GABRIEL, Mary Ann Virginia (dau. of the succeeding). b. Banstead, Surrey 7 Feb. 1825; composed several hundred songs, many of which became very popular; her operetta Widows Bewitched was performed at St. George’s hall, London 13 Nov. 1867; composed 3 cantatas Dreamland, Evangeline and Graziella. (m. Nov. 1874 George Edward March of the Foreign office, London, who wrote most of her librettos). d. St. George’s hospital, London 7 Aug. 1877 from compound fracture of the skull, result of carriage accident near Grosvenor hotel 5 Aug. Lennox’s Fashion then and now, ii, 92–4 (1878); Illust. sp. and dr. news vi, 597, 620 (1877), portrait.

GABRIEL, Robert Burd. Cornet 2 dragoon guards 1797, captain 1805–1822 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 7 dragoon guards 18 March 1853 to death; K.H. 1834; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. 7 Connaught place west, London 15 April 1853 aged 74.

GAGE, Edward Thomas (2 son of 4 Viscount Gage 1791–1877). b. 28 Dec. 1825; 2 lieut. R.A. 1844, col. 1876, col. commandant 1887 to death; brigade major R.A. in Crimea 1854–55; commanded Woolwich district 1881–3; L.G. 1882; placed on retired list 1 April 1888; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Clifton crescent, Folkestone 21 May 1889.

GAGE, Sir William Hall (6 son of general Thomas Gage 1721–87). b. Park place, St. James’s, London 2 Oct. 1777; entered navy 1789; captain 1797; commander in chief in East Indies 1825–30, on the Lisbon station 1834–37, at Devonport 1848–51; a lord of the Admiralty 1842–1846; admiral 1846; R.A. of United Kingdom 1853; V.A. of United Kingdom 1854; admiral of the Fleet 20 May 1862 to death; G.C.H. and K.B. 19 April 1834; G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Thurston, Suffolk 4 Jany. 1864.

GAINES, Thomas. Last survivor of the 12 Bow street officers who under Sir Richard Birnie captured the Cato st. conspirators 23 Feb. 1820. d. Metropolitan asylum, Leavesdon, Herts. 4 Feb. 1879 aged nearly 90.

GAINSBOROUGH, Charles Noel, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Sir Gerard Noel Noel, 2 baronet 1759–1838). b. 2 Oct. 1781; M.P. for Rutland 1808–14; succeeded his mother as 3 Baron Barham 12 April 1823; created Baron Noel, Viscount Campden and Earl of Gainsborough 16 Aug. 1841; married four times. d. 17 Prince’s Gate, Hyde park, London 10 June 1866. bur. Teston church, Kent 19 June.

GAINSBOROUGH, Charles George Noel, 2 Earl of. b. Edinburgh 5 Sep. 1818; M.P. for Rutland 1840–41; contested Rutland 1841 and co. Cork 1860; sheriff of Rutland 1848, lord lieutenant of Rutland 6 March 1867 to death; taken ill in a cab and d. University college hospital, London 13 Aug. 1881.

GAIRDNER, John (eld. son of Robert Gairdner, captain Bengal artillery, who d. 1795 or 1796). b. Mount Charles near Ayr 18 Sep. 1790; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1811; phys. in Edin. 1813; F.C.S. Edin. 1813, pres. 1830–32; author of many papers in Trans. of Medico-Chirurgical Soc. of Edin. and in medical journals; his anonymous book Burns and the Ayrshire Moderates was privately printed 1883. d. 45 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 12 Dec. 1876. The Scotsman 14 Dec. 1876 p. 5.

GAIRDNER, William (brother of the preceding). b. Mount Charles near Ayr 11 Nov. 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1813; phys. in London 1822–66; L.C.P. 1823; author of Essay on the effects of Iodine on the human constitution 1824, and On Gout, its history, its causes and its cure 1849, 4 ed. 1860. d. Avignon 28 April 1867.

GAIRDNER, William John. Entered Bengal army 1807; M.G. 1851; col. 63 Bengal N.I. 1852 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. Strathtyrum house, St. Andrews 3 Feb. 1861 aged 71.

GAISFORD, Very Rev. Thomas (eld. son of John Gaisford of Iford, Wilts.) b. Iford 22 Dec. 1779; commoner of Ch. Ch. Ox., Oct. 1797, student Dec. 1800; B.A. 1801, D.D. 1831; Regius professor of Greek at Oxford 29 Feb. 1812 to death; R. of Westwell, Oxon. 1815–47; preb. of Llandaff 1823 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 1823 to death; preb. of Worcester 1825–29; preb. of Durham 1829–31; dean of Ch. Ch. Ox. 10 Oct. 1831 to death; published PoetÆ Minores GrÆci 4 vols. 1814–20 and 32 other classical and patristic works. d. the Deanery, Ch. Ch. Oxford 2 June 1855. bur. in nave of Ch. Ch. cathedral 9 June. G.M. xliv, 98–100 (1855).

GALBERRY, Most Rev. Thomas. b. Naas, co. Kildare 1833; taken to Philadelphia 1836; ordained R.C. priest 20 Dec. 1856; pres. of Villanova college; provincial of the Augustinian order 1874; bishop of Hartford 1876 to death; consecrated 19 March 1876. d. New York 10 Oct. 1878.

GALE, Charles James (son of Charles Gale). b. April 1805; barrister M.T. 1 June 1832; judge of county courts, circuit 51 (Hampshire), March 1847, of circuit 21 (Warwickshire) 1874 to Sep. 1874 when he retired on pension; author of A treatise on the law of easements 1839, 6 ed. 1888; published with Henry Davison Reports in the court of Queen’s Bench 1841–43, 3 vols. 1841–43. d. Kitnocks, Botley near Southampton 5 Aug. 1876.

GALIGNANI, John Anthony (eld. son of Giovanni Antonio Galignani of London, teacher of languages, who d. Paris 1821). b. London 13 Oct. 1796; bookseller at Cambrai 1816; bookseller and publisher with his brother at 18 Rue Vivienne, Paris; Galignani’s Messenger was founded by their father 1814 as a triweekly, it became a daily paper 1821; obtained denizenship Dec. 1830, never naturalised; removed to Rue de Rivoli 1855; knight of the Legion of Honour; gave with his brother between 5 and 6 million francs to charities of Paris. d. Paris 29 Dec. 1873. I.L.N. lxiv, 48 (1874), portrait.

GALIGNANI, William (brother of the preceding). b. London 10 March 1798; mayor of parish of Etiolles near Paris more than 20 years; erected with his brother a hospital for indigent English at Neuilly; obtained denizenship Dec. 1830, naturalised 1832; officer of Legion of Honour; bequeathed a site and funds for erection at Neuilly of the Retraite Galignani FrÈres for 100 inmates. d. 82 Faubourg St. HonorÉ, Paris 11 Dec. 1882, a fine sculpture of the two brothers by Chapu has been erected at Corbeil.

GALL, James. Member of firm of Gall and Inglis, publishers in George st. Edinburgh; master of Merchants’ Co. Edin. 1850; author of Gospel of St. John for the blind 1835; Philosophy of education 1840 and other books. d. Edinburgh 3 Nov. 1874 aged 90. Publishers’ Circular (1874) 866.

GALL, Richard Herbert. b. 10 Nov. 1815; ensign 3 foot 3 July 1835; major 14 light dragoons 1857–64 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Queen 8 June 1870 to death; lieut. governor of Chelsea hospital 1 March 1874 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Chelsea hospital 21 Feb. 1881.

GALLAGHER, Rev. Hugh P. b. Killygordan, Donegal 1815; went to the U.S. of A. 1837; ordained R.C. priest at Philadelphia 1840; pres. of Theological seminary Pittsburg 1844; founded and edited Pittsburg Catholic; theologian to first plenary council of Baltimore 1852; founded and edited Catholic Standard 1853; built many churches, schools and hospitals. d. San Francisco, March 1882.

GALLOWAY, Randolph Stewart, 9 Earl of. b. Coolhurst, Sussex 16 Sep. 1800; ed. at Harrow; M.P. for Cockermouth 1826–31; lord lieut. of Kirkcudbright to 1845, of Wigtonshire to 1851. d. Galloway house near Wigton 2 Jany. 1873.

GALLOWAY, Thomas (son of Wm. Galloway of Symington, Lanarkshire, miller). b. Symington 26 Feb. 1796; ed. at New Academy, Lanark, and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1820; teacher of mathematics at Sandhurst 1823–33; register or actuary of Amicable Life Assurance Co. of London 1833 to death; F.R.A.S. 13 Feb. 1829; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834, member of council 1843 to death; author of many articles in EncyclopÆdia Britannica, Edinburgh Review and Philosophical Mag. d. 45 Torrington sq. London 1 Nov. 1851.

GALLOWAY, Thomas James. Ensign 15 foot 1821; lieut. col. 70 foot 1848–1863; brigadier general Bengal 1857–1861; col. 49 foot 1871–1874; col. 70 foot 7 Sep. 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Kilmeague, Naas, Ireland 15 Sep. 1881 aged 81.

GALLWEY, Sir William Payne, 2 Baronet. b. 1807; succeeded 16 April 1831; M.P. for Thirsk, Yorkshire 1851–1880. d. Thirkleby park near Thirsk 19 Dec. 1881 in 74 year.

GALWAY, George Edward Arundell Monckton Arundel, 6 Viscount. b. Knutsford, Cheshire 1 March 1805; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 1834; M.P. for East Retford 1847 to death; master of fox hounds in Notts. 1865 to death. d. Serlby hall, Notts. 6 Feb. 1876. Baily’s Mag. xix, 171 (1871), portrait.

GALWEY, Sir Michael (youngest son of James Galwey). b. 1818; entered Madras army 1835; commandant 36 Madras N.I. 1865 to 1869; C.B. 26 July 1858, K.C.B. 2 June 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. London 22 July 1878.

GAMBIER, Sir Edward John (3 son of Samuel Gambier 1752–1813, first comr. of the navy). b. 1794; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 7 Feb. 1822; a municipal corporation comr. 1833; recorder of Prince of Wales Island 1834; puisne judge at Madras 28 Nov. 1836, chief justice 11 March 1842 to 1849; knighted at St. James’s palace 6 Aug. 1834; author of A treatise on parochial settlements 1828, 2 ed. 1835. d. 22 Hyde park gate, Kensington, London 31 May 1879 in 86 year.

GAMBIER, George Cornish. b. 1795; entered navy 18 June 1808; captain 4 June 1821; retired admiral 27 April 1863. d. Great Berkhampstead, Herts. 18 June 1879.

GAMBIER, Robert (brother of the preceding). b. Wateringbury, Kent 3 Aug. 1791; entered navy 3 Aug. 1804; captain 6 June 1814; retired admiral 15 Jany. 1862. d. 7 Onslow sq. London 26 Jany. 1872.

GAMBIER, Robert Fitzgerald (2 son of Sir James Gambier, F.R.S.) b. Lisbon 21 Nov. 1803; entered navy 28 Feb. 1815; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. 7 Crescent, Anglesey, Gosport 17 Oct. 1885.

GAMBLE, Dominic Jacotin. b. 15 Aug. 1823; ensign 4 foot 19 April 1844; D.Q.M.G. New Zealand 1861–67; A.Q.M.G. Aldershot 1869–74; commanded forces in West Indies 1878–83; director general of military education 1887 to death; L.G. 1886?; C.B. 25 Feb. 1864. d. 58 Courtfield gardens, South Kensington, London 21 Nov. 1887.

GAMGEE, Joseph Sampson (eld. son of Joseph Gamgee, veterinary surgeon). b. Leghorn 17 April 1828; M.R.C.S. 1854; surgeon to British Italian legion during Crimean war 1855; surgeon to Queen’s hospital Birmingham 1857–81; invented several surgical appliances largely adopted; author of Researches in pathological anatomy and clinical surgery 1856 and 11 other books. d. 22 Broad st. Birmingham 18 Sep. 1886.

GAMMAGE, Robert George. b. Northampton; apprenticed to a coachbuilder; a Chartist lecturer 1842–4; Chartist sec. for Northampton district 1844; a shoemaker at Northampton 1844–8; removed to Birmingham 1848; mem. of paid executive of National Charter Assoc. 1853–4; M.R.C.S. 1864; assistant to Dr. Heath of Newcastle; practised at Sunderland; author of History of the Chartist movement 1854 and 20 other works. d. Northampton 7 Jany. 1888 aged 72.

GAMMON, Frederic Thomas (son of Rev. John Gammon, pres. of Bible Christian conference in London 1859). b. Somerset 1849; entered firm of S. W. Partridge & Co. of London, publishers 1865, head of the firm 1883 to death; edited British Workman, Band of Hope Review, Band of Mercy, and other periodicals; author of The canal boy who became president [J. A. Garfield] 1881 and 4 other small books. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 19 Sep. 1888.

GANDELL, Rev. Robert (6 son of Thomas Gandell of City of London). b. London; matric. from St. John’s coll. Ox. 5 Dec. 1839 aged 21; Michel scholar Queen’s coll. 1843–5, fellow 1845–50; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; Kennicott scholar 1844, Pusey and Ellerton scholar 1845; tutor of Magdalen hall 1848–72; Laudian professor of Arabic 1861 to death; chaplain at C.C. coll. 1852–77; fellow of Hertford coll. 1874 to death; preb. of Wells 1874, canon of Wells 1880 to death; edited Lightfoot’s HorÆ HebraicÆ et TalmudicÆ 4 vols. 1859; contributed commentaries on Amos, Nahum and Zephaniah to the Speaker’s Commentary 1876. d. The Liberty, Wells 24 Oct. 1887. bur. Holywell cemetery, Oxford.

GAPE, Joseph. Entered navy 2 Aug. 1803; inspecting commander coast guard 1837 to 1841; captain 1841; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. d. 1 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington, London 12 March 1876 in 83 year.

GARBETT, Rev. Edward (6 son of Rev. James Garbett 1775–1857, preb. of Hereford). b. Hereford 10 Dec. 1817; ed. at Hereford coll. and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; V. of St. Stephen’s, Birmingham 1847–49; P.C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Grays Inn road, London 1850–63; V. of Ch. Ch. Surbiton 1863–77; hon. canon of Winchester 1875; R. of Barcombe near Lewes 1877 to death; edited The Record 1854–67 and The Christian Advocate 1867–74; author of The Soul’s Life 1863 and 30 other books. d. Barcombe rectory 11 Oct. 1887. The Record 14 and 21 Oct. 1887.

GARBETT, Ven. James (brother of the preceding). b. Hereford 1802; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., scholar 1819, fellow 1825–36, tutor 1827, junior dean 1832; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1824–5; Bampton lecturer 1842; professor of poetry in Univ. of Ox. 1842–52; R. of Clayton near Brighton 1835 to death; preb. of Chichester 1844; archdeacon of Chichester 28 April 1851 to death; author of De Rei poeticÆ idea 1843; Parochial Sermons 2 vols. 1843–4 and 30 other books. d. 7 Belgrave place, Brighton 26 March 1879 in 78 year. I.L.N. lxxiv, 373 (1879), portrait.

GARD, Richard Sommers. b. North Tawton near Barnstaple 1797; sheriff of Devon 1854; contested Honiton, Devon 1852; M.P. for Exeter 1857–65. d. Court hall, Monkton near Honiton 16 Dec. 1868 in 72 year.

GARDEN, Rev. Francis (son of Alexander Garden of Glasgow, merchant). b. 1810; ed. at Glasgow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Blackheath 1840–44; Inc. of St. Paul’s, Edin. 1845–49; C. of St. Stephen’s, Westminster 1854–59; teacher of theology Queen’s coll. London 1858–81; sub-dean of chapels royal St. James’s and Whitehall, Nov. 1859 to death; edited The Christian Remembrancer from 1841; author of Discourses on heavenly knowledge and love 1848; An outline of Logic 1867, 2 ed. 1871 and 14 other books. d. 67 Victoria st. Westminster 11 May 1884.

GARDINER, Allen Francis (5 son of Samuel Gardiner of Coombe lodge, Oxfordshire 1755–1827). b. Basildon parsonage, Berkshire 28 June 1794; entered navy 23 June 1810; commander 13 Sep. 1826; went to the Zulu country, South Africa 1834; laboured among the Indians of Chili 1838–43; founded Patagonian Missionary Soc. 1844; author of Outlines of a plan for exploring the interior of Australia 1833; A voice from South America 1847 and other books. d. Picton island, South America, probably 6 Sep. 1851, his remains were found 21 Jany. 1852. Memoir of A. F. Gardiner, By J. W. Marsh 1857, portrait; The story of A. Gardiner, By J. W. Marsh 1867, portrait; C. M. Yonge’s Pioneers and Founders (1871) 255–84.

GARDINER, Sir John (son of John Gardiner, captain 3 foot). b. 1777; ensign 3 foot 1791; commanded a brigade at battles of Nivelle 1813 and Orthes 1814; A.G. in Ireland 1823–1830; D.A.G. at the Horse Guards 1830–1841; col. of 61 foot 1840, of 50 foot 1844, of 6 foot 1849 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 19 July 1838. d. 23 Eaton place, London 6 June 1851.

GARDINER, Robert (son of Robert Hallowell of Bristol). b. Bristol about 1782; went to the U.S. 1792; graduated at Harvard 1801; took surname of Gardiner 1802; lived at town of Gardiner, Maine 1803 to death, gave a church, a lyceum and a public library to Gardiner; pres. of Maine Historical Soc. 1846–55. d. Gardiner 22 March 1864.

GARDINER, Sir Robert William (brother of Sir John Gardiner 1777–1851). b. 2 May 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 7 April 1797, col. 24 Nov. 1839; A.D.C. to the Sovereign 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; governor and commander in chief at Gibraltar 21 Nov. 1848 to July 1855; col. commandant R.A. 22 March 1853 to death; general 28 Nov. 1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; K.C.H. 1820; author of Memoir of admiral Sir Graham Moore 1844 and of 12 pamphlets on military organisation 1848–60. d. Melbourne lodge, Claremont, Esher, Surrey 26 June 1864.

GARDINER, William. b. Dundee 1809; in shop of George Robertson, hosier, Dundee 1824–44; collected and sold many thousands of botanical specimens; sold many vols. of dried plants illustrative of the British Flora; A.L.S.; author of Botanical rambles in Braemar, Dundee 1845; Twenty lessons on British mosses, 4 ed. Dundee 1849, 2nd series 1849; The Flora of Forfarshire 1848. d. Dundee 21 June 1852. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 139–144.

GARDINER, William (only son of Thomas Gardiner of Leicester, stocking manufacturer, who d. aged 93). b. Leicester 15 March 1770; assistant to Coltman of Leicester, hosiery warehouseman; member of Acad. of St. Cecilia at Rome; published Sacred Melodies 6 vols. 1812; The Music of Nature 1832; Music and Friends 3 vols. 1838–53; Sights in Italy 1847. d. Leicester 16 Nov. 1853. G.M. xli, 92–95 (1854); W. Gardiner’s Poems with life, by his daughter 1854; Notes and Queries 5 s. x, 169–71 (1878).

GARDNER, Alexander. b. Paisley; printer, bookseller and publisher there 1829 to death; wrote religious books; author of On lots, By G. A. Paisley 1851. d. Greenhill cottage, Paisley 25 Aug. 1875 aged 76.

GARDNER, Henry. Left by his will dated 24 July 1876 sum of £300,000 for benefit of the blind in England and Wales. d. 1 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 9 January 1879.

GARDNER, John. One of the best low comedians of his day; acted at City of London theatre 1850. d. 14 Queen st. Hoxton sq. London 5 May 1851 aged 51. The Era 11 May 1851 p. 12.

GARDNER, John. b. Great Coggeshall, Essex 1804; apothecary in London 1829 to death, M.D. Giessen 1847; a founder of Royal college of chemistry 1844, sec. 1844–6; professor of chemistry and materia medica to General Apothecaries’ Co.; introduced into England podophyllin and many other American drugs; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1860; translated and edited Liebig’s Familiar Letters on Chemistry 1843, 2nd series 1844; author of Household Medicine 9 ed. 1878; Longevity 5 ed. 1878; Hymns for the sick and convalescent 2 ed. 1879. d. 29 Lansdowne crescent, Notting hill, London 14 Nov. 1880.

GARDNER, Martha. b. 1776. d. 85 Grove st. Liverpool 10 March 1881 aged 104 years and 5 months. Notes and Queries 6 s. iii, 486 (1881).

GARDNER, Richard. b. Manchester 1813; ed. at Manchester sch., Charterhouse and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1838; M.P. for Leicester 30 July 1847 but election declared void; M.P. for Leicester 9 July 1852 to death; author of some political pamphlets. d. 100 Eaton square, London 4 June 1856 aged 43.

GARDNER, William. b. Ohio 1844; perfected the machine gun called after him 1876 which was introduced in the British service 1881; patented various improvements in fire-arms 1882–4; perfected an improved quick-firing cannon 1886. d. Henley lodge, St. Leonards-on-Sea 20 Jany. 1887.

GARDNER, William Henry (3 son of 1 Baron Gardiner 1742–1802). b. 6 Oct. 1774; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 Sep. 1793; col. commandant 1 April 1846 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Bishopsteignton, Devon 15 Dec. 1856.

GARFIT, Thomas. b. Boston 16 Oct. 1815; barrister M.T. 16 Jany. 1846; a banker at Boston; M.P. for Boston 1878–80 when unseated on petition. d. Boulogne 29 May 1883.

GARLAND, Charles (son of Thomas Garland of Illogan, Cornwall 1771–1827). b. Illogan 10 March 1813; edited The Cornish Telegraph weekly paper from first number 3 Jany. 1851 to 1853; edited Pembrokeshire Herald weekly paper from first number 5 Jany. 1844 to 1849; author of Wings of the Dove and 8 other poems in The Pocket Album 1831–2; Outlines of scripture doctrine, and history 1842. d. 2 Trewartha terrace, Penzance 17 Feb. 1875. S. W. Christopher’s Poets of Methodism (1875) 467–70.

GARLAND, John. Ensign 44 foot 14 March 1805; captain 73 foot 26 Nov. 1813 to 25 June 1817 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1833. d. Lille, France 17 Jany. 1851.

GARLAND, John Bingley (son of George Garland, M.P. for Poole, d. 1825). b. 1791; sheriff of Dorset 1828; gave 13 acres to Poole for a cemetery 1854; lived in Newfoundland many years, speaker of the first house of assembly there 1855 etc. d. Leeson house near Swanage, Dorset 12 Jany. 1875 aged 83. I.L.N. lxvi, 115 (1875).

GARLAND, Thomas (brother of Charles Garland 1813–75). b. Bridge near Redruth, Cornwall, April 1804; edited The Cornubian, Falmouth weekly paper from first number 1 Oct. 1830 to 18 Dec. 1832; author of Letters on the recent agitations in Wesleyan Methodism 1852. d. Fairfield, Illogan 30 July 1865. Memorials, literary and religious, of T. Garland (1868); S. W. Christopher’s Poets of Methodism (1875) 454–66.

GARNAULT, Joseph. Entered Madras army 1810; col. 29 Madras N.I. 11 Dec. 1848 to 1869; general 22 Feb. 1870. d. 14 Hesketh crescent, Torquay 15 May 1872.

GARNER, Thomas. b. Birmingham 1789; pupil of Samuel Lines, engraver; A founder of the Antique Academy, Birmingham, which became Royal Birmingham Soc. of Artists; chiefly known by his plates in the Art Journal. d. Birmingham 14 July 1868.

GARNETT, Arthur William (younger son of Wm. Garnett 1793–1873). b. 1 June 1829; lieut. Bengal engineers 1848, 2 captain 27 Aug. 1858 to death; designed and built Fort Garnett and other forts, barracks, &c. on the Punjab frontier; built the church at Kohat. d. Calcutta 1 May 1861. bur. St. Paul’s cath. Calcutta where is monument, also monuments in church at Kohat and in church of Holy Trinity at Brompton.

GARNETT, Jeremiah (son of Wm. Garnett of Otley, Yorkshire, paper manufacturer). b. Wharfside, Otley 2 Oct. 1793; in office of Wheeler’s Manchester Chronicle about 1814–21; started with J. E. Taylor the Manchester Guardian 1821 of which he was printer, business manager and sole reporter, sole editor Jany. 1844 to 1861. d. Sale near Manchester 27 Sep. 1870. Sphinx iii, 349 (1870).

GARNETT, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Otley 18 Jany. 1799; manager Low Moor cotton mill Clitheroe, Garnett & Horsfall 1828, afterwards sole proprietor; mayor of Clitheroe 1850; author of Facts on the natural history of the salmon 1867; Essays in natural history and agriculture: edited by R. Garnett, privately printed 1883. d. Low Moor 25 May 1878.

GARNETT, William (2 son of Thomas Garnett of Old Hutton, Kendal, who d. 1793). b. London 13 Nov. 1793; deputy registrar of the land-tax 1819, registrar to 1841; assistant inspector general of stamps and taxes 1835, inspector general 1842; took a leading part in introduction of income tax in Great Britain 1842 and in Ireland 1853; author of The guide to the property and income tax 1842; The guide to the income tax laws as applicable to Ireland 1853. d. 4 Argyll road, Kensington 30 Sep. 1873.

GARNETT, William James. b. Manchester 10 July 1818; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 1845; M.P. for Lancaster 1857–1864. d. Quernmore park near Lancaster 15 Sep. 1873.

GARNIER, Very Rev. Thomas (2 son of George Garnier of Rookesbury, Hants.) b. 26 Feb. 1776; ed. at Winchester and Worcester coll. Ox.; fellow of All Souls coll. 1796; B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1850; R. of Bishopstoke, Hants. 1807–69; preb. of Winchester, 1830–40; dean of Winchester 9 April 1840 to 1872; F.L.S. 1798. d. close of Winchester cathedral 29 June 1873. Church of England photographic gallery (1859) part 7, portrait.

GARNIER, Very Rev. Thomas (2 son of the preceding). b. Bishopstoke rectory 15 April 1809; ed. at Winchester and Worc. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1830, B.C.L. 1833; rowed in first boat race with Cambridge 10 June 1829; fellow of All Souls coll. 1830; V. of Lewknor 1835–40; R. of Longford, Derbyshire 1840–49; chaplain of Lock hospital, London 1849–50; chaplain to Speaker of House of Commons 1849 to death; R. of Trinity ch. Marylebone 1850–59; dean of Ripon 29 Aug. 1859; dean of Lincoln 30 March 1860 to death; author of Domestic duties, sermons 1851 and other works. d. Deanery, Lincoln 7 Dec. 1863. Illust. news of the world ix (1862), portrait; Some account of T. Garnier, B.C.L. (1863).

GARRARD, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Garrard of Lambourne, Berkshire). b. 1787; chamberlain of Bristol 1822, city treasurer 1 Jany. 1836 to March 1856; author of Edward Colston the philanthropist, his life and times, edited by S. G. Tovey, privately printed 1852. d. Springfield place, Bath 18 Dec. 1859. J. Latimer’s Annals of Bristol (1887), 80, 102, 348.

GARRETT, Rhoda (eld dau. of Rev. John Fisher Garrett, P.C. of Elton, Derbyshire). b. Eyam, Derbyshire 1841; partner with Agnes Garrett as house decorators in London to death; author of Electoral disabilities of women 1872; author with Agnes Garrett of Suggestions for House decoration in painting woodwork and furniture 1876. d. 2 Gower st. London 22 Nov. 1882 aged 41. bur. Rustington, Sussex 25 Nov.

GARRETT, Richard (son of Richard Garrett, agricultural implement maker d. 1837). b. about 1805; entered his father’s works at an early age; became head of firm of Garrett and Sons, Leiston Works, Saxmundham, Suffolk 1836, where 500 men were employed; manufactured patent steam engines, thrashing machines, corn and seed drilling and manuring machines, etc.; one of the founders of R. Agricultural soc. of England 1837, member of council; retired from active business 1855. d. Carlton house, Saxmundham 26 June 1866. Journal of Agriculture, Sept. 1866, portrait; Farmer’s Mag. July 1857 pp. 1–2, portrait.

GARRETT, Richard (son of the preceding). b. at the Works house, Leiston, 22 July 1829; manager of Leiston works 1850, and partner with his father and brother 1853; invented improved thrashing machines 1859, and portable steam engines; farmer of 2000 acres in West Suffolk; breeder of horses and sheep 1869; an amateur prize fighter; A.I.C.E. 7 March 1854, member 30 Oct. 1877. d. 30 July 1884. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii, 429–34 (1884).

GARRETT, Sir Robert (eld. son of John Garrett of Ellington near Ramsgate). b. 1794; ed. at Harrow; ensign 2 foot 6 March 1811; lieut. colonel 46 foot 16 May 1845 to 18 Aug. 1856 when placed on h.p.; commanded 4th division before Sebastopol 1855–1856; colonel of 4th West India regt. 1 April 1862, of 43 foot 14 Jany. 1866 to death; K.H. 1836; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; L.G. 10 March 1866; service reward 10 Feb. 1855. d. 40 Pall Mall, London 13 June 1869. Morning Post 16 June 1869 p. 5.

GARROD, Alfred Henry (eld. child of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod). b. Charterhouse sq. London 18 May 1846; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar 1870, fellow 1873; B.A. 1872; prosector to Zoological Soc. London 1871 to death; professor of comparative anatomy at King’s coll. London 1874–79; Fullerian professor of physiology, Royal Institution 5 April 1875 to death; F.R.S. 1 June 1876; author of many papers on zoology. d. 10 Harley st. London 17 Sep. 1879. A. H. Garrod’s Scientific Papers, edited by W. A. Forbes (1881) pp. ix-xxi, portrait; I.L.N. lxxv, 424 (1879), portrait.

GARSIDE, Rev. Charles Brierley (only son of Joseph Garside of Manchester, surgeon, who d. 21 May 1868 aged 78). b. Manchester 6 April 1818; ed. at gr. sch. Manchester and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of Tetbury, Gloucs. 1842; C. of Margaret st. chapel, London 1847; received into R.C. church 21 June 1850, ordained priest at Rome 23 Dec. 1854; assistant priest at St. Mary’s, Chelsea 1857–61, at St. Aloysius, Somers Town 1861; author of The impiety of bartering faith for opinion 1850 and 6 other books. d. Posileppo near Naples 21 May 1876.

GARSTIN, Edwin. Second lieut. Bengal engineers 6 May 1815, col. commandant 5 Dec. 1848 to death; general 1 March 1867. d. Bangalore 13 July 1871.

GARTLAND, Most Rev. Francis Xavier. b. Dublin 1805; ordained R.C. priest in Philadelphia 1832; assistant pastor of St. John’s ch. Philadelphia 1832, pastor; vicar general of New York 1845; bishop of Savannah 1849 to death, consecrated 10 Sep. 1850. d. Savannah 20 Sep. 1854. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops of Catholic church in the United States (1872) ii, 408–14.

GARVEY, Michael Angelo. Barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1854; author of The silent revolution, or future effects of steam 1852; A manual of human culture 1866 and other books. d. 24 St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 1 Aug. 1877.

GARVOCK, Sir John (only son of major John Garvock who d. 14 March 1838 aged 67). b. Kennington, Surrey 1817; ensign 10 foot 4 Sep. 1835; captain 31 foot 1843–55 when placed on h.p.; commanded Peshawur division of Bengal army 1863–65; commanded northern district of England 1866–67, southern district 1877 to death; col. of 89 foot 1870, of 10 foot 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 5 Aug. 1864, G.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 81 Queen’s gate, South Kensington, London 10 Nov. 1878.

GARWOOD, Rev. John. Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 24 Oct. 1828 aged 23; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; P.C. of St. Mary, Spital sq. London 1832–46; clerical sec. to London city mission 1837–76; author of The million-peopled city, London 1853. d. 17 Cambridge road, Kilburn, London 6 Dec. 1889.

GASCOIGNE, Ernest Frederic. b. May 1796; ensign 39 foot 2 May 1811; captain grenadier guards 7 Aug. 1840 to 15 Nov. 1850 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 69 foot 3 April 1858 to death; general 20 Jany. 1867; served in the Peninsula and American war. d. 14 Lowndes sq. London 18 July 1876.

GASCOYNE, Charles (son of general Isaac Gascoyne, col. 54 foot). b. 1805; ensign 54 foot 7 Dec. 1820; lieut. col. 94 foot 1839 to 1841, of 6 foot 1841 to 1842 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 72 foot 1845 to 1849 when placed on h.p.; col. 89 foot 1864; col. 72 foot 1870 to death; general 10 May 1872. d. 4 Chesterfield st. London 10 March 1881 aged 76.

GASELEE, Stephen (eld. son of Sir Stephen Gaselee 1762–1839 judge of court of Common Pleas). b. 77 Upper Guilford st. London 1 Sep. 1807; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 16 June 1832; serjeant at law 2 Nov. 1840, treasurer of Serjeants’ Inn 1866; contested Portsmouth 1855; M.P. for Portsmouth 1865–68. d. 2 Cambridge sq. Hyde Park, London 20 Oct. 1883.

GASKELL, Benjamin (elder son of Daniell Gaskell of Clifton Hall near Manchester who d. 1787). b. 28 Feb. 1781; ed. at Gateacre near Liverpool and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Maldon 1806, but unseated on petition; M.P. for Maldon 1812–26. d. Thornes house near Wakefield 21 Jany. 1856.

GASKELL, Daniel. b. 11 Sep. 1782; M.P. for Wakefield 1832–37. d. Lupset hall, Wakefield 20 Dec. 1875.

GASKELL, Elizabeth Cleghorn (dau. of Wm. Stevenson, keeper of records to Treasury in London, who d. 22 April 1829). b. Lindsay row, Chelsea 29 Sep. 1810; ed. at Stratford-on-Avon; author of Mary Barton, a tale of Manchester life 2 vols. 1848 anon., translated into many languages; Ruth, a novel 3 vols. 1853; North and South 2 vols. 1855; Life of Charlotte Bronte 2 vols. 1857; Sylvia’s Lovers 3 vols. 1863 and 14 other books. (m. 30 Aug. 1832 Rev. Wm. Gaskell 1805–84). d. Holybourne near Alton, Hants. 12 Nov. 1865. bur. Knutsford, Cheshire. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xxi, 49–54 (1890).

GASKELL, James Milnes (only child of Benjamin Gaskell 1781–1856). b. 19 Oct. 1810; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Wenlock 1832–1868; a lord of the Treasury 1841 to 11 March 1846. d. 28 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 5 Feb. 1873.

GASKELL, Samuel. Educ. at Manchester and Edinburgh; medical superintendent of Lancashire lunatic asylum 1840 where he carried out the non-restraint system; one of the medical comrs. in lunacy, Jany. 1849 to 1866. d. Walton, Surrey 30 March 1886 aged 79.

GASKELL, Rev. William (eld. son of Wm. Gaskell of Latchford near Warrington, sail-canvas maker, who d. 15 March 1819). b. Latchford 24 July 1805; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1824; studied at Manchester college, York 1825–28; pastor of Cross st. chapel, Manchester 3 Aug. 1828 to death; sec. of York college, Manchester 1840–46; professor of English history, literature and composition in it 1846–53 when it was moved to London; professor of literature in Unitarian home missionary board 1854–84, principal 1876–84; one of editors of Unitarian Herald 1861–75; author of Temperance Rhymes 1839; Two lectures on the Lancashire dialect 1844 and other books. (m. 30 Aug. 1832 Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson 1810–65). d. Plymouth Grove, Manchester 11 June 1884. bur. Unitarian Chapel yard, Knutsford 14 June. Sir T. Baker’s Memorials of a dissenting chapel (1884) pp. 54, 153; John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1876) 96–101.

GASKIN, Rev. Thomas. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of Jesus coll. about 1831–78; F.R.S. 21 March 1839; F.R.A.S.; author of The Solutions of geometrical problems 1847; The Solutions of trigonometrical problems 1847; Geometrical construction of a conic section 1852. d. 7 Pittville lawn, Cheltenham 17 Feb. 1887 aged 76.

GASKOIN, George. M.R.C.S. 1838; L.S.A. 1841; house surgeon St. George’s hospital 1839; practised in London 1838 to death; K.C.Christ of Portugal; K.C.Isabella la Catholica of Spain; translated The Medical works of Francisco de Villalobos 1870; author of On Psoriasis or Lepra 1875; Essay on the range of hereditary tendencies in health and in disease 1882. d. The priory, Caerleon, Monmouth 5 Feb. 1887 aged 70.

GASKOIN, John Samuel. b. Bagshot Sep. 1790; educ. St. George’s hospital; a specialist in skin diseases; surgeon to George iv. and William iv.; F.L.S. 1853. d. 32 Clarges st. May Fair, London 5 Oct. 1858. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii, 48 (1861).

GASPEY, Thomas (son of Wm. Gaspey, lieut. R.N.) b. Hoxton, London 31 March 1788; parliamentary reporter for Morning Post about 1808–24; sub-editor of Courier about 1824–28; edited Sunday Times 1828; edited evening edition of Morning Chronicle (in which ‘Sketches by Boz’ first appeared 1835); published The mystery or forty years ago, a novel 1820 anon.; The witch finder, or the wisdom of our ancestors 3 vols. 1824; The life and times of the good Lord Cobham 2 vols. 1843 and many other books. d. Shooters’ Hill, Kent 8 Dec. 1871. Newspaper Press vi, 40 (1872).

GASPEY, Thomas William (son of the preceding). Ph. Doc. of Heidelberg; author of Heidelberg and its castle 1860; The Rhine and the Rhine Lands 1855. d. 4 Ordnance ter. Shooter’s hill road, Kent 22 Dec. 1871 aged 53.

GASPEY, William (brother of the preceding). b. Westminster 20 June 1812; author of Lyrics and Meditations 1850 and other books in prose and verse. d. 17 St. Ann’s road, North Brixton 19 July 1888.

GASSIOT, John Peter. b. London 2 April 1797; midshipman R.N.; member of firm of Martinez, Gassiot & Co. wine merchants of London and Oporto; chairman of committee of Kew observatory which he purchased for £10,000 and presented to Royal Soc. 1871; discovered dark bands, or stratification of electric discharge 1852; author of 44 papers in scientific periodicals; F.R.S. 9 April 1840, founded the Scientific Relief fund. d. St. John’s house, Ryde 15 Aug. 1877.

GASTINEAU, Henry G. Studied at the R.A.; joined Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1818, associate 1821, member 1823, exhibited 1818–75; exhibited 26 landscapes at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1812–41. d. Norfolk lodge, Cold harbour lane, Camberwell 17 Jany. 1876 in 85 year.

GATLEY, Alfred. b. Kerridge near Macclesfield 1816; studied at British Museum and R.A.; sculptor in London 1841–52, at Rome 1852 to death; exhibited 30 sculptures at R.A. 1841–52; exhibited a bas-relief of The overthrow of Pharaoh in the Red Sea, and statues of Echo and Night at International Exhibition, London 1862. d. Rome 28 June 1863. Our sculptor friend, by Miss M. A. Sumner in Aunt Judy’s Mag., Oct. 1885 pp. 722–736.

GATHERCOLE, Rev. Michael Augustus. C. of Rilstone-in-Burnsall, Yorkshire 1832–5; C. of Cleasby, Yorkshire 1835–37; V. of Chatteris, Cambs. 1845–77; convicted at York assizes of publishing in The Watchman a libel imputing improper practices to the nuns at Darlington and Stockton, sentenced by Court of Queen’s Bench to 3 months’ imprisonment in the Marshalsea, London 24 Nov. 1838; edited The Church Magazine 6 vols. 1839–44; author of Letters to a dissenting minister of the Congregational Independent denomination, containing remarks on the principles of that sect, and the author’s reasons for leaving it. By L. S. E. 1833 and 3 other books under initials of L. S. E. d. Manor house, Chatteris 11 Dec. 1886 aged 84.

GATTI, Carlo. b. Dongio, valley of Blenio, canton Ticino, Switzerland 27 July 1817; walked to Paris with 25 francs in his pocket 1829, sold roast chestnuts in the streets and a peculiar dough called goffre, in Paris 1829–47, and in London 1847–49; chocolate maker with Battista Bolla at 129 Holborn hill 1849; pastry cook at 33, 34 and 65 Great hall, Hungerford market; built Hungerford hall, Villiers st. Strand 1851, pulled down for Charing Cross station 1862; an ice merchant at Caledonian road, King’s Cross 1857 to death, imported ice from Norway. d. Dongio 6 Sep. 1878. Penny pictorial news 21 Sep. 1878 pp. 1, 3, portrait; Graphic xviii, 341 (1878), portrait; Marcus Fall’s London Town (1880) i, 244–52.

GATTY, Margaret (youngest dau. of Rev. Alexander John Scott). b. Burnham rectory, Essex 3 June 1809; edited Aunt Judy’s Mag., May 1866 to death; author of Parables from nature 5 vols. 1855–71; Legendary tales 1858; Aunt Judy’s Tales 1859 and about 20 other books. (m. 8 July 1839 Alfred Gatty, D.D., V. of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire). d. Ecclesfield vicarage 4 Oct. 1873. Parables from nature (1885) ix-xxi; A. Gatty’s A life at one living (1884) 164–7; I.L.N. 18 Oct. 1873 pp. 369, 370, portrait.

GAUNTLETT, Henry John (eld. son of Rev. Henry Gauntlett 1762–1833 V. of Olney, Bucks.) b. Wellington, Salop 9 July 1805; organist of Olney ch. 1815–25, of St. Olaves, Southwark 1827–46; solicitor in London 1831–46; Mus. Doc. Canterbury 1842 being first instance of such a degree since Reformation; organist at Union chapel, Islington 1853–61, at All Saints Notting hill 1861–63, at St. Bartholomew’s, Smithfield 1872 to death; edited Musical world; started The Church Musician 1850, edited it 1850–51; patented application of electricity to the organ 1852; published Comprehensive tune books 2 vols. 1851 and 65 other musical works. d. 15 St. Mary Abbott’s terrace, Kensington 21 Feb. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 253, 254 (1876), portrait.

GAVIN, George O’Halloran. b. Limerick 1810; M.P. for Limerick 1858–1874. d. Kilfreacon court, Limerick 23 Oct. 1880.

GAVIN, Hector. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835, F.R.C.S. 1838; M.D. Edin. 1836; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1843; Superintending inspector of General board of health 1851–53; phys. general to Post Office, London 1853; lecturer on forensic medicine at Charing Cross hospital; editor of Journal of Public Health; author of On feigned and fictitious diseases of soldiers 1843 and 4 other books; accidentally shot by his brother Wm. Gavin in his hut at Balaklava in the Crimea 21 April 1855 aged 39; Margaret his widow granted civil list pension of £50 15 Nov. 1856.

GAVIN, Robert (2 son of Peter Gavin of Leith, merchant). b. Leith 1827; A.R.S.A. 1854, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1879; painted numerous Moorish pictures at Tangier; exhibited 5 pictures at the R.A. 1855–71. d. Cherry Bank, Newhaven near Edinburgh 6 Oct. 1883. S. Armytage’s Beautiful pictures by British artists pp. 63–4.

GAWEN, John Charles Gawen Roberts. b. 25 Aug. 1787; captain R.N. 13 June 1815; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. Park st. Grosvenor square, London 21 Nov. 1874.

GAWLER, George (son of Samuel Gawler, captain 73 foot, who d. 1799 aged 25). b. 1796; ed. at Great Marlow; ensign 52 foot 4 Oct. 1810, major 1831–34 when placed on h.p.; led the forlorn hope at storming of Badajoz 6 April 1812; governor of South Australia 12 Oct. 1838 to 13 May 1841 when recalled; col. 9 Nov. 1846; K.H. 1837. d. Southsea 8 May 1869.

GAY, John. b. Wellington, Somerset 1813; M.R.C.S. 1834; surgeon to Royal free hospital, London 1836–54; surgeon of Great Northern hospital 1856 to death; author of On femoral rupture, its anatomy, pathology and surgery 1848; A memoir on indolent ulcers and their surgical treatment 1855; On varicose disease of the lower extremities 1868; On hÆmorrhoidal disorders 1882. d. 51 Belsize park, Hampstead 15 Sep. 1885. Medical Circular ii, 249–51 (1853), portrait; Barker’s Photographs of medical men ii, 43 (1868), portrait.

GAYER, Arthur Edward (eld. son of Edward Echlin Gayer, major 67 foot). b. near Newcastle under Lyne 6 July 1801; ed. at Durham and Bath gr. schools and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, LL.B. and LLD. 1830; called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; chancellor and vicar general of diocese of Ossory 1848, of Meath Jany. 1851, of Cashel June 1851; contested Univ. of Dublin, March 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 8 June 1859 to July 1869; edited The Catholic Layman 1851–57, reprinted in 8 vols. Dublin 1862; author of several pamphlets defending established church of Ireland, and of Papal infallibility and supremacy tried by ecclesiastical history, scripture and reason 1877. d. Abbotsleigh, Upper Norwood, Surrey 12 Jany. 1877. A. E. Gayer’s Memoirs of family of Gayer, privately printed (1870).

