Gisborne was ed­u­cat­ed at St. John’s Coll­ege, Ox­ford, where he was 5th Wrang­ler of the year (BA 1780, MA 1783). He served as per­pe­tu­al cur­ate of Bar­ton-un­der-Need­wood, Staf­ford­shire, and lat­er Pre­ben­da­ry of Dur­ham. His works in­clude:

• Principles of Moral Philosophy, 1789
• Remarks Respecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1792
• An Inquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher Ranks of the Middle Classes, 1794
• Inquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex, 1794
• Walks in a Forest, 1794
• Sermons
• Po­ems Sac­red and Moral, 1798
• A Se­lect­ion of Psalms and Hymns for Pub­lic and Pri­vate Use (with Jonathan Stubbs) (Ut­tox­e­ter, Eng­land: Ri­chards, 1805).
• Essays on Recollection of Friends in a Future State, 1822

Sources

Hymns

1. Hark! ’Tis the Bell with Solemn Toll
2. O Father, Glorify Thy Name
3. Savior, When Night In­volves the Skies
4. Sol­dier’s Course from Bat­tles Won, A
5. Thy Humblest Works with Full Accord
6. When Groves by Moon­light Si­lence Keep