Men of Kent and Kentishmen/William Gostling
William Gostling
ANTIQUARY,
Was born at Canterbury in 1705. He was educated at the King's School there, for the church, and became Vicar of Stone, in the Island of Oxney, and Minor Canon of the Cathedral of Canterbury. He wrote several antiquarian treatises, the best known of which is ** A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury." He died in 1777.
[See "Gentleman's Magazine," 1777; "Hasted's Kent," and "Nichols's Literary Anecdotes"]