GEACH, Charles (son of George Geach of St. Austell, Cornwall). b. St. Austell 1808; clerk in Bank of England, Birmingham 1826–36; manager of Birmingham and Midland bank 1836; purchased Park Gate iron manufacturing co. 1840 and Patent Shaft and Axle-tree co. 1840; made a fortune in railroad iron 1844–5; mayor of Birmingham 1847; M.P. for Coventry 8 April 1851 to death. d. 9 Park st. Westminster 1 Nov. 1854. E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 125–31; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiv, 148–51 (1855); I.L.N. xxi, 377, 378 (1852), portrait.

GEARY, Stephen. Architect and civil engineer at Hamilton place, New road, London; erected an octagonal structure with a colossal statue of George iv. on the top, in the centre of the 6 roads uniting at Battle Bridge 1831 when the name was changed to King’s Cross; took out patents for artificial fuel, paving streets, water supply, obtaining motive power, and 3 other patents 1838–47; designed the first gin palace in London about 1830; founded the London Cemetery Co. 1838 for which he laid out Highgate cemetery, opened 20 May 1839. d. 19 Euston place, London 28 Aug. 1854 in 75 year. A. W. Pugin’s Contrasts (1841), plate xiv.

GEDDES, John. Ensign 27 foot 22 Dec. 1804, major 1825 to 1831 when placed on h.p.; col. 46 foot 13 Feb. 1860, col. 27 foot 24 April 1860 to death; L.G. 23 March 1861. d. 15 Salisbury road, Newington, Edinburgh 28 April 1869.

GEDEN, Rev. John Dury (son of Rev. John Geden, Wesleyan minister). b. Hastings 5 May 1822; assistant tutor of Richmond coll. Surrey 1847–51; tutor in sacred and classical languages at theological coll. Didsbury, Lancs. 1856–83; joint-editor of London Quarterly Review 1857; elected into the legal hundred 1868; member of Old Testament revision company 1870; hon. D.D. St. Andrews 1885; author of Didsbury sermons in the Wesleyan college chapel 1878. d. Didsbury 9 March 1886.

GEDGE, Rev. Sydney (youngest son of Peter Gedge of Bury St. Edmunds). b. 1802; educ. Bury St. Edmunds’ gram. sch. and St. Catharine’s coll. Camb.; fellow 1825–27; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; C. of North Runcton, Norfolk 1827–35; second master king Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1835–59; V. of All Saints, Northampton 1859–77; rural dean Northampton 1871–77; preacher and speaker for Ch. missionary soc. and hon. life governor; author of 4 single sermons 1856–69. d. Cromer 29 Aug. 1883, five of his sons became clergymen. The Guardian 5 Sept. 1883 p. 1300.

GEERAN or GUERIN, Thomas. Enlisted in 71 regt. 3 March 1813, deserted 10 April; worked as a sawyer; settled at Brighton; professed to have been a son of Michael Geeran, farmer, born at Scariff co. Clare 14 May 1766 and to have served in 71 regt. abroad 1796–1819; made a living by relating his military adventures and dilating on his great age. d. infirmary of Brighton union 28 Oct. 1871 claiming to be 105. Longevity, with Life of Thomas Geeran (1871), portrait; Thom’s Human Longevity (1873) pp. 12, 131–54.

GELDART, Rev. Edmund Martin (2 son of Thomas Geldart of Thorpe, Norwich and of Hannah Ransome Geldart who was a writer of children’s books and d. 1861). b. Norwich 20 Jany. 1844; ed. at Ball. coll. Oxf., scholar 1863–67; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1873; assist. master Manchester gram. sch. 1867 and 1869–71; a teacher at Athens 1867–69; C. of All Saints, Manchester 1869–71; C. of St. George’s ch. Everton 1871; minister of Hope st. unitarian chapel, Liverpool 1873–77; unitarian minister Croydon 1877–85; author of Modern Greek in relation to ancient 1870; Faith and Freedom 14 sermons 1881 and other works; left Newhaven on 10 April 1885 for Paris, supposed to have been lost during passage to Dieppe. A son of Belial, autobiographical sketches by Nitram Tradleg i.e. M. Geldart (1883); Echoes of Truth ed. Mrs. Geldart (1886) with portrait.

GELDART, Rev. James William (eld. son of Rev. James Geldart, R. of Kirk Deighton, Yorks. who d. 12 Nov. 1839 aged 79). b. Swinnow hall, Wetherby 15 Feb. 1785; ed. at Beverley gr. sch. and Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1806, LLD. 1814; fell. of St. Catherine’s hall 1808–9; fell. and tutor of Trin. hall 1809–20; Regius professor of civil law at Cam. 11 Dec. 1813 to 1847; R. of Kirk Deighton 1840 to death; author of a new ed. of S. Halifax’s Analysis of the civil law 1836. d. Kirk Deighton rectory 16 Feb. 1876.

GELDART, Thomas Charles. Barrister L.I. 9 May 1823; master of Trinity hall, Cam. 1852 to death; LLD. by royal mandate 4 Jany. 1853; author with H. F. Maddock of Reports of cases in court of vice-chancellor 1829. d. the Master’s lodge, Trinity hall, Cambridge 17 Sep. 1877 aged 80.

GELL, John Sherbrooke. Entered Bombay army 11 June 1839; commanded Bombay district 28 Oct. 1872 to 11 June 1877; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Downderry, Cornwall 16 July 1878.

GENDALL, John. b. Exeter 1790; went to London with introduction to Sir John Soane; manager for Rudolph Ackermann, Strand, London, print seller; went on sketching tour in Normandy, gave illustrated description of tour at Exeter 6 Nov. 1862, his sketches published in Picturesque tour of the Seine 1821; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A. and 1 at B.I. 1818–63; his works chiefly views in Devonshire; settled at Exeter as an artist 1839. d. Cathedral yard, Exeter 1 March 1865 aged 75. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 50–54.

GEAREY, Sir William Richard Powlett, 3 Baronet. b. Oxon-Heath, Tunbridge 13 Nov. 1810; succeeded his father 6 Aug. 1825; contested West Kent, Dec. 1832, M.P. for West Kent, Jany. 1835 to Feb. 1838. d. Oxon-Heath 19 Dec. 1877.

GEDDES, James Loraine. b. Edinburgh 19 March 1827; served in Bengal artillery about 1846–55; settled at Vinton, Benton co. U.S.A. 1857; private in 8th Iowa regiment Aug. 1861, brigadier general 5 June 1865; provost marshal of Memphis; captured Spanish fort during Mobile campaign; professor of military tactics at Iowa college of agriculture; wrote The soldier’s battle prayer, The stars and stripes, and several other popular war-songs. d. Ames, Story co. Iowa 21 Feb. 1887.

GENESTE, Rev. Maximilian (4 son of Lewis Geneste of Kirk Bradden, Isle of Man). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 20 May 1820 aged 20; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; P.C. of Holy Trinity, West Cowes, Isle of Wight 1832 to death; author of The parallel histories of Judah and Israel 2 vols. 1843 and other books; translated KrÜmmacher’s Glance into the Kingdom of grace 1837 and other books. d. Trafalgar house, Cowes 27 July 1860.

GEOGHEGAN, Arthur Gerald. Author of The Monks of Kilcrea, By *** 1853, 3 ed. 1861 and other books; contributed to The Nation many years. d. 27 Addison road, London 29 Nov. 1889 aged nearly 80.

GEOGHEGAN, Joseph Bryan. b. Oldfield road, Salford, Manchester 13 April 1815; manager of Victoria music hall, Bolton 1864 to death; proprietor of Star theatre, Hanley; author of John Barleycorn 1860; The men of merry merry England 1858; Lancashire Witches, and upwards of 200 other favourite songs. d. Bolton 21 Jany. 1889.

GEOGHEGAN, Most Rev. Patrick Bonaventure. b. Dublin 1811; joined Franciscan order at Coimbra; the first resident R.C. priest at Port Phillip, New Holland 1839; vicar general of Melbourne 1848; bishop of Adelaide 1859 to death; consecrated 8 Sep. 1859. d. Kingston, Dublin 5 May 1865.

GEORGE, Frederick Darley. Cornet 11 light dragoons 1825; major 22 foot 1849–53 when placed on h.p.; D.A.G. Windward and Leeward Islands 1853–58; col. 76 foot 28 April 1875 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. 67 Brunswick place, Brighton 2 June 1888 aged 80.

GEORGE, John (eld. son of John George of Dublin, merchant, who d. 1837). b. Dublin 18 Nov. 1804; ed. at Frascati school and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar at King’s Inns, Dublin 1826, bencher 1859; barrister G.I. 16 May 1827; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; M.P. for co. Wexford 1852–57 and 1859–66; solicitor general for Ireland, Feb. to July 1859; judge of court of Queen’s Bench, Ireland, Nov. 1866 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866. d. 45 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 15 Dec. 1871.

GERARD, Robert Tolver, 1 Baron. b. Sutton, Lancs. 12 May 1808; lieut. col. Lancashire yeomanry cavalry 1855, col. 1878 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 23 March 1867 to death; sheriff of Lancs. 1859; created Baron Gerard of Bryn, Lancs. 18 Jany. 1876. d. 16 South st. Park lane, London 15 March 1887. I.L.N. lxviii, 61, 62 (1876), portrait.

GETTY, Samuel Gibson. b. 30 Nov. 1817; M.P. for Belfast 1860–68. d. 60 Redcliffe gardens, London 15 Dec. 1877.

GIBB, Alexander (only son of John Gibb, C.E., who introduced use of Aberdeen granite in construction of public works). b. Larbert, Stirlingshire 21 Sep. 1804; partner with his father at Aberdeen; built Victoria bridge over the Wear 1836, remarkable for its height and large spans; planned and carried out railway lines in North of Scotland; engineer of Great North of Scotland railway 1845 to death; lessee of Rubislaw quarries near Aberdeen; M.I.C.E. 9 Feb. 1830. d. Willowbank, Aberdeen 8 Aug. 1867. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvii, 587–89 (1868).

GIBB, Sir George Duncan, 4 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Gibb). b. Montreal 25 Dec. 1821; educ. McGill coll., M.D. 1846; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1848; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; in practice at Montreal 1849–53; one of originators of St. Lawrence sch. of medicine and professor there; gave his collection of 1500 specimens to Natural History soc., Montreal 1853; founded Pathological soc., Montreal, president 1853; settled in London 1853; assist. physician Westminster hospital; assumed a disputed baronetage May 1867; discovered crystal of diabetic sugar 1854; the first to remove tumours from the larynx by the mouth 1864; author of A treatise on whooping cough 1854; On diseases of throat and windpipe 1860; Life of Robert Gib 2 vols. 1874 and 41 other works. d. 1 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 16 Feb. 1876. N. and Q. 3 Ser. x 311, xii 274, 362, 421, 536 (1866–67), 4 Ser. i 37 (1868); Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) pp. 140–50.

GIBBES, Sir George Smith (son of Rev. George Gibbes, R. of Woodborough, Wilts.) b. 1771; Commoner of Ex. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, M.B. 1796, M.D. 1799; fellow of Magd. coll. Ox.; candidate of coll. of physicians 1803, fellow 1804, Harveian orator 1817; physician to Bath general hospital 1804; physician extraord. to Queen Charlotte 1819; knighted by George iv. at Carlton house 10 May 1820; removed to Cheltenham about 1835, afterwards to Sidmouth; F.L.S. 21 May 1793; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1796; author of A treatise on the Bath waters 1800 and other books. d. Sidmouth 23 June 1851. bur. family vault at Woodborough. W. Munk’s Roll (1878) iii, 13.

GIBBONS, David Octavius (eld. child of Edward Augustus Gibbons, who d. 20 Aug. 1834). b. 28 Oct. 1811; special pleader 1834; author of A manual of the law of fixtures 1836; A treatise on the law of dilapidations and nuisances 1838, 2 ed. 1849 and other books. d. 30 St. George’s sq. London 23 Oct. 1876.

GIBBONS, Sir Sills John, 1 Baronet (son of Richard Gibbons of Sittingbourne, Kent). b. Chatham 1809; hop merchant in London; alderman for Castle Baynard ward 1862–75, sheriff 1865–6, lord mayor 1871–2; created baronet 11 March 1872. d. Hastings 11 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. lix, 457, 458 (1871), portrait.

GIBBS, Sir Benjamin Thomas Brandreth (youngest son of Thomas Gibbs of Ampthill, Beds.) b. London 1821; steward of yard of R. Agricultural soc. 1839–42, hon. director 1843–74, vice president 1871–85; hon. sec. of Smithfield club 1843–85, presented with a silver candelabra 12 Dec. 1855; associated with agricultural sections of national exhibitions in London 1851 and 1862, in Paris 1855, 1867 and 1878, in Vienna 1873, in Philadelphia 1875; commander of order of Francis Joseph 1873; officer of Legion of honour 1878; knighted for his agricultural services, first person so rewarded, by the Queen at Windsor 27 Nov. 1878; sec. of Fisheries exhibition, London 1883; author of The Smithfield club, a condensed history 1857. d. Mossley house, Sinclair road, West Kensington park 2 June 1885. Journ. of Royal Agric. Soc. xxi, 611–20 (1885), portrait; The Biograph, March 1882 pp. 259–61; I.L.N. xxvii, 725–26 (1855), portrait.

GIBBS, James (son of Michael Gibbs of Walbrook, London, merchant). b. 25 July 1825; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1846; barrister I.T. 6 June 1864; judge of high court Bombay, Feb. 1866 to 1879; vice chancellor of Univ. of Bombay 1870–79; mem. of governor general’s council 10 May 1880 to 1885, pres. 1884; C.S.I. 1878; C.I.E. 1878. d. 58 Courtfield gardens, South Kensington, London 30 Oct. 1886.

GIBBS, Joseph. b. Staffordshire 1798; established extensive sawing and cutting works at Crayford Mills, Kent and London; invented “Gibbs’ elbow joint” chiefly used for construction of inlaid floors; erected much machinery here and in Holland for manufacturing purposes and lifting water; M.I.C.E. 6 April 1852; author of Considerations relative to sewage of London 1849; Cotton cultivation in its various details 1862. d. 11 Feb. 1864. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiv, 528–31 (1865).

GIBBS, Matilda Blanche (youngest dau. of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3 Baronet 1769–1847). Founded St. Michael and All Angels’ Home for Consumptives at Axbridge 1878, St. Michael’s Home at Cheddar and St. John’s Convalescent Home at Tyntesfield, all in Somerset. (m. 1 Aug. 1839 Wm. Gibbs 1790–1875). d. Tyntesfield 22 Sep. 1887 aged 69, personalty declared at £483,683 7s. 4d.

GIBBS, Mrs. (dau. of Mr. Graddon). b. Taunton 1804; first sang at Vauxhall 1821, in Dublin 1823; first appeared in London at Drury Lane Oct. 1824 as Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro; second only to Miss Stephens in ballad singing and to Miss Paton in bravura singing; sang in New Orleans, Dec. 1835, in New York Nov. 1836, returned to England; re-appeared in New York 1855 with an entertainment of song and anecdote entitled The Lakes of Killarney. (m. about 1827 Alexander Gibbs of firm of Graddon and Gibbs, pianoforte makers); date of death not known. J. N. Ireland’s Records of New York stage ii, 180–1 (1867); Cumberland’s Minor Theatre vol. iii, portrait; Le Bal CostumÉ, polka composed by Mrs. Gibbs (1854), portrait.

GIBBS, William (2 son of Antony Gibbs of Exeter, merchant 1756–1815). b. 22 May 1790; partner with his elder brother as merchants in Cadiz and London, head of the firm on his brother’s death 21 Aug. 1842; held for some years monopoly of the guano islands; built the chapel at Keble college, Oxford, dedicated 25 April 1876. d. Tyntesfield near Bristol 3 April 1875, personalty sworn under £800,000, 2 Oct. 1875.

GIBSON, Alexander. b. Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire 24 Oct. 1800; M.D. Edin.; assistant surgeon H.E.I.C. service 1825; passed in Hindustani, Mahrati and Gujerati; superintendent of botanical garden at Dapuri 1838; conservator of forests in Bombay 1847–60; F.L.S. 19 April 1853; author of Forest Reports Bombay 1849–55; Bombay Flora 1861; A handbook to forests of Bombay 1863. d. 16 Jany. 1867. Proc. Linnean Soc. (1866–67) p. 33.

GIBSON, Alexander Craig. b. Harrington, Cumberland 17 March 1813; F.S.A.; L.M. Edin.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1846; L.S.A. 1855; in practice at Branthwaite and Ullock 1841–43, at Coniston 1843–49, at Hawkshead 1849–57, at Bebington, Cheshire 1857–72; contributed to Kendal Mercury, Tait’s Mag., and to Trans. of Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire; author of The old man, or ravings and ramblings round Coniston, Kendal 1849; The Folk-speech of Cumberland, stories and rhymes in dialect of West Border counties, Carlisle 1869; wrote The Lockerbie Lycke, a ballad in Annandale dialect. d. Bebington 12 June 1874.

GIBSON, David Cooke. b. Edinburgh 4 March 1827; artist in Edin. 1844–52, in London 1852 to death; exhibited 5 domestic pictures at the R.A. 1855–57; wrote Angelo and Zelica and other poems. d. London 5 Oct. 1856. Struggles of a young artist, being a memoir of D. C. Gibson (anon. by W. Macduff) 1858, portrait.

GIBSON, George Stacey (only son of Wyatt George Gibson of Saffron Walden, Essex). b. Saffron Walden 20 July 1818; senior partner in firm of Gibson, Tuke and Gibson, bankers, Saffron Walden; clerk of yearly meeting of Soc. of Friends; added six species to the British flora, described in the Phytologist 1842–51; F.L.S. 1847; author of The Flora of Essex 1862. d. Temperance hotel, 12 Bishopsgate st. without, London 5 April 1883. Journal of Botany 1883, pp. 161–65, 2 portraits.

GIBSON, Rev. James. b. Crieff, Perthshire 31 Jany. 1799; educ. Glasgow univ.; licensed presbyterian minister 1820; travelled with Capt. Elliot in Portugal 1825; assistant in the College parish, Glasgow; built a ch. at Kingston, Glasgow, and was minister 1839–43; joined the Free church and had a chapel built for him at Kingston 1843; professor of systematic theology in Free ch. coll. Glasgow 1856; edited Church of Scotland Mag. 1834–37, and Scottish Protestant vols. i, ii, 1852; author of Marriage affinity question 1854; The public worship of God 1869 and other books. d. Glasgow 2 Nov. 1871. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1876) 261–64, portrait.

GIBSON, James. Called to bar in Ireland 1828; law adviser to general assembly of Irish presbyterian church; a comr. of national education in Ireland 1848 to death; chairman of Queen’s co.; chairman of co. Donegal to 1879; M.P. for Belfast, Aug. 1837 to March 1838 when unseated on petition; Q.C. 30 Jany. 1869. d. 35 Mountjoy sq. Dublin 5 Feb. 1880.

GIBSON, Sir James Brown, b. 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1826; hospital assistant in the army 14 Dec. 1826, surgeon 2 July 1841; served in Crimean war; body surgeon to Duke of Cambridge 1855; director general of medical department 7 March 1860 to 30 March 1867 when placed on h.p.; hon. physician to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Rome 25 Feb. 1868.

GIBSON, James Young (4 son of William Gibson of Edinburgh, merchant). b. Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1826; educ. Edin. univ. and at divinity hall of United Presbyterian ch. 1847–52, licensed preacher 1853, at Melrose 1853–59; travelled in Egypt and Palestine 1865 and in Spain 1871–72; settled in London 1872, at Long Ditton near Surbiton 1884; corrected proofs of J. Duffield’s Don Quixote 1881; translator and editor of Journey to Parnassus by Miguel de Cervantes 1883; Numantia, a tragedy by Miguel de Cervantes 1885. d. Granville hotel, Ramsgate 2 Oct. 1886. bur. Dean cemetery, Edin. The Cid by J. Y. Gibson, ed. M. D. Gibson, memoir by Agnes Smith 1887 pp. xxiii-lv, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news xxvi, 122 (1886).

GIBSON, Jane (2 dau. of John Gibson of Oakbank near Glasgow). b. Oakbank 22 May 1785; resided for many years in Edinburgh with Mrs. Grant of Laggan; founded the John Gibson bursaries in Glasgow Univ. at cost of £1000 in 1877. d. 9 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 25 Nov. 1887 aged 102 years and 6 months. Glasgow Herald 26 Nov. 1887 p. 4.

GIBSON, John. b. Newcastle 1794; ornamental and house painter and enameller in glass; painted church windows in Newcastle and neighbourhood; formed a gallery of paintings; sheriff of Newcastle 1853–4. d. the Leazes ter. Newcastle 25 Nov. 1854. Mackenzie’s Hist. of Newcastle (1827) pp. 345, 761.

GIBSON, John (son of a market gardener). b. Gyffin near Conway 19 June 1790; removed to Liverpool 1799; sent to Royal Academy Psyche drawn by Zephyrs 1816; came to London 1817; arrived in Rome 20 Oct. 1817; stayed there to 1844 where he studied under Canova and Thorwalsden; A.R.A. 1833, R.A. 1838; exhibited 33 works at R.A. 1816–64; his better known works are Mars and Cupid 1819, Hylas and the Nymphs 1826, Cupid tormenting the soul 1839, The Queen 1846, The tinted Venus 1854, Christ blessing little children 1862; revived the use of colour in statuary. d. Rome 27 Jany. 1866. bur. English cemetery, left £32,000 and the contents of his studio to the Royal Academy. Lady Eastlake’s Life of John Gibson (1870), portrait; W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture (1871) 109–22; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 188–92 (1862); Illust. news of the world iii (1859), portrait.

Note.—The King of Bavaria placed his statue on the exterior of the Glyptothek at Munich and in the hall of the Walhalla near Ratisbon. There is a fine collection of about 20 casts from his best grouped statues at the Crystal Palace.

GIBSON, John (son of George Gibson of Leith, merchant). b. Leith 15 Jany. 1796; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin.; writer to the Signet 1819; agent for the Buccleuch estates 1821 to death; legal adviser to Sir Walter Scott 1821–32; deputy keeper of the privy seal 1850; treasurer to Society of writers to the signet; published Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott 1871. d. 29 Greenhill gardens, Edinburgh 14 Sep. 1877. A Mackie’s Review of the conduct of J. Gibson (1823).

GIBSON, John Thomas. Entered Madras army 1800; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; colonel 1 European regiment 27 Feb. 1842 to death. d. Kotagherry, Madras 30 June 1851.

GIBSON, Solomon (younger brother of John Gibson, R.A. 1790–1866). Passed his life in Liverpool; modelled a small figure of Mercury when aged 16 which is his best work; exhibited 2 sculptures at R.A. 1816–22; a Greek, Latin and Welsh scholar; wrote many papers on ancient Welsh literature; lived chiefly on the bounty of his brother; fell down dead entering his hotel in Paris 29 Jany. 1866.

GIBSON, Thomas Milner (son of Thomas Milner Gibson, major 37 foot, d. 1807). b. Port of Spain, Trinidad 3 Sep. 1806; educ. Charterhouse 1819 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830; M.P. Ipswich 1837–39; M.P. Manchester 1841–57; M.P. Ashton-under-Lyne 1857–68; a free trader 1837 and a prominent orator of Anti-corn law league; V.P. of board of trade 1846–48; P.C. 8 July 1846; moved vote of censure on Palmerston for his law of conspiracy bill which caused resignation of ministry 19 Feb. 1858; president of poor law board 1859; president of board of trade 1859–66; assumed additional surname of Milner 7 Feb. 1839; president of Assoc. for repeal of taxes on knowledge 1850, on repeal received testimonial 1 Oct. 1861; amateur yachtsman, navigating his own vessel, the last person who cruised in the Mediterranean with a pass from the dey of Algiers 1830. (m. 23 Feb. 1832 Susanna Arethusa only child of Rev. Sir T. G. Cullum, she was a leader in society and an advocate of mesmerism and spiritualism, d. Paris 23 Feb. 1885 aged 71). d. on board his yacht Resolute at Algiers 25 Feb. 1884. bur. Theberton churchyard 13 March. G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 294–300; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 101–5; I.L.N. 31 Dec. 1842 p. 541, portrait, 8 March 1884 pp. 217, 227, portrait.

GIBSON, Rev. William (son of James Gibson of Ballymena, co. Antrim, merchant). b. Ballymena 8 May 1808; Presbyterian minister of First Ballybay, co. Monaghan 1834; colleague of Rev. S. Hannay in Rosemary st. ch. Belfast 1840; professor of christian ethics in the assembly’s coll. Belfast 1847; moderator of the general assembly 1859; author of The position of the church of Ireland and the duty of presbyterians in reference to it 1835; The year of grace, a history of the Ulster revival of 1859, Edin. 1860; chief founder of the Banner of Ulster newspaper 1842. d. Dublin 8 June 1867.

GIBSON, William Sidney. b. Parson’s Green, Fulham, Middlesex 1814; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1845; registrar of Newcastle upon Tyne district court of bankruptcy 1843 to 1870 when granted sum of £1000 on abolition of the court; M.A. Durham 1857; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1842; F.G.S.; author of The history of the monastery founded at Tynemouth 2 vols. 1846–7; Lord Lyndhurst In memoriam 1865, new ed. 1869 and 11 other books. d. Grosvenor hotel, London 3 Jany. 1871. bur. in disused burial ground of the Old Priory, Tynemouth. Colburn’s New monthly mag. April 1871 p. 244.

GIBSONE, John Charles Hope (son of general D. A. Gibsone). b. 21 May 1810; cornet 7 dragoon guards 1830, lieut. col. 1847–49; lieut. col. 17 light dragoons 1860–62; col. of 8 hussars 10 Dec. 1868, of 17 lancers 22 Sep. 1875 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Redcross lodge, Leamington 18 July 1884.

GIFFARD, Sir George Markham (4 son of the succeeding). b. Portsmouth dockyard 4 Nov. 1813; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1832; B.C.L. 1841; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1840; practised in court of chancery; Q.C. Jany. 1859, bencher of his inn 1859; vice chancellor March 1868; knighted at Windsor Castle 14 May 1868; a lord justice of appeal 1 Jany. 1869 to death; P.C. 4 Feb. 1869. d. 4 Princes gardens, Hyde park, London 13 July 1870. Foss’s Biographia Juridica (1870) 299, 792; I.L.N. lii, 320 (1868), portrait, lvii, 107, 259 (1870).

GIFFARD, John. b. 1766; entered navy 25 April 1780; captain 19 Oct. 1796; lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 23 March 1807 to 12 Aug. 1819; admiral 23 Nov. 1841. d. Southampton 25 Sep. 1855.

GIFFARD, John Walter de Longueville (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1817; ed. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. and M.A. 1843; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1843; reported in V.C. Stuart’s court 1852–70; judge of county courts, circuit 12 (West Riding of Yorkshire), 15 March 1875, of circuit 58 (Devonshire) March 1883 to death; author of Reports of cases adjudged in court of chancery by Sir John Stuart 1858–1865, 5 vols. 1860–71; author with John Smale of Reports of cases adjudged in court of chancery by Sir John Stuart 1852–1857, 3 vols. 1855–58. d. North Huish near Ivybridge, Devon 20 Oct. 1888.

GIFFARD, Stanley Lees (youngest son of John Giffard of Dromartin, co. Dublin 1747–1819). b. Dublin 4 Aug. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1811; barrister M.T. 24 May 1811; edited St. James’s Chronicle some years; edited Standard newspaper 1827 to death; contributed articles to Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Mag. d. Folkestone 6 Nov. 1858.

GIFFORD, Adam (eld. son of James Gifford, treasurer of the Merchant Co.) b. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1820; educ. Edinburgh institution 1832; apprenticed to a solicitor 1835, managing clerk; called to the Scotch bar 1849; advocate depute 1861; conducted the prosecution of Jessie M’Lauchlan in the Sandyford murder case 1863; sheriff of Orkney and Zetland 1865; a judge of court of session, with the title of Lord Gifford 28 Jany. 1870, resigned 25 Jany. 1881. d. Granton house, Edinburgh 20 Jany. 1887, left £80,000 to found lectureships on natural theology at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and St. Andrews.

GIFFORD, James (eld. son of James Gifford, unitarian writer 1740–1813). b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 20 Nov. 1768; midshipman R.N. 1 Oct. 1783; captain 12 Aug. 1812 when he left the sea, rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846; spent his income in works of benevolence and in furthering cause of unitarianism; author of The remonstrance of a unitarian addressed to the Bishop of St. Davids’ 1818, 2 ed. 1820; Letter of a unitarian to the minister of St. James’s church, Jersey 1845. d. Mount Orgueil cottage near St. Helier, Jersey 20 Aug. 1853.

GILBART, James William. b. London 21 March 1794; clerk in a London bank 1813; cashier in a Birmingham office 1825–7; manager of branches of Provincial Bank of Ireland at Kilkenny and Waterford 1829–33; general manager of London and Westminster bank 1833–59 when he retired on pension of £1600, bank opened 10 March 1834; F.R.S. 18 June 1846; author of A practical treatise on banking 1827, 6 ed. 1856; The history and principles of banking 1834 and 14 other books republished in 6 vols. 1865. d. Brompton crescent, London 8 Aug. 1863. J. W. Gilbart’s Practical treatise on banking, vol. i (1856), portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 3rd series (1860), portrait.

GILBERT, Ann (eld. child of Rev. Isaac Taylor of Ongar 1759–1829). b. opposite Islington ch. London 30 Jany. 1782; engraved small plates for Darton and Harvey’s juvenile works; co-author with her sister Jane of Original poems for infant minds 2 vols. 1804–5; Hymns for infant minds 1810 and other books. (m. 24 Dec. 1813 Rev. Joseph Gilbert 1779–1852). d. College st. Nottingham 20 Dec. 1866. Josiah Gilbert’s Autobiography of Mrs. Gilbert 2 vols. (1874), 2 portraits.

GILBERT, Right Rev. Ashurst Turner (son of Thomas Gilbert, captain R.M., who d. 14 Dec. 1844 aged 86). b. near Burnham Beeches, Bucks. 14 May 1786; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox.; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1819, D.D. 1822; fellow of Brasenose 1811, principal 2 Feb. 1822 to Feb. 1842; vice chancellor of Ox. 1836–40; bishop of Chichester 24 Jany. 1842 to death, consecrated at Lambeth palace 27 Feb. 1842; inhibited Rev. John Purchas from carrying on ritualistic services at St. James’s chapel, Brighton 14 Oct. 1868; author of 14 letters, sermons and charges. d. Episcopal palace, Chichester 21 Feb. 1870. Manchester school register ii, 221–4 (1868).

GILBERT, Elizabeth Margaretta Maria (2 dau. of the preceding). b. Oxford 7 Aug. 1826; became entirely blind April 1829; established work rooms for blind people at New Turnstile, Holborn, London, May 1854 which developed into Association for promoting the general welfare of the blind 1855; writer of fugitive verses. d. 5 Stanhope place, Hyde park, London 7 Feb. 1885. F. Martin’s Elizabeth Gilbert and her works for the blind (1887), portrait.

GILBERT, Rev. Joseph. b. Wrangle, Lincs. 20 March 1779; Independent minister at Southend, Essex; classical tutor at Rotherham college; pastor of Nether chapel, Sheffield 1818; pastor of James st. chapel, Nottingham 1825, of Friar lane chapel, Nottingham 1828 to 1851; chairman of Congregational Union 1833; author of The Christian Atonement, its basis, nature and bearings 1836, 2 ed. 1852. d. Nottingham 12 Dec. 1852. A biographical sketch of J. Gilbert, by his widow 1853 pp. 1–150.

GILBERT, Joseph Francis. Resided at Portsmouth 1813; resided at Chichester many years; painted many views in Sussex; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 12 at Suffolk st. gallery 1813–53. d. London 25 Sep. 1855 in 64 year.

GILBERT, Miss. b. Hants.; pupil of J. S. Rarey the horse tamer 1859; kept a riding school in London; the best performer with the Queen’s hounds; the chief subject of Landseer’s picture called “The pretty horsebreaker.” d. Dec. 1863. I.L.N. xxxii, 593, 594 (1858), portrait; Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1864 p. 321.

GILBERT, Richard (son of Robert Gilbert of St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell, printer, who d. 10 Jany. 1815 aged 51). b. St. John’s sq. 1794; a printer with his brother in London 1815; head of firm of Gilbert and Rivington, printers 1830 to death; projected and edited Clergyman’s Almanack 1818, Gilbert’s Clergyman’s Almanack 1835; author of Liber Scholasticus 1829, 2nd ed. entitled The parents school and college guide 1843; The Clerical guide, or ecclesiastical directory 1817 anon., 2 ed. 1821 anon., 3 ed. 1829, 4 ed. 1836. d. 70 Euston sq. London 26 Feb. 1852.

GILBERT, Sir Walter Raleigh, 1 Baronet (3 son of Rev. Edmund Gilbert, R. of Helland, Cornwall, who d. 1816). b. Bodmin 18 March 1785; entered Bengal army 1800; lieut. col. 39 Bengal N.I. 1824; col. 35 Bengal N.I. 1832; commanded divisions in first and second Sikh wars 1845–6 and 1849; col. 1 European regiment 1845 to death; member of council of India 3 April 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 3 April 1846, G.C.B. 9 June 1849; created baronet 31 Dec. 1850. d. Stevens’ hotel, Bond st. London 10 May 1853, memorial obelisk erected on the Beacon, Bodmin 1856–7. G.M. xxxix, 652–3 (1853); I.L.N. vii, 269 (1845), portrait, viii, 269 (1846), portrait, xxii, 404, 483 (1853); Bentley’s Miscellany xxxiii, 627–32 (1853).

GILBERT, William. Entered Bombay army 1795; col. 21 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to 17 Feb. 1852; col. 3 Bombay N.I. 17 Feb. 1852 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Tweed near Lymington, Hants. 5 Nov. 1866 aged 85.

GILBERT, William. Author of On present system of rating for the poor in the metropolis 1857; De Profundis 2 vols. 1864; Sir Thomas Bramston 3 vols. 1869; King George’s Middy 1869; Doctor Austin’s Guests 2 vols. 1866; The City, an enquiry into the corporation, its livery companies 1877 and 20 other books; some of his books are illustrated by his son W. S. Gilbert. d. The Close, Salisbury 3 Jany. 1889 in 86 year. Contemporary Review xii, 437–40 (1869).

GILBEY, Alfred. b. Bishop Stortford, Herts. 23 Oct. 1833; with his elder brother Henry P. Gilbey, wine merchant, London 1847; in government civil service in the Crimea 1855; firm of William and A. Gilbey, wine merchants 357 Oxford st. London, established Feb. 1857; firm admitted 6 other partners all relatives; removed business to the Pantheon, Oxford st. 1867, wine and spirit business became largest in Great Britain; author with W. Gilbey of Treatise on wines and spirits of the producing countries 1869. d. Wooburn house, Wooburn, Bucks. 28 Nov. 1879, personalty sworn under £350,000, 23 Feb. 1880. Wine Trade Review 15 Dec. 1879 p. 599 and 15 March 1880 p. 107.

GILCHRIST, Alexander (son of James Gilchrist of Newington Green, London 1783–1835). b. Newington Green 25 April 1828; ed. at Univ. college school; barrister M.T. 3 May 1850; author of Life of William Etty, R.A. 2 vols. 1855; Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus 2 vols. 1863; contributed to Eclectic Review, Literary Review and Critic. d. 6 Cheyne row, Chelsea 30 Nov. 1861. A. Gilchrist’s Life of W. Blake, (2 ed. 1880) ii, 359–76.

GILCHRIST, Anne (dau. of John Parker Burrows, solicitor, d. 1839). b. 7 Gower st. London 25 Feb. 1828; educ. under the Misses Cahusac at Highgate 1833; resided at Guildford and Chelsea 1828 etc.; in U.S. America 1876–79; friend of W. M. Rossetti 1862. (m. 4 Feb. 1851 the preceding); author of Lost in the woods 1864; Secular ethics of a national education 1872; Mary Lamb 1883; contributed to Household Words and Blackwood’s Mag. d. Keat’s corner, Well road, Hampstead 29 Nov. 1885. Life and writings of Anne Gilchrist (1887), with portraits.

GILDEA, Very Rev. George Robert. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; C. of Westport, Tuam 1826–28; C. of Kilmaine 1828–34; R. of Newport, Ireland 1834–44; R. of Kilmaine 1844–67; R. of Moylough 1867–73; provost of Tuam cathedral 1872 to death; author of Reproductive relief spinning in the West of Ireland 1849. d. 17 Alfred place, Thurloe sq. London 2 June 1887 in 84 year.

GILDERDALE, Rev. John. b. 1802; educ. Howden gram. sch. Essex and St. Catharine’s hall, Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. 1853, ad eundem Oxford 1847; C. of Huddersfield 1840–42; lecturer Halifax parish ch. Yorkshire 1842–47; principal of the Forest sch. Walthamstow 1848 to 1863; P.C. of Caundle Stourton, Dorset 1863; author of An essay on natural religion and revelation 1837; A course of family prayer for one month 1838; A letter to Lord Brougham on national education 1838. d. Caundle Stourton 25 Sep. 1864 aged 62.

GILES, Rev. Henry. b. Cranford, Wexford 1 Nov. 1809; Unitarian minister at Greenock 2 years, at Liverpool 3 years; went to America 1840 where he became a brilliant lecturer; author of Lectures and essays 2 vols. 1850; Christian thought on life 1850; Human life in Shakespeare 1868, all at Boston, U.S.A., and other books. d. Hyde park near Boston 10 July 1882.

GILES, James William. b. Glasgow 4 Jany. 1801; at age of 13 maintained his mother and sister by painting; taught classes in Aberdeen 1821; visited Italy; portrait and landscape painter; A.R.S.A. 1829; exhibited 2 works at R.A., 80 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1830–68, and many at R. Scottish Academy; his picture ‘The Weird Wife’ is in the National gallery of Scotland. d. Bon Accord st. Aberdeen 6 Oct. 1870.

GILES, Rev. John Allen (eld. son of Wm. Giles of Mark, Somerset). b. Southwick house, Mark 26 Oct. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and C.C. coll. Ox., scholar 1824, fellow 1832–33; double first class 1828; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.C.L. 1838; Vinerian scholar 1831; head master of Camberwell coll. sch. 1834–6; head master of City of London sch. 1836–40; C. of Bampton, Oxon. 1845–54; sentenced at Oxford assizes 6 March 1855 to a year’s imprisonment in Oxford Castle for making a false entry in marriage register book of Bampton parish church, but released by royal warrant 4 June 1855; C. of Perivale, Mid. 1857–61; R. of Sutton, Surrey 1867 to death; published Patres Ecclesiae AnglicanÆ 34 vols. 1837–43; Life and letters of Thomas Becket 2 vols. 1846; History of Bampton 1847, 2 ed. 1848; Christian records on the age, authorship and authenticity of the New Testament 1854 which he suppressed, and 80 other books. d. Sutton rectory 24 Sep. 1884.

GILES, Ven. John Douglas (eld. son of Robert Giles of Wedmore, Somerset). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 28 Nov. 1828 aged 16, exhibitioner 1828–32; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836; V. of Swinstead, Lincs. 1840–50; R. of Belleau with Aby, Lincs. 1850–61; R. of Willoughby, Lincs. 1861 to death; archdeacon of Stow 1863 to death; precentor of Lincoln cath. April 1866 to death; author of Village sermons 1861. d. Willoughby rectory 5 Feb. 1867.

GILES-PULLER, Christopher William (only son of Sir Christopher Puller 1773–1824, chief justice of supreme court of Calcutta). b. London 16 June 1807; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., double first class 1828; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1832; practised in court of chancery 1832–41; with his mother founded and endowed church of St. Giles at High Cross near Standon, Herts., consecrated 6 Aug. 1847; contested Herts. 1852 and 1854; M.P. for Herts. 31 March 1857 to death; assumed additional name of Giles 1857. d. Youngsbury near Ware, Herts. 16 Feb. 1864.

GILFILLAN, Rev. George (11 child of Rev. Samuel Gilfillan 1762–1826). b. Comrie, Perthshire 30 Jany. 1813; ed. at Glasgow coll.; licensed as a United Presbyterian minister 1835: minister of the School-Wynd ch. Dundee, March 1836 to death; a successful public lecturer; took an important part in political and religious meetings; author of Hades or the Unseen, a sermon 1843, three editions; A gallery of literary portraits 1845, Second ser. 1850, Third ser. 1854; Life of Robert Burns 1856; History of a Man: By B. E. ed. by G. G., a semi-autobiographical romance 1856; British Poets 6 vols. 1853–60; Night, a poem 1867 and about 100 other books. d. Arnhalt, Brechin 13 Aug. 1878. bur. Balgay cemetery, Dundee, the funeral procession being 2 miles long. The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 242–68; Our Scottish clergy 2 series (1849) 368–78; P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire (1879) 160–70.

GILFILLAN, James (brother of the preceding). b. Comrie, Perthshire 11 May 1797; educ. Glasgow coll. 1808, and at the divinity hall of antiburgher synod, Edin.; United Secession ch. minister Stirling 24 Dec. 1822, resigned 1869; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1866; author of The Sabbath viewed in the light of reason, revelation and history 1861. d. Portobello near Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1874.

GILL, Thomas. b. 19 Feb. 1782; entered navy 15 Jany. 1794; captain 10 Jany. 1837, retired R.A. 8 April 1868; on 14 June 1803 in action with Lodi off St. Domingo severely wounded, voted a sword of 50 guineas by Patriotic Soc. d. Grove lodge, Pulteney road, Bath 27 Jany. 1874. AthenÆum 21 June 1862 pp. 823–4.

GILL, William John (son of Robert Gill, major Madras army). b. Bangalore 10 Sep. 1843; ed. at Brighton college and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 11 Nov. 1864, captain 21 Dec. 1877 to death; travelled in Persia with col. Valentine Baker 1873; contested Hackney 1874, Nottingham 1880; travelled in China and Tibet 1876–78; gold medallist of R.G.S. 26 May 1879; gold medallist of Paris geographical society 1880; author of The river of golden sand 2 vols. 1880; started from Suez for the desert 8 Aug. 1882, murdered by Bedouins at Wady Sudr 11 Aug. 1882. bur. in the crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 6 April 1883, stained glass memorial window in Rochester cathedral. W. J. Gill’s River of golden sand, new ed. (1883) pp. 19–66, portrait; Graphic xxvi, 469 (1882), portrait.

GILLAN, Rev. Robert (son of Robert Gillan, minister at Hawick, Roxburgh, d. 7 May 1824). b. Hawick 1800; educ. Edin. univ.; Presbyterian minister at Stamfordham, Northumberland 1830, at South Shields 1833, at Holytown, Lanarkshire 1837, at Wishaw 1842, at Abbotshall, Fifeshire 1843, at St. John’s, Glasgow 1847 and at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire 1861 to death; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1853; lecturer on pastoral theology at the Scottish universities; publicly entertained at Glasgow and presented with his portrait 11 Oct. 1870; moderator of general assembly 1873; author of The Decalogue, a series of discourses 1856. d. Inchinnan manse 1 Nov. 1879. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 182–8; H. Scott’s Fasti ii, pt. 1, p. 269.

GILLIES, Margaret (2 dau. of William Gillies, merchant). b. Throgmorton st. London 7 Aug. 1803; educ. Edinburgh; had lessons in painting from F. Cruikshank in London, and from Hendrik and Ary Scheffer in Paris; Assoc. of Old Soc. of painters in water-colours 1852 and a constant contributor to its gallery; exhibited 101 subjects at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; some of her best known works are Past and present 1855, The heavens are telling 1856, Cercando Pace 1875; resided Church row, Hampstead, but d. The Warren, Crockham hill, Kent 20 July 1887. Clayton’s English Female artists (1876) ii, 87–94; Hays’s Women of the Day (1885) 77–78.

GILLIES, Mary (sister of the preceding). Author of The voyage of the Constance 1860; The Carewes 1861; Great fun for our little friends 1862; More fun for little friends, by Harriet Myrtle 1864. d. 1870.

GILLIES, Robert Pierce (son of Dr. Thomas Gillies. d. 1808). b. at or near Arbroath 1788; educ. Edin. univ.; admitted advocate 1813; in pecuniary difficulties from 1813 to his decease; imprisoned for debt 1847–9; friend of Scott and Wordsworth; an early contributor to Blackwood’s Mag.; called Kempferhausen in the Noctes AmbrosianÆ; founder and editor of Foreign Quarterly Review, July 1827; resided in London 1827 and at Boulogne 1840–47; author of Childe Alarique, a poet’s reverie, by R. P. G. 1814; The confessions of Sir H. Longueville, by R. P. G. 2 vols. 1814; German stories 3 vols. 1826; Tales of a voyager to the Arctic Ocean 6 vols. 1826–29; Memoirs of a literary veteran 3 vols. 1851. d. Kensington 28 Nov. 1858.

