Gilbert West (1703–1756) was a minor English poet, translator, and theologian in the early and middle eighteenth century.
Samuel Johnson included him in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets.
[2] West left this position when it became clear that he had no prospect of advancement in such a career.
[3] During this period, following dialogue with his cousin George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton he published the essay Observations on the history and evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1747) for which Oxford University awarded him an LLD.
[5] Only late in his life did West achieve a measure of financial success when he was appointed to a clerkship of the Privy Council in 1752.