(1697 - 1750), 1st surv. s. of Sir John Gascoigne of Parlington, Yorks; suc. fa. 1723 as 6th Bt.; m. 1726 Mary Hungate; lived in Cambrai from 1743; d. France.
1725 - 6 [Ostend 24 Aug. 1724] Milan (Feb. 1725), Turin, Venice, Padua (22 Feb.), Cremona, Bologna, Rome (by 17 Mar. - May), Naples, Leghorn, Pisa, Florence (Nov.), Lucca, Cremona, Milan (Dec. 1725), Bologna (Jan. 1726) [England May 1726]
A Catholic, Edward Gascoigne travelled abroad in 1724, soon after succeeding his father as the 6th Baronet. He was accompanied by a physician, Henry Bostock, and a French master, Mr Warren, and his itinerary is contained in a partially published travel journal (Gascoigne jnl.mss).1 On 22 February 1725 they were in Padua (where Bostock was listed as Richard)2 and on 17 March Stosch reported the arrival of 'Mr Edward Gascoigne, RC, with Dr Bostoc' in Rome.3 On 27 March he visited Castel S.Angelo with Rawlinson,4 and on 18 April Gascoigne began a course of instruction in the rudiments of design 'wth ye Architect master'; the following day he began another course under the antiquarian Palazzi accompanied by Sir Francis Head, Thomas Mostyn and a Mr Dalton.5 His portrait (at Lotherton), which includes a view of the Colosseum, is attributed to Francesco Trevisani. From Rome he went to Naples and then sailed to Leghorn; he was in Florence in November6 and Milan in December, spending some days in Cremona. In January 1726 he was in Bologna. Gascoigne was said to have 'laid out a great deal of money in Virtu';7 he bought pictures, some marbles (including a 'Cicero's Head') and a collection of Imperial and Consular coins in Rome from Count Furrieri; he also paid for an engraved plate in A.F. Gori's Inscriptiones and bought prints in Cremona. His principal patronage was given to the Florentine architect Alessandro Galilei in the summer of 1725; he commissioned designs for a new house and a pavement for the family chapel (neither of which was used), two chimneypieces and four table tops of red and yellow marble, and a monument to his parents,8 which was erected in 1729 in All Saints, Barwick-in-Elmet (pulled down in 1858).
1. See E. Done, Leeds Arts Calendar, 77[1975]:4 - 12. 2. Brown 1779. 3. SP 85/15. 4. Rawlinson jnl.mss. 5. Gascoigne jnl.mss (19 Apr. 1725). 6. SP 98/25 (Colman, 20 Nov. 1725). 7. Leeds Arts Calendar, 77[1975]:16 (S. Degge to Galilei, 10 Mar. 1726). 8. See E. Kieven, Leeds Arts Calendar, 77[1975]:13 - 23. T. Friedman, Burl.Mag., 117[1975]: 847.