William Gillespie

(1776-1825)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gillespie, William, 1776-1825 NRA: Gillespie William (1776-1825) Poet LBT ID: WiGille1825	B/BAP: 1776-02-18 DIED: 1825-10-15
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine 95 (November 1825) 473; Charles Rogers, Modern Scottish Minstrel (1855-57)
Scottish poet, the eldest son of John Gillespie; he studied at Edinburgh University (1792) and was minister at Kells in 1806. He was an ardent Whig.
REFERENCES TO William Gillespie: Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 1: ¶ 173 Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, 14 September 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XIII: 1819-20