GILLIS, Most Rev. James (only child of Alexander Gillis of Fochabers, Elgin, who d. Nov. 1833). b. Montreal 7 April 1802; founded St. Margaret’s convent, Edinburgh for nuns of the Ursuline order 16 June 1835; coadjutor bishop of Eastern district of Scotland 28 July 1837; consecrated bishop of Limyra in partibus 22 July 1838; vicar apostolic of East of Scotland 24 May 1852 to death; introduced the Jesuits into his district 1859; author of Facts relating to admission into catholic church of viscount and viscountess Feilding 1850 and many letters and discourses. d. Greenhill near Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1864. Gordon’s Catholic mission in Scotland (18 ) 480, portrait; History of St. Margaret’s convent, Edinburgh (1886), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 151–3.

GILLKREST, James. Hospital assistant in the army 1800; surgeon 43 foot 1804; inspector general 1845–46 when placed on retired list; author of Cholera Gleanings, a family handbook 1849; Notes worth noticing relative to the Cholera 1852, of a work on yellow fever which he presented to French Academy of Medicine, and of a monograph on yellow fever published in General Board of Health’s second report on quarantine. d. St. Alban’s place, Haymarket London 25 Dec. 1853.

GILLMAN, Joseph. b. Little Over near Derby 1759; fought under Rodney and Hood off Port Royal, Jamaica, April 1782, believed to have been last survivor of that battle; one of the foremost mutineers at the Nore, May-June 1797; one of forlorn hope at storming of Seringapatam 4 May 1799; received a compound fracture of both legs at Copenhagen 2 April 1801. d. Manchester 25 June 1855 in 96 year.

GILLOTT, Joseph. b. Sheffield 11 Oct. 1799; working cutler; removed to Birmingham 1821; adapted the press to the making of steel pens 1830, invented side slits and cross grinding of the points, sold the pens at 1s. each; established works at Graham st. Newhall hill 1859 where he employed 450 persons and sold his pens at 4d. the gross; formed a collection of paintings chiefly Turner’s and Etty’s, collection sold in 1873 for £170,000; collected violins which realised £4000; had a residence at Stanmore near London. d. Westbourne road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 5 Jany. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000. Practical Mag. (1873) i, 322–5, portrait; Mayhew’s Shops of London (1865) 98–100; Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 89–100.

GILLOW, Rev. John (youngest son of John Gillow of Elswick Grange). b. 27 Feb. 1814; ed. at Ushaw college, Durham, professor of mathematics there 1837–42, of natural philosophy 1842–50, of dogmatic theology 1850–59 and 1863 to death, of moral theology 1859–60; canon theologian of cathedral chapter of Hexham 1857; created D.D. by Pius ix, 1859; vice pres. of Ushaw college 1859 to death. d. Ushaw college 9 Aug. 1877. J. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 476–81 (1885).

GILLY, Rev. William Stephen (son of Rev. Wm. Gilly, R. of Wanstead, Essex, who d. 23 Nov. 1837 aged 75). b. 28 Jany. 1789; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Caius and St. Catharine’s hall, Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, D.D. 1833; R. of North Fambridge, Essex 1817; canon of Durham 1826; P.C. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1827–51; V. of Norham on the Tweed 1851 to death; canon residentiary of Durham 1853 to death; author of The Spirit of the Gospel 1818; A memoir of Felix Neff 1832, many eds.; Our Protestant Forefathers 1835, many eds., and numerous other books. d. Norham 10 Sep. 1855. G.M. xliv, 437–39 (1855).

GILPIN, Rev. Bernard (4 son of Rev. Wm. Gilpin, R. of Pulverbatch, Salop). b. Cheam, Surrey 26 Jany. 1803; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; R. of St. Andrew, Hertford 15 Jany. 1829 to Oct. 1835 when he resigned and seceded from Church of England; preached for 35 years in a chapel at Port Vale Bengeo, Hertford, built for him by his followers. d. Pulverbatch 10 Jany. 1871. Benson’s Memorials of B. Gilpin (1874), with portrait.

GILPIN, Charles (son of James Gilpin of Bristol). b. Bristol 1815; publisher and bookseller in Bishopsgate st. London to 1853; common councilman London 1848; parliamentary sec. of Poor law board 28 June 1859 to 22 Feb. 1865; contested Perth 1852; M.P. for Northampton, April 1857 to death; chairman of National freehold land society. d. 10 Bedford sq. Holborn, London 8 Sep. 1874. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 3rd series (1860), portrait; The statesmen of England (1862) No. 45, portrait; I.L.N. xxxiii, 92, 94 (1858), portrait, lxv, 260, 273, 379 (1874), portrait.

GILPIN, Henry Dilwood (son of Joshua Gilpin of Philadelphia 1765–1840). b. Lancaster 14 April 1801; ed. in England 1811–16; graduated at Univ. of Pennsylvania 1819; attorney in Philadelphia 1822 to death; attorney general of the U.S. 1840–1; edited Atlantic Souvenir 7 vols. 1826–32; published Opinions of the attorney generals of the United States 2 vols., Washington 1841 and other books. d. Philadelphia 29 Jany. 1860. Memorials of H. D. Gilpin, Privately printed Philadelphia (1860); Appleton’s American biography ii, 659 (1887), portrait.

GILPIN, Sir Richard Thomas, 1 Baronet (only son of Richard Gilpin of Hockliffe grange, Leighton Buzzard, Beds., who d. 3 Jany. 1841). b. Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 12 Jany. 1801; ed. at Rugby and Christ’s coll. Cam.; col. Bedfordshire militia 11 Sep. 1848 to death; sheriff of Beds. 1850; M.P. for Beds. 1851–80; created baronet 19 Feb. 1876. d. Hockliffe grange 8 April 1882.

GIOVANELLI, Edward, stage name of Edward Edwards. b. Clerkenwell, London, Aug. 1823; first appeared in London at Cabinet theatre 1839; proprietor of Highbury Barn gardens, Islington 21 May 1861 to 14 Oct. 1870 when he lost his dancing license after spending £35,000 on the property; built Alexandra theatre in the gardens, opened 20 May 1865; manager of Royal Alfred theatre opened 12 Nov. 1870. d. 6 Lady Somerset road, Kentish town, London 14 March 1881.

GIRAUD, Herbert John (2 son of John Thomas Giraud, surgeon 1764–1836). b. Faversham, Kent 14 April 1817; educ. Edin. univ., M.D. 1840; entered service of H.E.I.C. 1842, professor of chemistry and botany 1845 and then principal of Grant Medical coll. Bombay; medical officer of Sir J. Jeejeeboy’s hospital; chemical analyst to Bombay government; deputy inspector general of Bombay army medical service, retired 1868; dean of faculty of medicine, Bombay university 1863; writer of papers on botany and chemistry. d. Shanklin, Isle of Wight 12 Jany. 1888.

GIRAUD, Richard HervÉ. b. Canterbury 1801; midshipman R.N. to 1815; solicitor in London 1822 to death; a Freemason 1824 to death, founder and first master of the Huguenot lodge; a director of French hospital, London 1829, sec., treasurer and deputy governor successively; a founder of Huguenot Soc. of London, April 1885. d. 55 Doughty st. London 13 Oct. 1886.

GIRDLESTONE, Rev. Charles (2 son of Samuel Rainbow Girdlestone of London, barrister). b. London 6 March 1797; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; fell. of Balliol coll. 1818–26; C. of Hastings 1822–24; C. of Ferry Hincksey, Berks. 1824–26; select preacher at Ox. 1825 and 1830; V. of Sedgley, Staffs. 1826–37; R. of Alderley, Cheshire 1837–47; R. of Kingswinsford, Staffs. 1847–77; author of The New Testament with a commentary 2 vols. 1832–5; The Holy Bible with a commentary 4 vols. 1842, new ed. 6 vols. 1873; The question of the day, By the Creature of an Hour 1857, and 60 other books. d. Holywell house, Weston-super-Mare 28 April 1881.

GIRDLESTONE, Rev. Edward (brother of the preceding). b. London 6 Sep. 1805; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., scholar 1823–6, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of Deane, Lancs. 1828, V. 1830–55; canon of Bristol 1854; V. of St. Nicholas with St. Leonard’s, Bristol 1855–58; V. of Wapley, Gloucs. 1858–62; V. of Halberton, Devon 1862–72; V. of Olveston, Gloucs. 1872 to death; author of Sermons on Romanism and Tractarianism 1851; Remarks on Essays and Reviews 1861 and 15 other books. d. Canon’s house, Bristol 4 Dec. 1884. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) part 6, portrait; Church Portrait Journal, Aug. 1884 pp. 57–60, portrait.

GIRLING, Mary Anne (dau. of Mr. Clouting, farmer). b. Little Glemham, Suffolk 27 April 1827; a wesleyan methodist; believed that she was called to be a new incarnation of the Deity 1864; commenced preaching at 107 Bridge road, Battersea 1870, community named themselves The Children of God, but generally called Shakers; removed to New Forest lodge, Hampshire 2 Jany. 1872; ejected for non-payment of rent 1873 and 1878 and suffered much hardship; rented Tiptoe farm, Hordle, Lymington 1879; members expected to live for ever and that Mrs. Girling would rule over the world. (m. George Stanton Girling a general dealer at Ipswich). d. Tiptoe farm 18 Sep. 1886. Irish Monthly, Oct. 1878 pp. 555–64; Lymington Chronicle 23 and 30 Sept. 1886.

GISBORNE, John (2 son of John Gisborne of Yoxall, Staffs.) b. St. Helen’s, Derby 26 Aug. 1770; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1792; author of The Vales of Wever 1797; Reflections 1833 and other poems. d. Pentrich, Derbyshire 17 June 1851. A brief memoir of the life of John Gisborne with extracts from his diary (1852).

GISBORNE, Lionel. b. St. Petersburgh 1823; civil engineer; worked for the government in Ireland 1842–52; practised in London 1852 to death; brought forward a scheme for embankment of river Thames 1852; projected several of the long submarine telegraphs 1851 to death; partner with Henry C. Forde; A.I.C.E. 1852; author of The Isthmus of Darien 1853. d. Dartmouth st. Westminster 9 March 1861. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 586–92 (1862).

GISBORNE, Thomas (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Gisborne 1758–1846). b. 1794; M.P. for Stafford 1830–32, for North Derbyshire 1832–37, for Carlow 1839–41, for Nottingham 1843–47; contested Totnes 1840, Newport and South Leics. 1841, Ipswich 1842, Nottingham 1847 and Kidderminster 1849; author of Essays on Agriculture 1854, and of speeches and pamphlets. d. Yoxall lodge, Staffs. 20 July 1852.

GIUGLINI, Antonio. b. Fano, Italy 1827; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre, London 1857–58; sang with much success in the provinces and abroad; had a sweet and high tenor voice, the best since Tamberlik; became insane 1862. d. in an asylum at Pesaro, Italy 12 Oct. 1865. Illust. sporting news iv, 553 (1865), portrait.

GLADSTONE, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Gladstones of Leith, corn merchant 1732–1809). b. Leith 11 Dec. 1764; corn merchant at Liverpool 1788–1843 when he retired; M.P. for Lancaster 1818, for Woodstock 1820, for Berwick 1826–27 when unseated on petition; dropped the final s in his name by r.l. 10 Feb. 1835; created baronet 18 July 1846; author of Plain facts connected with the Corn laws 1846 and other pamphlets. d. Fasque, Kincardineshire 7 Dec. 1851. Fortunes made in business ii, 111–36 (1884); H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 290–306 (1886).

GLADSTONE, John Neilson. b. 18 Jany. 1807; M.P. for Walsall 1841, for Ipswich 1842–7, for Devizes 1852–7 and 1859 to death; sheriff of Wilts. 1859. d. Bowden park, Wilts. 7 Feb. 1863. I.L.N, xxii, 197, 198 (1853), portrait.

GLADSTONE, Murray (6 son of Robert Gladstone of Liverpool 1773–1835). b. Liverpool 14 Feb. 1816; employed in making surveys for railways; a merchant at Calcutta 1844–50; established firm of Gladstone, Latham & Co. in Manchester 1850; erected an observatory at Penmaenmawr, North Wales; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1860. d. suddenly while walking along the shore at Penmaenmawr 23 Aug. 1875. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxvi, 142 (1876).

GLADSTONE, Sir Thomas, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir John Gladstone 1764–1851). b. Annfield near Liverpool 25 July 1804; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; M.P. for Queenborough, Kent 1830–32, for Portarlington 1832–35, for Leicester 1835–37, for Ipswich 1842 but unseated on petition; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire; founded at Fasque, Kincardineshire a herd of pure-bred polled cattle. d. Fasque house 20 March 1889. Fortunes made in business ii, 137–40 (1884).

GLASGOW, James Carr-Boyle, 5 Earl of (2 son of 4 Earl of Glasgow 1766–1843). b. London 10 April 1792; served in the navy 1807–18, retired commander 5 Oct. 1867; assumed name of Carr before Boyle 2 Aug. 1823; contested Ayrshire 1837, M.P. for Ayrshire 1839–43; lord lieut. and sheriff principal of Renfrewshire 21 Oct. 1844; kept many racehorses 1819 to death, most of which were unnamed; won the Two thousand guineas and Doncaster Cup with General Peel 1864; master of Renfrewshire fox hounds. d. Hawkhead, Renfrewshire 11 March 1869. Rice’s British Turf (1879) ii, 242–55; Saddle and Sirloin, By the Druid. Part North (1870) 26–32; Baily’s Mag. i, 257–60 (1860), portrait.

GLASGOW, George Frederick Boyle, 6 Earl of (half-brother of the preceding). b. 9 Oct. 1825; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1852; M.P. for Buteshire, Feb. to July 1865, contested Buteshire, July 1865; lord clerk register of Scotland 1879 to death; principal keeper of the Signet. d. 32 Palmerston place, Edinburgh 23 April 1890.

GLASS, Joseph. b. 1792; invented the chimney-sweeping machine now in use for which he received a silver medal and prize of £200 about 1828; author of Chimney-sweeping described 1834. d. Brixton, London 29 Dec. 1867.

GLASS, Sir Richard Atwood (eld. son of Francis Glass of Bradford, Wilts.) b. Bradford 3 July 1820; established with Kuper a wire-rope manufactory; introduced use of twisted iron wires in Dover and Calais cable as a protecting medium for submarine telegraphs 1852; made a length of 1250 miles of the Atlantic cable of 1858 which failed; partner in firm of Glass, Elliot and Co., Greenwich, firm was eventually absorbed in the Telegraph construction and maintenance co., managing director; knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1866; chairman of Anglo-American Telegraph company; M.P. for Bewdley 1868–69 when unseated on petition; A.I.C.E. 4 May 1858. d. Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Dec. 1873. I.L.N. xlix, 545, 558 (1866), portrait.

GLASSE, Frederick Henry Hastings. Entered navy 20 Nov. 1818; captain 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 16 Sep. 1864, retired 1 April 1870; admiral 1 Aug. 1877; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Billacombe villa, Plymstock, South Devon 25 May 1884.

GLAZEBROOK, Thomas Kirkland (son of Rev. James Glazebrook 1744–1803). b. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics. 4 June 1780; glass manufacturer at Warrington; lived at Southport 1835 to death; F.L.S.; printed many songs and poems; author of The first eclogue of Virgil translated into English verse 1807; A guide to Southport 1809, 2 ed. 1826 and other books. d. Southport 17 Jany. 1855. J. Kendrick’s Warrington Worthies, 2 ed. (1854) p. 6, portrait.

GLEIG, Rev. George Robert (son of Right Rev. George Gleig 1753–1840, primate of Scotch episcopalian church). b. Stirling 20 April 1796; ed. at Glasgow univ. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; ensign 3 garrison battalion 1812; lieut. 85 foot 1813–16 when placed on h.p., sold out 1826; served in Peninsula 1813–14 and in American war; R. of Ivychurch, Kent 1822–80; chaplain of Chelsea hospital 1834–40; principal chaplain to the forces 1844–46, chaplain general 1846–75 when placed on h.p.; inspector general of military schools 1846–57; preb. of St. Paul’s 29 Dec. 1848 to death; author of The Subaltern 1826; The Chelsea pensioners 1829; The history of the British Empire in India 4 vols. 1830–5; Memoirs of the life of Warren Hastings 3 vols. 1841 and 35 other books; the survivor of original contributors to Blackwood’s Mag. and Fraser’s Mag. d. Stratfield Turgis near Winchfield 9 July 1888. Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 267–70, portrait; Colburn’s New Monthly xlix, 220–23 (1837), portrait.

GLENELG, Charles Grant, 1 Baron (eld son of Charles Grant 1746–1823, M.P. for Invernesshire). b. Kidderpore, Bengal 26 Oct. 1778; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam., fellow 1802, 4th wrangler and chancellor’s medallist 1801; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, L.L.D. 1819; barrister L.I. 13 June 1807; M.P. for Fortrose burghs 1811–18, for Invernesshire 1818–35; a lord of the treasury 1813–19; chief sec. for Ireland 1818–1821; P.C. Ireland 1819; P.C. 28 May 1819; vice pres. of board of trade 1823, pres. 1827–28; treasurer of navy 1827–28; pres. of board of control 1830–34; sec. of state the colonies 1835–39; created Baron Glenelg of Glenelg, Inverness 11 May 1835; F.R.S. 27 May 1828. d. Cannes 23 April 1866.

GLENGALL, Richard Butler, 2 Earl of (eld. child of 1 Earl of Glengall 1775–1819). b. 29 May 1794; succeeded his father 30 Jany. 1819; colonel of South Tipperary artillery 21 Nov. 1826 to death; Irish representative peer 1 Sep. 1829 to death; wrote The Irish tutor 1823; The follies of fashion, a comedy in 5 acts 1830 and other dramatic works. d. Cowes, Isle of Wight 22 June 1858.

GLENNIE, George. Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf club of St. Andrews; made celebrated score of 88 for King Wm. Fourth’s medal at St. Andrews 1855 which was unbeaten until 1884; the George Glennie medal was instituted 1881, and presented by Royal Blackheath golf club to the St. Andrew’s club. d. 3 St. Germain’s place, Blackheath 26 March 1886 aged 68. H. G. Hutchinson’s Golf (1890) 388–90, portrait.

GLENNY, George. b. 1 Nov. 1793; gained many prizes at flower shows; wrote a series of letters in The British Luminary 1820 of which he became editor; edited Royal ladies’ magazine and St. James’s Archives; started Horticultural Journal 1832; edited Gardener’s Gazette, Garden Journal, Practical Florist, Glenny’s Journal, &c.; started the Metropolitan Society of Florists and Amateurs 1832; author of Cottage gardening 1847; The handy-book of gardening 1858; The properties of Flowers and plants 1864 and other books. d. Gipsy Hill, Norwood, Surrey 17 May 1874. Gardener’s Mag. 23 May 1874 p. 269, portrait.

GLEW, Edward Lees (son of Thomas Faulkner Glew of Dublin, solicitor). b. Dublin 3 March 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; became a portrait painter; settled at Walsall; published History of the borough and foreign of Walsall, Walsall 1856; started a newspaper in Birmingham; resided at 53 Beaver st. New York as a painter; removed to Philadelphia, then to Trenton, New Jersey. d. Newark, New Jersey 9 Oct. 1870. Morning Advertiser 11 Oct. 1870 p. 3, col. 5.

GLIDDON, George Robins. b. Devonshire 1809; resided in Egypt nearly 23 years; U.S. vice consul at Alexandria about 20 years; lectured in Boston, New York and Philadelphia on Egyptian antiquities; agent for Honduras interoceanic railway at time of his death; author of A memoir on the cotton of Egypt 1841; Discourses on Egyptian archÆology 1841 and other books; author with J. C. Nott of Types of Mankind 1854, and edited L. F. A. Maury’s Indigenous races of the earth 1857. d. Panama 16 Nov. 1857.

GLOUCESTER and EDINBURGH, Mary, Duchess of (4 dau. of King George the Third 1738–1820). b. 25 April 1776. (m. at Buckingham palace 22 July 1816 her cousin Prince William Frederick, 2 Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, b. 15 Jany. 1776, d. 30 Nov. 1834); ranger and keeper of Richmond new park 30 Oct. 1850 to death. d. Gloucester house, Park lane, London 30 April 1857. H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 21–9; I.L.N. xxx, 434, 465, 466 (1857), portrait.

GLOVER, Charles William. b. London, Feb. 1806; violinist in orchestras of Drury Lane and Covent Garden; musical director Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. 1832 etc.; composed Jeannette and Jeannot 1845, Cosin Harry a semi-comic song 1855, Tis hard to give the hand where the heart can never be 1853, and a very large number of pieces for the piano, ballads and songs. d. Caversham road, Kentish town, London 23 March 1863.

GLOVER, Edmund (eld. son of Samuel Glover and Julia Glover, actress, who d. 16 July 1850). b. England 1813; acted at Haymarket theatre, London, at Edinburgh 1841 where he played Richelieu, Rob Roy, etc.; engaged Jenny Lind in 1847 to sing in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth, cleared £3000; lessee of Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 1848; manager of Paisley and Dunfermline theatres and of Greenock theatre in 1849; last appeared as Triplet in Edinburgh 25 May 1859; a good actor, dancer, fencer and pantomimist. d. 3 Gayfield place, Edinburgh 23 Oct. 1860. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh stage (1888) 380 et seq.

GLOVER, Edward Auchmuty (eld. son of James Glover of Mount Glover, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837; called to bar in Ireland 1840; insolvent in Ireland 1849; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1852; contested Canterbury 18 Aug. 1854; contested Beverley 7 July 1852, M.P. for Beverley 28 March 1857 to 3 Aug. 1857 when unseated on petition; sentenced at Central Criminal Court 13 April 1858 to 3 months’ imprisonment in Newgate for having made false declaration as to his property, this was the last prosecution of the kind, the property qualification of M.P’s. was abolished by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26, 28 June 1858. d. 65 Denbigh st. Pimlico, London 17 March 1862 aged 45. Annual Register (1858) 69–71; Wolferstan and Dew’s Reports i, 214–24 (1859).

GLOVER, Sarah Ann (eld. dau. of Rev. Edward Glover, R. of St. Lawrence, Norwich). Governess in family of Sir T. Fowell Buxton; taught children at Norwich music on the Sol-faing mode 1815; founded the Tonic Sol-fa method 1840 which Rev. John Curwen modified and made popular 1844; entertained at a soirÉe in Jewin st. schoolroom, London 20 April 1855; author of A manual of the Norwich Sol-fa system 1845; Manual of Tetrachordal system 1850; resided 11 St. Owen st. Hereford; portrait in Tonic Sol-fa coll. Forest Gate, Essex. d. Great Malvern 20 Oct. 1867 aged 82. Memorials of J. Curwen (1882) pp. viii, 49, 173.

GLOVER, Ven. George (son of George Glover of Wigan). b. 1778; ed. at Manchester sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1811; R. of South Repps, Norfolk 1804 to death; archdeacon of Sudbury 21 July 1823 to death; V. of Gayton, Norfolk 1831 to death; author of A course of sermons 2 vols. 1859. d. South Repps 4 May 1862, memorial brass on chancel floor of South Repps church. Manchester School Register ii, 196–8 (1868).

GLOVER, Sir John Hawley (son of rev. John Glover, English chaplain at Cologne). Entered R.N. 1841; in expedition to the Niger under Dr. Baikie 1857–61; acting consul at Lagos 22 May to 21 Nov. 1863, colonial secretary 9 May 1864 and administrator of the settlement 19 Oct. 1866 to 1872; commissioner to friendly natives near the Gold coast 18 Aug. 1873; commanded 800 houssas in the march to Coomassie 1874, received thanks of both houses of parliament; G.C.M.G. 8 May 1874; governor of Newfoundland Jany. 1876 to June 1881, and 17 Dec. 1883 to death; retired captain 24 Nov. 1877; governor of the Leeward islands Dec. 1881 to 17 Dec. 1883. d. 35 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 30 Sept. 1885. I.L.N. lxiv. 384, 386 (1874), portrait.

GLOVER, Percy Clabon (2 son of Rev. Richard Glover, vicar of St. Luke’s, West Holloway). b. Holy Trinity parsonage, Maidstone 14 May 1856; educ. Highgate and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; founded the De Quincy soc. at his coll. 1878; served as tutor with various families in England and abroad; his collar bone fractured playing Lacrosse at Dulwich 5 March 1888. d. of rheumatic fever at Addiscombe vicarage 1 April 1888. Self Discipline, a memoir of P. C. Glover by Rev. Richard Glover (1889), with portrait.

GLOVER, Stephen. Author of The Peak guide, Derby 1830; The history and gazetteer of county of Derby, ed. by Thomas Noble, vol. i, pt. i, 1831, vol. ii, pt. i, 1833, never finished; assisted Thomas Bateman in his Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire 1848. d. 26 Dec. 1869. bur. Moreton, Cheshire.

GLOVER, Stephen (brother of Charles W. Glover 1806–63). b. London 1812; teacher of music, London; composer of Merry is the Greenwood, a cavatina 1847; Beauty and the beast, chamber opera 1868; The dream is past 1837, What are the wild waves saying 1850, Stars of the summer night 1855, There is a sweet wild rose 1863, duets; Annie on the Banks o’ Dee 1857, Emigrants’ Farewell 1850, songs; and upwards of 1200 other works all of which commanded a sale. d. 71 Talbot road, Bayswater, London 7 Dec. 1870. Grove’s Music and Musicians (1889) iv, 648–9.

GLOVER, William. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; serjeant at law 19 June 1840; purchased Morning Chronicle from Duke of Newcastle, W. E. Gladstone and Sidney Herbert for £7500 in 1854, receiving from them £3000 a year for 3 years; engaged with Napoleon III. to edit the paper in his interest 1855, brought actions against French government for breach of contract; sold the paper to George Stiff 1860, it ceased 1862; author of A practical treatise on the law of municipal corporations 1836. d. 3 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 21 Dec. 1870. Grant’s Newspaper Press (1871) i, 310–12.

GLOVER, William Howard (brother of Edmund Glover 1813–60). b. Kilburn, London 6 June 1819; a violinist in Lyceum orchestra under Wagstaff 1834; with his mother founded Music and dramatic agency Soho sq. London; gave a season of opera in Manchester with his own pupils; gave annual monster concerts at St. James’s hall and Drury Lane; initiated performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony with pictorial and choregraphic illustrations 1863, and of Israel in Egypt 1865; his cantata Tam o’Shanter produced at Philharmonic 4 July 1855; his opera Ruy Blas brought out at Covent Garden 24 Oct. 1861; musical critic on Morning Post 1849–65; conductor of Niblo’s orchestra, New York 1868; Palomita operetta produced at Niblo’s 1875. d. New York 28 Oct. 1875.

GLYN, Henry Carr. b. 17 April 1829; entered navy 4 March 1844; captain 20 Aug. 1861; V.A. 9 June 1882; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 32 Eaton place, London 16 Feb. 1884. bur. family vault, Stanbridge church 21 Feb. Illust. sp. and dr. news xx, 661 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 205 (1884), portrait.

GLYN, Isabella Dallas (dau. of Mr. Gearns, architect). b. Edinburgh 22 May 1823; appeared at Manchester under her mother’s maiden name Glyn 8 Nov. 1847 as Constance in King John; at Olympic, London as Lady Macbeth 26 Jany. 1848; played at Sadler’s Wells 1848–51; gave her first Shakespearian reading Sep. 1851; appeared at Drury Lane as Bianca in Fazio 26 Dec. 1851, at St. James’ 1854, at Standard 1855, at Sadler’s Wells 1859, at Princess’s 1867; gave recitals at Boston, U.S.A. 1870; gave Shakespeare readings at Steinway hall and St. James’ hall 1878, 1879; a theatrical instructor; the latest adherent of the Kemble sch. of acting. m. (1) Edward Wills; m. (2) in Glasgow, Dec. 1853 and in London 12 July 1855 Eneas Sweetland Dallas d. 1879, divorced on her petition 10 May 1874, she was imprisoned at Holloway for contempt of court in declining to give up documents relating to her divorce case, released 28 June 1876. d. of cancer 13 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 18 May 1889. The Duchess of Malfi, with a memoir of Miss Glyn (1851) pp. 1–6, portrait; Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. (1850) 37–40, 2 portraits; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 1–2, portrait, and parts 7, 10, 12, 17, 21, 5 portraits; The Players iii, 391, 408 (1861), portrait.

GLYNN, Henry Richard (youngest son of John Glynn 1722–79, serjeant at law, M.P. for Middlesex). b. 2 Sep. 1768; entered navy 19 May 1780; captain 10 April 1797; admiral 9 Nov. 1846, placed on half pay June 1851; mayor of Plymouth 1838. d. Bideford 20 July 1856.

GLYNN, Joseph (son of James Glynn of Ouseburn iron foundry, Newcastle). b. Hanover sq. Newcastle 6 Feb. 1799; designed and executed gas works for Berwick upon Tweed 1821; engineer to Butterley iron co. Derbyshire; employed the water wheel or scoop wheel for draining marshes and fens by steam power; chairman of Eastern counties railway 2 years; M.I.C.E. 22 April 1828; member of Society of Arts 16 Nov. 1836; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1838; author of Rudimentary treatise on the construction of cranes 1849, 4 ed. 1865. d. 28 Westbourne park villas, London 6 Feb. 1863.

GLYNNE, Sir Stephen Richard, 9 Baronet. b. Hawarden castle, Flintshire 22 Sep. 1807; succeeded 5 March 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; M.P. for Flint district 1832–5, for Flintshire 1837–41 and 1842–47; lord lieut. of Flintshire 30 June 1845 to death; taken ill in street and d. Dr. Flack’s surgery 56 High st. Shoreditch, London 17 June 1874. Times 18, 19, 20 June 1874.

GOAD, John. b. Plymouth 20 Feb. 1825; known universally as the quarrier and worker of Devonshire marble having 4 large quarries near Plymouth, supplied all the polished marble for interior of the Oratory at Brompton, London 1854; found dead in his bed at his residence, Buckingham place, Stonehouse, Plymouth 25 Jany. 1886.

GOBAT, Right Rev. Samuel. b. Cremuse, canton Berne, Switzerland 26 Jany. 1799; studied at Bale, Paris and London; entered service of Church Missionary Soc., laboured in Abyssinia 1830–32; principal of Missionary college, Malta 1839; nominated bishop of Jerusalem by King of Prussia 1846; consecrated at Lambeth 5 July 1846; naturalised in England by act of parliament 9 & 10 Vict. c. 49, 13 Aug. 1846; author of Journal of a three years residence in Abyssinia 1847. d. Jerusalem 11 May 1879.

GODBY, Christopher. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 55 Bengal N.I. 1853 to death; L.G. 22 Nov. 1862; C.B. 21 May 1846. d. South bank, Batheaston 8 Dec. 1867 aged 77.

GODDARD, George Bouverie. b. Salisbury 25 Dec. 1832; self taught artist; spent 2 years in zoological gardens, London, studying animal life 1849–51; drew sporting subjects on wood for Punch; settled in London 1857; exhibited 19 paintings at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1856–79; chiefly an animal painter; his principle works were Lord Wolverton’s blood hounds 1875, The struggle for existence 1879 now in Walker gallery, Liverpool, Love and War in the Abbotsbury swannery 1883. d. 37 Brook green, Hammersmith, London 6 March 1886.

GODFREY, Adolphus Frederick (son of the succeeding). b. 1837; bandmaster of the Coldstream Guards Dec. 1863 to death; wrote many lancers, polkas, galops and quadrilles; confined in Peckham lunatic asylum, Surrey 1 June 1881. d. there 28 Aug. 1882.

GODFREY, Charles. b. Kingston, Surrey 22 Nov. 1790; bandmaster of Coldstream guards nearly 50 years; musician in ordinary to Wm. IV. 1831; editor and arranger of Jullien’s Military Band Journal 1847. d. London 12 Dec. 1863.

GODKIN, James. b. Gorey, co. Wexford 1806; pastor of dissenting ch. at Armagh 1834; missionary to Roman Catholics to 1845; went to London as a journalist 1847; established in Belfast The Christian Patriot 1849; editor of Derry Standard; editor of Daily Express, Dublin; member of Irish tenant league 1850; special commissioner of Irish Times to ascertain feeling of the farmers on land question 1869; granted civil list pension of £90, 5 April 1869; author of A guide from the church of Rome to the church of Christ 1836, 3 ed. 1845; Ireland and her churches 1867; The land war in Ireland 1870 and other books. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 2 May 1879.

GODLEY, Denis (son of John Godley of Killigar, co. Leitrim). b. 1823; ensign 74 highlanders 1839; sec. to governor general of Canada 1861–68; sec. to commission on Irish church temporalities 1869–81; sec. to Irish land commission 1881–88; C.B. 1881. d. Guardswell, Ascot 24 Jany. 1890.

GODLEY, John Robert (brother of the preceding). b. 1814; ed. at Harrow and Christ church, Ox., B.A. 1836; proposed to emigrate one million Irish to Canada; contested Leitrim county 12 Aug. 1847; Canterbury colony, New Zealand, founded by him and E. G. Wakefield 1850, guided Canterbury 1850–52, agent in England 1854–56; commissioner of income tax Ireland 1853; assistant under secretary at war 1855–61; F.R.G.S.; author of Letters from America 2 vols. 1844; Observations on an Irish poor law 1847. d. 11 Gloucester place, Portman square, London 17 Nov. 1861. Selection from writings and memoir by J. E. Fitzgerald (1863) 1–32, portrait.

GODWIN, Edward William. b. Old Market st. Bristol 26 May 1833; architect Bristol and then in partnership with Henry Crisp; removed to London 1862; built Northampton and Congleton town halls; assisted W. Burgess in his designs for new law courts London, and R. W. Eddis in his designs for parliament houses Berlin; designed theatrical costumes for Hamlet, Claudian, Helena in Troas and the Bachelors 1886; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1862; F.R.I.B.A.; a constant contributor to the British Architect; author of Art furniture by W. Watt, from designs by E. W. Godwin 1877; Temple Bar illustrated 1877; A few notes on the architecture and costumes of Claudian 1883 and other books. d. 6 Great College st. Westminster 6 Oct. 1886. British Architect 15 Oct. 1886 pp. 347–48, portrait.

GODWIN, George. b. Brompton, London 28 Jany. 1815; chief founder of Art Union of London 14 Feb. 1837, hon. sec.; author of The last day, a farce played at Olympic 28 Oct. 1840, and of several dramas; editor of The Builder Dec. 1842 to Oct. 1883; F.R.S. 7 March 1839; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1838; vice pres. of R.I. of British Architects, gold medallist 1881, founded the Godwin bursary 1881; architect of St. Mary’s ch. West Brompton and many other edifices; restored St. Mary’s, Redcliffe, Bristol 1846–75; made a collection of ancient chairs, including Shakespeare’s chair, sold 19 April 1888; author of The churches of London 2 vols. 1839; A history of St. Paul’s cathedral 1837; Facts and fancies 1844; History in Ruins, letters on history of architecture 1853; London Shadows 1854; Another blow for life 1864. d. 6 Cromwell place, South Kensington 27 Jany. 1888. Colburn’s New Monthly Mag., vol. 167 p. 182, portrait.

GODWIN, Henry. Ensign 9 foot 30 Oct. 1799; lieut. col. 41 foot 26 July 1821; lieut. col. 87 foot 5 April 1827 to 25 June 1827, when placed on h.p.; employed in 6 several commands during Burmese war 1824–6; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; recaptured Pegu Nov. 1852; col. 20 foot 25 Oct. 1853; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, gazetted K.C.B. 9 Dec. 1853; author of Burmah, Letters and papers written 1852–53, 1854. d. Simla, Bengal 26 Oct. 1853 aged 69.

GODWIN, John. b. Swansea; pupil of Sir James M’Adam; engineer to Ulster railway 1836–62; the first professor of engineering Queen’s college, Belfast 1849; M.I.C.E. 24 June 1845. d. Tamnagharrie, co. Down 15 Jany. 1869.

GODWIN, Rev. John Hensley. b. Bristol 18 June 1809; educ. Highbury coll. 1833–36 and Edin. univ. 1836–37; congregational minister Old Meeting, Norwich 1837; resident and philosophical tutor Highbury coll. 1839; professor of New Testament exegesis, mental and moral philosophy and English, New coll. 1850–72; author of Christian Baptism 1845; Christian Faith 1852; Translations of The Revelations 1856, St. Matthew 1863, St. Mark 1869, The Epistle to the Galatians 1871 and The Romans 1873; a contributor to the Contemporary Review and the Evangelical Mag. d. 1 Belsize ter. Hampstead 26 Feb. 1889.

GODWIN, Marianne Elizabeth. Caricaturist in London; signed her pictures with the word “Jack.” d. University college hospital London 12 Aug. 1887 from her muslin dress catching fire at the ironing stove at her residence 13 Fitzroy sq. London.

GODWIN-AUSTEN, Robert Alfred Cloyne (eld. son of Sir Henry Edmund Austen. 1785–1871). b. Shalford house, Guildford 17 March 1808; ed. at Midhurst, Sussex and Oriel coll. Ox. fellow 1830, B.A. 1830; student of L.I. 1830; F.G.S. 19 March 1830, sec. 1843–4 and 1853–4; Wollaston medallist 1862; member of British Association 1846, pres. of geological section at Norwich 1868, and at Brighton 1872; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; made a splendid collection of palÆozoic fossils in Cornwall which he presented to Jermyn st. Museum; took additional name of Godwin by royal license 1854; author of numerous papers on geology in scientific journals. d. Shalford house near Guildford 25 Nov. 1884. Geological Mag. Jany. 1885 pp. 1–10; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxviii, pp. ix-xiii (1885); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xli, 37–9 (1885).

GOLD, Charles Emilius. Ensign 65 foot 20 March 1828; lieut. col. 30 Dec. 1845 to 15 June 1860; L.G. 27 Dec. 1868. d. Dover 29 July 1871 aged 68.

GOLD, William George. Second lieut. royal staff corps 7 April 1825; lieut. col. of 53 foot 26 July 1844, of 4 foot 8 Dec. 1848 to 7 Sep. 1852, when placed on h.p.; col. of 32 foot 28 Aug. 1865, of 53 foot 2 Feb. 1867 to death; L.G. 29 March 1868. d. Garthmyl hall, Montgomeryshire 26 Dec. 1868 aged 68.

GOLDFINCH, Sir Henry (son of Henry Goldfinch of Peckham, Surrey). b. London 1781; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 March 1790, col. 10 Jany. 1837, col. commandant 17 Feb. 1854 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852. d. 11 Upper Wimpole st. London 21 Nov. 1854.

GOLDIE, George. b. Mornay house, Edinburgh 25 Oct. 1784; ed. at Univ. of Edin. M.D. 1808; L.R.C.P. London 1812; practised in London 1812 at Warminster, at York 1815 to about 1849; phys. to York county hospital 1822–33; took charge of cholera hospital at York during epidemic of cholera 1831; took an active part in agitation for Catholic emancipation; contributed to British and Foreign Medical Review and medical journals. d. Sheffield 2 May 1853. J. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 510–13 (1885).

GOLDIE, George (son of the preceding). b. York 1828; ed. at St. Cuthbert’s coll. near Durham; pupil and afterwards partner of Messrs. Hatfield and Weightman of Sheffield, architects; practised in London; designed pro-cathedral at Kensington, cathedral at Sligo and many other Roman Catholic churches, convents, &c. in Great Britain and Ireland; A.R.I.B.A. d. 9 Kensington sq. London 1 March 1887.

GOLDIE, Sir George Leigh. Cornet 6 dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 11 foot 29 May 1835 to 26 Feb. 1841, when placed on h.p.; col. of 77 foot 22 Dec. 1854, of 35 foot 13 Feb. 1861 to death; general 6 Nov. 1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Claremont Southampton 26 March 1863 aged 72.

GOLDING, Benjamin. b. Essex; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ., M.D. 6 Dec. 1823; L.R.C.P. London 4 June 1825; physician to West London infirmary, founded the Charing Cross hospital which was the infirmary rebuilt and renamed 1831, director of it to death; published An historical account of St. Thomas’s hospital, Southwark 1819. d. The Boltons, West Brompton, London 21 June 1863 aged 69.

GOLDING, Richard. b. London 15 Aug. 1785; engraved B. West’s Death of Nelson, book plates for Don Quixote and Gil Blas, Sir T. Lawrence’s Princess Charlotte of Wales 1818, Westall’s Princess Victoria, W. Fowler’s Princess Victoria 1830 and Rubens’ St. Ambrose refusing Theodosius admission into the Church; commenced engraving Maclise’s A Peep into Futurity, for the Art Union 1842 which was still unfinished in 1852. d. in a poor lodging Stebbington st. St. Pancras, London 28 Dec. 1865. bur. Highgate cemetery, body exhumed Sep. 1866 on a suspicion that he had been poisoned by his doctor.

GOLDNEY, Philip (2 son of Thomas Goldney of Clifton). b. London 21 Nov. 1802; cadet H.E.I.C.S. 1821, capt. 11 June 1836; learned the native languages and Persian; collector and magistrate in Sind 1844; commissioner in charge of Fyzabad to 1857; lieut. col. 53 Bengal N.I. 1853–56, 22 Bengal N.I. 1856–57, 38 Bengal N.I. 1857 to death; shot by the mutineers on an island in the Gograh 9 June 1857.

GOLDSBROUGH, Richard. b. Shipley near Bradford, Yorks. 1821; wool merchant Bradford 1842; went to Adelaide, Australia, settled in Melbourne 1847 and became a dealer in wool, etc. 1848; in partnership with Edward Rowe and George Kirk 1853 as dealers in stations, stock and wool; amalgamated with Australian agency and banking corporation 1881 when the consolidated concern became a limited co. and himself chairman, capital 3 millions; steward of Victoria racing club from its foundation. d. Melbourne 8 April 1886.

GOLDSMID, Anna Maria (sister of the succeeding). Pupil of Thomas Campbell the poet, who gave her some of his manuscripts which she bequeathed to British Museum; gave large sums to charity, often anonymously; published many original pamphlets on education; translated L. Philippsohn’s The development of the religious idea in Judaism 1855 and J. Cohen’s The Deicides, Analysis of the life of Jesus 1872 and other books. d. 26 Cambridge sq. Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1889 aged 84.

GOLDSMID, Sir Francis Henry, 2 Baronet (2 son of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1 baronet 1778–1859). b. Spital sq. London 1 May 1808; barrister L.I. 31 Jany. 1833, bencher 11 Jany. 1858; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1858, the first Jew called to the English bar and the first Jewish Q.C. and bencher; pres. of senate of Univ. coll. London, where is portrait of him by R. Lehmann; M.P. for Reading 11 Jany. 1860 to death; founded Jews’ infant sch. 1841, now largest infant sch. in England; founded Anglo-Jewish Association 1871; author of many pamphlets. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 2 May 1878 from effects of an accident at Waterloo station same day. Memoir of Sir F. H. Goldsmid, by D. W. Marks and Albert LÖwy, 2 ed. (1882), portrait.

GOLDSMID, Frederick David. b. London 1812; M.P. for Honiton 12 July 1865 to death. d. 20 Portman sq. London 18 March 1866, personalty sworn under £400,000 23 June 1866.

GOLDSMID, Henry Edward (son of Edward Goldsmid of Upper Harley st. London). b. 9 May 1812; educ. Haileybury coll. where he learnt Persian and Hindustani; went to Bombay 1832; assistant revenue commissioner Tauna 1835 when he devised the revenue survey and assessment system which was applied to the whole of the lands in Bombay 1865–68 with great success; sec. to Bombay government in revenue department 1848 and chief sec. 1854. d. Cairo 3 Jany. 1855.

GOLDSMID, Sir Isaac Lyon, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Asher Goldsmid of Finsbury sq. London who d. 1 Nov. 1822). b. Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 13 Jany. 1778; member of firm of Mocatta and Goldsmid, bullion brokers; treasurer of Univ. coll. hospital 1839–57; created baronet 15 Oct. 1841, being the first Jew so created; created Baron de Goldsmid and Da Palmeira of Portugal 1846; endowed chair of geology in Univ. coll. London, where is portrait of him by B. R. Faulkner; F.R.S. 13 March 1828. d. St. John’s lodge, Regent’s park, London 27 April 1859. J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 249–56; N. H. Nixon’s History of North London hospital (1882), 16–18; Banker’s Mag. June 1859, pp. 375–82, July 1859, pp. 449–57, April 1860, pp. 220–4.

GOLDSMITH, George (son of John Goldsmith, paymaster R.N.) Entered navy 20 June 1821; captain 16 Sep. 1842; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1856–61; admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; granted Greenwich hospital pension 1866. d. 35 Victoria road, Old Charlton, Kent 2 July 1888 in 82 year.

