Gibbons Bagnall (1719–1800) was an English poetical writer. Bagnall was the son of Gibbons Bagnall of Windsor. He was admitted to

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, 12 July 1738, where he proceeded B.A. 30 April 1741. He afterwards went to

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, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1760. Taking orders, he became vicar of Holm Lacy in

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, and head-master of the free school at

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. He was collated on 27 May 1760 to the

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of Piona Parva in the church of Hereford, and on 1 Aug. 1767 to the prebend of Barsham in the same cathedral establishment. He also held for some time the rectory of Upton Bishop: and in 1783 he was presented to the vicarage of

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. He died on 31 December 1800, in his 82nd year.

Works

*''A Sermon on Exodus XV. 20'', 1762, 8vo. *''Education: an Essay'', in verse, London, 1765, 4to. *''A New Translation of Telemachus, in English verse'', 2 vols., Hereford, 1790, 8vo; 2 vols., Dublin, 1792, 12mo.

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New Translation of Telemachus, in English verse
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