Gibbons Bagnall was an English poetical writer.

Bagnall was the son of Gibbons Bagnall of Windsor. He was admitted to Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, Oxford

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, 12 July 1735, where he proceeded B.A. 30 April 1741. He afterwards went to King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge

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, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1760. Taking orders, he became vicar of Holm Lacy in Herefordshire

Herefordshire

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, and head-master of the free school at Hereford

Hereford

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. He was collated on 27 May 1760 to the prebend of Piona Parva in the church of Hereford, and on 1 Aug. 1767 to the prebend of Barsham

Barsham

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 in the same cathedral establishment. He also held for some time the rectory of Upton Bishop

Upton Bishop

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: and in 1783 he was presented to the vicarage of Sellack. He died on 31 December 1800, in his 82nd year.

Works

• A Sermon on Exodus XV. 20, 1762, 8vo.
• Education: an Essay, in verse, London, 1765, 4to.
• A New Translation of Telemachus, in English verse, 2 vols., Hereford, 1790, 8vo; 2 vols., Dublin, 1792, 12mo.