Gresley, William, 1801-1876

GRESLEY, WILLIAM, eldest son of Richard Gresley, Meriden Hall, Warwicks., barrister, Bencher Middle Temple, and his first wife Caroline, youngest dau. of Andrew Grote, Blackheath, Kent, banker; b. 16 Mar 1801; adm. 14 Jan 1811; KS 1815; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1819, matr. 21 May 1819, Westminster Student; BA 1823; MA 1825; Select Preacher, Oxford Univ. 1836; ordained deacon 1825, priest 1826 (both Oxford); Lecturer, St. Mary’s, Lichfield, Staffs.; Prebendary of Lichfield from 27 Nov 1840; Assistant Priest, St. Paul’s, Brighton, Sussex c. 1850; Perpetual Curate of Boyne Hill, near Maidenhead, Berks., from 1857; a high churchman and a strenuous supporter of the Tractarian Movement of 1839; author, Portrait of an English Churchman, 1838, and of other religious and social tales, also of other works against dissent and scepticism; m. 28 Oct 1828 Anne Wright, dau. of John Barker Scott, Lichfield, Staffs., banker; d. 19 Nov 1876. DNB.

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