William Gostling

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William Gostling (1696–1777), the author of A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury (1774; subsequent editions 1777, 1779, 1796, 1804, and 1825) was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at St John's College, Cambridge (1711; B.A. 1715; M.A. 1719). He was rector of Brook near Wye, Kent (1722) and was a minor canon at Canterbury Cathedral from 1727 until his death. His father, the singer John Gostling was vicar of Littlebourne; he was succeeded by his son in 1733. From 1753 he was rector of Stone in Oxney.[1]

He inherited from his father a significant collection of music of the second half of the seventeenth century. His non-music books were sold in 1777 by William Flackton.[2]

Shelfmark W2/Q-13-1
William Gostling. Walk in and about the City of Canterbury, with many observations not ... hitherto published. By William Gostling, ....
Canterbury: 1774.
Inscription on front board: With the Rev. Mr. Gostling's Compliments.
Presented by the author William Gostling to an unspecified recipient.
References
  1. Venn GSTN712W
  2. Grove Music Online, 2001.