Contents:

1. Personal and family information
   1. Personal information
   2. Family
2. Domicile region and Migration
   1. Place of Birth (Town)
   2. Domicile Region
   3. Migration
3. Social Information
   1. Social Class
   2. Social Mobility
   3. Occupation
4. Education
   1. Formal
   2. Private
   3. Languages known
5. Sources
6. Notes
7. Sent letters
8. Received letters

Personal and family information

Personal information

Family

Domicile region and Migration

Place of Birth (Town)

Domicile Region

Migration

¹ After his marriage, Gilbert West retired from the army and devoted himself to "learning and piety"", living in West Wickham."

Social Information

Social Class

Social Mobility

In 1752 Gilbert West was given a clerkship of the privy council and in 1754 he was appointed paymaster to Chelsea Hospital.

Occupation

English poet, translator and Christian apologist

Education

Formal

Private

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Languages known

-

Sources

Bibliography IDs

Wilson, 2005; Sairio, 2009

Notes

Gilbert West's first poem describing his uncle's gardens at Stowe was published anonymously in 1732. In 1747 he published "Observations on the History and Evidence of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ", for which the University of Oxford granted him the degree of DCL. With Elizabeth Montagu, Gilbert West often had long discussions on literature and religion. Gilbert West was the cousin of George Lyttelton, with whom he went to Oxford in the 1740's to study Christianity, aiming to prove some accounts of Christianity wrong, but ending up becoming Christians themselves.

Sent letters

No letters

Received letters