Son of the Vi­car of Punch­es­ton, Gam­bold was ed­u­cat­ed at Christ Church, Ox­ford (BA 1730, MA 1734). Tak­ing Ho­ly Or­ders, he be­came Vi­car of Stan­ton Har­court, Ox­ford­shire, around 1739. How­ev­er, he re­signed in Oc­to­ber 1742 and joined the Mo­ra­vi­an Unit­ed Breth­ren, be­com­ing one of their bi­shops in 1751. About 26 trans­la­tions and 18 orig­in­al hymns in the Mor­a­vi­an hymn books are as­signed to him. A col­lect­ed edi­tion of his works was pub­lished at Bath in 1789. His other works in­clude:

• An edi­tion of the Greek Test­a­ment
• Maxims and The­o­lo­gic­al Ideas
• Sermons
• Ignatius, a dra­ma­tic po­em

• Hughes, pp. 398-9
• Julian, pp. 93, 226, 290, 314, 325, 389, 404, 835, 853, 960, 965, 1212, 1247, 1566, 1584

1. O Tell Me No More of This World’s Vain Store
2. Thrice Bless­èd Ground

1. Be Cheer­ful, Thou My Spir­it Faint
2. Eye Sees Wa­ter, No­thing More, The
3. Go Forth, in Spir­it God
4. Ho­ly Lamb and Prince of Peace
5. How Am­i­able Thy Hab­i­ta­tions Are
6. Lamb Goes Forth and Bears the Guilt, A
7. O Head So Full of Bruis­es
8. O Je­su! ’Fore Whose Ra­di­a­tion
9. O World! At­ten­tion Lend It
10. Praise Be to That Al­mighty God
11. Rejoice, Our Na­ture Christ As­sumes
12. Thank God! To­wards Eter­ni­ty
13. Ye Bot­tom­less Depths of God’s In­fin­ite Love