John Gisborne
1770–1851
Poet. BA, Cambridge, 1792. Married Millicent Pole, daughter of Edward Sacheverel Pole and stepdaughter of Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), in 1792. His poetry was admired by William Wordsworth. Devout and modest, he was known as ‘the man of prayer’. Author of The vales of Wever (1797) and Reflections (1818–35).
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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