GOLDSTUECKER, Theodor. b. KÖnigsberg, Prussia 18 Jany. 1821; Ph.D. KÖnigsberg 1840; came to England 1850; contributed to Chambers’ EncyclopÆdia 1862–68 and to Westminster Review; professor of Sanskrit in Univ. coll. London May 1852 to death; chief founder of Sanskrit Text Society 1866; pres. of Philological Soc. to death; author of On the MahÂbhÂrata 1868 and other books. d. 14 St. George’s sq. Primrose hill, London 6 March 1872. Goldstuecker’s Literary Remains 2 vols. (1879); Trubner’s Record vii, 109, 145 (1872).

GOLIGHTLY, Rev. Charles Pourtales (2 son of William Golightly of Ham, Surrey). b. 23 May 1807; educ. Eton and at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; C. of Penshurst, Kent 1828; C. of Littlemore, Oxford 1836; C. of Godalming, Surrey 1839–41; C. of Headington Quarry, Oxford 1849–58; C. of Marston, Ox. 1858–68; a prominent opponent of the ritualistic movement 1840; author of Look at home or a short and easy method with the Roman Catholics 1837; Brief remarks upon No. 90 of the Tracts for the Times 1841, and many other works against Ritualism. d. 6 Holywell st. Oxford 25 Dec. 1885. E. M. Goulburn’s Reminiscenses of C. P. Golightly (1886); Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 108–13 (1882).

GOLLOP, George Tilly (elder son of Thomas Gollop of Sherborne 1745–93). b. 11 Oct. 1791; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.; student of I.T. 1811; made a tour on the continent, riding from Holland to Vienna and on to Naples 1814; held the estate of Strode, Dorset 1793 to death 96 years; published a vol. of translations of several poems of Schiller, and translations of Eichhorn’s Introduction to the New Testament and Introduction to the Old Testament. d. Strode manor, Dorset 22 Feb. 1889.

GOMERSAL, Edward Alexander (son of a military officer). b. Gomersal near Leeds; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 16 Sep. 1811; spoke the first words upon boards of new T.R. Windsor; played Napoleon in The Battle of Waterloo at Astley’s about 1817, acted same character in every amphitheatre in Great Britain; proprietor with B. O. Conquest of Garrick theatre, Whitechapel to 4 Nov. 1846 when it was burned down; is referred to in the Bon Gaultier Ballads and The Newcomes. d. Leeds 19 Oct. 1862 aged 74. Era 26 Oct. 1862 p. 10, col. 4.

GOMM, Sir William Maynard (1 son of lieut. col. William Gomme, killed 1794). b. Barbadoes 10 Nov. 1784; gazetted ensign 9 regt. 24 May 1794; served in Holland 1799, Spain 1800, Hanover 1805, Baltic 1807, Peninsula 1808–9, 1810–14, at Quatre Bras and Waterloo 1815; lieut. col. of Coldstream guards 1836; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; commander in Jamaica 1839–41; governor of Mauritius 1842–49; col. of 13 foot 10 March 1846, of Coldstream guards 15 Aug. 1863 to death; commander in chief in India, Jany. 1851 to Dec. 1855, general 1854, field marshal 1 Jany. 1868; constable of Tower of London 31 Oct. 1872 to death; knight of St. Anne of Russia 1815, of St. Vladimir 1874; author of The story of Newcastle, Jamaica, etc. 1864; five Field-marshal Gomm scholarships founded at Keble coll. Ox. by the will of his widow who d. 30 Nov. 1877 leaving £15,000 for the purpose. He d. Brighton 15 March 1875. bur. Ch. Ch. Rotherhithe. I.L.N. lxi, 412, 414 (1872), portrait; Graphic xi, 315 (1875), portrait; Letters and Journals of Sir W. M. Gomm (1881), portrait.

Note.—The public house Sir William Gomm, 44 Abbeyfield road, Rotherhithe, London, is named after him.

GOMPERTZ, Benjamin (son of Mr. Gompertz, diamond merchant). b. Bury st. London 5 March 1779; a stock broker; president of Old Mathematical soc. of Crispin st. Spitalfields which became Astronomical soc. 1820, member of council 1821–31; F.R.S. 29 June 1819; F.R.A.S., member of council 1832, contributed to the complete catalogue of stars; actuary of Alliance British and Foreign assurance Co. 1824–48; propounded the law of human mortality 1825; author of The principles and application of imaginary quantities 2 vols. 1817–18; Hints on Porisms 1850. d. 1 Kennington terrace, Vauxhall, London 14 July 1865. Assurance Mag. April 1866, pp. 1–20; Walford’s Insurance Cyclop. v, 437–54 (1878).

GOMPERTZ, Lewis (younger brother of the preceding). Spent his life in enforcing kindness to animals; a strict vegetarian and would never ride in a coach; hon. sec. of soc. for prevention of cruelty to animals 1826–32; founded the Animals’ Friend soc. 1832; edited The Animals’ Friend or the Progress of Humanity 1846; invented shot proof ships, fortifications for reflecting the balls to the place fired from, a mechanical cure for apoplexy, and the expanding chuck which is now found attached to lathes in workshops; author of Mechanical inventions and suggestions on locomotion 1850; Fragments in defence of animals 1852. d. 5 Kennington oval, London. 2 Dec. 1861. Fragments in defence of animals by L. Gompertz (1852), portrait.

GOOCH, Sir Daniel, 1 Baronet. (3 son of John Gooch of Bedlington, Northumberland 1783–1833). b. Bedlington 24 Aug. 1816; chief locomotive engineer to Great Western Railway Company 1837–1864, chairman Nov. 1866 to death; M.P. for Cricklade 1865–85; comr. on Trades Union; Chairman of Great Eastern Steamship Co.; Chairman of Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company; one of purchasers of Great Eastern Steamship, with a view to her being employed in laying Atlantic cable, and this having been effected in 1866, created baronet 15 Nov. 1866, being first engineer made a baronet. d. Clewer park, Windsor 15 Oct. 1889. Biograph, March to April 1882 pp. 329–32; Touchstone 29 March 1879 pp. 1–2, portrait; Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxvi, 1390 (1879), portrait.

GOOCH, Sir Edward Sherlock, 6 Baronet. b. Holbecks, Suffolk 1802; M.P. for East Suffolk 19 Feb. 1846 to death; provincial grand master of freemasons 1851 to death; succeeded 18 Dec. 1851. d. Benacre hall, Suffolk 9 Nov. 1856.

GOOCH, Rev. John Henry. b. Suffolk; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, 14 wrangler 1834, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; assist. master Wakefield proprietory sch. 1838–40; master of Heath gr. sch. Halifax 1840–61; Inc. of Stainland near Halifax 1841–60; author of Church catechism expanded 1851. d. 22 July 1861 aged 60. T. Cox’s History of Heath gr. sch. (1879) 45, 77, portrait.

GOOCH, Thomas Longridge (eld. son of John Gooch). b. London 1 Nov. 1808; pupil of George Stephenson 1823–29; made working drawings for Liverpool and Manchester railway 1827–8, resident engineer on it at Liverpool 1829–30, had charge of the Dart locomotive on opening of the line 1830; resident engineer on London and Birmingham line 1833; with G. Stephenson joint principal engineer of Manchester and Leeds line 1839–41 and alone 1841–44; with G. Stephenson and G. P. Bidder engineer of Trent valley line 1845; retired from business 1851; as an engineer second only to the Stephensons and Brunel; M.I.C.E. 3 June 1845. d. Team lodge, Gateshead 23 Nov. 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxii, 300–8 (1883).

GOOCH, Sir Thomas Sherlock, 5 Baronet. b. 2 Nov. 1767; M.P. for Suffolk 1806–30; succeeded his father 7 April 1826; chairman of Suffolk quarter sessions to 1843. d. Benacre hall, Suffolk 18 Dec. 1851.

GOOD, Joseph Henry. b. Sambrook, Shropshire 18 Nov. 1775; articled to Sir John Sloane 1795–99; built Apps’ Court park, Surrey and Horndean, Hampshire; surveyor to Thavies estate, Holborn, and parish of St. Andrew’s, Holborn; surveyor to Armourers’ co. 1819, built new hall Coleman st. 1840; architect to Royal Pavilion, Brighton 1822, to the commissioners for building new churches 1826; clerk of works to the Tower, Royal Mint, Fleet and King’s bench prisons, etc. 1830 and Kensington palace 1831; F.R.I.B.A. 1834. d. Palace Green, Kensington 20 Nov. 1857.

GOOD, Thomas Sword. b. Berwick-upon-Tweed 4 Dec. 1789; a house painter, produced cheap portraits; a genre painter of domestic subjects; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 43 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1820–34; his chief paintings are Coast scene with a fisherman 1833, The Newspaper, No News, and Study of a boy, all in the National gallery; J. W. Barnes of Durham has a large collection of his works. d. in a house on the Quay walls, Berwick 15 April 1872.

GOODALL, Edward. b. Leeds 17 Sept. 1795; self-taught, from 1811 practised engraving and painting; commenced engraving Turner’s pictures 1823 and produced a long series; engraved Stanfield’s The Castle of Ischia and F. Goodall’s The Piper, for the Art Union of London; etched Maclise’s Shakspeare’s Seven Ages 1850; exhibited 2 engravings at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1822–41. d. 143 Hampstead road, London 11 April 1870.

GOODALL, Frederick Trevelyan (son of Frederick Goodall, R.A.) Student at R.A., gold medal for his picture The return of Ulysses 1869; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A. 1868–71. d. Capri, Italy from an accident 11 April 1871 aged 23.

GOODALL, Howard (brother of the preceding). Exhibited at R.A., Nydia in the house of Glaucus 1870 and Capri girls winnowing 1873. d. Cairo 17 Jany. 1874 aged 24.

GOODALL, Isabella. b. Liverpool 10 Aug. 1851; appeared at Royal amphitheatre, Liverpool 1865 in The Middy ashore; appeared in London at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April 1866 as Coralie in A winning hazard; burlesque actress at Strand theatre London several years. d. 124 Pentonville road, London 3 Feb. 1884. bur. Norwood cemetery 9 Feb. beside her mother, her sister Annie (actress d. 1 March 1877 aged 30), and her brother.

GOODALL, Walter (youngest son of Edward Goodall 1795–1870). b. 6 Nov. 1830; studied at Somerset house and Royal academy; Assoc. of Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1853, mem. 1862; exhibited 3 drawings at R.A. 1852 and works at Royal Manchester Institution; his Lottery Ticket shown at Philadelphia Centennial exhib. 1876; made drawings from pictures in Vernon gallery for Art Union; published Walter Goodall’s Rustic Sketches. d. Clapham near Bedford 14 May 1889.

GOODALL, William. Whip of the Belvoir fox hounds 1837–42, huntsman 1842 to death. d. The Kennels near Belvoir 17 May 1859. Scott and Sebright, By the Druid (1862) 408–11; Silk and Scarlet, By the Druid (1859) 372, portrait; Sporting Review xli, 398–400 (1859).

GOODE, John. Ensign 3 West India foot 5 Sep. 1811; lieut. 10 foot 10 Aug. 1826 to 20 Feb. 1835, captain on h.p. 20 Feb. 1835 to death; arrested at 218 Regent street, London 4 Nov. 1837 for making use of threatening gestures and language to Queen Victoria in the Birdcage walk same day, declared before the authorities that he was John the Second king of England, son of George iv. and Queen Caroline, and was born in Montague place, Blackheath; tried in Court of Queen’s Bench for using seditious language to the Queen and sent to Bethlehem hospital as insane 18 Nov. 1837, moved to Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum March 1864 where he d. from natural decay 10 Feb. 1883. Times 6, 7, 20 Nov. 1837.

GOODE, Very Rev. William (son of Rev. Wm. Goode 1762–1816, R. of St. Andrew’s and St. Ann’s, Blackfriars, London). b. 10 Nov. 1801; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, D.D. 1860; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1825–35; R. of St. Antholin’s, Watling st. 1835–49; R. of Allhallows, Thames st. 1849–56; Warburtonian lecturer 1853–57; R. of St. Margaret, Lothbury 1856–60; dean of Ripon 10 May 1860 to death; edited Christian Observer; author of A memoir of the Rev. W. Goode, 2 ed. 1828; A brief history of church rates, 2 ed. 1838; The divine rule of faith and practice 2 vols. 1842, new ed. 3 vols. 1853, and 6 other books; found dead in his bed at the Deanery, Ripon 13 Aug. 1868. I.L.N. liii, 187 (1868).

GOODENOUGH, James Graham (son of Rev. Edmund Goodenough 1785–1845, dean of Wells). b. Stoke hill near Guildford 3 Dec. 1830; ed. at Westminster; naval cadet 7 May 1844, captain 9 May 1863; captain of the Minotaur 1867–70; worked for the Daily News French peasant relief fund 1870; naval attachÉ to all maritime courts of Europe 1871–73; commodore of the Australian station 22 May 1873 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1875; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. on board the Pearl about 500 miles from Sydney 20 Aug. 1875 from arrow wounds received at Carlyon bay, island of Santa Cruz 12 Aug. bur. St. Leonard’s cemetery, north shore of Sydney harbour 24 Aug., bust by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe in painted hall Greenwich hospital; the ‘Goodenough royal naval home’ in Sydney was founded in his honour. Journal of Commodore Goodenough, edited with a memoir by his widow (1876), portrait; H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1880) 140–78; Graphic xi, 269 (1875), portrait.

GOODENOUGH, Ven. William (son of Rev. Edmund Goodenough, V. of Swindon, Wilts., who d. 8 Nov. 1807 aged 62). Ed. at Westminster; matric. at Ch. Ch. Ox. 9 June 1790 aged 17; kept a school at Ealing, Middlesex; V. of Warkworth, Northumberland 1811, of Mareham le Fen, Lincs. 1818 to death; archdeacon of Carlisle 20 June 1827 to death; V. of Great Salkeld, Cumberland 1827 to death. d. Mareham le Fen 13 Dec. 1854.

GOODEVE, Joseph (3 son of John Goodeve of Bury hall, Hants.) b. Gosport, Hants. 1801; barrister I.T. 28 Nov. 1829; wrote for Westminster Review and Monthly Mag.; professor of English law at Presidency coll. Calcutta 1860; master in equity of supreme court of Calcutta 1861; author of The law of evidence as administered in England and applied to India 1862. d. Cook’s Folly near Bristol 29 Jany. 1865. bur. Norwood cemetery, Surrey.

GOODEVE, Louis Arthur (son of the preceding). b. 11 Jany. 1841; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., junior student 1859–66; B.A. 1862; barrister M.T. 9 June 1865; practised at Calcutta; editor and sec. of Bengal Law Reports 1868–70 and 1873; superintendent of law and jurisprudence Presidency coll. Calcutta 1871; law lecturer Bristol Univ. coll. 1878–80; author of Railway passengers and railway companies 1877; Modern law of real property 1883, 2 ed. 1885; Modern law of personal property 1887 and other books. d. Clayton villa, Clifton park, Clifton 13 March 1888.

GOODFELLOW, Samuel. Second lieut. Bombay engineers 1795, col. 29 July 1825 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. 19 Fitzroy sq. London 14 June 1860.

GOODFORD, Rev. Charles Old (2 son of Rev. John Goodford of Chilton Cantelo, Somerset 1784–1835). b. Chilton Cantelo 15 July 1812; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., fellow to 1844; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1853; assistant master at Eton 1835, head master 1853–62, provost 27 Jany. 1862 to death; R. of Chilton Cantelo 1856 to death; edited P. Terentii Afri ComoediÆ 1854. d. The lodge, Eton 9 May 1884. Lyte’s Eton College (1875) 475–8, 517, 519; I.L.N. 17 May 1884 pp. 465, 475, portrait; Graphic 7 June 1884 pp. 546, 549, portrait.

GOODLAKE, Francis. Printer and publisher of The Times 1858–1882 when he retired on pension. d. Brixton 12 April 1890 in 68 year.

GOODLAKE, Gerald Littlehales (youngest son of T. M. Goodlake of Letcombe, Berkshire 1807–77). b. Wadley, Berkshire 14 May 1832; ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 21 foot 14 June 1850; ensign Coldstream guards 27 June 1851, major 14 Aug. 1872 to 7 Aug. 1875 when placed on h.p.; D.A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1855–1856; A.D.C. to the Queen 1869–1879; M.G. 11 Aug. 1879; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; one of the best all-round sportsmen of his time. d. Denham fishery, Uxbridge 5 April 1890. Baily’s Mag. xxxii, 373 (1878), portrait; Sporting Mirror ii, 197–8 (1881), portrait; Graphic 26 April 1890 p. 533, portrait.

GOODMAN, Sir George (son of Benjamin Goodman of Leeds, who d. 10 June 1848 aged 85). Woolstapler at Leeds and Bradford; mayor of Leeds 1836, 1847 and 9 Nov. 1850 to 20 March 1852; represented Leeds at Great Exhibition 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 Feb. 1852; M.P. for Leeds 1852–1857. d. Roundhay near Leeds 13 Oct. 1859 aged 67. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 477–80.

GOODSIR, John (eld. son of John Goodsir of Anstruther, Fife, surgeon). b. Anstruther 14 March 1814; ed. at St. Andrews and Univ. of Edin.; L.C.S. Edin. 1836, curator of Museum 1841–43; curator of Museum in Univ. of Edin. 1845–46; professor of anatomy in Univ. of Edin. 1846 to Dec. 1866; author of Anatomical and pathological observations 1845; conducted Annals of anatomy and physiology, Nos. 1–3, 1850–53. d. South Cottage, Wardie near Edinburgh 6 March 1867. J. Goodsir’s Anatomical memoirs, edited by W. Turner i, 1–191 (1868), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 14–16 (1868).

GOODWIN, Charles Wycliffe (eld. son of Charles Goodwin of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, solicitor). b. King’s Lynn 1817; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 14 Nov. 1848; edited the Literary Gazette 1871, The Parthenon 1872; assistant judge of supreme court for China and Japan 31 March 1865, acting judge 1869 and 22 May 1876 to death; wrote essays on Hieratic Papyri in Cambridge Essays 1858, and On the Mosaic Cosmogony in Essays and Reviews 1860. d. Shanghai 17 Jany. 1878.

GOODWIN, Josiah. Journalist in Devonshire; editor of Journal of Bath and West of England Soc. 1859–90, sec. 1866–83; assisted in editing Journal of Royal Agricultural Soc. 1863 etc. d. Bath 3 June 1890 aged 70. I.L.N. 14 June 1890 p. 741, portrait.

GOODWIN, Thomas (brother of William Goodwin, music librarian, d. 1 April 1876). b. London 1799; landed in New York 24 Aug. 1827; music librarian New York. d. New York 28 June 1886. O. Mason’s Sketches and Impressions from after dinner talk of T. Goodwin (1887) p. iii.

GOODWYN, Henry. 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 18 Dec. 1823, lieut. col. 5 Dec. 1848, col. commandant 3 Aug. 1855 to death; general 14 July 1871; author of Memoir on the Taperchain suspension bridge, Calcutta 1844; The last Adam 1868; The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ 1877. d. Bournemouth 8 Nov. 1886.

GOODWYN, Julius Edmund (son of Wildman Goodwyn of Blackheath). b. 21 Feb. 1824; ensign 41 foot 5 Jany. 1844, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to March 1866; brigadier general Bengal 14 March 1866 to 28 Feb. 1870; col. of 1 battalion Gloucestershire regiment 5 Nov. 1880, of 1 battalion Welsh regiment 20 Jany. 1883 to death; general 10 Jany. 1881; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; author of Antitypical parallels, or the kingdom of Israel and of Heaven, By Gershom 1866. d. Bath 4 March 1890.

GOOLD, Wyndham (youngest son of Thomas Goold of Dublin, master in chancery, who d. 16 July 1846). Ed. at Westminster school and Univ. of Dublin; called to Irish bar 1837; M.P. for co. Limerick 14 Dec. 1850 to death. d. London 27 Nov. 1854 in 40 year.

GORDON, Edward Strathearn Gordon, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Gordon, major 2 foot). b. Inverness 10 April 1814; ed. at royal academy, Inverness and Univ. of Edin.; LL.B. Glasgow and Edin.; called to bar in Scotland 1835; Q.C. 12 Nov. 1868; sheriff of Perthshire 26 July 1858 to 12 July 1866; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1866 to 28 Feb. 1867; lord advocate of Scotland 28 Feb. 1867 to Dec. 1868 and 26 Feb. 1874 to Oct. 1876; M.P. for Thetford 3 Dec. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868 when borough was disfranchised; contested Glasgow and Aberdeen univs. 1868, M.P. for these univs. 1869–76; dean of faculty of advocates 1869–74; P.C. 17 March 1874; lord of appeal in ordinary 6 Oct. 1876 to death; created Baron Gordon of Drumearn, co. Stirling 6 Oct. 1876. d. Brussels 21 Aug. 1879. Journal of jurisprudence xxiii, 541–2 (1879).

GORDON, Adam Lindsay (son of Capt. Adam D. Gordon). b. Fayal in the Azores 1833; educ. Cheltenham coll. and Woolwich; in the mounted police, South Australia 1853; a horse breaker; member of the house of assembly, Victoria 1865; livery stable keeper Ballarat 1867; a steeple chaser; settled at Brighton near Melbourne 1869; failed in securing reversion to Esselmont estate, Scotland 1869; author of Sea spray and smoke drift 1867; Bush ballads and galloping rhymes 1870; Ashtaroth, a dramatic lyric; shot himself on the beach at Brighton 24 June 1870. J. H. Ross’ Laureate of the Centaurs (1888), portrait; Poems ed. by Marcus Clarke (1887); Temple Bar, Feb. 1884 pp. 208–20.

GORDON, Alexander (2 son of David Gordon, inventor of system of compressing gas, who d. about 1830). b. New York 5 May 1802; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; manager of the portable gas works in London until they were abolished about 1827; constructed many lighthouses, especially in the colonies; designed and erected the original great sea-light in an iron tower at Morant point, Jamaica, the first of many of a similar character 1842; founded with Sir George Cayley and others the Polytechnic Institution, London 1838; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1827, M.I.C.E. 17 Feb. 1835; his widow Sarah Gordon granted civil list pension of £50, 20 Dec. 1872; author of An historical and practical treatise upon elemental locomotion 1832, 3 ed. 1836 and other books. d. Sandown, Isle of Wight 14 May 1868.

GORDON, Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff- 3 Baronet (elder son of Sir Wm. Duff-Gordon, 2 baronet 1772–1823). b. Great Marylebone st. London 3 Feb. 1811; ed. at Eton; a senior clerk in Treasury 1854–56; sec. to chancellor of Exchequer 1854; a comr. of Board of Inland Revenue 1856; asst. gentleman usher of privy chamber to death; translated Von Ense’s Sketches of German life 1847, A. Weill’s Village tales from Alsatia 1847; translated with his wife Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, L. Ranke’s Memoirs of the house of Brandenburg and history of Prussia 3 vols. 1849. d. 4 Upper Eccleston st. Belgrave sq. London 27 Oct. 1872.

GORDON, Sir Alexander Hamilton- (2 son of 4 Earl of Aberdeen 1784–1860). b. 11 Dec. 1817; ed. at Harrow; ensign Grenadier guards 2 May 1834, captain 10 April 1849 to 17 Oct. 1856; D.Q.M.G. at head quarters 1855–60; brigadier general Dublin district 1861–66; commanded Bombay division 1867–70; col. 100 foot 5 July 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; M.P. for East Aberdeenshire 1875–85; author of Remarks on national defences, volunteers and rifles 1853; An enquiry into the organization of the Army 1875. d. 34 Lennox gardens, London 18 May 1890. Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.

GORDON, Archibald. Ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1834; assistant surgeon in army 28 June 1836, surgeon major 1854; principal medical officer of 2nd division in Crimea 1854–55; inspector general 9 March 1867 to 1 July 1870; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; hon. surgeon to Queen 9 Aug. 1871 to death. d. West Hoathly, Sussex 3 Aug. 1886.

GORDON, Charles (son of Francis Grant, captain R.N., who assumed name of Gordon 1768 and d. 1803). Entered navy June 1796; captain 21 Dec. 1807; C.B. 4 July 1840; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 20 Jany. 1858. d. Duke st. Bath 3 Oct. 1860 aged 79.

GORDON, Charles. Entered navy 19 June 1810; captain 17 April 1828; retired admiral 24 April 1865. d. Huntly, Aberdeenshire 19 May 1876.

GORDON, Charles George (4 son of lieut. general Henry William Gordon d. 1865). b. Woolwich 28 Jany. 1833; 2 lieut. R.E. 23 June 1852; lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death; served in Crimea 1854–56; went to China June 1860; commander of the ‘Ever Victorious Army’ in China 1863–64 when in 33 engagements he stamped out the Taiping rebellion, received from emperor yellow jacket and peacock’s feather of a mandarin of first class, always known afterwards as Chinese Gordon; hon. C.B. 9 Dec. 1864; governor of equatorial provinces of Central Africa where he suppressed slavery 1874–76; created Pasha by Khedive of Egypt 1877; governor general of the Soudan, Darfour, the Equatorial provinces and the Red Sea littoral 1877–79; taken prisoner by King John of Abyssinia, Nov. 1879; private sec. to marquis of Ripon viceroy of India, May 1880; adviser of Chinese government in their relations with Russia, Sep. 1880; commander of troops in Mauritius 1881–82; M.G. 23 March 1882; commandant of colonial forces Cape of Good Hope 1882; author of Colonel Gordon in Central Africa 1881; Reflections in Palestine 1883; General Gordon’s Letters from Crimea, Danube and Armenia 1884; sent by the English government to the Soudan to withdraw the garrisons and evacuate the country, arrived at Khartoum 18 Feb. 1884, besieged by the Mahdi 12 March; killed in the storming of Khartoum 26 Jany. 1885, monu. by Hamo Thornycroft erected in Trafalgar sq. 15 Oct. 1888, Gordon Boys’ Home for homeless boys founded 1889. A. E. Hake’s Journals at Khartoum of C. G. Gordon (1885); A. Forbes’ Chinese Gordon (1886), portrait; Events in life of C. G. Gordon, By Sir H. W. Gordon (1886); Letters of C. G. Gordon (1888); Chesney’s Essays in modern military biography (1874) 163–213; D. C. Boulger’s China iii, 578–628 (1884), portrait.

GORDON, Charles William. b. 19 March 1817; captain Madras cavalry; contested Berwick-on-Tweed, March 1857; M.P. for Berwick-on-Tweed, April 1859 to death. d. Pall Mall, London 15 June 1863.

GORDON, Cosmo (youngest son of Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville 1739–92). b. 28 Nov. 1777; ensign 71 foot 6 Dec. 1792; major 94 foot 12 Feb. 1807 to 20 July 1809; lieut. col. 63 foot 20 July 1809 to 1810 when placed on h.p.; granted service reward 1 July 1851; general 20 June 1854. d. Exton, Hants. 7 March 1867.

GORDON, Douglas William Cope (3 son of 10 Marquis of Huntley 1792–1863). b. 11 Oct. 1851; lieut. Coldstream Guards 1871–1880; contested Hunts. 1874; M.P. for West Aberdeenshire 1876–80, for Hunts. 1880–85. d. Green Park chambers, 90 Piccadilly, London 4 Aug. 1888.

GORDON, Elizabeth, Duchess of Gordon (dau. of Alexander Brodie, M.P. Elgin 1796–1802. d. 15 Jany. 1812). b. London 20 June 1794; owner of great wealth on father’s death 1812. (m. 11 Dec. 1813 George Gordon, marquis of Huntley, who became 5 duke of Gordon 1827 and d. 28 May 1836); the unblushing vice she found in high quarters led her to make a renunciation of the world 1826; left the episcopal ch. and joined the Free ch. of Scotland and held an important position in the evangelical party 1847; a great patron of open air preaching. d. Huntly lodge, Strathbogie 31 Jany. 1864. A. M. Stuart’s Life of duchess of Gordon (1865), portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 271–78, portrait.

GORDON, Gabriel. Ensign 60 foot 6 Jany. 1781, lieut. col. 9 March 1802 to 4 Jany. 1808 when placed on h.p.; col. 91 foot 19 April 1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846. d. Higher Ardwick lodge near Manchester 7 Aug. 1855 aged 92.

GORDON, George. b. Lucan co. Dublin 25 Feb. 1806; learnt gardening under his father 1820; with J. Colvill, King’s road, Chelsea 1827; on staff of Horticultural Soc. Chiswick 18 Feb. 1828, foreman of the arboretum to his decease; A.L.S. 16 Feb. 1841; author with R. Glendenning of The Pinetum, 1858, supplement 1862, 2 ed. 1875, New ed. 1880. d. Kew 11 Oct. 1879; his herbarium purchased by Sir J. Hooker and given to royal gardens, Kew. Gardener’s Chronicle xii, 569 (1879).

GORDON, George Huntly (son of Pryse Lockhart Gordon). educ. for the Scottish church; licensed to preach; transcribed manuscript of Waverley novels for the press in order that the secret of the authorship might not be betrayed; Sir Walter Scott wrote two sermons for him published under title of Religious discourses, By A Layman 1828, preface signed W.S. which Gordon sold for £250; clerk in the treasury, clerk in government stationery office 30 years; contributed much to Notes and Queries. d. Inverness 27 Dec. 1868 aged 72.

GORDON, George Thomas. (2 son of Samuel Gordon, captain R.N.) b. 1807; entered navy 5 March 1818; captain 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 28 Oct. 1864; retired 1 April 1870; admiral 1 Aug. 1877; K.H. 1837. d. Ingleden, Kent 30 July 1887.

GORDON, Henry (brother of Charles Gordon who d. 3 Oct. 1860). Entered navy 18 May 1791; captain 8 April 1805; admiral on h.p. 21 Jany. 1854; mayor of Bath twice. d. Nelson place, Bath 14 Sep. 1855.

GORDON, Sir Henry Percy, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir James W. Gordon 1772–1851). b. 52 Upper Seymour st. London 1806; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., fellow 1830; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 5 May 1831; F.R.S. 9 Dec. 1830. d. Blackhall, Aberdeenshire 29 July 1876.

GORDON, Henry William. Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; col. commandant 22 Feb. 1863 to death; L.G. 19 May 1863. d. Southampton 19 Sep. 1865 aged 79.

GORDON, Sir Henry William (brother of Charles George Gordon 1833–85). b. Blackheath, Kent 18 July 1818; ensign 59 foot Aug. 1835; entered ordnance department 1855; controller general Jany. 1870; commissary general Nov. 1875 to 9 July 1878 when he retired; C.B. 22 Jany. 1857, K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of Events in the life of Charles George Gordon 1886. d. Oat hall, Hayward’s heath, Sussex 22 Oct. 1887. Graphic 26 Nov. 1887 pp. 581–82, portrait.

GORDON, Sir James Alexander. (eld. son of Charles Gordon of Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire). b. Kildrummie castle, Aberdeen 1782; entered navy 25 Nov. 1793; captain 16 May 1805; lost a leg at capture of French frigate “La Pomone” at Pelagosa 29 Nov. 1811; governor of royal naval hospital Plymouth 1827–32; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1832–37; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 1 July 1840, governor 17 Oct. 1853 to death; admiral 21 Jany. 1854; admiral of the Fleet 30 Jany. 1868 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1851, G.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Greenwich hospital 8 Jany. 1869. Macmillan’s Mag. xix, 353–54 (1869); I.L.N. liv, 74, 165, 166 (1869), portrait.

GORDON, James Alexander. b. Middlesex; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 24 June 1814; established The Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and Surgery 1819, edited it; L.R.C.P. 16 April 1821, fellow 9 July 1836, Censor 1838; Assist. physician to London hospital 18 July 1827, physician 18 Nov. 1828 to Dec. 1844; retired from practice and lived at Dorking about 1846 to death; F.R.S. 2 April 1835. d. Dorking 18 April 1872 aged 78. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians (1878) iii, 232.

GORDON, Sir James Davidson (son of Evelyn M. Gordon of the Bengal C.S.) Entered Bengal C.S. 1854; private sec. to governor general of India Jany. 1866; resident Mysore and chief comr. of Coorg 1881–83 when he retired; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1881. d. 31 St. James’s st. London 27 June 1889 aged 54. bur. Aston ch. near Knebworth 4 July.

GORDON, Sir James Willoughby, 1 Baronet (brother of Charles Gordon, who d. 3 Oct. 1860). b. 21 Oct. 1772; ensign 66 foot 17 Oct. 1783; lieut. col. royal African corps 13 June 1808, col. 25 July 1810 to 27 Nov. 1815; Q.M.G. in the Peninsula 1811–12; Q.M.G. at head quarters 1812 to death; col. of 85 foot 27 Nov. 1815, of 23 foot 23 April 1823 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; created baronet 5 Dec. 1818; G.C.H. 1825; G.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831; F.R.S. 11 June 1801. d. his residence near royal hospital, Chelsea 24 Jany. 1851.

GORDON, John (brother of 4 Earl of Aberdeen 1784–1860). b. 1792; captain R.N. 31 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 23 March 1863. d. 28 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 11 Nov. 1869.

GORDON, Sir John (son of Samuel Gordon of Clonmel, co. Tipperary). b. Clonmel 1798; general medical practitioner at Cork 1820 to death; mayor of Cork 1855; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland 1855. d. Cork 29 Jany. 1871.

GORDON, John Shepheard. Publisher of The Record more than 50 years. d. 1 Albert road, Crouch hill near London 31 Oct. 1884 aged 76.

GORDON, Sir John Watson- (eld. son of James Watson, captain R.A.) b. Edinburgh 1788; leading portrait painter in Scotland 1823 to death; exhibited 123 portraits at R.A. London 1827–64; assumed name of Watson-Gordon by which he is always known; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 11 Feb. 1851; pres. of R.S.A. March 1850 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; limner to the Queen for Scotland 1850 to death. d. Catherine bank house, Edinburgh 1 June 1864, the Watson-Gordon professorship of fine art instituted in Univ. of Edin. 1879. Sandby’s Royal Academy ii, 287–9 (1862); Redgrave’s Century of Painters ii, 76–8 (1866); I.L.N. xviii, 219 (1851), portrait.

GORDON, Sir John William (elder son of Thomas Gordon of Harperfield, Lanarkshire who d. 1832). b. 1814; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Dec. 1833; commanded R.E. in Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. R.E. 1856–66; A.D.C. to the Queen 1855–66; D.A.G. at head quarters 1856–61; M.G. 3 Aug. 1866; inspector general of R.E. 1 June 1869 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1857; cut his throat at house of lieut. col. Hutchinson, Golfston, Westward Ho. Devon 8 Feb. 1870; full length portrait in head-quarter messroom of R.E. at Chatham. Chesney’s Essays in modern military biography (1874) 154–62. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi, 241–5 (1871); I.L.N. lvi, 211 (1870).

GORDON, Joseph. b. 1836; borough surveyor of Carlisle; designed many plans for draining large towns in North of England and Scotland; designed and carried out sewerage of Frankfort-on-Main 1886 and of other foreign cities; surveyor of Leicester 1880 where he greatly reduced the death rate; engineer to London county council 9 July 1889 to death; A.I.C.E. 1862; M.I.C.E. 1874. d. in an omnibus outside Eyre Arms tavern St. John’s Wood, London 9 Nov. 1889. bur. Leicester cemetery 13 Nov.

GORDON, Lady Lucy Duff- (only child of John Austin 1790–1859). b. Queen sq. Westminster 24 June 1821; left Unitarian ch. for ch. of England 1837. (m. 16 May 1840 Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon, bart. 1811–72); intimate with Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot Warburton and others; visited Heinrich Heine in Paris 1854; lived in Egypt 1862 to decease; translated many works from German and French; author of Letters from the Cape in Galton’s Vacation Tourist 1862–63, pp. 119–222; Letters from Egypt 1865. d. Cairo 14 July 1869. Lady Duff-Gordon’s Last letters from Egypt with a memoir by her daughter Mrs. Ross (1875) i-xl, portrait; Macmillan’s Mag. Sep. 1869 pp. 457–62; Good Words (1875) pp. 637–40.

GORDON, Rev. Osborne (2 son of George Gordon of Broseley, Salop). b. Broseley 21 April 1813; educ. Bridgnorth sch. and Christ Church, Oxford; double first class in classics and mathematics; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1847; rhetoric reader to university 1845 and Greek reader 1846; proctor 1846–47; censor Christ Church 1846; university examiner 1848–52; select preacher 1849 and 1862; member hebdomadal council 1854, 1857; Prince of Wales became his pupil at Christ Church 1859; member of Oxford univ. commission 1877; R. of Easthampstead, Berks. 1860 to death; author of Eusebii Pamphili historiÆ ecclesiasticÆ Annotationes variorum 1842; Considerations on improvement of examination statute 1847. d. Easthampstead 25 May 1883. G. Marshall’s Osborne Gordon (1885) pp. 1–72, with portrait.

GORDON, Rev. Robert. b. Glencairn, Dumfriesshire 5 May 1786; educ. Edin. univ. to 1809 and at Marischal coll. Aberdeen D.D. 1823; presbyterian minister at Kinfauns, Perthshire 1816, at St. Cuthbert’s chapel of ease, Edin. 1821, at Hope park chapel of ease 1824, at New North ch. 1825, at the High ch. 1830; moderator of general assembly 20 May 1841; joined Free ch. and was minister of Free High ch. Edin. 1843 to death; invented a self registering hygrometer; author of articles Euclid, geography and meteorology in Edinburgh EncyclopÆdia; wrote Sermons 1825; Christ as made known to the Ancient Church 4 vols. 1854–55. d. 14 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 21 Oct. 1853. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) pp. 309–316; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) p. 19–21, portrait.

GORDON, Samuel Enderby (2 son of Henry Wm. Gordon, col. commandant R.A. who d. 19 Sep. 1865 aged 79). b. 14 Nov. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 June 1844; col. 23 Dec. 1875; director of artillery studies at Woolwich 1 May 1871 to 31 Oct. 1877; L.G. 23 May 1882; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 Nov. 1882; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Brook lodge, The Park, Cheltenham 5 Feb. 1883.

GORDON, William (2 son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo 1764–91). b. 1785; midshipman R.N. 2 July 1797; captain 12 March 1810; V.A. 11 Feb. 1854: commander-in-chief at the Nore 1 July 1854 to 1 July 1857; M.P. for Aberdeenshire 1820–54; a lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 17 Feb. 1846. d. Exmouth 3 Feb. 1858.

GORDON, William. b. 26 June 1821; ensign 17 foot 20 July 1838; lieut. col. 15 Jany. 1861 to 1 April 1873; lieut. col. brigade depot 1 April 1873 to 14 April 1875 when placed on h.p.; A.A.G. 1 April 1870 to 31 March 1873; L.G. 29 April 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. while grouse shooting on the hill of Correen, Aberdeenshire 14 Aug. 1883.

GORDON, William Alexander. Ensign 112 foot 2 Oct. 1794; captain 50 foot 23 Oct. 1806 to 26 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; colonel 54 foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. d. Nairn, Scotland 10 Aug. 1856 aged 87.

GORE, Augustus Frederick (only son of Edward Gore 1797–1879, captain R.N.) b. 1 Feb. 1826; colonial sec. Barbadoes 1867–74; lieut. governor of Tobago 29 Sep. 1877, of St. Vincent 5 Aug. 1880 to 1886; F.G.S. d. 21 Sep. 1887.

GORE, Catherine Grace Frances (dau. of C. Moody of East Retford, Nottinghamshire, wine merchant). b. East Retford 1799. (m. 15 Feb. 1823 Charles Arthur Gore, lieut. and capt. 1 life guards, d. 1846). Resided in France 1832–35; her dramas The School for Coquettes produced at Haymarket theatre 1831 and Quid pro Quo or the Days of Dupes, a prize drama, at Haymarket 1844; author of Theresa Marchmont, or the Maid of Honour 1824; Manners of the day, or Women as they are 3 vols. 1830, greatly praised by Geo. IV.; Mothers and daughters 3 vols. 1831 anon.; Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb 3 vols. 1841 anon.; The Royal Favourite 3 vols. 1845 and 65 other works. d. Linwood, Lyndhurst, Hampshire 29 Jany. 1861. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 7 Feb. New Monthly mag. xlix, pt. i, 434–35 (1837), portrait; I.L.N. 16 Feb. 1861 p. 147, portrait; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, i, 232–39 (1844).

Note.—She was a ward of Sir John Dean Paul, her novel The Banker’s Wife 1843 was dedicated to him, which is very curious as in it is described a swindling banker just like he turned out to be in 1855 when she lost £20,000.

GORE, Sir Charles Stephen (4 son of 2 Earl of Arran 1734–1809). b. 26 Dec. 1793; cornet 16 light dragoons 21 Oct. 1808; served in Peninsula and at Waterloo 1811–15; col. of 91 foot 8 Aug. 1855, of 6 foot 9 March 1861 to death; general Feb. 1863; lieut. governor of Chelsea hospital Dec. 1868 to death; C.B. 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860, G.C.B. 13 March 1867; K.H. 1836. d. Chelsea hospital 4 Sep. 1869. Register and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p. 198.

GORE, John. Entered navy Sep. 1797; captain 27 July 1825; retired admiral 15 Dec. 1863. d. 9 York place, Clifton 7 Dec. 1869 aged 85.

GORE, Montague (eld. son of Rev. Charles Gore of Barrow court, Somerset, who d. 21 April 1841). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 8 May 1818 aged 18; student of L.I. 1821; M.P. for Devizes 1832–34, for Barnstaple 1841–47; author of 20 pamphlets on political and social subjects; translated Valentini’s Description of the seat of war in European Turkey 1854. d. Chapel place, Vere st. London 5 Oct. 1864.

GORE, Robert (brother of 6 Earl of Arran 1801–84). b. 5 May 1810; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; captain R.N. 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for New Ross 1841–47; chargÉ d’affaires and consul general at Monte Video 23 Oct. 1846, at Buenos Ayres 29 Aug. 1851 to death. d. Monte Video 4 Aug. 1854.

GORE-LANGTON, William Henry. b. London 1802; M.P. for Bristol 1852–65. d. 2 Prince’s Gate, London 16 May 1875.

GORE-LANGTON, William Henry Powell. b. Burdrop, Wilts. 25 July 1824; M.P. for West Somerset 1851–59 and 1863 to death. d. Newton park near Bath 11 Dec. 1873.

GORHAM, Rev. George Cornelius (son of George James Gorham of St. Neots, Hunts, merchant). b. St. Neots 21 Aug. 1787; ed. at St. Neots and Queen’s coll. Cam., fellow 1809–27; 3rd wrangler and 2nd Smith’s prizeman 1808; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1820; C. of Beckenham, Kent 1814–18; C. of Clapham, Surrey 1818–27; C. of St. Mary’s chapel, Maidenhead 1840–42; C. of Fawley near Henley 1843–46; V. of St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall 1846–50; presented by Lord Chancellor Cottenham to vicarage of Brampford Speke near Exeter 2 Nov. 1847, but the Bishop of Exeter refused to institute him on account of his views on baptismal regeneration, the result was more than 2½ years’ litigation at end of which Gorham was instituted by Sir H. J. Fust, judge of the court of arches; author of: The history and antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neots 2 vols. 1820 and many other books. d. Brampford Speke 19 June 1857; Bentley’s Miscellany xxvii, 612–16 (1850), portrait; I.L.N. 25 May 1850 p. 373, portrait.

GORING, Sir Harry Dent, 7 Baronet. b. Devonshire place, London 30 Dec. 1801; M.P. for Shoreham 1832–41; succeeded 26 March 1844; sheriff of Anglesea 1848. d. Hotel Windsor, Rue Rivoli, Paris 19 April 1859.

GORMANSTON, Edward Anthony John Preston, 1 Baron (eld. child of 12 Viscount Gormanston 1775–1860). b. Dublin 3 June 1796; sheriff of co. Dublin 1845; created baron Gormanston of Whitewood co. Meath in peerage of U.K. 8 Dec. 1868. d. Gormanston castle, Balbriggan 28 Sep. 1876.

GORRIE, Rev. Peter Douglas. b. Glasgow 21 April 1813; went to U.S. of A. 1820; minister of Methodist Episcopal church; member of New York conference 1836 to death; author of The churches and sects in the United States, New York 1850; Episcopal methodism as it was and is 1852; Black River Conference memorial 2 vols. 1852–81 and other books. d. Potsdam, New York 12 Sep. 1884.

GORRINGE, Henry Honeychurch (son of Rev. Mr. Gorringe of the Church of England). b. Barbadoes 11 Aug. 1841; a common sailor in the U.S. Federal navy 1862; commanded sloop Portsmouth 1869–71; transported from Alexandria to New York an Egyptian obelisk 1879–80, erected it in Central Park, N.Y. 1880, total expense was 103,732 dollars; formed American shipbuilding co.; author of Egyptian obelisks, New York 1882, Another ed. 1885. d. New York 7 July 1885. bur. at Sparkhill on the Hudson.

