Francis Gastrell (10 May 1662 – 24 November 1725) was Bishop of Chester and a writer on deism. He was a friend of Jonathan Swift.
Sep 8, 2018 ˇ The Reverend Francis Gastrell, or 'The man who destroyed New Place,' has come back to life to defend his legacy. Was he really the villain ...
Mar 7, 2013 ˇ The Reverend Francis Gastrell. He bought the house in 1753 but quickly got irritated with tourists wanting to see it, says architectural historian Gavin Stamp.
Francis Gastrell
Bishop
Francis Gastrell was Bishop of Chester and a writer on deism. He was a friend of Jonathan Swift, mentioned several times in A Journal to Stella, and chaplain to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, when Harley was Speaker of the... Wikipedia
Born: May 10, 1662, Slapton, United Kingdom
Died: November 24, 1725 (age 63 years), Oxford, United Kingdom
Buried: Christ Church, Oxford
People also ask
Who knocked down Shakespeare's house?
When the Clopton family again became owners of New Place in the second half of the 17th century, they entirely removed Shakespeare's house and built a new one. That house was finally demolished in 1759 by the Reverend Francis Gastrell.
Is Shakespeare's house still standing?
It was never rebuilt after the second demolition and only the foundations remain. Though the house no longer exists, the site is owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which maintains it as a specially-designed garden for tourists.
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39 free public domain works of Francis Gastrell via Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL), a database of digital books ca. 1500-1800.
Results ˇ The Principles of Deism Truly Represented, and Set in a Clear Light: In Two Dialogues Between a Sceptick and a Deist; The First Concerning the ...
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Originally published in 1725, this work discusses the merits of the belief in an immortal soul that experiences punishment or reward after death. Price: $125.00.
Late eighteenth century miniature portrait of the Reverend Francis Gastrell. Gastrell owned Shakespeare's former home, New Place and demolished it in 1759.
Francis Gastrell has 75 books on Goodreads with 2 ratings. Francis Gastrell's most popular book is The Certainty and Necessity of Religion in General: or...