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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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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.