GORTON, Sandford. Established the Astronomical Register Jany. 1863 and edited it to 1872, printed all the first volume himself at his own private printing press, Stamford villa, Downs Road, Clapton where he established an observatory; F.R.A.S. 8 June 1860. d. 38 Pembury road, Clapton 14 Feb. 1879 in 56 year. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xl, 194 (1880).

GOSFORD, Archibald Acheson, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 Earl of Gosford 1776–1849). b. Portland place, London 20 Aug. 1806; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828; M.P. for Armagh 1830–47; col. of Armagh militia 1834; created Baron Acheson of Clancairney, co. Armagh 18 Sep. 1847; succeeded 27 March 1849; K.P. 1855. d. 59 Grosvenor st. London 15 June 1864.

GOSLING, William Clarke Francis. b. 9 Aug. 1822; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 11 June 1840; A.A.G. R.A. Madras 1868–73; col. R.A. 1 Aug. 1872 to death; L.G. 12 May 1882; hon. general 31 Dec. 1883. d. Folkestone 14 June 1885.

GOSS, Most Rev. Alexander. b. Ormskirk, Lancs. 5 July 1814; ed. at St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw 1827–39; studied at English coll. Rome 1839–42; vice pres. of St. Edward’s coll. Everton, Liverpool 16 Jany. 1843 (date of opening) to 21 June 1853; bishop of Gerra in partibus. and co-adjutor bishop of Liverpool 29 July 1853, bishop 25 Jany. 1856 to death, consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman 25 Sep. 1853; edited for Chetham Soc. Abbot’s Journal and The trials at Manchester in 1694, 1864, and for Manx Soc. The Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys 2 vols. 1874. d. St. Edward’s college 3 Oct. 1872. bur. St. Sepulchre’s cemetery, Ford 8 Oct. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 535–40 (1885); Brady’s Episcopal Succession iii, 418–22 (1877).

GOSS, Sir John (son of Joseph Goss of Fareham, Hants., organist). b. Fareham 27 Dec. 1800; chorister of chapel royal, London 1811–16: pupil of Thomas Attwood 1816; organist of St. Luke’s, Chelsea 9 Jany. 1825; professor of harmony Royal Academy 1827; organist to St. Paul’s 1838, resigned 1872; composer to the chapel royal 1856; knighted at Windsor Castle 19 March 1872 for his anthem on Prince of Wales’ recovery “The Lord is my strength”; entertained at a banquet at Albion tavern, London 17 April 1872; Mus. D. of Cambridge 1876; writer of ‘Cantate Domino’ a canon sung at meeting of Concentores Sodales 13 Feb. 1824, ‘Have mercy on me’ an anthem 1833, ‘If we believe that Jesus died’ anthem for funeral of D. of Wellington 1852; author of Introduction to Harmony 1833; edited Sacred Minstrel 3 vols. 1833; ed. with W. Mercer The Church Psalter with appropriate chants and tunes 1855, ten editions. d. 15 Clarewood ter. Lambeth road, Brixton Rise 10 May 1880, his memorial tablet in crypt of St. Paul’s was designed by John Belcher, unveiled 10 May 1886. W. A. Barrett’s English church composers (1882) 173–8.

GOSSE, Emily (dau. of Wm. Bowes of Boston, Mass.) b. London 9 Nov. 1806; one of the earliest workers in the East End of London; author of Abraham and his children 1855 and of a series of popular religious tracts; author with P. H. Gosse of Seaside Pleasures 1853, anon. (m. 1848 Philip Henry Gosse, he d. 1888). d. Barnsbury, London 9 Feb. 1857. Memorials of Mrs. Gosse, By P. H. Gosse (1857); Tell Jesus, recollections of E. Gosse, By A. Shipton (1858).

GOSSE, Philip Henry (son of Thomas Gosse of Worcester, miniature painter 1765–1844). b. Worcester 6 April 1810; ed. at Poole and Blandford; lived in Newfoundland 1827–35; collected birds and insects in Jamaica for British Museum 1844–46; lived at St. Marychurch, Torquay 1857 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; author of The Canadian Naturalist 1840; The Aquarium 1854; Omphalos 1857; Actinologia Britannica 1860; A year at the shore 1865 and 30 other books. d. Sandhurst villa, St. Marychurch, Torquay 23 Aug. 1888. I.L.N. 8 Sep. 1888 p. 279, portrait; Graphic 22 Sep. 1888 p. 314, 320, portrait.

GOSSELIN, Gerard (3 son of Joshua Gosselin of St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey 1739–1813). b. St. Peter’s Port 4 Feb. 1769; ensign 34 foot 27 Sep. 1787; captain 2 life guards 6 June 1794; governor of Halifax 1815; general 23 Nov. 1841. d. Mount Ospringe, Faversham, Kent 11 June 1859.

GOSSELIN, Sir Thomas Le Marchant (brother of the preceding). b. St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey 7 May 1765; entered navy 2 Aug. 1778; captain 23 July 1795; received thanks from both Houses of Parliament 1809 for embarking British army after battle of Corunna; admiral 23 Nov. 1841. d. Jersey 27 Nov. 1857. bur. Bengeo church, Herts.

GOSSET, Henry (2 son of Matthew Gosset of Bagot, Jersey, d. 1843). Entered navy 15 June 1809; captain 1 Jany. 1829; admiral on h.p. 12 Sep. 1865. d. Old Quebec st. Portman sq. London 1 March 1877 aged 82.

GOSSET, Rev. Isaac (eld. son of Rev. Isaac Gosset, D.D., F.R.S., who d. 1812). b. 1783; ed. at Exeter coll. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; C. of Windsor 1809–14; V. of Datchet 1814–21; chaplain to royal household Windsor Castle 1818 to death; V. of New Windsor 1821 to death. d. Windsor? 11 Feb. 1855. G.M. April 1855 p. 435.

GOSSET, Montague (2 son of Daniel Gosset of Tanner’s End, Edmonton). b. 1 July 1792; ed. at Broxbourne; entered navy Nov. 1806; apprenticed to Mr. Stocker of Guy’s hospital 1809–14; M.R.C.S. 1814, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; practised in city of London 1820 to death; communicated to the profession the only case of renal aneurism then detected 1829. d. 40 Broad st. buildings, city of London 21 Oct. 1854. G.M. xlii, 633–5 (1854).

GOSSET, Sir Ralph Allen (only son of Sir William Gosset, serjeant at arms 1835 to death 27 March 1848). Assistant serjeant at arms to the Queen, July 1836, deputy serjeant April 1854, serjeant at arms in ordinary 5 April 1875, retired Aug. 1885; had to employ force to prevent Mr. Bradlaugh re-entering the house 3 Aug. 1881; K.C.B. 11 Aug. 1885. d. The Wick, Richmond hill 27 Nov. 1885 aged 76. I.L.N. lxxxvii, 157, 582 (1885), 2 portraits; Times 28 Nov. 1885 p. 10, 3 Dec. p. 8; Guardian 2 Dec. 1885 p. 1811.

GOTCH, Rev. Frederic William. b. Kettering 1807; pastor of baptist chapel at Boxmoor 1836–45; classical and mathematical tutor at Bristol college 1845, pres. 1868–82, hon. pres. 1882 to death; B.A. Dublin 1839, M.A. 1842, LL.B. and LLD. 1859; member of Old Testament revision committee; author of Revised English Bible, Genesis to Deuteronomy 1877; edited A supplement to Tischendorf’s Reliquiae ex incendio ereptae codicis Cottoniani 1881. d. 21 Pembroke road, Clifton 17 May 1890 in 83 year. I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p. 680, portrait; Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.

GOTT, Joseph. b. Calverley near Leeds 1785; student of R. Academy, gold medallist for group of Jacob wrestling with the angel 1819; his namesake Benjamin Gott sent him to Rome where he lived nearly 40 years; exhibited 30 sculptures at R.A. and 7 at B.I. 1820–48; his principal works were executed for Armley house and ch. Leeds, the residence of his patron B. Gott. d. Rome Jany. 1860.

GOUDY, Rev. Alexander Porter (son of Andrew Goudy, presbyterian minister). b. Ballywalter, co. Down, Feb. 1809; educ. Belfast coll. 1823; assist. presbyterian minister Strabane 1831 and minister 1833 to death; engaged in controversy with Archibald Boyd, afterwards dean of Exeter, on the merits of episcopacy 1839; aided in passing Marriages, Ireland, Act 7 & 8 Vict. c. 81, 1843; D.D. of Jefferson coll. U.S.A. 1851; moderator of general assembly of his ch. 1857; author of Worship of the Presbyterian church 1839. d. Dublin 14 Dec. 1858.

GOUGH, Hugh Gough, 1 Viscount (4 son of George Gough of Woodstown, co. Limerick 1751–1836). b. Woodstown 3 Nov. 1779; lieut. 78 highlanders 6 June 1795; served at Cape of Good Hope 1795, in West Indies 1796–1803, in Peninsula 1808–13 twice severely wounded; in Ireland 1819–26, in command of Mysore division of Madras army 1837–41; commander of troops in China 1841; commander in chief Madras 1841; commander in chief in India 11 Aug. 1843; routed the Mahratta army at Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843; defeated the Sikhs at Mudki 18 Dec. 1845, at Ferozeshah 21–22 Dec. 1845, at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846, at Ramnuggar 22 Nov. 1848, at Chillianwallah 13 Jany. 1849 and at Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849; col. 87 foot 15 March 1844, general 20 June 1854; col. in chief of 60 royal rifles 28 Jany. 1854 to death; col. royal horse guards 29 June 1855 to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; knighted at Carlton house 4 Dec. 1815; C.B. 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831, G.C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; created a baronet 23 Dec. 1842; received the thanks of parliament in 1842 and 1843 and of H.E.I.C. in 1842 and 1849; created Baron Gough 25 April 1846; cr. viscount Gough 15 June 1849 with a pension of £2000 to himself and next 2 heirs to title; K.P. 1857; P.C. 11 June 1859; K.C.S.I. 1861, G.C.S.I. 1861. d. St. Helen’s near Booterstown, co. Dublin 2 March 1869. bur. Stillorgan ch. yard 9 March. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i, 222–59 (1880); Shadwell’s Life of Lord Clyde (1881) i, 147 et seq.; Register and Mag. of Biog. i, 286–89, 522; History of the campaign on the Sutlej (1846) p. 11, etc.; Nolan’s British empire in India, ii, 663, portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvi, 192–208, portrait; I.L.N. xiv, 265 (1849), portrait, liv, 274, 293 (1869), portrait.

GOUGH, Alexander Dick. b. 3 Nov. 1804; pupil of Benjamin Wyatt 1823; superintended erection of Apsley house and D. of York’s column 1834; partner with R. L. Roumieu 1836–48; made surveys for railways 1845–48; with Roumieu exhibited 19 works at R.A. 1837–49; built Islington literary and scientific institution 1837–38; rebuilt Old St. Pancras ch. in the Anglo-Norman style 1847–48 and many churches, schools and houses. d. 6 Second grove, Tollington park, London 8 Sep. 1871. bur. Highgate cemetery. The Architect 30 Sept. 1871 p. 173.

GOUGH, John Ballantine or Bartholomew. b. Sandgate, Kent 22 Aug. 1817; went to America 1829; temperance lecturer 1843; lectured in England 1853–55, 1857–60 and 1878; M.A. of Amherst Univ.; author of Orations delivered on various occasions 1854; Temperance gleanings 1879; Sunlight and shadow 1881 and about 20 small books. d. of paralysis at Frankford, Philadelphia 18 Feb. 1886. Autobiography of J. B. Gough (1879), portrait; Appleton’s Cyclop, of American Biog. ii, 692 (1887), portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xxv, 208, 209 (1854), portrait.

GOULBURN, Edward (3 son of Munbee Goulburn of Portland place, London, who d. 29 Nov. 1793 aged 36). b. 1787; cornet royal horse guards 1803, lieut. 1804–5 when he sold out having been prosecuted for libelling some of his brother officers in his book The Blueviad, a satyrical poem 1805; barrister M.T. 9 June 1815; a Welsh judge; recorder of Leicester to 1835, of Lincoln, and of Boston; serjeant at law 4 Feb. 1829, received patent of precedence after Serjeant Storks 1840; a comr. of Court of Bankruptcy 21 Oct. 1842 to 1868; contested Ipswich 1832, M.P. for Leicester 1835–37; author of The pursuits of fashion, a satirical poem 1809, anon., 4 ed. 1812; Edward de Montfort 3 vols. 1812. d. 5 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 24 Aug. 1868.

GOULBURN, Frederick (youngest son of the succeeding). b. 8 April 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; comr. of customs 28 Jany. 1845; vice chairman of board of customs 1859, chairman 1875 to death; C.B. 10 July 1871. d. 57 Ennismore gardens, London 8 May 1878.

GOULBURN, Henry (brother of Edward Goulburn 1787–1868). b. Marylebone, London 19 March 1784; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; contested Horsham 1807, Univ. of Cam. 1826; M.P. for Horsham 1808–12, for St. Germans 1812–18, for West Looe 1818–26, for Armagh 1826–31, for Univ. of Cam. 1831 to death; under sec. of state for home department 1810–12, for the Colonies 1812–21; chief sec. for Ireland 1821–27; P.C. 10 Dec. 1821; chancellor of exchequer 1828–30 and 1841–46; sec. of state for home department 1834–35; conservative candidate for speakership of House of Commons 27 May 1839 when defeated by C. S. Lefevre by 18 votes; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1845. d. Betchworth house near Dorking 12 Jany. 1856. Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series (1846), portrait; G.M. xlv, 183–4 (1856).

GOULD, Rev. George (eld. son of George Gould of Bristol, tradesman). b. Castle green, Bristol 20 Sep. 1818; clerk to a wine merchant 1832; articled to an accountant 1836; student of Bristol Baptist coll. Sep. 1838; pastor Lower Abbey st. Dublin 1841, at South st. chapel, Exeter 1846, at St. Mary’s chapel, Norwich 1849 to decease; president of Baptist Union 1879; one of the founders of Anti-state church association 1844; author of India, its history, religion and government 1858; Open communion and the baptists of Norwich 1860 and 10 other works; edited Church Examiner 1852. d. Norwich 13 Feb. 1882. Sermons and addresses with a memoir by G. P. Gould (1884), with portrait.

GOULD, Gerald Francis. AttachÉ at Hanover 1 Jany. 1854; minister resident at Belgrade 3 March 1879; minister resident at Stuttgardt 16 April 1881 to death; C.B. 20 April 1880. d. Stuttgardt 5 Sep. 1883 aged 48.

GOULD, Most Rev. James Alpius. b. Cork 4 Nov. 1812; entered Augustinian order, educ. at Grantstown; ordained priest at Perugia 1835; arrived in Sydney, Feb. 1838; R.C. priest at Campbeltown near Sydney 1838–48; elected 9 July 1847 and consecrated the first bishop of the Port Philip settlement 8 Aug. 1848 which became the colony of Victoria 1 July 1851; archbishop of Melbourne 4 May 1874 to death. d. Brighton near Melbourne 11 June 1886.

GOULD, John. b. Lyme Regis 14 Sep. 1804; gardener Ripley castle, Yorkshire; taxidermist Zoological gardens, London 1827; travelled in Australia and adjoining islands 1838–40; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1843; exhibited his collection of 5000 humming birds in Zoological gardens 1851, sold to British Museum for £3000 in 1881; produced 41 folio volumes illustrated by 2999 plates; his chief works were A Century of birds from the Himalayan mountains 1832; The birds of Europe 5 vols. 1832–7; The birds of Australia 8 vols. 1848–69; Monograph of the TrochilidÆ 1849–61; The birds of Asia 7 vols. 1850–83; The birds of Great Britain 5 vols. 1862–73; The birds of New Guinea 1875–80. (m. 1829 Elizabeth Coxen who assisted him in his writings and executed all his drawings, she d. Egham 15 Aug. 1841). d. 26 Charlotte St. Bedford sq. London 3 Feb. 1881. I.L.N. xx, 457 (1852), portrait, lxxviii, 220 (1881), portrait; Zoologist v, 109–15 (1881); Nature xxiii, 364–5, 491 (1881).

GOULDING, William (eld. son of Joshua Goulding of Birr, King’s co.) b. 1817; a merchant at Cork and Dublin; contested Cork city, Feb. 1874; M.P. for Cork city 25 May 1876 to 24 March 1880. d. Summerhill house, Sidney place, Cork 8 Dec. 1884.

GOULSTON, James. An aeronaut known as Giuseppe Lunardini; fell from his balloon during an ascent from Belle Vue gardens, Manchester, and was killed at Stone breaks hill near Saddleworth, Yorkshire 3 June 1852.

GOURLAY, William Cameron. b. Edinburgh 1817; first appeared on stage at T.R. Edinburgh 18 May 1836 as Norval in Home’s Douglas; the best actor of Bailie Nicol Jarvie in Rob Roy except Charles Mackay; manager of Victoria Temple, Edinburgh, changed the name to Royal Victoria theatre 4 Sep. 1848. d. 80 Great Western road, Glasgow 3 Feb. 1883.

GOURLIE, William. b. Glasgow, March 1815; educ. Glasgow univ.; partner with his father as a merchant; studied botany under Sir W. J. Hooker and Dr. J. H. Balfour; collected mosses, shells and fossil plants; member Edin. Botanical soc. 1836 and of Glasgow Philosophical soc. 1841; F.L.S. 1855. d. of cancer at his brother’s house, Pollokshields, Glasgow 24 June 1856. Proc. LinnÆan soc. (1857) p. xxvii.

GOVER, Charles E. (son of Thomas Gover of Poplar, Middlesex). Principal and sec. of Madras military male orphan asylum Egmore, Madras 1864; member R. Asiatic soc. 1868–71; fellow Anthropological soc.; wrote in Journal Asiatic soc. and in Cornhill Mag.; author of Indian weights and measures, Madras 1865; The folk songs of Southern India, Madras 1872. d. Madras 20 Sep. 1872.

GOW, James. b. Soutar’s Close, West Port, Dundee 16 March 1814; a weaver in Dundee; wrote many short poems in the Dundee Chronicle, Tait’s Mag., Chambers’s Journal and Hogg’s Instructor; published a collection of his pieces entitled The lays of the loom; wrote no new poem after 1847 so that he was frequently spoken of as the late James Gow and confused with James Gow the political agitator who d. 4 Oct. 1849. d. 29 Jany. 1872. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 382–90.

GOWAN, George Edward. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 1 April 1806; col. commandant 3 July 1845 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 19 June 1846 to 20 June 1854; commanded Ferozepore district 1849–52, Lahore division 1853–58; L.G. 27 Sep. 1859; C.B. 22 May 1843. d. Pen hill near Bath 19 Dec. 1865 aged 77.

GOWAN, Ogle Robert. b. co. Wexford, Ireland 1796; edited the Antidote 1822–25 and the Sentinel 1825–29, Dublin weekly papers; went to Canada 1829; commanded 2nd regiment of Leeds militia; during Mc Kenzie-Papineau rebellion of 1837–9, he was designated “the right arm of British power in America”; founder of Orange lodges of North America, grand master 20 years; a member of Canadian parliament 1834–41; edited the Brockville Statesman weekly paper 1829–51 and the Patriot and the British Empire 1851–55; author of Orangeism, its origin and history 3 vols. 1859. d. Toronto 21 Aug. 1876.

GOWANS, Sir James. b. 1821; a railway contractor; constructed Bathgate railway, various sections of North British railway, 35 miles of Highland railway and other lines; laid down first tramway in Scotland sanctioned by Parliament; member of Edinburgh town council many years; chairman of executive committee of Edinburgh Exhibition 1886; knighted by the Queen at Holyrood palace 19 Aug. 1886; Lord Dean of Guild of Edinburgh 1886 to death; author of Model dwelling-houses 1886; Edinburgh and its neighbourhood in the days of our grandfathers 1886. d. 1 Blantyre terrace, Edinburgh 25 June 1890.

GOWANS, William. b. Lismahagow, Scotland 29 March 1803; went to U.S.A. 1821; a gardener in New York 1825, afterwards a stonecutter, a stevedore and a vendor of newspapers; bookseller in New York 1828–37 and 1840 to death; book auctioneer 1837, issued 28 book catalogues 1842–70, his stock of books at his death numbered nearly 300,000 vols.; author of Gowans’ Bibliotheca Americana 5 numbers 1845–69; A catalogue of books on Freemasonry 1858. d. New York 27 Nov. 1870. Appleton’s American Biography (1887) ii, 698, portrait.

GOYDER, Rev. David George. b. Angel’s court, Westminster 1 March 1796; educ. Westminster sch. 1805; apprenticed to a brush maker 1810 and to a printer 1814; schoolmaster to the Swedenborgians’ soc. at Bristol 1821 and a minister 3 Nov. 1822; school organiser, inspector and missionary for the Swedenborgians 1825 etc.; lecturer on phrenology; author of Swedenborg and his mission 1853; Lectures on Freemasonry 1864; The book of family worship 1871 and 15 other books, d. Bradford, Yorkshire 2 July 1878 aged 82. My battle for life, The autobiography of a phrenologist, by D. G. Goyder (1857).

GRABHAM, John. Entered British Museum 4 March 1833, second superintendent of Reading-room there 1850 to death; compiled Index to Encyclopedia Metropolitana 1842 and to Townsend and Cattley’s ed. of Foxe’s “Acts and Monuments” 1849; edited and made additions to Bishop E. Maltby’s Greek Gradus 3rd ed. 1850. d. 15 Noel st., Islington, London 9 Aug. 1858 aged 57.

GRACE, George Frederick (youngest son of the succeeding). b. Downend near Bristol 13 Dec. 1850; played many cricket matches as one of the Gloucestershire eleven; played in South v. North at Canterbury 1866; a good batsman and bowler, and one of the finest fieldsmen ever known at long-leg and cover-point. d. of pneumonia at Red Lion hotel, Basingstoke 22 Sep. 1880. bur. Downend ch. 27 Sep. Sporting Mirror i, 157–8 (1881), portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, i, 568, 570 (1874), portrait, xiv, 53 (1880), portrait; Hants. and Berks. gazette 25 Sept. 1880, p. 5.

GRACE, Henry Mills. b. Long Ashton, Somerset; L.S.A. 1829, M.R.C.S. 1830; surgeon to Royal Gloucs. hussars 1841 to death; father of the 5 Messrs. Grace; kept up West Gloucs. cricket club many years; founder & treasurer of Gloucestershire county cricket club; a right hand batsman but fielded and threw left. d. Downend 23 Dec. 1871 aged 63. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores v, 93 (1876).

GRACE, Oliver Dowell John. b. Mantua house, Elphin 19 Oct. 1791; sheriff of Roscommon 1830; M.P. for co. Roscommon 1847–59. d. Mantua house 25 Jany. 1871.

GRAFTON, Henry Fitzroy, 5 Duke of. b. 10 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1814; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 1818–30, for Thetford 1834–44; col. East Suffolk militia 1823–30, col. West Suffolk militia 1830–45; succeeded 28 Sep. 1844. d. Wakefield lodge, Northamptonshire 26 March 1863.

GRAFTON, William Henry Fitzroy, 6 Duke of. b. Grosvenor place, London 4 Aug. 1819; M.P. for Thetford 1847–63; succeeded 26 March 1863. d. 4 Grosvenor place, London 21 May 1882. Baily’s Mag. xxxiv, 311 (1879), portrait.

GRAFTON, Frederick William. b. 1816; head of firm of F. W. Grafton & Co., calico printers of Broad Oak, Accrington and Manchester; owner of Heysham hall, Lancs.; M.P. for North-East Lancs. 1880–85. d. 7 Kensington palace gardens, London 27 Jany. 1890.

GRAHAM, Clementina Stirling (eldest dau. of Patrick Stirling of Pittendriech, who in 1802 took the surname of Graham). b. Dundee, May 1782; an intimate friend of Francis Lord Jeffrey and Henry T. Lord Cockburn; lived partly in Edinburgh and partly at Duntrune, Forfarshire; her house was a meeting place for all literary persons; had great powers of personation and of disguising herself; author of The Bee preserver, By Jonas de Gelieu, a translation 1829, another ed. 1876; Mystification, with poems and sketches, privately printed 1859, published 1865, 4 ed. 1869. d. Duntrune 22 Aug. 1877. Mystification, 4 ed. (1869) p. i, etc., with portrait; W. Chambers’s Stories of remarkable persons (1878) 289–302; John Leech and other papers, By John Brown, 2 ed. (1882) 169–75.

GRAHAM, David. b. London 8 Feb. 1808; admitted to New York bar; professor of law of pleading and practice in New York university 1838; author of Practice of the supreme court of state of New York 1832, 2 ed. 1836; An essay on New Trials 1834; A treatise on the Courts of law and equity in state of New York 1839; edited Smith’s Chancery practice 1842. d. Nice 27 May 1852.

GRAHAM, Sir Fortescue (son of Richard Graham, lieut. col. R.M.) b. Tintinhull near Yeovil 1794; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Nov. 1808; A.D.C. to the Queen 10 July 1854 to 27 Feb. 1857; commanded Portsmouth division of R.M. 22 June 1855 to 20 Feb. 1857 and Plymouth division 1 June 1863 to 23 Aug. 1866; col. royal marine artillery 23 Aug. 1866 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on full pay; general 10 Nov. 1866; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 69 Durnford st. Stonehouse, Plymouth 9 Oct. 1880.

GRAHAM, George (4 son of Sir James Graham, 1 baronet 1761–1824). b. 1801; military sec. at Bombay 1828–30; private sec. to his brother Sir James Graham 1831–34 and 1841–42; registrar general of births, deaths, and marriages 1838–79. d. 31 Chapel st., Belgrave sq., London 20 May 1888.

GRAHAM, George Farquhar (eld. son of lieut. col. Humphrey Graham). b. Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1789; a self taught musician and violinist; sec. of first Edin. musical festival with G. Hogarth 1815; studied music in Italy; composed three well known songs, County Guy 1823, You never longed nor loved, and The mariner’s song; wrote for the EncyclopÆdia Britannica the articles on music and the organ; author of An account of the first Edinburgh musical festival 1816; An essay on the theory and practice of musical composition 1838; Ancient Scottish melodies a selection from the Skene M.S., By G. F. Graham and Finlay Dun 1839; The songs of Scotland, The biographical notices by G. F. Graham 1848, New ed. 1884. d. Gilmore place, Edinburgh 12 March 1867.

GRAHAM, Henry Hope. b. 16 Sep. 1808; ensign 57 foot 1829; lieut. col. 59 foot 29 April 1853; superintending officer of recruiting 1860–67; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. of 77 foot 1875 to death; C.B. 1858. d. Somerset st. Portman sq., London 9 July 1886.

GRAHAM, James Gillespie (son of a poor man called Gillespie). b. 1777; a working joiner. (m. Margaret Anne GrÆme, dau. of William Graham of Orchill, on whose death in 1825 he took the surname of Graham, she d. 1826); architect Edinburgh; laid out part of lower new town Edinburgh 1815; built, enlarged, and restored many residences for the Scotch nobility 1810, etc.; erected many churches and chapels 1813, etc.; introduced a purer gothic style into Scotland; great friend of A. W. Pugin from 1830, with him erected Victoria hall, Castle hill, Edinburgh for the meetings of the general assembly 1842–3; F.S.A. Scotland as James Gillespie 24 March 1817. d. York place, Edinburgh 21 March 1855. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), 141–43, portrait.

GRAHAM, Sir James Robert George, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir James Graham, 1 Baronet 1761–1824). b. Naworth, Cumberland 1 June 1792; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; private sec. to Lord Montgomerie, British minister in Sicily; M.P. for Hull 1818, for St. Ives 1820–21, for Carlisle 1826–9, 1852–61, for Cumberland 1829–32, for East Cumberland 1832–7, for Pembroke 1838–41, for Dorchester 1841–7, for Ripon 1847–52; first lord of the Admiralty 25 Nov. 1830 to 11 June 1834, and 30 Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; sec. of state for home department 6 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; lord rector of Glasgow Univ.; ecclesiastical comr. Sep. 1846; K.C.B. 15 April 1854; F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1831; author of Corn and currency, an address 1826 and other pamphlets. d. Netherby near Carlisle 25 Oct. 1861. bur. north side of Arthuret church. Life by T. M. Torrens 2 vols. (1863), portrait; H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland ii, 1 et seq. (1868); G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847), 183–205; D. O. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties ii, 242–56 (1859); Saddle and Sirloin By the Druid, Part North (1870), 33–9.

GRAHAM, Right Rev. John (only son of John Graham, managing clerk to Thos. Griffith of The Bailey, city of Durham). b. Claypath, city of Durham 23 Feb. 1794; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam., 4th wrangler 1816, Chancellor’s medallist 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll. 1816; deacon 1818; preb. of SanctÆ Crucis in Linc. cath. 1828 and of Leighton Ecclesia 1834; master of Christ’s coll. Cam. 1830–49, vice chancellor of the Univ. 1834 and 1840; chap. in ord. to Prince Albert 26 Jany. 1841; R. of Willingham, Cambs. 1843–8; bishop of Chester 11 March 1848 to death, consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall 18 May 1848; clerk of the Closet to the Queen 25 Sep. 1849 to death; published Sermons on the Commandments 1826. d. the Palace, Chester 15 June 1865. G.M. xix, 240–42 (1865).

GRAHAM, John Murray (eld. son of Andrew Murray 1782–1847). b. Aberdeenshire 15 Oct. 1809; educ. Edin. univ., M.A. 1828; advocate 1831; succeeded to part of estate of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch 1859 and took his name of Graham; author of A month’s tour in Spain 1867; Memoir of General Lord Lynedoch 1868, 2 ed. 1877; An historical view of literature and art from accession of House of Hanover to Victoria 1871, 2 ed. 1872; Annals of the Viscount and the first and second Earls of Stair 2 vols. 1875. d. Murray’s hall, Perthshire 18 Jany. 1881. Antiquary iii, 136 (1881); Academy 29 Jany. 1881 p. 81.

GRAHAM, Montagu William (younger son of 3 Duke of Montrose 1755–1836). b. 25 Grosvenor sq. London 2 Feb. 1807; M.P. for Grantham 1852–57, for Herefordshire 1858–65. d. Wilton st. Belgrave sq. London 21 June 1878.

GRAHAM, Thomas (eld. son of James Graham, merchant). b. Glasgow 20 Dec. 1805; educ. Glasgow gram. sch. and univ., M.A. 1826; professor of chemistry, Andersonian Instit. Glasgow 1830–37; professor at London univ. now Univ. coll. 1837–55; non-resident assayer of Royal Mint and master April 1855 to death; F.R.S. 25 Dec. 1836; F.G.S.; D.C.L. Oxf. 20 June 1855; discovered law of diffusion of gases, Keith medal R.S. Edin. 1834; discovered polybasic character of phosphoric acid, gold medal R.S. 1840; investigated transpirability of gases, gold medal 1850; speculated on constitution of phosphates and discovered diffusion of liquids, Copley medal 1862; a founder and first president Chemical Soc. 1840; a founder and first president Cavendish Soc. 1846; author of Outlines of botany 1841; Elements of chemistry 1842, 2 ed. 1847 and other books. d. 4 Gordon sq. London 16 Sep. 1869. Walford’s Portraits of living celebrities (1859), No. 8, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xviii, pp. xvii-xxvi (1870); Proc. of Royal Soc. Edin. vii, 15 (1872); S. Muspratt’s Chemistry, i, (1853), portrait.

GRAHAM, William. Gretna Green post-boy; known by the sobriquet of “Carwinley;” important witness in celebrated Wakefield marriage case 24 March 1827. d. Carlisle 18 Dec. 1864 aged 79.

GRAHAM, William. b. Dufton Wood near Appleby 1808; a successful wrestler; member of a large London firm; chiefly raced under pseudonyms, his 3 Oaks winners are registered as Regalia 1865 belonging to Mr. Harlock, and Formosa 1868 and Gamos 1870 to Mr. G. Jones; Sabinus was said to belong to Mr. Hessey, other names he used were Brown, Keswick, Fischer & Winchester; made £18,965 in 1868. d. 8 Holloway road, Highbury, London 19 Jany. 1876. Baily’s Mag. xxviii, 126–30 (1876); Bell’s Life 22 Jany. 1876 p. 6.

GRAHAM, Rev. William. b. Clough farm, co. Antrim 1810; presbyterian minister at Dundonald near Belfast 1836; missionary to the Jews at Damascus 1842, at Hamburg, at Bonn to 1883; D.D., M.R.I.A.; author of The spirit of love, a commentary 1857; Fifty songs of Zion 1857; A practical commentary on the epistle to Titus 1860; Lectures on St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians 1870. d. Belfast 11 Dec. 1883.

GRAHAM, William. b. 1816; M.P. for Glasgow 14 July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874. d. Oakdene near Guildford 16 July 1885. I.L.N. xlviii, 144 (1866), portrait.

GRAHAM, Rev. William. Educ. Glasgow univ. D.D.; licentiate of United Presbyterian ch.; pastor of Mount Pleasant ch. Liverpool 1846–80; moderator of English Presbyterian synod 1877; professor of church history, Presbyterian coll., Guildford st., London 1880; author of Memoirs of John Macfarlane 1876. d. Acton West 26 Nov. 1887 aged 64. bur. Birkenhead 1 Dec. Christian World 1 Dec. 1887 p. 917.

GRAHAM-GILBERT, John. b. Glasgow 1794; educ. R. Acad. sch. London 1818–21; portrait painter; in Italy 1823, 1826; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1820–64; settled in Edinburgh 1827, Glasgow 1834; R.S.A. 1829; painted Portrait of Walter Scott 1829, The pear tree wall 1844, Females at a fountain 1846. (m. 1834 Miss Gilbert of Yorkhill near Glasgow, and assumed the surname of Gilbert. She was also an artist, and on her death in 1877 left pictures to Corporation galleries at Glasgow). d. Yorkhill 4 June 1866.

GRAHAME, Robert. b. Stockwell st., Glasgow 1759; the leading democrat of the West of Scotland 1793; the first Lord Provost of Glasgow after enactment of Burgh Reform; leading partner of firm of Grahame and Mitchell of Glasgow, writers. d. Hatton hall, Northamptonshire 28 Dec. 1851.

GRAINGER, Richard. b. Newcastle upon Tyne 1796; ed. at St. Andrew’s charity sch. there; apprenticed to a carpenter; erected Eldon square, Leazes terrace and crescent, the Arcade, Grey st., Grainger St., Market st., Clayton st. and Clayton st. west, all in Newcastle upon Tyne 1826–31; purchased the Elswick estate on the Tyne for £200,000. d. West Clayton st. Newcastle upon Tyne 4 July 1861. Once a week, v, 401–406 (1861).

GRAINGER, Richard Dugard (son of Edward Grainger of Birmingham, surgeon). b. Birmingham 1801, ed. at gr. school there and Woolwich, at St. Thomas’ and Webb st. sch.; M.R.C.S. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843; kept a private anatomical school in Webb st. Borough, London 1822–42 when it was amalgamated with St. Thomas’s hospital; professor of anatomy and physiology at St. Thomas’s 1842–60; F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846; delivered Hunterian oration 1848; a cholera inspector 1849; an inspector under the Burials Act 1853 to death; one of Children’s employment comrs. 13 Feb. 1862; author of Elements of general anatomy 1829; Observations on the spinal cord 1837; Observations on the cultivation of organic science 1848; Sanitary report on cholera 1848–9. d. 6 Hornsey lane, Highgate 1 Feb. 1865. bur. Eltham 7 Feb. Medical times and gazette, i, 157–58 (1865).

GRAINGER, Thomas, b. Gogar green, Ratho near Edinburgh 12 Nov. 1794; civil engineer and surveyor in Edin. 1816; executed the Monkland and Kirkintilloch railway 1824, the first in Scotland on which ‘edge rails’ were used; partner with Mr. Miller 1825–45; executed Paisley and Renfrew railway 1834, Arbroath and Forfar line 1835, Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven line 183 , Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee lines 1847; pres. of royal Scottish society of arts 2 years; M.I.C.E. 1829; F.R.S. Edin.; F.S.A. Edin. d. Stockton on Tees 25 July 1852 from injuries received in a collision of trains near Stockton on Tees 21 July. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 159 (1853).

GRANARD, George Arthur Hastings Forbes, 7 Earl of. b. Chilton hall, Suffolk 5 Aug. 1833; succeeded 9 June 1837; attachÉ to legation at Dresden 1852–54; lord lieut. of Leitrim, Nov. 1856 to July 1872; K.P. 30 Jany. 1857. d. Castle Forbes, co. Longford 25 Aug. 1889. I.L.N. xlii, 181 (1862), portrait.

GRANGER, Thomas Colpitts (eld. son of Joseph Granger of Durham). Barrister I.T. 14 May 1830, bencher 1850; recorder of Hull 1847 to death; Q.C. 1850; contested city of Durham Jany. 1835 and July 1837; M.P. for city of Durham June 1841 to death; author of A supplement to the statutes by Sir W. D. Evans 1836; author with R. P. Tyrwhitt of Reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber 1835–37, 1 vol. 1837; author with James Manning of Reports of cases in the Court of Common Pleas 1840–45, 7 vols. 1841–46. d. York 13 Aug. 1852 aged 50. bur. in vaults of Temple church, London.

GRANT, Sir Alexander, 8 Baronet (elder son of Sir Robert Innes Grant, 7 baronet 1794–1856). b. New York 13 Sep. 1826; ed. at Harrow and Balliol coll. Ox., scholar 1844–9, fellow 1849–60, hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852, D.C.L. 1860; examiner for Indian civil service 1855; inspector of schools in Madras 1859; professor of history and political economy in Elphinstone coll., Madras 1860, principal 1862; vice chancellor of Univ. of Bombay 1863–5 and 1865–8; director of public instruction in Bombay 1865; member of legislative council of Bombay 1868; vice chancellor and principal of Univ. of Edin. 6 July 1868 to death, installed 3 Nov. 1868; devised and carried out tercentenary festival 1884; F.R.S. Edin. 1869; author of The story of the University of Edinburgh during its first three hundred years 1884 and other books. d. 21 Landowne crescent, Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1884. W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 6, 7–17; Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin. (1885).

GRANT, Sir Alexander Cray, 6 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Alexander Grant, 5 baronet, who d. 25 July 1825). b. Bowring’s Leigh, Devon 30 Nov. 1782; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; member of colonial assembly of Jamaica 1810–11; M.P. for Tregony 1812–18, for Lostwithiel 1818–26, for Aldborough 1826–30, for Westbury 1830–32, for town of Cambridge 1840–43; contested Great Grimsby 1835 and Honiton 1837; chairman of committees of house of commons 1826–32; a member of board of control for India 20 Dec. 1834 to 29 April 1835; a comr. for auditing public accounts 1843 to death. d. Somerset house,? London 29 Nov. 1854.

GRANT, Ven. Anthony (youngest son of Thomas Grant of Portsea). b. 31 Jany. 1806; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1825–39; B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1842; select preacher 1852 and 1861; C. of Chelmsford 1836; V. of Romford, Essex 1838–62; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1862–77; archdeacon of St. Albans 1846 to death; archdeacon of Rochester 1863–82; canon of Rochester 1860 to death; author of The past and prospective extension of the gospel to the heathen 1844, a Bampton lecture which marked an epoch in mission work. An historical sketch of the Crimea 1855 and other books. d. 11 Royal crescent, Ramsgate 25 Nov. 1883.

GRANT, Charles. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 22 April 1819, col. 16 Feb. 1861, col. commandant 11 Jany. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. 3 Suffolk sq., Cheltenham 13 Jany. 1882.

GRANT, Colesworthy. b. London 25 Oct. 1813; went to Calcutta 1832; well known as an artist; professor of drawing Howrah engineering coll. 1849 and at Presidency engineering coll. Calcutta 185-; founded Calcutta soc. for prevention of cruelty to animals, and became hon. sec. 4 Oct. 1861; contributed 167 portrait sketches to the India Review and other papers 1838–50; made 78 sketches of Oriental heads; author of Rough pencillings of a rough trip to Rangoon in 1846, Calcutta 1853; Anglo-Indian domestic life 185-, anon.; Rural life in Bengal, Letters from an Artist in India to his sisters in England 1860; To the children of Calcutta, On cruelty, Calcutta 1872. d. Calcutta 31 May 1880. P. C. Mittra’s Life of C. Grant (1881), portrait.

GRANT, David. b. Upper Banchory, Kincardineshire 1823; educ. Aberdeen univ.; schoolmaster Elgin; French master Oundle gram. sch. Northamptonshire 1861; assist. master Eccleshall coll. near Sheffield 1865; kept a day sch. at Sheffield by which he was ruined 1880; private tutor Edinburgh 1880 to death; author of Metrical tales, Sheffield 1880; Lays and legends of the North, Edin. 1884; A book of ten songs with music 1887. d. Edinburgh 1886. D. H. Edwards’ Modern Scotch poets, Brechin (1880).

GRANT, Sir Francis (4 son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston, Perthshire, who d. 1819). b. Edinburgh 18 Jany. 1803; ed. at Harrow; exhibited 253 portraits at R.A. 1834–79; the fashionable portrait painter of the day from 1840; A.R.A. 1842, R.A. 11 Feb. 1851, pres. 1866; member of Belgian academy 1855; knighted at Buckingham Palace 24 March 1866; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1870. d. The Lodge, Melton Mowbray 5 Oct. 1878. Illustrated Review, v, 449–55, portrait; J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, ii, 1–3; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 295–7 (1862); I.L.N. vi, 293 (1845), portrait, xviii, 219 (1851), portrait, xlviii, 232 (1866), portrait.

GRANT, Gertrude Elizabeth. Author under pseudonym of Gerald Grant of 3 novels Coming home to roost 3 vols. 1872, The old ? quarry 3 vols. 1873, The great gulf fixed 3 vols. 1877. d. GÖritz, Austria 29 Dec. 1882.

GRANT, James. b. Elgin, Morayshire 1802; a founder and editor of Elgin Courier 1827; went to London 1833; conducted London Saturday Journal 1839, Grant’s London Journal 1840; editor of Morning Advertiser 1850–71, of Christian Standard 1872; author of The great metropolis 1836, 1837; Random recollections of House of Commons and House of Lords 2 vols. 1836, second ser. called The British senate 1838; The metropolitan pulpit 1839; The newspaper press, its origin, progress and present position 3 vols. 1871–72; The Plymouth Brethren 1875 and upwards of 30 other works. d. 35 Cornwall road, Bayswater, London 23 May 1879. Bookseller, June 1879 p. 510; Licensed Victuallers Almanac (1862), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv, 561 (1879), portrait.

GRANT, James. b. Glen Urquhart, Invernessshire 1840; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; studied law in Edinburgh; assistant to professor Cosmo Innes, whom he helped in his books; worked under John Hill Burton and professor Masson in publication of Scottish privy council records; F.S.A.; author of History of the burgh and parish schools of Scotland, vol. 1, 1876, vol. 2 though completed not printed; History of the university of Edinburgh, unprinted. d. at his brother’s residence 114 Bell terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne 9 Aug. 1885.

GRANT, James (eld. son of John Grant, capt. 92 highlanders). b. Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1822; resident in Newfoundland 1833–39; ensign 62 foot 1840, resigned 1843; with David Rhind architect, Edin. 1843; founder and sec. of National association for Vindication of Scottish rights 1852 which was ridiculed in Punch; an early volunteer; joined Roman Catholic ch. 1875; author of The Romance of war 4 vols. 1846–47; Memorials of the castle of Edinburgh 1850; The adventures of an aide-de-camp 3 vols. 1848; Old and new Edinburgh 3 vols. 1880; Love’s labour won 3 vols. 1888 and about 60 other works. d. 25 Tavistock road, Westbourne park, London 5 May 1887.

GRANT, James Gregor. Lecturer for Northern Union of Mechanics’ institutes; resided in Sunderland; wrote a series of stories on local legends for Newcastle Weekly Chronicle; author of Madonna Pia and other poems 2 vols. 1848. d. London 25 Dec. 1875.

GRANT, Sir James Hope (youngest son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston, Perthshire). b. 22 July 1808; cornet 9 lancers 29 Aug. 1826, lieut. col. 29 April 1850 to 26 Feb. 1858; colonel 4 hussars 18 Jany. 1861 to 6 Feb. 1865; col. 9 lancers 9 Feb. 1865 to death; general 23 April 1872, took an important part in suppression of Indian mutiny 1857–8; commanded British forces during Chinese war 1860; commander in chief at Madras 1861–5; quartermaster general at head quarters 1865–70; commanded division at Aldershot 1 Nov. 1870 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, G.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860. d. at house of Baroness Gray, 42 Grosvenor gardens, London 7 March 1875. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age, ii, 252–307 (1880); Golden Hours (1869) 818–32, portrait; D. C. Boulger’s History of China, iii, 483 et seq. (1884); I.L.N. lxvi, 258, 273, 277, 278, 470 (1875), portrait.

