1809. Life He was the son of the Rev. George Hodson, and was born in Liverpool, England, on 7 June 1770. He entered Manchest ...

in 1822, he was elected Principal of Brasenose on 2 February, and took his D.D. degree on 30 May. From 1836 to 1840 he was

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of Oxford University. On the death of

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he was nominated to the

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, 24 January 1842, and consecrated at

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on 27 February. Gilbert took much interest in

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and other educational institutions. Of

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opinions himself, he was averse to Catholic ceremonials. He took proceedings in the 1850s against

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, Warden of

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; and on 14 October 1868 he interdicted

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from

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in services at St James's Chapel, Brighton. This latter case led to much litigation, and eighteen works were printed in connection with the matter. Gilbert was married on 31 December 1822 to Mary Anne, only surviving child of the Rev. Robert Wintle, vicar of

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. They had eleven children. Mary Anne died in the Bishop's Palace at Chichester on 10 December 1863. Gilbert died of paralysis at the Bishop's Palace in Chichester on 21 February 1870, and was buried in

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Church,

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, on 25 February. Gilbert's blind daughter,

Elizabeth Margaretta Maria Gilbert Elizabeth Margaretta Maria Gilbert (7 August 1826 – 7 February 1885) was an English philanthropist. Early life Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Oxford, the daughter of Ashurst Gilbert, principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, and later the Bishop o ...

, became known for her philanthropic work.

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