Gilpin, WILLIAM

Gilpin, WILLIAM, was born at Carlisle in 1724. He was educated at Oxford, and kept a school at Cheam in Surrey, but was afterwards presented to the living of Boldre in Hampshire, where he died in 1804. His name is remembered for a series of books on the scenery of various parts of Britain illustrated by aquatint engravings of his own execution. Of these the chief are Observations on Picturesque Beauty in several parts of Great Britain, particularly the Highlands of Scotland (1778); The River Wye and Southern Districts of Wales (1782); The Lake Country (1789); Forest Scenery (1791); and The Western Parts of England and Isle of Wight (1798).