GRANT, James Macpherson. b. Alvie, Invernessshire 1822; went with his parents to New South Wales 1836; articled to Chambers and Thurlow, solicitors, Sydney 1841–47; solicitor 1847, partner with Mr. Thurlow; solicitor Melbourne 1854; member for Bendigo to legislative council Victoria, Nov. 1855, member for Sandhurst boroughs 1856, for Avoca 1859 to decease; V.P. of Board of lands and works 1861, president 1864–68, 1868–69, 1871–72; minister of justice 1875, 1877–80; chief sec. 1881–83; did much in settling the people on the public lands. d. Melbourne? 1 April 1885. Men of the time in Australia, Victoria (1878) 73.

GRANT, Sir James Robert (son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in Strathspey). b. Forres co. Moray Feb. 1773; assistant surgeon 22 Jany. 1792; inspector general of army hospitals 14 July 1814; chief of medical department at Waterloo; received order of St. Anne of Russia from Emperor Alexander at Paris 1815; K.H. 1816; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 18 March 1819; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850. d. Basford vicarage, Notts 10 Jany. 1864. bur. St. Mary’s churchyard, Carlisle 18 Jany.

GRANT, James William (son of Robert Grant). b. Wester Elchies, Morayshire 12 Aug. 1788; writer H.E.I.C.S. 22 July 1805 in Bengal; retired 1849; detected the companion of Antares 23 July 1844 two years before Mitchel perceived the duplicity of the star; erected an observatory at Elchies 1849, where he placed the Trophy telescope purchased from great exhibition of 1851, this was sold to Mr. Aytoun in 1864; F. R. Astronom. Soc. 13 Jany. 1854. d. Wester Elchies 17 Sept. 1865.

GRANT, John (brother of Sir Francis Grant 1803–78). b. 13 June 1798; master of Perthshire hounds 1836–41; chairman of Tay district board of salmon fishing; his residence Kilgraston house, Perthshire burnt 1872. d. London 20 Jany. 1873. Babington’s Fife foxhounds (1883) 66, portrait; Perthshire Constitutional 22 Jany. 1873 p. 2.

GRANT, John (eld. son of Ewen Grant). b. Glasgow 22 May 1819; assisted in Tithe commutation commission survey in Devon 1838; employed on Exeter and Yeovil railway 1845; assist, surveyor metropolitan commission of sewers April 1849, engineer 1852; assist. engineer metropolitan board of works 1856; superintended construction of numerous streets, sewers, pumping stations and the outfall works at Crossness; connected with construction of portions of Chelsea and Albert embankments; made successful experiments on use of portland cement 1858 etc.; M.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1861, Telford medal 1880; reported on Artizans’ dwellings, Glasgow 1877, Fish supply of London 1881, and on Sludge filter presses 1885. d. 48 Blessington road, Lee, Kent 24 March 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcii, 389–92 (1888).

GRANT, Sir John Thornton (eld. son of Wm. Charles Grant, captain 92 foot, killed at Waterloo 18 June 1815). b. Ireland 26 Dec. 1810; ensign 49 foot 28 April 1828, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1854 to 3 Aug. 1860; lieut. col. 18 foot 3 Aug. 1860 to 28 May 1866 when placed on h.p.; brig. gen. Madras 1863–68, M.G. Bombay 1869–74; col. 94 foot 25 June 1879 to death; general 21 May 1880; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Upton park, Slough 16 Jany. 1886.

GRANT, Sir Lewis (younger son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in Strathspey). Ensign 95 foot 15 Feb. 1794; lieut. col. 70 foot 1804–24; governor of Bahama islands May 1820 to 1829; governor of Trinidad 5 Dec. 1831 to 9 June 1833; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831; K.C.H. 13 Sep. 1831; colonel 96 regt. 9 April 1839 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. suddenly in an omnibus in Regent st. London 26 Jany. 1852 aged 70.

GRANT, Philip. Power loom weaver; very active in trying to further the cause of the Ten Hours’ Bill 1825 etc.; edited the Ten Hours’ Advocate, a periodical; Ten Hours’ Bill passed 1874; author of History of factory legislation. d. Granville st. Upper Brook st. Chorlton-on-Medlock 4 April 1880. Manchester Courier 7 April 1880 p. 6.

GRANT, Sir Richard (son of Richard Grant, H.M.’s proctor at Jamaica). b. Kingston, Jamaica 1783; entered navy July 1798; captain 17 May 1828; R.A. on half pay 7 Feb. 1855; knighted by Earl Talbot, lord lieut. of Ireland 1820. d. Shawefield, Havant, Hants. 3 March 1859 aged 75.

GRANT, Rev. Robert (son of Thomas Grant of Sheerness, Kent). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 15 Nov. 1815 aged 18, fellow 1815–28; B.C.L. 1823; V. of Bradford Abbas, Dorset 1828–86; preb. of Salisbury 1845 to death; author of Lectures on the parable of the prodigal son 1830; Kapiolani and other poems 1848; Reminiscences of a clergyman during a ministry of forty years in a country parish 1873. d. 11 Clarendon row, Southsea 15 Sep. 1887 in 91 year.

GRANT, Robert Edmond (7 son of Alexander Grant of Edinburgh, writer to the signet, d. 1808). b. Argyle sq. Edin. 11 Nov. 1793; ed. at high school and univ. Edin., M.D. Edin. 1814; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1814; F.R.S. Edin. 1824; professor of comparative anatomy and zoology in univ. of London, June 1827 to death, lectured 5 times a week, never omitted a single lecture; Fullerian professor of physiology in royal institution 1837–40; Swiney lecturer on geology at British Museum 5 years; F.R.S. 4 Feb. 1836; styled the Cuvier of England; author of An essay on the study of the animal kingdom 1828, 2 ed. 1829; Outlines of comparative anatomy 1835–41, and papers in Lancet. d. 2 Euston grove, Euston sq. London 23 Aug. 1874, left all his property to Univ. coll. London. Proc. of Royal society, xxiii, pp. vi-x (1875); Quarterly Journal of Geological society, xxxi, 49–52.

GRANT, Most Rev. Thomas (2 son of Bernard Grant of Ackerson’s Mill near Newry, quartermaster 82 foot, who d. May 1856 aged 69). b. Ligny-les-Aires, France 5 Nov. 1816; entered St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham 1 Jany. 1829; entered English college, Rome 1 Dec. 1836; created D.D. 27 Aug. 1841; priest 28 Nov. 1841; sec. to Cardinal Acton 1841–47 when he died; prorector of English college, Rome 13 April 1844, rector 13 Oct. 1844 to 27 June 1851; bishop of Southwark 27 June 1851 to death, consecrated in church of English college, Rome by Cardinal Fransoni 4 July 1851; author of Meditations of the Sisters of Mercy before renewal of vows 1874. d. the English college, Rome 1 June 1870. bur. in cemetery of orphanage at Norwood, Surrey. Thomas Grant, bishop of Southwark, by Grace Ramsay 1874, with 2 portraits; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 5–11 (1887).

GRANT, Sir Thomas Tassell (eld. son of Thomas Grant of Soberton, Hants.) b. Portsea, Hants. 1795; entered naval service 1812; storekeeper Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1828; controller of victualling and transport service Dec. 1850 to 1858; invented steam machinery for making biscuits 1829 for which he had parliamentary grant of £2000; invented a life buoy, a feathering paddle wheel, and Grant’s patent fuel 1839 which is used in the navy; distilled fresh water from the sea 1849, the Wye with his apparatus sent to the Crimea produced 10,000 gallons daily 1855; K.C.B. 6 Sep. 1858; F.R.S. d. 20 Chester ter. Regent’s park, London 15 Oct. 1859 aged 64. Times 19 Oct. 1859 p. 7; G.M. Nov. 1859 p. 534.

GRANT, William (brother of Most Rev. Thomas Grant 1816–70). Professor at St. Peter’s college, Agra 18—to death; started the Agra Weekly Register. d. Agra 20 May 1863.

GRANT, William Augustine Ignatius. b. 1838; a Presbyterian; a member of Church of England; a Roman Catholic 1857–68; an Irvingite 1868–73; an extreme Ritualist 1873–80; a Roman Catholic again 1880 to death; a landscape painter, exhibited 1 picture at R.A. and 4 at B.I. 1862–64; lived at Peckham many years; one of the ablest controversialists of his day; author of The Communion of Saints in the Church of God 1867; Apostolic Lordship and the interior life: a narrative of five years’ communion with Catholic Apostolic Angels, privately printed 1873, published under title of Apostolic Lordship, or five years with the Irvingites: and why I left them 1874; The peoples’ mass book, By a Layman of the Church of England 1874 and other books. d. Clifton 21 May 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 11–14 (1887).

GRANT, William James. b. Hackney, London 1829; student at R.A. 1844; exhibited 39 works at R.A. and 5 at B.I. 1847–66; some of his pictures were, Edward the Black Prince entertaining French King 1848, Samson and Delilah 1852, The morning of the duel 1860, The lady and the wasp 1866. d. London? 2 June 1866.

GRANT, Sir William Keir (son of Archibald Keir of H.E.I.C.S.) b. 1771; cornet 15 dragoons 30 May 1792; one of 8 officers who saved Francis II. Emperor of Germany from being taken prisoner by the French in the plains of Catau Cambresis 24 April 1794, received gold medal and was made knight of Maria Theresa; lieut. col. 22 light dragoons 3 Dec. 1800; served in India as adjutant general 1806–14; commander in chief and second member of council in Java 1815–16; served in India 1819–21; col. 8 dragoons 1 Feb. 1833 to 24 Aug. 1839, and of 2 dragoons 24 Aug. 1839 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.H. 1821, G.C.H. 1835; K.C.B. 3 Dec. 1822; G.C. of Lion and Sun, Persia. d. 20 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 7 May 1852. G.M. June 1852 pp. 619–20; Dod’s Peerage 1852 p. 258.

GRANTHAM, George. Entered Madras army 1823; col. 5 Madras N.I. 4 Nov. 1856–61; col. 39 Madras N.I. 1861–69; L.G. 6 March 1868; drowned in collision between steamers Mary and Normandy about 20 miles from the Needles, Isle of Wight 17 March 1870 aged 67. Times 18–26 March 1870.

GRANTHAM, Rev. George Peirce (son of George Grantham of firm of Gosling and Sharp, bankers, London). b. Finsbury, London 11 Jany. 1833; educ. King’s coll. Lond. and Univ. of Lond.; C. of Allhallows East, Exeter 1859–61; C. of Rame, Cornwall 1861–65; C. of Hotham 1865–67; senior C. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1867–76; precentor and senior curate of St. Michael’s, Swanmore, Ryde 1876–79; V. of Llanbadoc near Usk 1879–81; C. of Holy Cross mission ch. Bedminster 1881–83; C. of St. Augustine, Kensington 1883; V. of Ston Easton with Farrington Gurney 1885; author of Holy Songs 1866; The mysteries of holy church and other verses 1871; History of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1872; Carols for yule tide, with original music 1877; editor of Ecclesiastical Art Rev. 1878. d. The Elms, Farrington Gurney 13 Oct. 1885. bur. Arnos vale cemetery, Bristol. International Mag., Oct. 1885 pp. 110–11.

GRANTHAM, John. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; L.S.A. 1823; M.R.C.S. 21 Feb. 1823, hon. fellow 26 Aug. 1844; author of Facts and observations on medicine and surgery 1844. d. Crayford, Kent 14 Nov. 1873 in 73 year.

GRANTHAM, John (2 son of John Grantham, surveyor). b. Croydon 1809; managing partner of firm of Mather, Dickson & Co.; one of founders of Polytechnic society, Liverpool; a naval architect and consulting engineer at Liverpool; planned and executed several of the largest iron sailing and steam ships; took out patents for screw propellers, and invented a system of sheathing iron built ships with copper; practised in London 1859 to death; constructed the first tramway in Copenhagen 1863; patented a steam tramway car; one of founders of Institution of naval architects Jany. 1860, member of council Jany. 1860 to death; A.I.C.E. 11 Feb. 1840, M.I.C.E. 29 Nov. 1864; author of Iron as a material for ship building 1842; Iron ship building 1858, 5 ed. 1868. d. Croydon 10 July 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 266–68 (1875).

GRANVILLE, Augustus Bozzi (3 son of Carlo Bozzi, postmaster general Milan). b. Milan 7 Oct. 1783; studied at Univ. of Pavia 1799–1802, M.D. 28 Aug. 1802; assistant surgeon in British navy March 1807, retired as surgeon on half pay 1813; assumed maternal name of Granville; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1813; L.R.C.P. 1817; studied at La MaternitÉ, Paris, and qualified as an accoucher 1816–17; settled at 8 Saville row, London 1818; F.R.S. 1817; physician accoucher Westminster general dispensary 1819; introduced use of prussic acid for chest affections; established a West-end infirmary for young children; pres. of Westminster medical soc. 1829; visited Kissingen 1840–68 and set the fashion of drinking its waters; confidential friend of ex-king Joseph Bonaparte 1832–44; author of St. Petersburg, a journal of travels 2 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1829; The spas of Germany 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1838; The spas of England and sea-bathing places 3 vols. 1841 and 31 other works. d. 20 Folkestone ter. Dover 3 March 1872. Autobiography of A. B. Granville (1874), portrait; Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii, 174–7 (1878); Physic and physicians, ii, 269–71 (1839).

GRATTAN, Sir Edmund Arnout (son of Thomas C. Grattan 1792–1864). b. 1818; British consul at Boston for state of Massachusetts 4 Aug. 1848 to 1858; consul at Antwerp 11 Jany. 1858 to 1883; consul general for Belgium 28 Nov. 1883 to 1888; British commissioner Antwerp exhibition 1885; V.P. Royal Geog. soc. Antwerp; F.R.G.S.; knighted by patent 18 Nov. 1889. d. Ostend Aug. 1890 aged 72.

GRATTAN, Henry Plunkett, stage name of Henry Willoughby Grattan Plunkett. b. Dublin 1808; made his dÉbut at Milton st. theatre London in The Rake’s Progress; author of The Minerali, or the dying gift, a drama by H. Plunkett, produced at Cobourg theatre; The Dumb Conscript produced at Astley’s 1835; Faust or the Demon of the Drachenfels produced at Sadler’s Wells 15 Sep. 1842; wrote the first few numbers of Punch with Henry Mayhew and 4 others 17 July 1841 et seq.; edited The Squib June to Dec. 1842 30 numbers; played Hamlet at Park theatre New York 11 May 1843; built the first theatre at Memphis; editor and owner of The Age newspaper; author of The Bottle, a poem, New York 1848; sometimes used name of Harry Plunkett as a stage name; founded the Actors’ Fund; produced many plays; spent 23 years in America; author of The Fairy Circle, The Sisters, Glory, Orson and other pieces all produced in England. d. 25 Dec. 1889. bur. Fulham cemetery 30 Dec.

GRATTAN, Mrs. Henry Plunkett (dau. of Mr. M’Phain). b. London 1811; acted in the provinces and then at Garrick theatre, London; made first appearance in America at St. Charles theatre, New Orleans, as lady Anne in Richard iii, 1836; at the new Chatham theatre, America, was the original Madelon in the Carpenter of Rouen 16 Nov. 1840. m. (1) H. P. Grattan; sang in the role of Pollio in Norma at Adelphi, London Oct. 1842; m. (2) Mr. Barker; m. (3) Mr. Madison; returned to America, at Chatham theatre 8 July 1850, retook name of Mrs. Grattan when appearing as Amelia in Wild Oats; travelled throughout the United States and the West Indies playing chief roles in standard dramas; final engagement at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 18 Sept. 1876 in Led Astray. d. 101 West Twenty-ninth st. New York 14 Dec. 1876. Era 7 Jany. 1877 p. 5; The Squib 22 Oct. 1842 p. 92.

GRATTAN, James (eld. son of right hon. Henry Grattan 1746–1820). b. 7 April 1787; cornet 20 light dragoons 9 Aug. 1810; lieut. 9 light dragoons 4 July 1811 to 18 Aug. 1814 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for co. Wicklow 1821–41; P.C. Ireland 1841. d. Tinnehinch, co. Carlow 21 Oct. 1854.

GRATTAN, John. Ensign 18 foot 8 July 1813, lieut. col. 25 May 1853 to 31 July 1854 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 1 May 1868 to death; L.G. 15 Sep. 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Brussels 29 April 1871 aged 75.

GRATTAN, Thomas Colley (son of Colley Grattan, solicitor). b. Dublin 1792; settled at Bordeaux 1818, Paris 1820?; proprietor and editor of The Paris monthly review Jany. 1822 to April 1823, 15 numbers; produced Ben Nazir the Saracen, a tragedy at Drury lane 21 May 1827; removed to Brussels 1828; British consul to state of Massachusetts 1839–46; assisted Lord Ashburton in treaty of Washington 1842; author of Highways and byways or Tales of the roadside 2 vols. 1823, second ser. 3 vols. 1825, third ser. 3 vols. 1827; The history of the Netherlands 1830; Legends of the Rhine 3 vols. 1832; Civilised America 2 vols. 1859, and about 15 other works. d. Jermyn st. London 4 July 1864. Dublin Univ. Mag. Dec. 1853, pp. 658–65, portrait; Colburn’s New Monthly xxxii, 77–80 (1831), portrait.

GRATWICKE, William Gratwicke Kindlesides (son of rev. William Kindlesides, R. of Angmering, Sussex, who took name of Gratwicke, d. 1820). b. Angmering 1794; began racing 1825; won the Derby with Frederick 1825, with Merry Monarch 1845; won One thousand guineas and Oaks with Governess 1858. d. Ham near Arundel 5 Dec. 1862. Baily’s Mag. iv, 55–9 (1862), portrait; Sporting Review xlix, 179–80 (1863); Sporting Times 11 July 1885, p. 2.

GRAVATT, William (son of Wm. Gravatt lieut. col. R.E. who d. 13 June 1851 aged 80). b. Gravesend 14 July 1806; apprenticed to Bryan Donkin C.E. 1822; placed under I. K. Brunel; F.R.S. 1832, F.R.A.S. 1832; worked on the Thames tunnel 1826–32 when works stopped; engineer to Calder and Hebble navigation 1832; examined the county for original scheme of London and Dover railway 183-; invented a level which generally bears his name but which he called the ‘dumpy,’ also the level staff universally employed, and a pocket instrument called a nadir; traced the line for the Bristol and Exeter railway 75 miles in about a month 184-; printed “Companion to the mountain barometer,” which was translated into Chinese; A.I.C.E. 1826, M.I.C.E. 1828. d. 15 Park st. Westminster 30 May 1866, having been poisoned by an overdose of morphia given inadvertently by his nurse. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 565–75 (1867).

GRAVES, Francis (son of Robert Graves d. 1825 and grandson of Robert Graves of Catherine st. Strand, both of them printsellers). b. 25 Dec. 1802; with A. Molteno of Pall Mall at age of 13, removed to M. Colnaghi’s in Cockspur st. 1826; printseller with his brother, Henry Graves 1838 to death. d. 6 Pall Mall, London 15 Oct. 1859.

GRAVES, James (eld. son of rev. Richard Graves, R. of Coolcullen). b. Kilkenny 11 Oct. 1815; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1839; C. of Skeirke, Queen’s county 1840–46; C. of St. Patrick’s, Kilkenny 1846–54; R. of Maine 1854–60; V. of Kilsheelan, Clonmel 1860–66; R. of Inisnag near Kilkenny 1863 to decease; with J. G. A. Prim established Kilkenny archÆological soc. 1849, which became R. Hist, and ArchÆol. assoc. of Ireland 1869; awarded civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1878; had finest collection of ferns in Ireland; edited A Roll of the proceedings of the King’s council in Ireland 1392–3, (Rolls Series 1877); author of A brief memoir of the Lady E. Fitzgerald, The Fair Geraldine 1874; with G. A. Prim issued History of cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny 1857. d. Inisnag 20 March 1886. Journal R. Historical Assoc. of Ireland vii, 465–69 (1887); Academy 25 Dec. 1886, p. 427.

GRAVES, Rev. John. Scholar of Christ’s coll. Cam. 1852; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858; lecturer in history Trinity coll. Battersea 1857–59; assist. master Kensington gram. sch. 1859–61; classical master Cheltenham coll. 1861–74; chaplain to H.M. at Kensington palace 1884 to death. d. Kensington palace 4 March 1888 aged 56.

GRAVES, John Crosbie. b. 19 Sep. 1820; cornet 3 Bombay cavalry 3 May 1837; lieut. col. Bombay cavalry 1866, col. 1878 to death; L.G. 7 May 1882; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Poonah 27 Nov. 1882.

GRAVES, John Thomas (eld. son of John Crosbie Graves of Dublin, barrister). b. Dublin 4 Dec. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1823, classical gold medallist and B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; incorporated in Oriel coll. Ox. 1830, M.A. 1831; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1830 and of Inner Temple 10 June 1831; professor of jurisprudence in Univ. coll. London 1839; examiner in laws in Univ. of London; F.R.S. 1839, member of council; assist. poor law commissioner 7 April 1846; poor law inspector 1847 to Feb. 1871; elucidated the subject of the logarithms of negative and imaginary quantities 1826, and sent contributions to Philos. Trans., British Association Reports and Philos. Mag.; bequeathed his mathematical library of 10,000 volumes and 5,000 pamphlets to Univ. coll. London. d. Cheltenham 29 March 1870. Proc. of royal society, xix, 27–28 (1871); University coll. Gazette, vol. i, No. 12, pp. 189–90.

GRAVES, John Woodcock (son of Joseph Graves, plumber). b. Wigton, Cumberland 9 Feb. 1795; worked with his uncle Geo. Graves a sign painter at Cockermouth; connected with woollen mills at Caldbeck; landed at Hobart Town, Tasmania, June 1833; invented a machine for preparing New Zealand flax; author of the hunting song D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray 1824 and other poems. d. Liverpool st. Hobart Town 17 Aug. 1886. Sidney Gilpin’s Songs of Cumberland (1866) 408–15; I.S. and D. News 30 Oct. 1886 pp. 182 190.

Note.—John Peel, hunter died 1854. Graves wrote on hearing of the death of his friend 2 poems “Monody on John Peel” and “At the grave of John Peel.”

GRAVES, Rev. Richard Hastings (son of Richard Graves, D.D., dean of Armagh 1763–1829). b. 1791; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1828; R. of Brigown, Cloyne 1812; preb. of Cloyne 30 July 1832; edited The whole works of Richard Graves, D.D., Dublin 4 vols. 1840; author of Daniel’s Great period of 2300 days discovered and determined 1854; Terminal synchronism of Daniel’s two principal periods 1858 and 10 other books. d. 118 Upper Leeson st. Dublin 26 Dec. 1877. Cotton’s Fasti Hibernici (1878) pp. xii, 27.

GRAVES, Robert (brother of Francis Graves 1802–59). b. Tottenham court road, London 7 May 1798; pupil of John Romney, line engraver 1812; studied in the life school, Ship yard, Temple Bar; exhibited 25 engravings at R.A. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1824–73; member of Soc. of British Artists, Suffolk st.; assoc. engraver of R.A. 1836; engraved Lord Byron after T. Phillips 1836, The Whiskey Still after Landseer 1842, the Hon. Mrs. Graham after Gainsborough 1866, the Blue Boy after Gainsborough 1868, and many other subjects besides engravings for books. d. 20 Grove ter. Highgate road, London 28 Feb. 1873. I.L.N. 8 March 1873 p. 235, 15 March pp. 247, 249, portrait; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii. 222–3 (1862).

GRAVES, Robert James (younger brother of Richard Hastings Graves 1791–1877). b. Dublin 27 March 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.B. 1818, M.D. 1841; spent 3 years visiting chief continental schools 1818–21; settled in Dublin 1821; one of founders of Park st. school of medicine 1821; one of physicians of Meath hospital 1821; professor of institutes of medicine to King and Queen’s college of physicians in Ireland 1827, president 1843 and 1844; started with Robert Kane Dublin Journal of medical science 1832 and was one of the editors to his death; F.R.S. 1849; substituted adequate nourishment and stimulants for the old lowering treatment in fevers; author of Clinical lectures 1834–35, 1836–7; A system of clinical medicine 1843; Clinical lectures 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1884, much praised by Trousseau the great French physician. d. 4 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 20 March 1853. Studies in physiology and medicine, ed. by W. Stokes (1863) pp. ix-lxxiii, portrait; Medical Times and Gazette, viii, 1–5 (1854); Dublin Univ. Mag. xix, 260–73 (1842), portrait.

GRAVES, Samuel Robert (2 son of William Graves of New Ross). b. Blackwell lodge, co. Kilkenny 1818; merchant and shipowner at Liverpool; chairman of Liverpool shipowners’ association 1856 and local marine board 1856; mayor of Liverpool 1860–61; M.P. for Liverpool 15 July 1865 to death, on 19 Nov. 1868 polled 16,766 votes, largest number polled by any borough member; commodore of Royal Mersey yacht club; author of A letter on National dangers 1860; A yachting cruise on the Baltic 1863. d. Euston hotel, Euston sq. London 18 Jany. 1873, personalty sworn under £180,000. I.L.N. l, 165, 166 (1867), portrait, lxii, 91, 113, 114 (1873), portrait.

GRAVES, Thomas. Entered R.N. 9 March 1816; in the Adventure surveying vessel 1827; surveying in the Mediterranean 1832–50; captain 3 Aug. 1846; F.R.A.S., F.G.S.; port officer Malta; stabbed by a boatman in the street at Malta 29 Aug. 1856. United Service Gazette 6 Sept. 1856 pp. 5, 6, 8.

GRAVES-SAWLE, Sir Joseph Sawle, 1 Baronet (son of admiral John Graves d. 6 May 1811 aged 68). b. Exeter 10 Dec. 1793; took surname of Sawle by royal license 7 April 1815, took additional name of Graves by r.l. 30 Nov. 1827; cr. baronet 22 March 1836. d. Ashfield house, Honiton, Devon 13 Jany. 1865.

GRAY, John Gray, 16 Baron. b. Aberdeen 12 May 1798; succeeded 20 Aug. 1842; a representative peer for Scotland, March 1847 to death. d. 18 Champs Elysees, Paris 31 Jany. 1867.

GRAY, Rev. Andrew (eld. son of William Gray, stocking-maker). b. Aberdeen 2 Nov. 1805; educ. Marischal coll. 1820, M.A. 1824; presbyterian minister at Woodside near Aberdeen 1 Sept. 1831; minister of West church, Perth 14 July 1836; minister of the Free church, Perth 1843 to death; convenor of Glasgow evangelisation committee 1855; author of The present conflict between civil and ecclesiastical courts examined 1839; A catechism of the principles of the Free church 1845; Gospel contrasts and parallels 1862, and some pamphlets. d. Perth 10 March 1861. A. Candlish’s Memoir of A. Gray (1862), pp. ix-civ, portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3 ser. (1851), 281–8.

GRAY, Charles. b. Anstruther, Fifeshire 10 March 1782; second lieut. R.M. 10 Oct. 1804; capt. 9 April 1829 to 13 Nov. 1840, when he retired on full pay; a founder of Musomanik soc. at Anstruther which existed 1813–17; Memb. of Soc. of Antiquaries of Scotland; author of Poems and songs, Cupar 1811, 2 ed. Edin. 1814; Lays and Lyrics 1841; A familiar epistle to P. M’Leod Edin. 1845; contributed to J. F. Wood’s Songs of Scotland 3 vols. 1848–9. d. Archibald place, Edinburgh 13 April 1851. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland ii, 41–3 (1877); Conolloy’s Eminent Men of Fife (1866) p. 207; Whistle Binkie (1878) pp. 28–32.

GRAY, David. b. Kirkaldy, Fifeshire; professor of natural philosophy Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1845 to death. d. Aberdeen 10 Feb. 1856 aged 45.

GRAY, David (eld. son of a hand-loom weaver). b. Merkland, Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire 29 Jany. 1838; educ. Glasgow univ.; private tutor; sent verses to the Glasgow Citizen; went to London 5 May 1860 and spent his first night in Hyde park, then lived in a garret with R. W. Buchanan; befriended by Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) and Sydney Dobell; returned to Merkland, Jany. 1861; in Sudbrook park hydropathic establishment, Richmond 1861; author of The Luggie and other poems 1862; Poems, with memoirs by Lord Houghton and others 1863, another ed. Glasgow 1874. d. of consumption and in poverty at Merkland 3 Dec. 1861. David Gray and other essays by Robert W. Buchanan (1868) pp. 63–174, with portrait; J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland (1877) ii, 485–88; Cornhill Mag. ix, 164–77 (1864).

GRAY, Edmund Dwyer (2 son of Sir John Gray, M.P. 1816–75). b. Dublin 29 Dec. 1845; stockbroker; connected with the Freeman’s Journal, became manager on his father’s death 1875, converted it into a limited co. 1887; proprietor of Belfast Morning News; contested Kilkenny 1875, M.P. Tipperary 1877–80, M.P. county Carlow 1880–85, M.P. St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 1885 to death, supported Mr. Parnell; lord mayor of Dublin 1880, organised a famine relief fund amounting to £180,000; high sheriff of Dublin 1882, sent to prison for 3 months for comments in Freeman’s Journal on trial of Francis Hynes. d. Pembroke house, Upper Mount st. Dublin 27 March 1888. Freeman’s Journal 28, 29 March and 2 April 1888; Pall Mall Gazette 28 March 1888 p. 10, portrait.

GRAY, Edward William. b. 1787; cheese factor and mealman, Bartholomew st. Newbury, Berks. 1823; mayor of Newbury 1839–40; edited The history of Newbury, including 28 parishes in Berks., also a Catalogue of Plants, Speenhamland 1839. d. Woodspeen, Berks. 19 June 1860 aged 73. N. and Q. 4 ser. iii, 554, 607 (1869); Money’s Newbury (1887) pp. 410, 552.

GRAY, George Robert (youngest son of Samuel Frederick Gray, chemist d. 1836). b. Chelsea 8 July 1809; educ. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.; assistant zoological department British Museum 1831, assistant keeper 1869; F.R.S. 1866; author of Entomology of Australia 1833; A list of the genera of birds 1840, 2 ed. 1841, 3 ed. 1855; Genera of birds 3 vols. 1844–49; Hand-list of the genera and species of birds 1869–72 and 13 other books. d. London 5 May 1872. Annals of Natural History 4 ser. ix, 480 (1872).

GRAY, Henry. F.R.C.S.; lecturer on anatomy St. George’s hospital; took triennial prize of R. coll. surgeons 1849 for essay on anatomy of the eye; took triennial Astley Cooper prize of £300 for researches on the spleen 1853; resident Fellow Med. Chir. Soc. 1850; F.R.S. 1852; author of Anatomy descriptive and surgical 1858 11 ed. 1887; The pocket Gray or anatomist’s vade mecum 1879, 6 ed. 1886 and other books. d. of small pox 8 Wilton st., Belgrave sq., London 8 June 1861 aged 36. Proc. Royal Soc. xii, p. xi (1863); Proc. R. Med. Chir. Soc. iv, 78–79 (1862).

GRAY, John. b. Aberdeen 1805; educ. Gordon’s hospital; with White and Whitmore, solicitors, London; barrister Middle Temple 26 Jany. 1838, bencher 1863; Q.C. 4 Nov. 1863; solicitor to the Treasury March 1871, conducted prosecution of Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant 1873; author of Gray’s Country Attorney’s practice 1836; The Country Solicitor’s practice 1837; Gray’s Law of costs 1853. d. 16 Gloucester road, Regent’s Park, London 22 Jany. 1875 in his 68 year. I.L.N. lxvi, 109, 110 (1875), portrait.

GRAY, Sir John (3 son of John Gray). b. Claremorris, co. Mayo 1816; M.D. practised in Dublin 1839; editor and part proprietor of Freeman’s Journal 1841, sole proprietor 1850; indicted with D. O’Connell for conspiracy against the queen and imprisoned in Richmond bridewell Feb. to Sept. 1843; contested Monaghan 1852, M.P. Kilkenny city 1865 to death; knighted by the earl of Carlisle 30 June 1863 for his services in procuring water for Dublin from the Vartry river; declined to serve as lord mayor of Dublin 1868; originated movement which led to Gladstone’s disestablishment of Irish church, and was presented with £3,500 Aug. 1863; author of The Irish church establishment 1866. d. Bath 9 April 1875. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, marble statue erected in Sackville st. Dublin 1879. I.L.N. xliii, 248 (1863) lxvi, 379 (1875); Medical Times 17 April 1875, p. 431.

GRAY, John Edward (elder bro. of George Robert Gray 1809–72). b. Walsall, Staffs. 12 Feb. 1800; educ. St. Bartholomew’s and Middlesex hospitals; blackballed at Linnean soc. 1822, elected Fellow 1857; F. Entom. soc. 1824; assistant British Museum 1824, keeper of zoological department 31 March 1840, resigned Dec. 1874, edited many catalogues of the contents of his department; on natural history, zoology, social, educational and sanitary questions, wrote 1162 books, papers and memoirs 1824 to death; F.R.S. 1832, vice president; Dr. Philos. of Munich univ. 1852; author of A hand catalogue of postage stamps 1862, 2 ed. 1863; Handbook of British waterweeds 1864; Lizards of Australia and New Zealand 1867; Synopsis of star fishes in British Museum 1866 and other books. d. British Museum 7 March 1875. AthenÆum 13 March 1875, p. 363; Portraits of Men of Eminence (1863), portrait.

GRAY, Rev. John Hamilton (only son of Robert Gray of Carntyre, Lanarks., who d. 1833). b. Glasgow 29 Dec. 1800; ed. at Glasgow, Magd. coll., Ox. and Gottingen; B.A. Ox. 1824, M.A. Ox. 1826; member of Scottish bar 1824–28; a constant visitor to the continent and Italy; V. of Bolsover and Scarcliff, co. Derby 1833–66; rural dean of Chesterfield 1847; R. of Walton-le-Wald, co. Leicester 1866; author of On the ordaining influence of the Holy Ghost 1837; Sermons in Rome during Lent 1838, 1842; Bolsover Castle 1838 and other books. (m. 23 June 1829 Elizabeth Caroline eld. dau. of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, co. Clackmannan, she was author of Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria 1841, 3 ed. 1843 and 3 other books, and d. 21 Feb. 1887 aged 87), he d. 91 Sloane st. London 20 April 1867. bur. crypt of Glasgow cath. Autobiography of Rev. J. H. Gray (1868), portrait.

GRAY, Venerable John Henry. Educ. Christ’s coll. Camb.; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, LLD. 1876; D.D. of Lambeth, March 1881; C. of Rothley, Leicester 1850–52; H.M. consular chaplain, Canton 1852–78; archdeacon of Hong Kong 1867–78; R. of Hunsdon, Herts. 1881–84; author of China, a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people 2 vols. 1878; Walks in the city of Canton 1875; A journey round the world 1879; contributed to the London and China Express a series of papers on Chinese customs 1889–90. d. St. Leonard’s, Sussex 16 March 1890 aged 62.

GRAY, Joseph Bowers (eld. son of Joseph Gray of Chelmsford). b. 1820; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 24 Feb. 1848 aged 28; principal of Berwick college, Maine, U.S.; M.A. and D. Med. d. South Berwick 1 Nov. 1856 aged 39. G.M. ii, 247 (1887).

GRAY, Rev. Joshua Taylor (5 son of Rev. J. Gray, pastor of College st. church, Northampton). b. Devonport 9 Feb. 1809; educ. Mill Hill gram. sch. and Bristol coll.; Ph.D.; pastor at Cambridge; kept schools at North Brixton and at South Crescent, Bedford sq. London; pastor Wellington sq. ch. Hastings 1849; tutor in Stepney coll. 1850; author of Exercises in logic 1845; Immortality, its real and alleged evidences 1843, 2 ed. 1847. d. 1 Stuart villa, Sydenham road, Bristol 13 July 1854. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful men of Bristol coll. (1884) pp. 315–17.

GRAY, Louisa M. (dau. of Rev. Thomas Gray of Freech, Inverurie). Author of Ada and Gerty, a story of school life, Edin. 1875, 2 ed. 1878; Mine own people 1884; Dunalton, the story of Jack and his guardians 1886. d. Dec. 1888 or Jany. 1889.

GRAY, Maria Emma (dau. of Henry Smith, lieut. R.N.) b. Greenwich hospital, Kent 1787. (m. (1) 1810 Francis Edward Gray of Oporto and Blackheath, who d. 1814; m. (2) in 1826 John Edward Gray 1800–75, whom she assisted in his works, especially by her drawing); arranged Cuming collection of shells in British Museum; author of Figures of molluscous animals for the use of students 5 vols. 1842–74; arranged sets of algÆ for schools to encourage study; bequeathed her collection of algÆ to Cambridge univ. museum; the genus Grayemma was called after her 1866; her husband struck a bronze medal with their portraits on it 1863. d. 43 Russell sq. London 9 Dec. 1876. Times 15 Dec. 1876 p. 7.

GRAY, Paul. b. Dublin; came to London 1863 aged 21; etched the large cartoons for new series of Fun 1863; supplied the illustrations to Kingsley’s Hereward the Wake 1866; connected as an artist with London Journal, London Society, etc.; illustrated Ghosts’ wives 1867 and Idyllic pictures 1867. d. Brighton 14 Nov. 1866 aged 24. bur. R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 17 Nov. Daily Telegraph 19 Nov. 1866 p. 5.

GRAY, Peter. b. Aberdeen 1807?; educ. Aberdeen univ.; studied mathematics and life contingencies; hon. mem. Institution of Actuaries; F.R. Astronom. Soc.; F.R. Micros. Soc.; consulting actuary to Railway accident mutual assurance soc. 1874; author of Tables and FormulÆ for the computation of life contingencies 1849; Tables for the formation of logarithms and anti-logarithms to 12 places 1865, another ed. 1876; with H. A. Smith and W. Orchard Assurance and annuity table on the Carlisle rate of mortality 1851. d. 20 St. Augustine road, Camden sq. London 17 Jany. 1887. Journ. of Instit. of Actuaries, xxvi, pt. i, 301–2, 406; Walford’s Insurance CyclopÆdia, v, 540–41 (1878).

GRAY, Right Rev. Robert (7 son of Dr. Robert Gray, bishop of Bristol, d. 28 Sep. 1834 aged 70). b. Bishopwearmouth rectory, Durham 3 Oct. 1809; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, created D.D. 1847; P.C. of Whitworth, Durham 1834; V. of Stockton on Tees, collated 30 Sep. 1845; hon. canon of Durham cath., collated 3 Oct. 1846; the first bishop of Capetown 28 June 1847 to death; consecrated 29 June 1847; resigned his bishopric in order to have the diocese divided into three parts 23 Nov. 1853; bishop of Cape Town and metropolitan of South Africa 6 Dec. 1853; deprived Rev. W. Long of Mowbray of his license for not attending a synod 1861, privy council reversed the sentence 1863; deposed J. W. Colenso, bishop of Natal for heresy 1863, privy council reversed the sentence 1865; author of Journal of a visitation tour in Cape Town 1850; Journal of a visitation of the diocese of Natal 1864; Journal of a visitation of eastern portion of diocese of Capetown 1866 and other books. d. Capetown 1 Sep. 1872. bur. Claremont ch. yard 3 Sep. Life of R. Gray, bishop of Capetown 2 vols. (1876); Graphic, vi, 370, 372 (1872), portrait.

GRAY, Robert (son of Archibald Gray, merchant). b. Dunbar, co. Haddington 15 Aug. 1825; clerk City of Glasgow bank 1845, agent of branch St. Vincent st., Glasgow 1871, inspector of branches to 1874; superintendent of branches, Bank of Scotland 1874, cashier Edinb. 1882 to death; a great student of ornithology; a founder of Nat. Hist. soc. of Glasgow 1851, treasurer 1854–6, sec. 1858–71; F.R.S. Edin. 1875, vice president 1882; sec. Royal Physical soc. Edin. 1877 which he reformed. (m. 8 April 1856 Elizabeth dau. of Thomas Anderson of Girvan, she made extensive geological collections and aided her husband in his ornithological pursuits); author of The Birds of the West of Scotland 1871. d. Bank of Scotland house, Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1887.

GRAY, Venerable Robert. Lindsay scholar of Hatfield hall, Durham, B.A. 1856, M.A. and B.D. 1864, D.D. 1871; C. of Leverbridge, Lancs. 1856–8; head master of gram. schs. at Simonstown and Georgetown, S. Africa 1858–63; head master of high sch. and inspector of schs. of St. Helena 1864–68; archdeacon of Pieter-Maritzburg 1868; dean of Pieter-Maritzburg 1869–70; chaplain of Martley union, Worcs. 1878–84; V. of Toller Porcorum, Dorset 1884 to death. d. Toller Porcorum about 15 Oct. 1887 in 56 year. Times 18 Oct. 1887 p. 6; Guardian 19 Oct. 1887 p. 1568.

GRAY, Rev. Robert Henry (eld. son of Robert Gray of Brompton). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 13 May 1836 aged 18, student 1836–48, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; C. of Knowsley, Lancs. 1846–50; V. of Kirkby, Liverpool 1850–77; hon. canon of Chester cath. 1867; R. of Wolsingham, Durham 1877 to death; author of Inspiration of Holy Scripture 1859; On the difficulties of the first chapter of Genesis 1860 and other books. d. Wolsingham 19 May 1885 aged 67.

GRAY, Thomas (son of a schoolmaster at Westminster). Clerk in marine department of board of trade at 30s. a week 1851, permanent assist. sec. 1867 to death; auditor of Mersey dock estate; especially clever in surveying steamships; author of Rule of the road 1867; Diggles, a legend of the Victoria Docks, By Arthur de Cripp Elgate i.e. T. Gray 1868; Under the red ensign, or going to sea 1878; Fifty years of legislation in relation to the shipping trade and the safety of ships and seamen 1887; C.B. 1885. d. Rokesby house, 23 St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 15 March 1890 aged 58. Times 18 March 1890 p. 5; I.L.N. 29 March 1890 p. 390, portrait.

GREAM, George Thompson (son of Rev. Robert Gream, R. of Rotherfield, Sussex, d. 1856). M.R.C.S. Eng. 1836; M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1850; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859, F.R.C.P. 1867; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; physician accoucheur to Princess of Wales 13 Jany. 1864; on the retirement of Sir C. Locock became the leading west-end practitioner in midwifery; author of Remarks on diet of children 1847; Remarks on the employment of anÆsthetic agents in midwifery 1848. d. The Drive, Hove, Brighton 20 July 1888 aged 76. Lancet 28 July 1888 p. 189.

GREATHED, Sir Edward Harris (eld. son of Edward Harris Greathed of Uddens near Wimborne, Dorset, d. 1 Dec. 1840 aged 63). b. South Audley st. London 8 June 1812; ed. at Westminster 1825–9; ensign 8 foot 22 June 1832, lieut. col. 26 June 1858 to 28 Oct. 1859 when placed on h.p.; served in India 1846–59, commanded eastern district of England 1872–7; col. 108 foot 28 Jany. 1880 to death; general 1 July 1880; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Uddens 19 Nov. 1881. Robertson’s Memorial of Sir E. H. Greathed (1885), portrait.

GREATHED, William Wilberforce Harris (brother of the preceding). b. Paris 21 Dec. 1826; 2 lieut. Bengal Engineers 9 Dec. 1844, lieut. col. 1 July 1867; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8; assistant military sec. Horse Guards 1861–65; chief engineer 2 class D.P. works 7 Oct. 1870; constructed Agra canal from the Jumna, and Lower Ganges canal 1873; general 7 July 1868; C.B. 1860. d. London 29 Dec. 1878. bur. Hampreston ch. Dorset 4 Jany. 1879. Memorial of life of W. W. H. Greathed (1879), portrait.

GREATHEED, Rev. Samuel Stephenson. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, fellow 1837; 4th wrangler 1835; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; C. of West Drayton, Middlesex 1840; R. of Corringham, Essex 1862 to death; composer of The sequential book of church music 1849; Enoch’s Prophecy 1854 an oratorio; The English Gradual 1871 and several other works in sacred music. d. Corringham 19 Jany. 1887 in 74 year.

GREATOREX, Henry Wellington (son of Thomas Greatorex 1758–1831, organist of Westminster Abbey). b. Burton-on-Trent 1816; ed. by his father; went to New York 1839, teacher of music there and organist of Calvary church; organist at St. Paul’s chapel, New York; did much to advance the standard of sacred music; published A collection of psalms and hymn tunes, chants, anthems, and sentences, Boston 1851. d. Charleston, South Carolina, Sep. 1858.

GREAVES, Charles (eld. son of Charles Greaves d. 1829). b. Amwell, Herts. 19 Oct. 1816; articled to J. M. Rendel, civil engineer, Plymouth 1831–7; was in India 1842–7 when he made a survey for the Great Western railway of Bengal; engineer of East London waterworks 1851–75, in Oct. 1872 was presented with £1000 for his services in carrying out improved filter beds, pumping engines, etc. at cost of one million; engineer at Westminster chambers, Victoria st. London 1875–78; M.I.C.E. 2 May 1848; F.G.S.; F.R. Meteorol. soc. 1851, president 1879; had a meteorological observatory Surrey st. London 1878–83. d. Sunhill, Clevedon 4 Nov. 1883. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxvi, 355–59 (1884).

