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{{Short description|Bishop of Bristol}}
{{for|his son|Gilbert Ironside the younger}}
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| honorific-prefix = {{pre-nominal styles|RRevd}}
| name = Gilbert Ironside
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|}}
| image = Bp Gilbert Ironside the Elder.jpg
| caption =
| title = [[Bishop of Bristol]]
| diocese = [[Diocese of Bristol]]
| term = 1660–1671
| predecessor = [[Thomas Howell (bishop)|Thomas Howell]] (vacant since 1646)
| successor = [[Guy Carleton (bishop)|Guy Carleton]]
| other_post =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1588|11|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire]]<ref name=ODNB>{{Cite DNB|wstitle=Ironside, Gilbert (1588-1671)|volume=29|author=[[Edmund Venables|Venables, Edmund]]}}</ref>
| death_date = {{death date and age|1671|9|19|1588|11|25|df=y}}
| death_place =
| buried = [[Bristol Cathedral]]<ref name="ODNB" />
| nationality = [[British people|British]]
| religion = [[Anglicanism|Anglican]]
| residence =
| parents =
| spouse = (1) Elizabeth Frenchman (2) Alice Glisson<ref name="ODNB" />
| children =
| profession =
| education =
| alma_mater = [[Trinity College, Oxford]]
| consecrated_by = [[Gilbert Sheldon]]
| consecration = 6 January 1661
}}
'''Gilbert Ironside''' the elder (1588–1671) was [[Bishop of Bristol]].

==Life==
He was elder son of Ralph Ironside, rector of [[Long Bredy]] and of [[Winterbourne Abbas]] and was born at [[Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire|Hawkesbury]], near [[Sodbury]], [[Gloucestershire]], on 25 November 1588.<ref name="GH">Pedigree of Ironside in the Counties of Durham and Dorset, compiled 1787 by George Harrison, Norroy King of Arms, and Benjamin Pingo, York Herald. There are slightly different versions of this pedigree, in Surtees' ''History of County Durham'' and [[John Hutchins (antiquary)|Hutchins]]' ''History of Dorset''.</ref> The second son, [[Ralph Ironside]] (1590–1683) became rector of Long Bredy in succession to his father, who died in 1629,<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Ironside, Gilbert (1588-1671)|volume=29}}</ref> and was also [[Archdeacon of Dorset]].

Gilbert Ironside matriculated at [[Trinity College, Oxford]], 22 June 1604, and became scholar of his college 28 May 1605, B.A. 1608, M.A. 1612, B.D. 1619, and D.D. 1620, and Fellow of Trinity 1613. In 1618 he was presented to the rectory of [[Winterbourne Steepleton]], [[Dorset]], by Sir Robert Miller. In 1629 he succeeded his father in the benefice of Winterbourne Abbas. He was also rector of [[Yeovilton]] in Somerset. [[Anthony à Wood]] says that he kept his preferments during the protectorate, but this is doubtful.<ref name="DNB" />

Either by marriage or other means he amassed a large fortune before the [[English Restoration|Restoration]]. On 13 October 1660 he was appointed to a prebendal stall in [[York Minster]], but resigned the post next year. In 1660/1 he was made Bishop of Bristol — he was [[canonical election|elected]] to the See on 30 November (or 1 December) 1660, [[confirmation of bishops|confirmed]] 24 December, and consecrated a bishop on 13 January 1661.<ref>{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae|period=1541–1857|volume=8|pages=9–15}}</ref> As a man of wealth he was considered fitted to maintain the dignity of the episcopate with the reduced revenues of the see.<ref name="DNB" />

At Bristol, Ironside showed forbearance to nonconforming ministers. [[Edmund Calamy (historian)|Edmund Calamy]] gives particulars of a long conference between him and [[John Westley]], grandfather of [[John Wesley]]. Ironside died on 19 September 1671, and was buried in his cathedral without any memorial, near the steps of the bishop's throne.<ref name="DNB" />

==Works==
He was the author of ''Seven Questions of the Sabbath briefly disputed'', Oxford, 1637<ref>{{Cite book |last=Watt |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=swMJAAAAQAAJ |title=Bibliotheca Britannica ; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature: Authors. Iban-Zypœ |date=1824 |publisher=Archibald Constable, Edinburgh |language=en}}</ref>

==Family==
He married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Frenchman of East Compton, Dorsetshire, and (2) Alice, daughter of William Glisson of Marnhull, Dorsetshire. By his first wife he was father of four sons, of whom [[Gilbert Ironside the younger]] was the third.<ref name="DNB" />

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{DNB|wstitle=Ironside, Gilbert (1588-1671)}}

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