Gaskell is a

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, a variant of Gaskill.

People with the surname

Charles George Milnes Gaskell Charles George Milnes Gaskell PC JP DL (23 January 1842 – 9 January 1919) was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician. Early life Milnes Gaskell was born on 23 January 1842 in London. He was the son of James Milnes Gaskell, MP for ...

(1842–1919), British lawyer and politician * Lady Constance Gaskell (1885–1964), British courtier * David Gaskell (1940–2025), British football player * Dean Gaskell (born 1983), British rugby league player *

Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (''née'' Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian era, Victoria ...

(1810–1865), British novelist and biographer * George Gaskell, British social psychologist *

Holbrook Gaskell Holbrook Gaskell (5 March 1813 – 8 March 1909) was a British industrialist, and an art and plant collector. Early life Gaskell was born in Wavertree, Liverpool. He was the eldest son of Roger Gaskell, a sailcloth manufacturer, from his marr ...

(1813–1909), British industrialist and collector * Holbrook Gaskell II (1846–1919), British chemical industrialist * Holbrook Gaskell III (1878–1951), British chemical industrialist * James Gaskell, (born 1990), Rugby Union player for Sale Sharks *

James Milnes Gaskell James Milnes Gaskell DL JP (19 October 1810 – 5 February 1873) was a British Conservative politician. Early life James Milnes-Gaskell was born on 19 October 1810. He was the only child of Mary ( Brandreth) Gaskell (a daughter of Dr. Joseph ...

(1810–1873), British Conservative politician *

Jane Gaskell Jane Gaskell (born July 7, 1941 in Lancaster, EnglandSharon Yntema, ''More Than 100: Women Science Fiction Writers''. Crossing Press, 1988. (pp. 51-52).) is a British fantasy writer. Career She wrote her first novel, ''Strange Evil'', at age 14 ...

(born 1941), British fantasy novelist *

Lucy Gaskell Lucy Gaskell (born 10 July 1980) is a British actress. She studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1998. Career Gaskell made her professional stage debut in the Oxford Stage Company's production of ''The Cherry Orchard'' whic ...

(born 1980), British actress *

Philip Gaskell Philip Gaskell (6 January 1926 – 31 July 2001) was a British bibliographer and librarian. Life He was born on 6 January 1926 in Highgate, London, the son of John Wellesley Gaskell, director of an engineering company, and his wife, Olive Eliza ...

(1926–2001), British bibliographer and librarian * Richard Gaskell, English footballer * W. H. Gaskell (1847–1914), British physiologist *

William Gaskell William Gaskell (24 July 1805 – 12 June 1884) was an English Unitarian minister, charity worker and pioneer in the education of the working class. The husband of novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, he was himself a writer and poet, and ...

(1805–1884), British minister and educator * Whitney Gaskell (born 1972), American novelist

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