He held the seat until his defeat at the 1837 general election[1] by the Conservative Party candidate William Lascelles.
[7] He contributed £3,000 towards new premises for the Wakefield Mechanics' Institute in 1855 and in 1865 donated £1,000 to assist poorer Unitarian congregations in the north of England.
[8] He bequeathed the school in Horbury, together with £1,000 LNER railway stock to be used for its upkeep to the trustees of Westgate Unitarian Chapel.
[9] The eventual sale of the school and land provided assets for the Daniel Gaskell Foundation, a charity which has evolved with changes in education provision and continues to this day.
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