John Gilbert (archbishop of York)

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable John Gilbert
Archbishop of York
Province	Province of York
Diocese	Diocese of York
In office	1757–1761 (death)
Predecessor	Matthew Hutton
Successor	Robert Hay Drummond
Other posts	Dean of Exeter (27 December 1726 {elected}–?) Bishop of Llandaff (28 December 1740–1749) Bishop of Salisbury (October 1749–1757) Chancellor of the Garter (1750–?) Clerk of the Closet (October 1752–?) Lord High Almoner (c. 1757–?)
Personal details
Born	(1693-10-18)18 October 1693
Died	9 August 1761(1761-08-09) (aged 67) Twickenham, Middlesex, Great Britain
Buried	Grosvenor Chapel
Nationality	British (formerly English)
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	John Gilbert & Martha
Spouse	Margaret Sherard  married 2 May 1726 at St James's, Westminster  she predeceased him
Children	Emma Countess of Mount Edgcumbe
Education	Merchant Taylors' School, City of London
Alma mater	Magdalen Hall, Oxford Trinity College, Oxford Merton College, Oxford

John Gilbert (18 October 1693–9 August 1761) was Archbishop of York from 1757 to 1761.

Gilbert was the son of John Gilbert, fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, vicar of St Andrew's, Plymouth, and prebendary of Exeter, who died in 1722. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated BA on 5 May 1713. He proceeded MA from Merton College on 1 February 1718.

Owing to his connection with the cathedral of Exeter and his aristocratic connections, Gilbert began early to climb the ladder of preferment. On 1 August 1721 he was appointed to the chapter living of Ashburton; on 4 January 1723 he succeeded to the prebendal stall vacated by his father's death; on 4 June 1724 he was appointed subdean of Exeter, which he vacated on his installation to the deanery, on 27 December 1726; on 8 January 1724 he was granted the degree of LLD at Lambeth. In January 1726 he received from the crown a canonry at Christ Church, which he held in commendam with the bishopric of Llandaff, to which he was consecrated on 28 December 1740. In 1749 he was translated to Salisbury. In 1750 he succeeded Bishop Joseph Butler as Clerk of the Closet, and in 1757 the archiepiscopate of York, to which the office of Lord High Almoner was added, crowned his long series of ecclesiastical preferments.