GREAVES, Charles Sprengel (eld. son of Will. Greaves of Mayfield, Staffs. M.D. 1771–1848). b. 18 July 1801; ed. at Rugby and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1827, bencher 15 April 1850; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; one of secs. to criminal law commission 1878; author of The proper time for the publication of Banns 1867; A review of the statutes, rubrics and canons relating to vestments 1867; edited Sir W. O. Russell’s Treatise on crimes and misdemeanours 2 vols., 3 ed. 1843, 3 vols. 4 ed. 1865. d. 11 Blandford sq. London 3 June 1881.

GREAVES, Edward. b. 21 Sep. 1803; a banker at Warwick; mayor of Warwick 1840; M.P. for Warwick 1852–65 and 1868–74. d. Avonside, Barford, Warwickshire 6 July 1879.

GREAVES, Henley George (son of Geo. Greaves d. 1860). b. 9 Oct. 1818; master of the Cottesmore hounds 1847–52, of the Essex 1853–58, of the Warwickshire 1858–61, of the Vale of White Horse 1861–63, of the old Berkshire 1863. d. Winslow, Bucks. 14 Aug. 1872.

GREAVES, Richard. Lieut. 7 foot 16 July 1812; major 34 foot 1828 to 21 Jany. 1837 when placed on h.p.; col. of 40 foot 15 Dec. 1851 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871. d. 69 Chester sq. London 22 May 1872 aged 79.

GREEN, Rev. Aaron Levy (youngest son of Levy Green). b. Middlesex st. Aldgate, London, Aug. 1821; ed. at Talmud Torah sch.; minister of the Bristol congregation May 1838 to 1851; second reader of Greek synagogue, Duke st. Aldgate, March 1851; minister of old Portland st. branch synagogue 1855; hon. sec. to Jews’ coll. Finsbury sq. 1852; a founder of Jewish assoc. for diffusion of religious knowledge 1860; a founder of Anglo Jewish assoc. 1871; a scholar in many languages; author of pamphlets; a writer in The Jewish Chronicle under name of Nemo 1853–83; seized with apoplexy in Cornhill, and on being taken to St. Bartholomew’s hospital was found to be dead 11 March 1883. Jewish Chronicle 16 March 1883 pp. 9–13.

GREEN, Sir Andrew Pellatt. Entered navy 14 April 1793; in the Harrier sloop at capture of Coxhaven 1813, and as a volunteer at Gluckstadt 1814; captain 12 April 1814, placed on h.p. 1820; naval A.D.C. to William iv. 1837 and to Victoria 1841; V.A. on h.p. 31 Jany. 1856; K.H. 1818, K.C.H. 24 Aug. 1832. d. 9 James st. Buckingham gate, London 26 Dec. 1858 aged 81.

GREEN, Benjamin Richard (son of James Green, portrait painter 1771–1834). b. London 1808; studied in R. Academy sch. and painted figures and landscapes; memb. Instit. of painters in water colours 1834; teacher of drawing and a lecturer; exhibited 40 works at R.A. and 38 at Suffolk st. 1832–62; sec. of Artists’ Annuity Fund; author of A numismatic atlas of ancient history 1829; A series of heads after the Antique 1836; A guide to pictorial perspective 1851. d. London 5 Oct. 1876.

GREEN, Bevis Ellerby. Apprenticed to Mr. Hurst of Longman’s 1807, a partner 1824 to June 1865 when he retired; was only remaining partner of the old firm of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, publishers Paternoster row. d. 5 Kensington palace gardens 24 Jany. 1869 aged 75, will proved March 1869 personalty under £200,000.

GREEN, Charles (son of Thomas Green, fruiterer d. 1850). b. 92 Goswell road, London 31 Jany. 1785; fruiterer with his father; made first balloon ascent from Green park, London 19 July 1821 using carburetted hydrogen gas; went up on the back of a pony 16 Aug. 1828; constructed Great Nassau balloon for Vauxhall gardens 1836; went in the Nassau from London to Nassau, Germany 7–8 Nov. 1836; ascended with Robert Cocking 24 July 1837 when Cocking in coming down in a parachute was killed; ascended to height of 5–1/4 miles 10 Sep. 1838; farewell and last of 527 voyages, at Vauxhall 13 Sep. 1852; invented the guide rope to regulate ascent and descent of balloon. d. Ariel villa, 51 Tufnell park road, Holloway, London 26 March 1870. Mason’s Aeronautica (1838) 1–98, portrait; Turnor’s Astra Castra (1865) 129 etc., 2 portraits; I.L.N. 16 April 1870 p. 401, portrait.

GREEN, Christopher. b. near Wisbeach 1820; rode for Mr. Willoughby, Ben Land and Earl Poulett 1850; a trainer at Littleport, Isle of Ely, removed to Newmarket 1859; won the Grand National on Abd-el-Kader 1850 and on Half Caste 1859. d. Wisbeach 26 Feb. 1874. Illust. sporting and dramatic news, i, 61–2 (1874), portrait.

GREEN, Eliza S. Craven (dau. of Mr. Craven). b. Leeds 1803; lived for sometime in Isle of Man and in Manchester, then returned to Leeds; a contributor of poetry and prose sketches to the Phoenix 1828, Falcon 1831, both Manchester magazines, to the Odd-fellows’ Magazine 1841, Leeds Intelligencer 1816, La Follet 1846, Hogg’s Instructor and Chambers’s Journal; had a grant from queen’s privy purse; author of A legend of Mona, Douglas 1825; Sea weeds and heath flowers, Douglas 1858, 2 ed.; edited Flowers from the glen, By J. Waddington 1862. d. Meanwood st., Little London, Leeds 11 March 1866. Biographia Leodiensis (1867), Suppl. 610; W. Grainge’s Poets of Yorkshire, ii, 505.

GREEN, Frank William. Author of Cherry and fair star, burlesque at Surrey theatre 1874; Jack and the beanstalk, pantomime at Garrison theatre, Woolwich 1874; Jack the giant killer, pantomime Surrey theatre 1875; Cinderella, pantomime at Prince of Wales’ theatre, Birmingham 1877; also wrote Gulliver and the fair Persian, Lothair for Theatre royal, Liverpool, and Hop o’ my Thumb for T.R. Brighton. d. 5 Staple inn, Holborn, London 16 April 1884 aged 42.

GREEN, Rev. Henry (son of a paper maker). b. Penshurst, Kent 23 June 1801; educ. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1825; minister Presbyterian ch. Knutsford, Cheshire, Jany. 1827, resigned June 1872, also kept a school; one of founders of Holbein soc. 1868, member of council; a student of the early emblem writers; author of Sir I. Newton’s Views on Trinitarian doctrine 1856; The cat in chancery, Manchester 1858, anon.; Knutsford and its traditions 1859; edited 6 works for Holbein soc., and about 15 other books. d. Knutsford 9 Aug. 1873. Unitarian Herald 22 Aug. 1873.

GREEN, John (son of Mr. Green, agricultural implement maker). b. Newton Fell house, Nafferton, Northumberland 20 June 1787; partner with his father, when they removed to Corbridge; removed to Newcastle, architect there 1821; designed and executed the chain bridge over the Tyne at Scotswood 1831; built bridges over the Tees and the Ouse, the theatre and Grey column at Newcastle, the Durham monument on Pensher hill, and churches at Stockton and Middlesbrough; M.I.C.E. 1840. d. Newcastle 30 Sep. 1852. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii, 138–40 (1854).

GREEN, John. Actor at old English opera house, London, and at Covent Garden; manager of the Cider Cellars in Maiden lane, Strand, London, and singer there; chairman and conductor of music at Evans’ hall 43 King st. Covent Garden 1842–4; manager and proprietor in succession to W. C. Evans (who d. 1855) of Evans’s hotel and music hall 1844 to 1865 when he sold it for £30,000 to a joint stock company which took possession 24 June 1865; gave evidence before committee on theatrical licences 1866; his theatrical portraits were sold at Christie’s 22 July 1871; always known as Paddy Green; author of Odds and Ends about Covent Garden 1866. d. 6 Farm st. May Fair, London 12 Dec. 1874 aged 73. House of Commons Papers, xvi, 200–204 (1866).

GREEN, Sir John. Vice consul at Nauplia 1 May 1835; agent and consul general for united principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia 12 Jany. 1867 to 16 Feb. 1874 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; knighted at Windsor Castle 7 July 1874. d. Marienbad 18 Sep. 1877 aged 69.

GREEN, John (son of John Green of Greenville, co. Kilkenny). b. 1815; lieut. 5 light dragoons; lieut. 4 dragoon guards; M.P. co. Kilkenny 1847–65. d. London 16 June 1883.

GREEN, John George. b. Buckden, Hunts.; gentleman usher to William iv. and Victoria 1832 to death; probably last surviving military officer who was on duty at Nelson’s funeral in St. Paul’s cathedral 9 Jany. 1806. d. in same room in which he was born at Buckden 5 Jany. 1882 aged 94.

GREEN, John Philip (only son of Rev. Henry Green). b. 1830; ed. at Univ. college, London, B.A. London 1849, LL.B. 1853; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1856; went to Bombay 1862; judge of high court of judicature Bombay 22 Feb. 1873 to 1881; lived at or near Naples 1881 to death; edited Bombay High Court Reports 1862–65, 1870. Killed by an earthquake at Casamicciola in the island of Ischia 28 July 1883.

GREEN, Rev. John Richard (elder son of Richard Green of St. Aldates, Oxford, parish clerk of St. Mary the Virgin, d. 1849). b. Oxford 12 Dec. 1837; educ. Magdalen coll. sch.; scholar of Jesus coll. 1853–60, B.A. 1860, M.A. 1862, hon. fellow 1877–83; LLD. Edin. 1878; C. of St. Barnabas, King’s sq. London 1860–3; C. of Holy Trinity, Hoxton 1863–6; P.C. of St. Philip, Stepney 1866–9; hon. librarian Lambeth palace 1869 to death; author of A Short history of the English people 1874, numerous editions; History of the English people 4 vols. 1877–80; The making of England 1881 and other books; edited History primers 6 vols. 1875–84; Literature primers 6 vols. 1875–9; Classical writers 7 vols. 1879–82. d. Mentone 7 March 1883. The conquest of England, finished by Mrs. Green (1883), portrait; Contemporary Review xliii, 732–46 (1883); Fortnightly Review xxxiii, 734–47 (1883); Macmillan’s Mag. May 1883 pp. 59–74.

GREEN, Jonathan. b. 1788; M.R.C.S. Eng. 7 Dec. 1810; M.D. Heidelberg 1834; F.R. Med. Chir. soc. 1835; surgeon R.N.; introduced and established fumigating baths 5 Bury st. St. James’, London 1823, removed to 40 Great Marlborough st. 1825, but the baths were not successful; author of The utility of fumigating baths 1823; A practical compendium of diseases of the skin 1835 and other books. d. in the Charterhouse, London 23 Feb. 1864.

GREEN, Joseph Henry (only son of Joseph Green, merchant d. 1833). b. London 1 Nov. 1791; M.R.C.S. 1815, member of council 1835, president 1849, 1858, delivered Hunterian orations 1840 and 1847; in practice at 22, then at 46 Lincoln’s inn fields 1815–36; surgeon St. Thomas’ hospital 1820–53, consulting surgeon 1853; gave sir Astley Cooper £1000 for half of his anatomical preparations 3 Aug. 1820; professor of anatomy R.C. Surgeons 1824, and Royal academy 1825–52; F.R.S. 1825; a great lithotomist, in 1827 he operated on 40 cases, with only one death; professor of surgery King’s coll. London 1830–6; resided Hadley, Middlesex 1836 to death; D.C.L. Oxf. 9 June 1853; the companion and friend of Coleridge; author of The dissector’s manual 1820; A manual of modern surgery 1828; Spiritual philosophy 2 vols. 1865 and other works. d. The Mount, Hadley 13 Dec. 1863. bur. Highgate cemetery. Spiritual Philosophy by J. H. Green, Memoir by J. Simon in i, pp. i-lx (1865), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of Art ii, 458–61 (1854).

GREEN, Richard (son of George Green, partner in firm of Green, Wigram and Green, owners of a line of East India ships). b. Blackwall Dec. 1803; partner in his father’s business, which on G. Green’s death was dissolved; partner with his brother Henry Green, commenced a line of Australian ships 1850, and a line to China 1862; established a sailors’ home 1830 and instituted a course of navigation for his officers and men; chairman of committee of Thames marine officers training ship ‘Worcester.’ d. at his sister’s residence 7 Hanover ter. Regent’s park, London 17 Jany. 1863; left the site and a perpetual endowment for Sailors’ Home at Poplar; personalty sworn under £350,000 14 March 1863. I.L.N. Jany. 1863 pp. 120, 126, portrait; Times 20, 27 Jany. 11 Feb. 1863.

GREEN, Richard. b. Islington, March 1783; bookseller at Framlingham about 1824 to death; postmaster 1853 to death; author of The history of Framlingham 1834; The strangers’ guide to Framlingham 1853, 3 ed. 1878. d. Framlingham 8 June 1873.

GREEN, Robert. A baritone vocalist at Canterbury and Oxford music halls London, where he appeared in selections from Offenbach and other composers 1865 etc.; sang at the Alhambra. d. Clayton hospital, Wakefield 14 March 1882 from hydrophobia.

GREEN, Roger. b. Youghal, co. Cork 4 Nov. 1798; M.D. Edin., Aug. 1826; founded Youghal literary and scientific institution 1833. d. Youghal 4 Oct. 1851. Medical Directory 1852 pp. 661–2.

GREEN, Thomas Hiden. Kept cows and a milk shop in Cato st. Edgware road, London; betrayed Arthur Thistlewood and the 4 other conspirators to the government, they were arrested 23 Feb. 1820 and executed 1 May; changed his name from Hiden to Green; rewarded with a place in the stamping department Somerset house, and a retiring pension; murdered his landlord Louis Keyzor at Whitton near Hounslow 11 Oct. 1869, shot himself through the heart at 13 Keyzor place, Whitton same day aged 81. Times 14 Oct. 1869 p. 7.

GREEN, Thomas Hill (youngest son of Valentine Green, R. of Birkin, Yorkshire). b. Birkin 7 April 1836; educ. Rugby 1850–5 and Ball. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862, fellow 1860–82, senior dean 1865, ethical lecturer and tutor 1869, dean 1871–72, classical tutor 1875, Whyte professor of moral philosophy 21 Dec. 1877 to death; assist. commissioner on middle class schools 1864–6; set up a coffee tavern in St. Clement’s, Oxford 1875; his character is described in Mrs. Ward’s Robert Elsmere 1888 under the name of Mr. Gray; edited The philosophical works of David Hume 1874. d. at house of H. P. Symonds, F.R.C.S., 35 Beaumont st. Oxford 26 March 1882. The works of T. H. Green (1888), memoir in iii, pp. xi-clxi, portrait; Macmillan’s Mag., May 1882 p. 87.

GREEN, Rev. Thomas Louis (5 son of John Green of Solihull, Warws.) b. Stourbridge, Worcs. 1799; ed. at Sedgley Park sch. and Oscott coll.; R.C. priest at Tixall, Staffs. 1830–46; chaplain at St. Mary’s priory, Princethorpe near Coventry 1848–58; chaplain to Lord Acton at Aldenham park near Bridgnorth 1860–82; created D.D. in Shrewsbury cath. 20 Oct. 1866; author of The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, The Catholic Church vindicated 2 vols. 1838–40 and 6 other books. d. Salter’s hall, Newport, Salop 27 Feb. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 27–32 (1887).

GREENALL, Ven. Richard (4 son of Edward Greenall of Wilderspool near Warrington, Lancs. brewer and banker d. 20 Nov. 1835). b. 11 May 1806; educ. Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; P.C. of Stretton, Cheshire 1831 to death; rural dean 1839 to death; hon. canon of Chester 1865 to death; archdeacon of Chester 26 Sep. 1866 to death; author of sermons. d. Wilton house, Northwick, Cheshire 27 Nov. 1867.

GREENE, John Baker Stafford (eld. son of John Alfred Greene, barrister of King’s inns, Dublin). b. 1833; B.A. and M.B. Trin. coll. Dublin 1853; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1853; assist. surgeon 1 foot 1854–56, served in Crimean campaign, present at Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol; barrister of M.T. 7 June 1858; LL.B. London univ. 1859; a writer for periodicals; was with Sir Rich. M’Cormack’s ambulance during siege of Paris 1870; author of The Hebrew migration from Egypt 1879, 2 ed. 1883; Notes on Ireland 1886. d. suddenly 13 Clements’ inn, Strand, London 22 June 1888. Times 26 June 1888 p. 10.

GREENE, John Stock Turner (eld. son of Thomas Green of Bedford, Lancs.) b. 12 Dec. 1803; ed. at Pemb. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1829; judge of county courts circuit No. 10 (Lancashire) March 1847 to March 1872. d. Southworth house near Wigan 16 June 1874.

GREENE, Richard Wilson (son of Sir Jonas Greene, recorder of Dublin d. 1828). b. Dublin 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1814; K.C. 13 July 1830; bencher of King’s Inns 1834; first sergeant 23 May 1835; solicitor general for Ireland Nov. 1842 to Dec. 1845; attorney general Jany. to July 1846; received a patent of precedence 1851; a baron of court of exchequer in Ireland 1852–61; P.C. Ireland 1846; author of A report of the King against W. O’Grady respecting office of clerk of the pleas 1816; A report of the trial of D. Waring for perjury 1817. d. 49 Stephens green, Dublin 23 March 1861.

GREENE, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Greene of Slyne, Lancs. 1737–1810). b. 19 Jany. 1794; educ. Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; barrister G.I. 12 May 1819, but never practised, bencher 1838 to death; M.P. for Lancaster 1824–52 and 1853–7; chairman of committees of house of commons 17 Sep. 1841 to 1847; sheriff of Lancashire 1823. d. Whittington hall, Westmoreland 8 Aug. 1872.

GREENE, Thomas Webb (2 son of Thomas Webb Green of Lichfield d. 10 Jany. 1842). b. 1804; ed. at Repton gr. sch. and Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1833, LL.M. 1859; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832, bencher 1858; Q.C. Jany. 1858; leader in V.C. Stuart’s court 1868–75; member of council on law reporting 22 Feb. 1865, chairman to death. d. 9 Upper Wimpole st. London 14 Nov. 1875.

GREENHOW, Edward Headlam. b. North Shields 1814; practised with his father in North Shields and Tynemouth 1834–52; M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1852; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1859, censor 1880–81, Croonian lecturer 1875; settled in London 1853; lecturer on public health at St. Thomas’ hospital 1855, the first appointment of the kind in England; physician Middlesex hospital 1870; a founder of Clinical soc. 1867, treasurer 1867–79, president 1879; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; retired to Reigate 1881; author of On diphtheria 1860; On Addison’s disease 1866; On bronchitis 1878 and other works. d. of syncope at Charing Cross railway station 22 Nov. 1888. Lancet 1 Dec. 1888 pp. 1104–6.

GREENING, Henry. b. Bromsgrove, Worcestershire 1809; articled to E. W. Oldaker of Pershore, solicitor; a special pleader about 1834; retired from practice 1880; author of A collection of forms of declarations 1837, 2 ed. 1852; edited Chitty’s Treatise on pleading, 7 ed. 3 vols. 1844. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 31 July 1881 in 72 year. bur. Highgate cemetery.

GREENOUGH, George Bellas (son of George Bellas, proctor Doctors’ Commons, d. 12 July 1784). b. 18 Jany. 1778; ed. at Eton; took name of Greenough after his grandfather 179-; entered Pemb. coll. Cam. 1795, resided 9 terms; active member of Royal Institution 1801–7, sec. several years; M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 1807–12; chief founder of Geological society 1807, president 1811–18, 1833–35; F.L.S. 1811; president R. Geog. soc. 1839, 1840; author of A critical examination of the first principles of geology 1819; Memoirs of a geological map of England 1820; Addresses at meetings of Geological soc. 1834, 1835, 1840; published Geological map of England and Wales 1819; General sketch of physical and geological features of India, 9 sheets 1854; A physical and geological map of England and Wales 1865. d. Naples 2 Aug. 1855, bust in Geol. soc. apartments, bequeathed his books and maps to Geological and R. Geographical societies. Quarterly journal of Geological soc. xii, 26–34 (1856); Journ. R. Geogr. soc. xxv, p. lxxxviii.

GREENSTREET, John. Entered Bengal army 1795; colonel 60 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Frenchay near Bristol 9 April 1856 aged 74.

GREENWELL, Dorothy (only dau. of William Thomas Greenwell of Greenwell Ford, Durham 1777–1854). b. Greenwell Ford 6 Dec. 1821; known as Dora Greenwell; lived with her mother at Durham 1847–65, resided 12 Great College st. Westminster 1874; author of Poems 1848; Stories that might be true 1850; The patience of hope 1860, another ed. 1863; Songs of Salvation 1873; Lacordaire, a memoir 1867; Camera Obscura 1876 and 12 other works. d. 8 Alma road, Clifton 29 March 1882. W. Dorling’s Memoirs of D. Greenwell (1885).

GREENWOOD, George (2 son of Wm. Greenwood of Brookwood park, Hants., d. 1844 aged 80). b. 10 June 1799; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 life guards 1817, lieut. col. 1837 to 1840 when he retired; reduced weight of helmet from 8 lb. to 3 lb. 1840; the best breaker in of horses of his day; published Hints on horsemanship 1839, new ed. 1861, the best book on the subject ever done; The tree lifter 1844, 3 ed. 1876; Rain and rivers, or Hutton and Playfair against Lyell and all comers 1857, 2 ed. 1866. d. Brookwood park 3 Nov. 1875. River terraces (1877), with memoir, pp. ix-xv.

GREENWOOD, John (brother of the preceding). b. 24 July 1800; ed. at Eton and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. and M.T. 8 Feb. 1828; Q.C. Dec. 1848; bencher of M.T. 1848; recorder of Portsmouth 1847–8, of Devonport Dec. 1848–51; assist. solicitor to the Treasury 1851 to June 1866, solicitor June 1866 to death; author of The Law Journal, a digest of cases in the Law Journal and Reports 1823; The law of loan societies 1846. d. 53 Chester sq. London 12 Feb. 1871. I.L.N. lviii, 163, 315 (1871).

GREENWOOD, John (eld. son of Frederick Greenwood of Norton Conyers, Ripon). b. Ryshworth hall, Yorkshire 20 Feb. 1830; educ. Eton and Christ Church, Ox., B.A. 1851; M.P. for Ripon 1857–65. d. 7 Chandos st. Cavendish sq. London 21 Feb. 1874.

GREENWOOD, John Beswicke (eld. son of Abram Greenwood). b. 1796; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; police magistrate at Clerkenwell court, London 1837 to May 1847; chairman of West Riding quarter sessions; author of The early ecclesiastical history of Dewsbury 1859. d. Moor house, Dewsbury 9 Oct. 1879. I.L.N. x, 332 (1847), portrait.

GREENWOOD, Thomas. b. 1790; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1831; barrister G.I. 24 June 1817, bencher 1837 to death, treasurer 1841–2; fellow of Univ. of Durham, reader in history and polite literature there; author of Cathedra Petri, a survey of the papal supremacy 1843, another ed. 1856; Position and prospects of the churches of Great Britain and Ireland with reference to the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy 1851. d. 14 Westbourne ter. Hyde Park, London 1 Nov. 1871.

GREENWOOD, Thomas. b. Gildersome near Leeds; a machine and tool maker Leeds 1833; manager for Sir Peter Fairbairn at Leeds to 1856; constructed machinery for manufacture of the Enfield rifle and other war stores 1854; partner with John Batley at Leeds 1856; established a small arms manufactory in Russia 1871; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1860. d. Gipsy hill near the Crystal palace 9 Feb. 1873. bur. Woodhouse cemetery, Leeds. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii, 311–13 (1874); Leeds Times 15 Feb. 1873 p. 5.

GREENWOOD, Thomas Longdon (son of Thomas Greenwood who painted scenery for Tom and Jerry at Olympic theatre). b. 1806; druggist Clerkenwell; partner with Robert Plunkett Honner as managers of Sadler’s wells 1839, acting manager May 1841, lessee 1842–44, partner there with Samuel Phelps 1844–60 when many Shakspeare’s dramas were produced; director of Astleys; acting manager of Princesses; as the elder of the Brothers Grinn supplied pantomimes to metropolitan theatres; writer of Jack Shepherd, an adaptation; Paul the Pilot; Is it the king?; the pantomime Harlequin Robin Hood at Sadler’s Wells 1844. d. Trinity sq. Brixton 10 May 1879. Michael Williams’ Some London theatres (1883) 17–29; Era 18 May 1879 p. 5.

GREER, Samuel Macurdy (eld. son of Rev. Thos. Greer, presbyterian minister at Dunboe). b. Springvale, co. Derry 1810; educ. Belfast acad. and Glasgow univ.; called to the Irish bar 1833; an originator of the tenant league 1850, which demanded the three F’s, fixity of tenure, fair rents and free sale; contested co. Derry 1852, 1859, and Londonderry city 1860, 1865; M.P. for Londonderry 1857–59; recorder of Londonderry 1870–8; county court judge of Cavan and Leitrim 1878. d. 3 Gardiner’s place, Dublin 3 Nov. 1880.

GREEY, Edward. b. Sandwich, Kent 1 Dec. 1835; capt. of R. Marines at storming of Pekin; in British legation in Japan; spent 6 years in the country and learnt the language; went to U.S. America 1868, was naturalized, manager of Brooklyn theatre; had a store in New York for sale of Japanese works of art; writer of 5 dramas Mirah, Vendome, The third state, The College belles, and Uncle Abner; author of 7 works in Japanese history, Blue Jackets 1871, The Loyal Ronins 1880, Young Americans in Japan 1882, The wonderful city of Tokio 1883, The Golden lotus 1883, Bear Worshippers of Yezo 1884, A captive of love 1886; shot himself New York city 1 Oct. 1888. bur. Woodland cemetery.

GREG, Percy (son of William Rathbone Greg 1809–81). b. Bury 1836; contributed to the Manchester Guardian, Standard and Saturday Review; a secularist and a spiritualist; author of Shadows of the past 1856 and The spirit of enquiry 1857, both by Lionel H. Holdreth; Interleaves 1875; The Devil’s Advocate 1878; Across the Zodiac 2 vols. 1880; Errant 3 vols. 1880; Ivey cousin and bride 3 vols. 1881; Sanguelac 3 vols. 1883; Without God, negative science and natural ethics 1883; The Verge of Night 3 vols. 1885; History of the United States to the reconstruction of the Union 2 vols. 1887. d. 16 Tedworth sq. London 24 Dec. 1889 in 54 years. Manchester Guardian 30 Dec. 1889 p. 8.

GREG, Robert Hyde (son of Samuel Greg, mill owner, Wilmslow, Cheshire). b. King st. Manchester 24 Sept. 1795; educ. Edin. univ.; joined his father in business; an advocate of parliamentary reform and repeal of the corn laws; contested Macclesfield 1837; M.P. Manchester 1835–41; a practical and experimental farmer at Norcliffe, Cheshire and Coles park, Herts.; author of pamphlets on politics and farming. d. Norcliffe hall 21 Feb. 1875. bur. unitarian chapel, Wilmslow.

GREG, Samuel (brother of the preceding). b. King st. Manchester 6 Sept. 1804; educ. at unitarian schools; studied and practised mesmerism 1831; mill owner at Lower House mill, Bollington near Macclesfield 1832–47; instituted the order of the silver cross as a reward for good conduct in young women 1836; entertained Kossuth at Mount Bollington 22 March 1857; author of Scenes from the life of Jesus 1854, 2 ed. 1869; Letters on religious belief 1856. d. Bollington 14 May 1876. H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1880) 264–77; Good Words xviii, 588–91 (1877); A Layman’s Legacy by S. Greg, with memoir (1877) pp. 3–63.

GREG, William Rathbone (brother of the preceding). b. Manchester 1809; educ. Edin. univ. 1826–8; manager of one of his father’s mills at Bury 1828; mill owner at Bury 1832–50; a commissioner of board of customs 1856–64; comptroller of the stationary office 1864–77; author of Sketches in Greece and Turkey 1833; The Creed of Christendom 1851, 8 ed. 1883; Political problems for our age and country 1870; Enigmas of life 1872, 15 ed. 1883; Mistaken aims and attainable ideals of the artizan classes 1876 and 16 other books; in 1852 he wrote 12 articles for the four leading quarterlies. d. Park lodge, Park side, Wimbledon 15 Nov. 1881. Macmillan’s Mag., June 1883 pp. 109–26.

GREGAN, John Edgar. b. Dumfries 18 Dec. 1813; studied architecture under Walter Newall and W. Thomas Atkinson; architect Manchester 1840 where he erected churches of St. John, Longsight, and St. John, Miles Platting, and bank for Sir B. Heywood & Co.; hon. sec. Royal Instit. Manchester; F.R.I.B.A. d. York place, Manchester 29 April 1855. bur. St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries. Builder, May 1855 p. 222.

GREGER, Max. b. Budapest 1821; original importer of Hungarian wines into England 1861; carried on business at 7 Mincing lane, London; resided in London 1863–80; introduced the wine flagon system 1872; dissolved partnership with C. W. Wilson 1 June 1881, business converted into limited liability co. capital £200,000 in 1881; given order of Gold Crown & Cross 1874; knight of order of Franz Joseph 1875; created Count de Budavolgy by the Emperor of Austria 1878. d. Villa Budavolgy; Budapest 19 April 1886 aged 66. London Figaro 1 May 1886 p. 7, portrait; Wine Trade Review 15 May 1886 p. 278.

GREGG, Right Rev. John (6 son of Richard Gregg of Cappa near Ennis, co. Clare). b. Cappa 4 Aug. 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1822, B.A. 1825, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1860; C. of French church, Portarlington 1826–8; V. of Kilsallaghan, Dublin 1828–36; chaplain of Bethesda chapel, Dublin 1836–9; minister of Trinity ch. Dublin 1839–62; archdeacon of Kildare 1857–62; bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 13 Feb. 1862 to death; new cathedral of St. Finbarre, Cork built cost £100,000, 1870; one of the most earnest evangelical leaders of Irish ch.; author of A missionary visit to Achill and Erris 1850; The life of faith, sermons and lectures 2 series 1883–5 and 30 other addresses, charges, sermons and children’s books. d. the Palace, Cork 26 May 1878. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin. Memorials of life of J. Gregg, D.D. (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxii, 519, 533 (1878), portrait.

GREGG, Rev. Tresham Dames. Educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. and D.D. 1853; chaplain of St. Nicholas within, Dublin; committed to Dublin bridewell for refusing to give bail in a convent case 3 May 1841, committal found to be illegal 8 May; author of Free thoughts on protestant matters 1846; A methodization of the Hebrew verbs 1852, 3 ed. 1861; The life and death of Edward VI, a drama 1857; Mary Tudor, a drama 1858; The time of the restoration of all things 1868 and 20 other books. d. Sandymount, Dublin 28 Oct. 1881 aged 82. Authentic Report of case of Rev. T. D. Gregg 1841.

GREGORY, Barnard. b. 1796; editor of The Satirist, or The Censor of the Times, first number 10 April 1831, in connection with which paper he libelled and black mailed many persons, especially Charles, duke of Brunswick and Luneburg; imprisoned in 1839 and 1850 for libels; The Satirist suppressed 15 Dec. 1849 being No. 924; played Hamlet at Covent Garden 13 Feb. 1843 when there was a riot headed by the Duke of Brunswick; acted at the Haymarket, Victoria and Strand theatres in 1846; author of four dramas; edited The Penny Satirist 10 vols. 1837–46. d. The Priory, 22 Aberdeen place, St. John’s Wood, London 24 Nov. 1852. The Theatre, Sep. 1878 pp. 117–21; The Town, ii, 515, 531 (1839).

GREGORY, Francis Thomas (son of Capt. Joshua Gregory of 78 highlanders). Went to Western Australia 1829; assistant surveyor of W.A., explored the Murchison, Lyons and Gascoyne rivers 1857; sent by imperial government to north west coast in search of lands fit for growing cotton, when he discovered the Nicol bay pearl fisheries and the De Grey, Ashburton and Fortescue rivers 1861; surveyor general W.A.; noticed the existence of payable coal fields in Western Australia and made a geological map of the colony; assessing commissioner Queensland, then crown lands commissioner and postmaster general 188-, member legislative council 1879; F.R. Geog. Soc., gold medallist 1863; author with A. C. Gregory of Journals of Australian explorations, Brisbane 1884. d. Harlaxton estate, Queensland 24 Oct. 1888. Times 12 Nov. 1888 p. 7; J. E. T. Wood’s Hist. of discovery of Australia, ii, 409–32 (1865).

GREGORY, George (2 son of Rev. Wm. Gregory, R. of St. Andrews, Canterbury, who d. 13 Jany. 1803). b. the Precincts, Canterbury 16 Aug. 1790; ed. at King’s sch. Canterbury and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 12 Sep. 1811; M.R.C.S. Eng. 2 July 1812; assist. surgeon to the forces in Mediterranean 1813–16 when placed on h.p.; L.R.C.P. 1816, F.R.C.P. 1839; practised in London 1816 to death; physician to small pox and vaccination hospital 1824 to death; author of The Elements of the theory and practice of physic 2 vols. 1820, 6 ed. 1846; Lectures on the eruptive fevers 1843. d. 6 Camden sq. Camden town, London 25 Jany. 1853. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 152 (1878).

GREGORY, Richard Lemmon. Librarian first at Choat’s and then at Loder’s at Brighton for many years; was a cricketer and a runner when aged 80; well known as Dick Gregory. d. his son’s residence 8 Bond st. Brighton 13 May 1851 aged 84. J. G. Bishop’s A peep into the past, Brighton (1880) 126–27.

GREGORY, William (4 son of James Gregory, professor of medicine 1753–1821). b. Edinburgh 25 Dec. 1803; educ. Edin. univ.; pupil of Liebig at Giessen; professor of medicine and chemistry King’s coll. Aberdeen 1839; professor of chemistry Edin. univ. 1844 to death; edited many of Liebig’s works 1839–51; introduced a process for making muriate of morphia which came into general use; author of Outlines of chemistry 1845, 2 ed. 1847, divided into 2 volumes 1853; Letters to a candid enquirer on animal magnetism 1851 and 8 other books. d. Princes st. Edinburgh 24 April 1858. Proc. R. Soc. of Edin. iv, 121–2 (1862); S. Muspratt’s Chemistry vol. i (1853), portrait.

GREGSON, Samuel. b. Lancaster 1795; contested Lymington 1837; M.P. for Lancaster 1847, unseated on petition 1848; M.P. again 1852 to death; chairman of East India and China association; author of Indian fibres 1854. d. 32 Upper Harley st. London 8 Feb. 1865.

GREGSON, William. b. Liverpool 1790; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; barrister L.I. 12 June 1815; private sec. to Sir Robert Peel; drafted bills for home office from 1820; under sec. of state for home dept. 3 Jany. 1834 to 18 April 1835; one of founders of Marlborough college 1843 and of Training college at Highbury 1850; one of earliest promoters of ragged school movement 1844. d. 12 Duke st. south, Edge hill, Liverpool, Feb. 1863.

GREIG, Sir Hector. b. 1789; superintendent of quarantine at Malta; chief sec. at Malta to 1854; C.M.G. 9 Feb. 1833, K.C.M.G. 26 Jany. 1839; d. 8 Ovington ter. Brompton, London 5 Oct. 1873.

GREIG, Irwin Montgomery. b. 24 June 1834; educ. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bombay engineers 9 Dec. 1852, col. 1882–86; superintending engineer of southern division 1879, of northern division 1879, and of central division 1880–6; employed on irrigation works, and on construction of roads and bridges; was in the expedition into Arabia 1858; field engineer in Abyssinian campaign 1868; M.G. 6 Nov. 1886; A.I.C.E. Dec. 1873. d. 6 Hyde park mansions, London 4 July 1887. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xc, 449–50 (1887).

GREIG, John. b. Moffat, Dumfriesshire 6 Aug. 1779; went to western New York 1800 and studied law with Nathaniel W. Howell, admitted to the bar 1804 and was a partner with Howell till 1820; entertained all strangers of distinction at his residence; bore a striking resemblance to Sir W. Scott; regent of the state university 1825 and chancellor 1845 to death; representative to Congress 1841. d. Canandaigua, state of New York 1 April 1858.

GREIG, John James. Ensign 24 foot 15 May 1828, lieut. 1834 to 4 Aug. 1843 when placed on h.p.; head constable of Liverpool 1852, resigned 22 July 1881; C.B. 14 Oct. 1867. d. Bournemouth 2 or 4 Dec. 1882 aged 76.

GREIG, Woronzow. Barrister I.T. 14 May 1830, went Northern circuit; one of secretaries of statistical soc.; F.R.S. d. Surrey lodge, Lambeth 20 Oct. 1865 aged 60.

GRELLIER, James. Veterinary surgeon royal waggon train 16 May 1805 to 29 Dec. 1807 when placed on h.p.; proprietor and editor of the Manx Sun for many years from 1821. d. Hills house, Douglas, Isle of Man 9 May 1860 aged 83.

GRENFELL, John Pascoe (son of John Granville Grenfell of city of London). b. Battersea 20 Sept. 1800; entered naval service of H.E.I.C. 1811; joined naval service of Chilian republic as a lieut. and took part in war of independence 1819–23; served in Brazilian war against Portugal 1823 and lost his right arm in action off Buenos Ayres 29 July 1826; commanded fleet on lakes of province of Rio Grande del Sol, defeated the rebels 1835–36 and was made a rear admiral 1844; consul general for Brazil in England, at Liverpool 1846–51 and 1852 to death; in command of Brazilian fleet in the war with Argentine republic, forced the passage of the Parana 1851; vice admiral 1852, admiral; had a pension for the loss of his arm. d. Prince’s park, Liverpool 20 March 1869. Register and Mag. of Biography, May 1869, pp. 391–92; I.L.N. xxi, 492–93 (1852), portrait.

GRENFELL, Sidney. b. 1807; entered navy 25 June 1822; captain 15 Jany. 1850; R.A. 6 April 1860; retired admiral 21 March 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Castlepark, Exmouth 5 March 1884.

GRENVILLE, Very Rev. George Neville (3 son of 2 Baron Braybrook 1750–1825). b. Stanlake, Berkshire 17 Aug. 1789; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1810; master of Magdalen coll. Cam. 1813–53; R. of Hawarden, Flintshire 1814–34; vice chancellor of Cam. 1818; took surname of Grenville by r.l. 7 July 1825; chaplain in ord. to George iv. and Victoria; dean of Windsor 1846 to death. d. Butleigh court near Glastonbury 10 June 1854. G.M. xlii, 72–3 (1854).

GRENVILLE, Ralph Neville (eld. son of the preceding). b. 27 Feb. 1817; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Camb., M.A. 1837; M.P. Windsor 1841–7 as Ralph Neville; M.P. East Somerset 1865–8; M.P. Mid Somerset 1868–78; a lord of the treasury 1846–7; took additional name of Grenville on death of his father 1854; sheriff of Somerset 1862; author of Cathedrals 1871. d. Butleigh court near Glastonbury 20 Aug. 1886.

GRESLEY, Rev. John Morewood (son of Rev. Wm. Gresley 1760–1829, R. of Seale, Leics.) b. 6 July 1816; ed. at St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1845; C. of Seale 1841–7, R. of Seale 1847 to death; master of Etwall hospital, Derby; edited publications of Anastatic soc. from its foundation 1854 to 1859 when it was incorporated with the Ilam Anastatic drawing soc.; author of Plain sermons on present events 1850–1. d. Overseale, Leics. 15 May 1866.

GRESLEY, Sir Thomas, 10 Baronet (1 son of Rev. Sir William Nigel Gresley, 9 bart. d. 1847). b. Nether Seal hall, Leics. 17 Jany. 1832; educ. Rugby; cornet 1 dragoon guards 18 Jany. 1850, captain 1853–58 when he sold out; aide-de-camp to lord lieut. of Ireland; lieut. col. 1 bat. Derbyshire rifle volunteers 1860; M.P. South Derbyshire 21 Nov. 1868. d. Shipley hall, Derbyshire 18 Dec. 1868. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 150, 356 (1869).

GRESLEY, Rev. William (1 son of Richard Gresley of Stowe house, Staffs., barrister 1776–1850). b. Kenilworth 16 March 1801; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1819, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; C. of Drayton-Bassett near Tamworth 1828–30; C. of St. Chad’s, Lichfield 1830–7; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1840 to death; P.C. of All Saints, Boyne Hill, Berks. 1857 to death; an extreme high churchman; author of Ecclesiastes Anglicanus, a treatise on the art of preaching 1835; Portrait of an English churchman 1838, 8 ed. 1839; The siege of Lichfield 1840; Bernard Leslie, a tale 2 parts 1842–59; The ordinance of confession 1851; Thoughts on religion and philosophy 1875 and 60 other books. d. Boyne hill 19 Nov. 1876. Ch. of E. photographic portrait gallery 1859, portrait 38; Scepticism of the Nineteenth century (1879), memoir pp. v-xiii, portrait.

GRESSWELL, Dan. b. Kelsey hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire 13 May 1819; M.R.C. veterinary surgeons 1840 and fellow 1877; fellow of Veterinary Med. Assoc. 1840; settled at Louth, Lincolnshire, mayor 1871; a writer on Lactiferous glands, Paralysis in the horse, Arsenical poisoning, etc. d. Kelsey house, Louth 13 March 1883.

GRESWELL, Edward (3 son of Rev. W. Parr Greswell 1765–1854). b. Denton near Manchester 3 Aug. 1797; educ. Manchester gram. sch. 1811–15; scholar of Brasen. coll. Oxf. 1815; Lancash. scholar Corpus Christi 1816, took a double first 1819, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1830, tutor of his coll. 1822–34, fellow 1823 to death, vice president 1840–69; author of Harmonia Evangelica 1830, 5 ed. 1855; Fasti temporis Catholici and Origines KalendariÆ 4 vols. 1852; Origines KalendariÆ ItalicÆ 4 vols. 1854; Origines KalendariÆ HellenicÆ 6 vols. 1862 and 8 other books, d. Corpus Christi coll. 29 June 1869. Smith’s Manchester School register, iii, 79–82 (1874); Register and Mag. of Biog. ii, 92–93 (1869).

GRESWELL, Rev. Richard (brother of the preceding). b. Denton 22 July 1800; educ. Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar 1818–24, took a double first 1822, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. 1836, tutor of his coll. 1822–53, fellow 1824–37, dean 1825, hon. fellow 1878; raised £250,000 for the National soc. 1843, etc.; a founder of the Ashmolean soc. 1828; chairman of W. E. Gladstone’s election committees 1847–56; F.R.S. 10 June 1830. d. 39 St. Giles’, Oxford, on anniversary of his birth 22 July 1881. Burgon’s Lives of Twelve good men, ii, 93–122 (1888).

GRESWELL, Rev. William (2 son of the succeeding). b. Denton about 1795; educ. Manchester sch. and Brasen. coll. Oxf., scholar 1815–17, B.A. 1818, fellow of Balliol 1818–38, M.A. 1820; C. of Disley, Cheshire; R. of Kilve near Bridgewater 1837 to death; author of A popular view of correspondency between Mosaic ritual and the Christian religion 1834; A commentary on the order of the burial of the dead 1836. d. Kilve rectory 6 Nov. 1876 aged 80. Manchester School register, iii, 78 (1874).

GRESWELL, Rev. William Parr (son of John Greswell of Chester). b. Tarvin, Cheshire 23 June 1765; C. of Blackley near Manchester 1789–91; inc. of Denton and Haughton near Manchester 1791, resigned 1853; kept a school at Denton; author of Annals of Parisian typography 1818; The monastery of St. Werburgh, a poem 1823; A view of the early Parisian Greek press 2 vols. 1833. d. Denton 12 Jany. 1854, his library sold at Sotheby’s Feb. 1855. Manchester School Register, iii, 77–78 (1874); Booker’s Denton (Chetham Soc. Miscell. vol. ii, 1851) 109.

GRETTON, Rev. Frederick Edward (youngest son of Rev. George Gretton, prebendary of Hereford). b. 1803 or 1804; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1829, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1836; C. of Tickencote, Rutland and head master Stamford gram. sch. 1834–72; R. of St. Mary, Stamford 1847–64; select preacher at Cambridge 1861–2; author of Elmsleiana Critica 1833; Parochial sermons 1843; Passages from English poetry with a Latin verse translation 1873 and 15 other books. d. Oddington, Gloucs. 27 March 1890.

