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About Gilbert Wakefield
Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801) was an English scholar and controversialist. He moved from being a cleric and academic, into tutoring at dissenting academies, and finally became a professional writer and publicist. In a celebrated state trial, he was imprisoned for a pamphlet critical of government policy of the French Revolutionary Wars; and died shortly after his release.
Everything about Gilbert Wakefield →- Occupation
- writer, philologist, scholar, pundit
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- November 22, 1756
- Died
- September 9, 1801