Ashurst Turner Gilbert (14 May 1786 – 21 February 1870) was an English churchman and academic, Principal of

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, from 1822 and bishop of Chichester.

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 Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, was born near

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, Buckinghamshire, 14 May 1786, and educated at Manchester Grammar School 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

Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

. 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 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 Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. On the death of

Philip Shuttleworth Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth (9 February 1782 – 7 January 1842) was an England, English churchman and academic, Warden (college), Warden of New College, Oxford, from 1822 and Bishop of Chichester. Life Philip Shuttleworth was second son of Hump ...

he was nominated to the bishopric of Chichester, 24 January 1842, and consecrated at

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on 27 February. Gilbert took much interest in Lancing College and other educational institutions. Of high church opinions himself, he was averse to Catholic ceremonials. He took proceedings in the 1850s against John Mason Neale, Warden of

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; and on 14 October 1868 he interdicted

John Purchas John Purchas, (born at Cambridge, 14 July 1823; died at Brighton, 18 October 1872), was an author and a priest of Church of England who was prosecuted for ritualist practices. He received his education at Bury St Edmunds, Rugby School and Chris ...

from ritualism 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 Culham,

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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 Westhampnett 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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