GREVILLE, Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1 Baron (2 son of Algernon Greville of North Lodge, Herts. 1791–1857). b. 17 Feb. 1821; col. of Westmeath militia 22 Aug. 1850 to death; M.P. for co. Longford 1852–69; assumed additional surname of Nugent by r.l. 8 Aug. 1866; cr. Baron Greville of Clonyn, co. Westmeath, in peerage of the U.K. 15 Dec. 1869; lord lieutenant of Westmeath 27 March 1871 to death. d. Clonyn castle, Delvin 25 Jany. 1883.

GREVILLE, Algernon Frederick (2 son of Charles Greville 1762–1832). b. 29 Dec. 1798; ensign 1 foot guards 1814, present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; aide-de-camp to general Sir John Lambert and then to the Duke of Wellington until 1818; aide-de-camp to the Duke in the ordnance office 1819; private sec. to the Duke 1827–30, 1834–35, 1842; Bath and Gloucester king of arms 1830 to death, d. Hillingdon, Middlesex 15 Dec. 1864.

GREVILLE, Charles Cavendish Fulke (brother of the preceding). b. 2 April 1794, educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1810–14; page to George iii; private sec. to earl of Bathurst 1814; sec. of Jamaica, performed the duties by a deputy; clerk of privy council 1821, resigned May 1859; member of jockey club, managed racing establishment of Duke of York 1821–26; won the St. Leger with Mango 1837; kept a political diary 1818–60 which was published in 3 vols. 1874, 3 vols. 1885 and 2 vols. 1887, the first series was suppressed and reprinted in an expurgated edition; author of many pamphlets, d. 16 Bruton st. London the residence of Earl Granville 18 Jany. 1865. The Greville Memoirs, i, pp. x-xi (1874); Baily’s Mag. vii, 217–21 (1864), portrait; Sporting Rev. xli, 138–43 (1859), liii, 75–80 (1865).

GREVILLE, Henry William (younger brother of the preceding). b. 28 Oct. 1801; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823; present at Duchess of Richmond’s ball at Brussels 15 June 1815; private sec. to Lord Francis Egerton chief sec. for Ireland 1828–30; precis writer to Viscount Palmerston 1834; first paid attachÉ to British embassy in Paris 1835–44; kept a diary which was edited by Viscountess Enfield as Leaves from the diary of H. Greville 2 vols. 1883–4. d. 19 Queen st. Mayfair, London 12 Dec. 1872. Leaves from the diary, second series (1884) v-viii, portrait.

GREVILLE, Robert Kaye (1 son of Rev. Robert Greville 1760–1830, R. of Edlaston, Derby). b. Bishop Auckland, Durham 13 Dec. 1794; educ. in medicine in London and Edin.; member of Wernerian soc. 1816; F.R.S. Edin. 1821, LLD. Glasgow 1824; lecturer on zoology and botany in Edin.; made large collections of plants, insects, crustacea and mollusks; collected 15,000 botanical specimens for Botanical soc. of Edin. 1837; his algÆ went to the British museum, his insects to the univ. of Edin., his flowering plants to univ. of Glasgow, and his cryptogamic plants to Edin. botanic gardens; fell into poverty and painted landscapes for a living; author of Scottish Cryptogamic flora 6 vols. 1823–8; Flora Edinensis 1824; AlgÆ BritannicÆ 1830 and 6 other books; with W. J. Hooker he published Icones filicum 2 vols. 1829–31. d. Ormelie villa, Murrayfield near Edinburgh 4 June 1866. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edin. vi, 25–7 (1869); Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. viii, 464.

GREY, Charles (2 son of 2 Earl Grey 1764–1845). b. Howick house, Bilton, Northumberland 15 March 1804; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 1820; lieut. col. 71 foot 1833–42 when placed on h.p.; col. of 3 foot 1860, of 71 foot 1863 to death; general 29 Aug. 1868; M.P. for Chipping Wycombe 1831–37; treasurer and private sec. to Prince Consort 10 Oct. 1849 to his death 14 Dec. 1861; private sec. to the Queen 3 March 1866 to death; author of Some account of the life of Charles, second Earl Grey 1861; The early years of the Prince Consort 1867. d. St. James’s palace, London 31 March 1870. More leaves from a journal of a life in the Highlands (1884) 67, portrait; I.L.N. lvi, 386, 416 (1870), portrait.

GREY, Sir Charles Edward (younger son of Ralph Wm. Grey of Backworth, Northumberland). b. 1785; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810; fellow of Oriel coll. 1808; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; a bankruptcy commissioner 1817; judge of supreme court of Madras 17 May 1820 to 1825; knighted by George iv. at Carlton house 17 May 1820; chief justice of supreme court of Bengal 2 Feb. 1825 to 1832; a commissioner for affairs of Lower Canada 19 June 1835 to 1836; P.C. 1 July 1835; G.C.H. 1837; contested Tynemouth 1837, M.P. for Tynemouth 1838–41; governor of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Trinidad and St. Lucia 24 Aug. 1841 to 1 Oct. 1846; governor of Jamaica 26 Sep. 1846 to Aug. 1853. d. Tunbridge Wells 1 June 1865.

GREY, Sir Frederick William (3 son of 2 Earl Grey 1764–1845). b. 23 Aug. 1805; entered navy 18 Jany. 1819; captain 19 April 1828; rear admiral superintendent in the Bosphorus, Jany. 1855 to July 1856; a lord of the admiralty, June 1861 to June 1866, admiral 24 April 1865, retired 23 Aug. 1870; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; author of On the organization of the navy 1860. d. Linwood near Staines 2 May 1878.

GREY, Sir George, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir George Grey, 1 bart., d. 3 Oct. 1828). b. Gibraltar 11 May 1799; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 2 May 1826; M.P. Devonport 1832–47; M.P. North Northumberland 1847–52; M.P. Morpeth 1853–74; under sec. of state, colonies 1834–5 and 1835–39; judge advocate general 1839–41; sec. of state home department 1846–52, 1855–8, and 1861–6; sec. of state colonies 1854–5; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 1841 and 1859–61; P.C. 1 March 1839; ecclesiastical commissioner Feb. 1841; G.C.B. 31 March 1849; prevented the chartists under Smith O’Brien invading house of commons with their monster petition 10 April 1848; retired on a pension of £2,000. d. Fallodon, Northumberland 9 Sept. 1882. M. Creighton’s Memoir of Sir G. Grey (1884), portrait; I.L.N. xxii 240 (1853), xxxv 586, 588 (1859), lxxxi 340 (1882), portrait.

GREY, Rev. Henry (son of a medical man). b. Alnwick, Northumberland 11 Feb. 1778; presbyterian minister of Stenton, East Lothian 1801 to 1813, of St. Cuthbert’s chapel of ease, Edin. 1813, of the new North Church 1821, of St. Mary’s 1825, of St. Mary’s Free church 1843; president of Free church general assembly 1844; presented with a testimonial 1863, which was turned into the Grey scholarships in New coll. Edin.; had a conflict with Dr. Andrew Thompson on the Apocrypha 1829; author of A catechism on baptism 4 ed. 1842 and various pamphlets. d. Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1859. C. M. Birrell’s Thoughts in the evening of life (1871), portrait.

GREY, Sir John (younger son of Charles Grey of Morwick, Northumberland). Ensign 75 foot 18 July 1798; major 5 foot 1811–16 when placed on h.p.; served in India 1799 etc., in Peninsula 1806 etc.; held a divisional command in Bengal 1840–45, at head of left wing of army of Gwalior defeated the Mahratta army of 12,000 men at Punniar on 29 Dec. 1843; K.C.B. 2 May 1844; col. 73 foot 1846–9; col. 5 foot 1849 to death; commander in chief Bombay 30 Dec. 1850 to Nov. 1852; general 20 Feb. 1855. d. Morwick hall 19 Feb. 1856. Canon’s Records of 5th Fusiliers (1838) 75 etc.

GREY, John (eld. child of George Grey of West Ord near Berwick, d. 1793). b. Millfield Hill, Glendale, Aug. 1785; took part in agitation for Catholic emancipation and in struggle which preceded Reform bill of 1832; had charge of the Greenwich hospital estates in Northumberland and Cumberland 1833–63; made improvements in farming and in rearing cattle. d. Lipwood house on the Tyne near Haydon bridge 22 Jany. 1868. Memoir of John Grey of Dilston (1874); Saddle and sirloin by the Druid (1878) pp. 121–8, portrait.

GREY, Ralph William (son of R. W. Grey of Backworth house, Northumberland). b. 1819; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840; private sec. to Lord Sydenham governor general of Canada 1839; private sec. to Lord John Russell 1850; M.P. Tynemouth 1847–52; M.P. Liskeard 1854–9; parliamentary sec. poor law board 28 Jany. 1851 to 3 March 1852 and 1856–58; a commissioner of the customs 1859 to death; of Chipchase castle, Northumberland. d. Wimbledon 1 Oct. 1869.

GREY, Sir William (4 son of Rt. Rev. Edward Grey 1782–1837, bp. of Hereford). b. 26 March 1818; matric from Ch. Ch. Ox. 19 May 1836; clerk in war office; at Haileybury coll. 1839–40; private sec. to Sir H. Maddock, dep. governor of Lower Bengal 1845; sec. of Bank of Bengal 1851–4; sec. to government of Bengal 1854–7; sec. to government of India in home department 1859, member of council of governor general 1862–7; lieut. governor of Bengal 1867 to Feb. 1871; governor of Jamaica, March 1874 to March 1877; K.C.S.I. 28 May 1870. d. Parkfield, Marldon near Torquay 15 May 1878.

GRIERSON, Crighton. Second lieut. R.E. 1 June 1810, lieut. col. 1 April 1846 to 1 Sep. 1847 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871. d. 14 Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 7 Nov. 1871 aged 81.

GRIERSON, James. b. 10 Oct. 1827; traffic manager Shrewsbury and Birmingham railway 1851; goods manager Great Western railway 1857 and general manager Oct. 1863 to death, by his management raised the stock from £47 to £135; author of Railway rates, English and Foreign 1886; his residence 4 Holland villas road, Kensington, damaged by fire 1887. d. Bridge house, Marlow 7 Oct. 1887. bur. Barnes cemetery 12 Oct. London Figaro 15 Oct. 1887 p. 6, portrait; Herapath’s Railway Journal 15 Oct. 1887 p. 1064.

GRIESS, John Peter. F.R.S. 4 June 1868; F.C.S.; of Burton on Trent. d. Bournemouth 30 Aug. 1888 aged 60.

GRIEVE, Thomas (son of John Henderson Grieve, scene painter). b. Lambeth, London 11 June 1799; scene painter Covent Garden 1839, Drury Lane 1862; painted diorama of Overland Mail 1850; with W. Telbin and John Absolon painted panorama of Campaigns of Wellington 1852, and panoramas of the Ocean Mail, the Crimean War and the Arctic regions. d. 1 Palace road, Lambeth 16 April 1882.

GRIFFIES-WILLIAMS, Worshipful Sir Erasmus Henry, 2 Baronet (2 son of Sir George Griffies-Williams, d. 28 March 1843). b. Llwyn-y-Wormwood 22 July 1794; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; R. of Rushall, Wilts. 1829 to death; R. of Marlborough 1830 to 1858; chancellor of St. David’s cathedral 1858 to death; author of A letter on the repeal of the corn laws 1846; The supremacy of the sovereign asserted 1850. d. Llandovery 30 Nov. 1870.

GRIFFIES-WILLIAMS, Sir Watkin Lewes, 3 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. 1800; entered Madras army 12 June 1819; col. of 3 Madras light infantry 29 Jany. 1854 to 1869; general 25 July 1870. d. 38 Elgin road, Notting hill, London 23 May 1877.

GRIFFIN, Charles (only son of R. Griffin of Glasgow, bookseller, d. Nov. 1832 aged 43). b. London 1819; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; bookseller with John Joseph Griffin in Glasgow 1836–53 and in London 1847–53; bought the EncyclopÆdia Metropolitana for £5,000 about 1847; bookseller alone in Glasgow 1853–9; left Glasgow and managed London business 1859–61; partner with Henry Bohn in Stationers’ hall court, Jany. 1861 to death. d. Combe lodge, Swanscombe, Kent 5 Aug. 1862. Bookseller 30 Aug. 1862 p. 561, 30 Sept. p. 616.

GRIFFIN, Right Rev. Henry (2 son of John Griffin, deputy registrar of deeds in Ireland). b. Wexford 10 July 1786; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1798; scholar 1802, fellow 1811–29, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1814; R. of Clonfeacle, Armagh to 1854; Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, consecrated 1 Jany. 1854. d. the university club, 17 Stephen’s Greennorth, Dublin 5 April 1866. bur. Benburt, co. Tyrone.

GRIFFIN, John Joseph. b. London 1802; bookseller, publisher and dealer in chemical apparatus at Glasgow to 1852, partly edited EncyclopÆdia Metropolitana; chemical apparatus dealer as J. J. Griffin & Sons, 22 Garrick st. Covent Garden, London 1852 to death; a founder of Chemical soc. 1840; devised new forms of chemical apparatus; author of Chemical recreations 1834, 10 ed. 1860; Treatise on the blowpipe 18—; The chemical testing of wines and spirits 1866, 2 ed. 1872 and other books. d. 31 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 9 June 1877. Journ. Chemical soc. xxxiii, 229 (1878).

GRIFFITH, Edward (son of William Griffith of Stanwell, Middlesex). b. 1790; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1800–1806; clerk of common pleas office; master of court of common pleas 1837 to death; F.R.S.; F.L.S.; F.S.A.; author of General descriptions of the vertebrated animals, monkeys and lemurs 1821; The Animal kingdom 15 vols. 1832 with other writers, and other books. d. 32 Fitzroy sq. London 8 Jany. 1858.

GRIFFITH, George (son of John Wynne Griffith, M.P. of Garn near Rhyl, co. Denbigh, d. 1834). b. 1790; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1830; recorder of Denbigh 1834 to death. d. Garn, Denbigh 23 April 1877 in 88 year.

GRIFFITH, George. Clerk in a corn merchant’s office in Bewdley; author of The free schools of Worcestershire 1852; Life of George Wilson 1854; The endowed schools of England and Ireland 1864; Going to markets and grammar schools, records in the Midland counties 2 vols. 1870 and other books. d. Bewdley 1883. J. R. Burton’s Bewdley (1883) 61.

GRIFFITH, Henry Darby (youngest son of major general Darby Griffith of Pardworth house, Berks.) b. 22 May 1810; ensign 4 foot 25 Nov. 1828; captain 2 dragoons 1839, lieut. col. 27 Aug. 1852; at battles of Balaklava, Inkerman and Tchernaya and siege and fall of Sebastopol; A.D.C. to the Queen 1855–66; col. 5 lancers 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Bushy Ruff house near Dover 17 Nov. 1887.

GRIFFITH, Rev. John. b. 1789 or 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, Bell’s univ. scholar 1810, 8 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1822, D.D. 1831; fellow of Em. coll. 1814, tutor 1818–27; chaplain to Lord Amherst in China 1816, wrecked in the Alceste on Gaspar island 18 Nov. 1817; canon of Rochester 1827–72; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1830–32; V. of Boxley, Kent 1832–53; prosecuted Strahan, Paul and Bates bankers for having unlawfully disposed of deeds valued at £22,000, defendants sentenced to 14 years’ transportation 26 Oct. 1855. d. 3 Bay’s hill lawn, Cheltenham 29 May 1879.

GRIFFITH, Julius George. First lieut. Bombay artillery 27 May 1810, col. commandant 3 July 1845 to death; general 7 Sep. 1866. d. Boulogne 31 July 1872 in 81 year.

GRIFFITH, Sir Richard John, 1 Baronet (only son of Richard Griffith of Milicent, co. Kildare 1752–1820). b. Hume st. Dublin 20 Sep. 1784; lieut. R. Irish Artill. 1799; inspector general of royal mines in Ireland 1809; mining engineer and professor of geology to Royal Dublin Soc. 1812; sole comr. for general valuation of land in Ireland 1827–68; deputy chairman of board of public works Ireland 1846, chairman 1854–64; F.G.S., Wollaston medallist 1854 for his geological map of Ireland; M.I.C.E. 1839; created baronet 20 April 1858; author of Geological and mining report on the Leinster coal district 1814. d. 2 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 22 Sep. 1878. Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiii, 432–37 (1874), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x, 17–20 (1880); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv, 39–41 (1879).

GRIFFITH, Rev. Thomas. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1832; min. of Ram’s Epis. chap. Homerton 1830–72; prebendary of Sneating in St. Paul’s cath. 1862–80; author of The leading idea of christianity investigated 1833; Our baptismal standing 1850; Studies of the divine master 1875 and 25 other books. d. 8 Clapton sq. Clapton 24 Aug. 1883.

GRIFFITH, Rev. William (son of Rev. William Griffith d. 1860). b. London 1806; Wesleyan M. minister 1828; connected with the issuing of the Fly sheets 1847; expelled by the Wesleyan Methodist conference in company with Rev. James Everett and Rev. Samuel Dunn 25 July 1849; minister of Methodist free churches 1857 to death. d. Derby 12 July 1883. I.L.N. xv, 187–8 (1849), portrait; Christian World 19 July 1883 p. 481.

GRIFFITH, William Darling (son of A. F. Griffith, head of Longman’s old book department). b. 18 Oct. 1805; learnt bookselling with Hamilton, Adams and Co.; publisher St. Paul’s churchyard to 1843; partner with E. C. Grant 1843 to 1856 as Grant and Griffith, booksellers; partner with Robert Farran, June 1856 to death. d. 6 York villa, Campden hill, London 20 Feb. 1877. Bookseller, March 1877 p. 218.

GRIFFITH, William Petit (son of John William Griffith, architect, d. 27 Nov. 1855 aged 65). b. 9 St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell, London 7 July 1815; F.S.A. 12 May 1842; F.R.I.B.A. 14 June 1847; some of his work was the reparation of St. John ch. Clerkenwell 1845, the restoration of St. John’s gate 1845–6, designing Cherrytree tavern, Clerkenwell 1852, the goldsmiths’ and jewellers’ annuity institution asylum 1853, designing the house of detention, Kingston-on-Thames; author of The geometrical proportion of architecture 1843; Ancient Gothic churches 3 parts 1847–52; Suggestions for a more perfect period of gothic architecture 1855. d. 3 Isledon road, Highbury, London 14 Sept. 1884.

GRIFFITHS, Rev. David. b. Glanmeilwch, Llangadoc, Carmarthenshire 20 Dec. 1792; schoolmaster Cwmaman 1811–12; in Madagascar as a missionary 1821–35 and 1838–42; established a church, day and night schools, a printing press and printed the New Testament 1831; condemned to death but sentence commuted to a fine 1839; pastor of congregational ch. Hay, Brecknockshire 1842; spent 5 years revising Madagascar scriptures 1852–7; author of History of Madagascar, in Welsh; The Persecuted Christians of Madagascar 1841 and works in the Malagasy tongue. d. Machynlleth, Montgomerys. 21 March 1863. Rees and Thomas’ Eglwysi Annybynol Cymru, iv, 359–61.

GRIFFITHS, Evan. b. Gellibeblig, Glamorganshire 1795; ed. at a college at Newport, Monmouth; pastor of churches in Gower; went to Swansea and translated Matthew Henry’s commentary into Welsh, acting also as the printer and collecting subscriptions for the work 1828, etc.; author of Welsh English dictionary, Abertawy 1847 and many works in the Welsh language 1839–56. d. Swansea 31 Aug. 1873. Rees and Thomas’ Eglwysi Annybynol Cymru, iv.

GRIFFITHS, Frederick Augustus. Ensign R.A. 13 Dec. 1813; major on retired full pay 28 Nov. 1854; author of The Artillerists’ manual and compendium of infantry exercise, Woolwich 1839, 10 ed. 1868; Notes on military law, Woolwich 1841. d. St. Mary Bourne near Andover 25 March 1869 aged 73.

GRIFFITHS, Frederick Charles. Cornet 2 dragoon guards 17 June 1824; lieut. col. 10 dragoons 11 Nov. 1851, of 9 dragoons 25 May 1855, of 12 Lancers 14 Oct. 1856 to 12 Dec. 1857; M.G. 12 Dec. 1857. d. Westbourne place, Eaton sq. London 15 March 1858 aged 53.

GRIFFITHS, Rev. John (son of Dr. John Griffiths, head master Rochester gr. sch.) b. 1807; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., scholar 1824–30, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1833, B.D. and D.D. 1872, fellow 1830–54, subwarden 1837–54, hon. fellow 1868, warden 4 Nov. 1871 to Sep. 1881; keeper of the university archives 1857 to death; one of the four tutors who signed the protest against Newman’s Tract xc. March 1841; sold his collection of rare engravings and etchings May 1883, Rembrandt’s portrait of Dr. Arnold Tholinx went for £1510 the largest sum ever given for a print; author of Laws of the Greek Accents 1831, 5 ed. 1853; An index to the wills in the Court of the Chancellor of Oxford 1862 and other works. d. 63 St. Giles’ street, Oxford 14 Aug. 1885.

GRIFFITHS, John. b. Bod-Gwilym 21 Dec. 1821; apprentice to a grocer at Barmouth; went to London 1846; wrote for the Welsh press under name of Wmffra Edward; contributor to the Banner Cymru 1857 and was in its sole employment from 1860, known as Gohebydd Llandain, Y Gohebydd and Pobman. d. London? 13 Dec. 1877. bur. Llangollen cemetery. Red Dragon, iv, 385–93 (1883), portrait.

GRIFFITHS, Richard Clewin. b. 8 Sep. 1791; ed. at St. Thomas’ and Guy’s hospital; M.S.A. 1812; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1813; one of the first to combine the practice of medicine and surgery, retired from practice 1850; master of the Apothecaries’ co. 1855 to death; helped to establish Zoological gardens 1827 and Botanical soc. 1839, public feeding of the animals introduced by him. d. 20 Gower st. London 5 Sep. 1881, portrait in parlour of Soc. of Apothecaries. Times 13 Sept. 1881 p. 9.

GRIFFITHS, Robert. b. Lleweny farm in Vale of Clywdd 13 Dec. 1805; pattern maker in an engine works, Birmingham, soon became foreman; engineer at Smethwick to 1845; had engineering works at Havre 1845–8 where the iron work for the Havre and Paris railways was manufactured; took out many patents 1835–78; experimented on rivet machines 1835, glass grinding 1836, making hexagon nuts 1837, machinery for making bolts and railway spikes and rivets 1845, atmospheric railways 1845–6, screw propellors 1847, and an electric hair brush to prevent hair turning white 1852; partner in Coppa colliery, Flintshire 1862. d. 107 Ledbury road, Bayswater, London 16 June 1883. Engineering 29 June 1883 p. 606.

GRIMALDI, Stacey (2 son of Wm. Grimaldi of London 1751–1830, portrait painter). b. 7 King st. St. James’s sq. London 18 Oct. 1790; attorney and solicitor 1 Copthall court, city of London; engaged in many record and peerage cases; F.S.A. 1824; marquis Grimaldi in Italy 27 May 1830; lecturer at the Incorporated Law Soc. on the public records 1834, auditor there 1853; contributed to Gent. Mag. 1813–61; author of A synopsis of the history of England 1825, 2 ed. 1871; Origines genealogicÆ 1828; The genealogy of the family of Grimaldi 1834 and 5 other books. d. Hernden house, Eastry, Kent 28 March 1863.

GRIMSHAW, James. b. Bolton, Lancashire, 1846; light weight jockey, won 164 races in 1864, called the Pocket Hercules; took the Cesarewitch on Hartington 1862 and on Thalestris 1864; won the Newmarket Biennial on Kangaroo 1865, when lord Hastings gave £12,000 for the winner which ultimately was worked in a cab; gained the 1000 guineas with Hester and the St. Leger with Hawthornden 1870; rode in Germany and Austria 1871 to death. d. of cancer Pardubitz, Bohemia 12 Dec. 1888. Baily’s Mag. ix (1864), portrait; Illust. Sport. News, ii, 333 (1863), portrait, v, 60, 264 (1866), portrait; Times 20 Dec. 1888 p. 5.

GRIMSHAW, William. b. Greencastle, Londonderry 1782; went to Philadelphia, U.S. America 1815; author of An Etymological dictionary 1821, 2 ed. 1826; Gentleman’s Lexicon and Ladies’ Lexicon 1829; Life of Napoleon; History of the United States 1822 and many other books all published in Philadelphia. d. Philadelphia 1852.

GRIMSTON, Rev. Edward Harbottle (2 son of 1 earl of Verulam, d. 1845). b. 42 Grosvenor sq. London 2 April 1812; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1831; fellow of All Souls 1834–42, M.A. 1838; M.P. St. Albans 1835–41; R. of Pebmarsh, Essex 1841 to death; R. of Great Henny, Essex 1845 to death; member of Marylebone cricket club, played at Lords to 1841, continued to play in county matches, one of the best style of players ever seen. d. Pebmarsh rectory 4 May 1881. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 29 (1862).

GRIMSTON, Rev. Francis Sylvester (5 son of 1 earl of Verulam, d. 1845). b. Gorhambury near St. Albans 8 Dec. 1822; ed. at Harrow and Magd. coll. Camb., M.A. 1845; R. of Colne-Wake, Essex 1847 to decease; played at Lord’s 3–4 Aug. 1838 in Eton v. Harrow, generally played in the country, a good wicket keeper. d. Colne-Wake 28 Oct. 1865. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 467 (1862) v, p. xv (1876).

GRIMSTON, Robert (4 son of 1 earl of Verulam, d. 1845). b. 42 Grosvenor sq. London 18 Sept. 1816; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1843; director of Electric telegraph co. 1852, and connected with telegraph companies till his death; hon. treasurer and one of first members of I Zingari 1845, played at Lords 1838–52; assisted in formation of Surrey county eleven which began playing in Kennington oval then a market garden 1846; very successful against fast bowling; is described in Whyte Melville’s novel Captain Digby Grand 2 vols. 1853. d. in his chair at Gorhambury 7 April 1884. F. Gale’s Life of R. Grimston (1885), portrait; Sporting Mirror, vii, 165 (1884), portrait.

GRINFIELD, Rev. Edward William (son of Thomas Grinfield, Moravian minister, Bristol). b. 1785; ed. at Lincoln coll. Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808; student of L.I. 1805, of I.T. 1806; minister of Laura chapel, Bath 1820; preacher at Kensington; founded and endowed with £1000 a lectureship on the Septuagint at Oxford 1859; author of The doctrinal harmony of the New Testament 1824; Scholia Hellenistica in Novum Testamentum 2 vols. 1848; The Jesuit, historical sketch 1851 and 20 other books. d. 6 Lower Brunswick place, Brighton 9 July 1864.

GRINFIELD, Rev. Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Bath 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1811; C. of St. Sidwell’s, Exeter; R. of Shirland, Derbyshire 9 May 1827 to death; C. of St. Mary-le-Port, Bristol 1847 to death; author of Epistles and miscellaneous poems 1815; The visions of Patmos 1827; The history of preaching 1880. d. Clifton 8 April 1870.

GRISI, Giulia (dau. of Gaetano Grisi an officer of engineers). b. Milan 22 May 1812; sang at Milan 1829, Florence 1830 and Paris 1832; one of the greatest soprano vocalists; appeared at Her Majesty’s theatre, London 22 April 1834 as Ninetta in La Gazza Ladra; prima donna at Her Majesty’s 1834–41 and 1843–5, at Covent Garden 1846–61; last appeared on the stage at Her Majesty’s 5 May 1866 as Lucrezia when she was hissed. d. Hotel du Nord, Berlin 29 Nov. 1869. C. Heath’s Beauties of the opera and ballet (1845) p. 33, portrait; H. S. Edwards’s The Prima Donna, i, 267–308 (1888); The Mapleson memoirs, i, 89–94 (1888).

GRISSELL, Thomas (1 son of Thomas De la Garde Grissell of Stockwell, d. 1863). b. London 4 Oct. 1801; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; partner with Henry Peto, builder 1825–30 when Peto died; partner with Sir Samuel Morton Peto, baronet 1830–47 when Sir S. M. Peto was elected M.P. Norwich; in business alone 1847–50; purchased Norbury park near Dorking 1850; A.I.C.E. 7 March 1843; F.S.A. 16 March 1843; F.H.S.; sheriff of Surrey 1854–55. d. Norbury park, Dorking 26 May 1874.

GROCOTT, John Cooper. Attorney at Liverpool 1821 to death; sergeant at mace of the corporation; author of Practice of the borough court of Liverpool, Liverpool 1837, 2 ed. 1847; Index to familiar quotations, Liverpool 1854, 3 ed. 1866. d. 123 Park st. Liverpool 23 Feb. 1874 aged 81. Law Times, lvi, 325, 335 (1874).

GRONOW, Rees Howell (eld. son of Wm. Gronow of Swansea, d. 1830). b. 7 May 1794; ed. at Eton; ensign 1 foot guards 24 Dec. 1812, lieut. 1815–21 when he sold out; served in Spain 1812–14, present at Waterloo; contested Grimsby 1831, M.P. for Stafford 1832, unseated 1833, contested Stafford 1835; one of the chief dandies of London 1814 etc., admitted at Almack’s where he remembered introduction of quadrilles and waltzes 1813; author of Reminiscences 1862; Recollections and anecdotes 1863; Celebrities of London and Paris 1865; Last recollections 1866. d. Paris 20 Nov. 1865. Reminiscences (1862), portrait.

GROOME, Ven. Robert Hindes (2 son of Rev. John Hindes Groome, R. of Earl Soham, d. 1845 aged 68). b. Framlingham, Suffolk 18 Jany. 1810; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836; C. of Tannington, Suffolk 1833; R. of Monk-Soham, Suffolk 1845 to death; hon. canon of Norwich 1858–71; archdeacon of Suffolk 1869, resigned 1887; edited Christian Advocate Review 1861–6; author of How to read, a lecture 1857. d. Monk-Soham 19 March 1889.

GROSE, Rev. Thomas (2 son of Rev. John Grose, R. of Metteswell, Essex). b. 1806; ed. at Clare hall, Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; lecturer of St. John’s, Wapping 1833; chaplain of Stepney union 1838; C. of St. Peter’s, Cornhill 1839 to death; author of A reply to the American Anti-theistical catechism 1834; Discipline of Church of England defended against W. Tiptaft 1838. d. London 21 March 1867.

GROSSMITH, George. b. Reading 20 Aug. 1820; connected with the press, on staff of Times 35 years; first lectured on Wit and Humour at Reading 9 Dec. 1847; public reader and lecturer, travelled throughout the United Kingdom. d. of apoplexy, Savage club, Caledonian hotel, London 24 April 1880. Illust. sp. and dr. news 15 May (1880), portrait.

GROSVENOR, Thomas (3 son of Thomas Grosvenor 1734–95, M.P. for Chester). b. 30 May 1764; ed. at Westminster; ensign 3 foot guards 1 Oct. 1779, captain 1793–1802; served in the Low Countries 1793–99, at Copenhagen 1807 and at Walcheren 1809; received the thanks of parliament 1 Feb. 1808; col. of 97 foot 25 Feb. 1807, of 65 foot 8 Feb. 1814 to death; general 12 Aug. 1819, field marshal 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for Chester 1795–1826, for Stockbridge 1826–30. d. Mount Ararat near Richmond, Surrey 20 Jany. 1851.

GROTE, Arthur (younger bro. of the succeeding). b. Beckenham, Kent 29 Nov. 1814; of Bengal C.S. 1832; in revenue department 1853, retired 1868; president of Asiatic soc. of Bengal 1859–62, 1865; F.L.S., F.Z.S. d. 42 Ovington sq. London 4 Dec. 1886.

GROTE, George (1 son of George Grote 1762–1830, of city of London, banker). b. Clay hill near Beckenham 17 Nov. 1794; ed. at Sevenoaks and the Charterhouse; clerk in bank of Prescott, Grote & Co. 1810, partner in it 1816–43; one of founders of London university, opened 2 Oct. 1828, member of council 1828 to death; M.P. for city of London 1832–41; introduced motion in favor of the ballot 25 April 1833; F.G.S. 1843; D.C.L. Ox. 1853; V.C. of the university of London 1862; contested lord rectorship of univ. of Aberdeen 1866; author of History of Greece 12 vols. 1846–56, 4 ed. 10 vols. 1872; Plato and other companions of Socrates 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1867 and other books. d. 12 Savile row, London 18 June 1871. bur. Westminster abbey 24 June. Personal history of G. Grote, by Mrs. Grote (1873), portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 183–94; Illustrated Review, vol. ii (1871) 33–37, portrait; Rev. P. Anton’s Masters in history (1880) 63–119.

GROTE, Harriet (dau. of Thomas Lewin of H.E.I.C.S., d. June 1843). b. the Ridgeway near Southampton 1 July 1792. (m. 5 March 1820 George Grote 1794–1871); educated herself to assist her husband in his literary work and managed his landed property for him; held receptions for foreigners and English politicians; a friend of Mendelssohn and Jenny Lind; known as the Queen of the Radicals; author of Memoir of life of Ary Scheffer 1860, 2 editions; Collected Papers 1862; The personal life of George Grote 1873. d. The Ridgeway, Shere near Guildford 29 Dec. 1878. Mrs. Grote, by Lady Eastlake (1880); Englishwoman’s Domestic Mag. xvi, 120, 176 (1874).

GROTE, Rev. John (brother of George Grote 1794–1871). b. Beckenham 5 May 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, fellow 1837 to death; V. of Trumpington near Cambridge 1847 to death; prof. of moral philos. in Univ. of Cam., May 1855 to death; author of Exploratio philosophica 1865, pt. i only; An examination of the utilitarian philosophy of J. S. Mill 1870. d. Trumpington vicarage 21 Aug. 1866.

GROUCOCK, Richard. b. Waters Upton, Salop; founded firm of Groucock and Copestake, warehousemen 5 Bow church yard, London 1826, they were joined by George Moore 1830. d. Waters Upton 26 July 1853 aged 51. D. Puseley’s Commercial companion (1858) p. 46.

GROVE, William (eld. son of Edward Grove of Stratton hall, Staffs.) b. 1796; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1834–40, at Greenwich and Woolich 1840–46. d. Union workhouse, Maidenhead 29 Jany. 1875.

GROVER, Rev. Henry Montague (eld. son of Harry Grover of Hemel Hempstead, Herts.) b. Watford, Herts. 1791; ed. at Peterhouse coll. Cam., LL.B. 1830; solicitor in Bedford row, London 1816–24; R. of Hitcham, Bucks. 16 Feb. 1833 to death; author of Anne Boleyn, a tragedy 1826; The history of the resurrection 1841. d. Hitcham rectory 20 Aug. 1866.

GROVES, Anthony Norris. b. Newton, Hampshire 1795; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; dentist at Plymouth 1813–6, at Exeter 1816–29; one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren 1828; teacher of christianity at Bagdad 1829–33; travelling missionary in India 1833–4, 1836–48, 1849–52; author of Journal of a journey from London to Bagdad 1831; Journal of a residence at Bagdad 1837. d. 21 Paul st. Bristol 20 May 1853. Memoir of A. N. Groves, 3 ed. (1869).

GRUBB, Edward (2 son of Edward Grubb of Great Queen st. London). Barrister G.I. 11 Feb. 1828; clerk of records and writs in chancery 186-to death; a total abstainer 1833; author of Essays, analytical and philosophical, on the human mind, By E. G. 1845; Old and New Temperance advocacy, a speech 1858. d. 22 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 8 June 1878 aged 77.

GRUBB, Thomas. b. Kilkenny, Ireland 1800; a practical optician and manufacturer of reflectors in Dublin, made the Melbourne reflector 1867 the largest except the Parsonstown speculum then known; much consulted by Lord Rosse and other astronomers; retired from business 1868; F.R.S. 2 June 1864; F.R.A.S. 1870; writer of many papers on microscopes and telescopes; M.R.I.A. 14 Jany. 1839. d. 141 Leinster road, Rathmines, Dublin 19 Sep. 1878.

GRUNDY, James. b. New Radford, Nottingham 5 March 1824; professional bowler to earl of Leicester at Holkham 1847–51; bowler to the Marylebone club 1851–71; also a good batsman; landlord of Midland hotel, Carrington st. Nottingham 1869. d. Midland hotel, Nottingham 24 Nov. 1873. Illust. sporting news, i, 117 (1862), portrait, iii, 361 (1864), portrait, v, 457 (1866), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 29 Dec. 1873 p. 4.

GRUNDY, John Clowes (eld. son of John Grundy, cotton spinner). b. Bolton, Lancs. 3 Aug. 1806; print seller Manchester; one of the best judges of engravings in England; patron of David Cox, S. Prout and others; in conjunction with Sir F. Moon published David Roberts’ Sketches in the Holy Land, Egypt, &c. 1842–8. d. while on a visit to London 19 May 1867.

GRUNEISEN, Charles Lewis (son of Charles Gruneisen of Stuttgart). b. Bloomsbury, London 2 Nov. 1806; special correspondent of Morning Post to Carlist army in Spain 1837–8, correspondent in Paris 1839–44 when he organised a pigeon express; organiser of the Italian opera at Covent Garden 1846, supported it till 1869; entrusted by Meyerbeer with the score of Le ProphÈte which was produced at Covent Garden 1849; musical critic for AthenÆum 1868 to death; a founder and director of Conservative land soc. 1852, sec. 1853–72; author of The opera and the press 1869; Sketches of Spain 1874. d. 16 Surrey st. Strand, London 1 Nov. 1879.

GRYLLS, Rev. Henry (3 son of Rev. Richard Gerveys Grylls 1758–1841, V. of St. Neot, Cornwall). b. Helston, Cornwall 1 Feb. 1794; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; V. of St. Neot 21 Dec. 1820 to death; author of A selection of masonic prayers 1844; A descriptive sketch of the windows of St. Neot church 1830, 4 ed. 1854; A manual of private and domestic prayer 1861. d. Helston 11 June 1862.

GRYLLS, Mary (1 dau. of Rev. Charles Grylls 1812–76, V. of Lanhydrock, Cornwall). b. Helston, Cornwall 15 Feb. 1836; author of Death in the palace 1861; Helen and her cousins 1863 and 4 other books all being anonymous. d. Lanhydrock 13 Nov. 1863.

GUBBINS, Martin Richard. b. 1812; of H.E.I.C.S. 1830; member of British commission in Oudh 1856–7; manager of intelligence department during the mutiny 1857–8; judge of supreme court of Agra 1858–63; author of Reports upon the settlement of Zillah Etawah, Agra 1844; Accounts of the mutinies in Oudh 1858, 3 ed. 1858; hanged himself at Somerset house, Clarendon place, Leamington 6 May 1863. Royal Leamington Spa Courier 9 May 1863 p. 10.

GUDGE, James. Clerk of journals of house of commons 1835 to death. d. Westminster hospital, London 7 May 1857 aged 62, having tried to drown himself in the Thames 6 May.

GUERINT, Sebastian Francis (son of Mr. Guerint a Swiss who was the first engine turner of watch cases in England). b. 1791; appeared at Sadler’s Wells theatre 23 April 1817 as Harlequin in The yellow dwarf to Grimaldi’s clown; ballet master at the Olympic 1848; proprietor of exhibition of hydraulics and moving figures on site of old Savile house, Leicester sq.; acting manager at Royalty theatre 1869. d. 87 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 9 March 1870.

GUERNSEY, Wellington. b. Mullingar, co. Westmeath 8 June 1817; studied music under Mercadante at Lisbon; an officer of engineers in war between Paraguay and Brazil and the U.S. of America 1865; war correspondent and journalist 40 years; writer of the words of upwards of 100 songs including Mary Blane and Alice, where art thou?; composer of song I’ll hang my harp on a willow tree 1845, a mass in B flat 1865 and 80 other pieces of music. d. London 13 Nov. 1885.

GUEST, Edwin (son of E. Guest). b. 1802; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., fellow 1824; 11 wrangler 1824, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, LLD. 1853; barrister L.I. 19 June 1828; master of Caius coll. 1852, resigned 14 Oct. 1880; V.C. of Univ. of Cam. 1854–5; F.R.S. 20 June 1839; founder of Philological soc., and sec. 1842, wrote many papers in Transactions; author of A history of English rhythms 2 vols. 1838, new ed. 1882; Guest’s Compendious Shorthand 1883; Origines CelticÆ 1883. d. Sandford park near Oxford 23 Nov. 1880 in 78 year. Spectator 4 Dec. 1880 p. 1551.

GUEST, John (son of James Guest, tailor). b. Bridge-gate, Rotherham 5 May 1799; clerk at the Phoenix iron works; head of firm of Guest and Chrimes, brass founders 1847; a temperance advocate 1836; alderman of Rotherham 1871 and a benefactor to the town; F.S.A. 5 May 1874; author of Relics and records of Rotherham 1866; Historic notices of Rotherham 1879. d. Moorgate Grange, Rotherham 18 July 1880. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 438; Sketches of the life of J. Guest, by T. Beggs (1881), portrait.

GUEST, Sir Josiah John, 1 Baronet (elder son of Thomas Guest of Dowlais near Merthyr Tydvil, manager of iron works, d. 1807). b. Dowlais 2 Feb. 1785; general manager of Dowlais iron works 1815, owner of the works 1849 to death; M.P. for Honiton 1826–31; contested Honiton 1831; M.P. for Merthyr 11 Dec. 1832 to death; contested Glamorgan 1837; chairman of Taff Vale railway; F.R.S. 10 June 1830; F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 1834; cr. Baronet 14 Aug. 1838. d. Dowlais 26 Nov. 1852. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 163–5 (1853).

GUICCIOLI, Countess Teresa (dau. of Count Gamba of Ravenna). b. 1801. (m. 1818 Count Guiccioli of Ravenna); first met Lord Byron April 1819 at Venice; separated from her husband and lived under protection of Byron Jany. 1820 to July 1823; (m. 1851 Hilaire marquis de Boissy, he was b. 1798, d. 26 Sep. 1866); visited England; author of Lord Byron jugÉ par les tÉmoins de sa vie 1869. d. Setimello near Florence, March 1873. Mary R. Darby Smith’s Recollections of la marquise de Boissy (1878), with 3 portraits.

GUILFORD, Rev. Francis North, 6 Earl of. b. 17 Dec. 1772; master of St. Cross hospital, Winchester 9 Jany. 1808 to 1855, the Rolls court obliged him to give up part of the income in 1855; succeeded 14 Oct. 1827; R. of Old Alresford, New Alresford and Medstead 1797–1850; author of Tract on the Epiphany 1835. d. Waldershare park near Dover 29 Jany. 1861. C. Beavan’s Chancery Reports, xvi, 435–69 (1854), xviii, 475–7, 601–8 (1855).

GUILFORD, Dudley Francis North, 7 Earl of. b. Weavering, Kent 14 July 1851; succeeded his grandfather 1861; cornet R. horse guards 1868, lieut. 1870, retired 1871; master of East Kent hounds 1872. d. Sydling court near Dorchester 19 Dec. 1885 from injuries received while hunting day before. Baily’s Mag. xxiii, 125 (1873), portrait.

GUILLE, Very Rev. William (son of Wm. Guille of Guernsey). Matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 15 Nov. 1810 aged 18, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; R. of St. Andrew’s, Guernsey 1837–58; R. of St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey 1858 to death; dean of Guernsey 1858 to death. d. Guernsey 14 June 1869.

GUILLEMARD, Rev. William Henry (son of Daniel Guillemard, silk merchant, Spitalfields). b. Hackney 23 Nov. 1815; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1870; fellow of his coll. 1839; head master of Royal coll. Armagh 1848–69; V. of St. Mary the Less, Camb. 1869, resigned 1887; author of The Greek Testament, Hebraistic edition 1875; Hebraisms in the Greek Testament, Camb. 1879 an unfinished work. d. Waterbeach near Cambridge 2 Sep. 1887.

GUINNESS, Sir Benjamin Lee, 1 Baronet (3 son of Arthur Guinness b. 12 March 1768, head of firm of Guinness & Co. brewers, Dublin, d. Beaumont house near Dublin 9 June 1855). b. Dublin 1 Nov. 1798; lord mayor of Dublin 1851; sole proprietor of firm of Arthur Guinness & Co. 1857, developed the business which became largest in the world, it was made a limited liability co. 1886 with capital of £6,000,000; restored St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin at cost of £150,000, 1860–67; LLD. of univ. of Dublin 1863; M.P. for city of Dublin 17 July 1865 to death; cr. baronet 15 April 1867. d. 27 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 19 May 1868. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 27 May, personalty sworn under £1,100,000, 8 Aug. 1868; bronze statue erected in St. Patrick’s ch. yard Sep. 1875. I.L.N. xlvi, 207, 209 (1865), portrait, lii, 547 (1868); Graphic xii, 278, 293 (1875).

GUINNESS, Richard Samuel. b. Dublin 17 June 1797; head of firm of Guinness & Co. Dublin 1855 to death; M.P. for Kinsale 1847–48, for Barnstaple 1855–57. d. Deepwell, Blackrock, co. Dublin 28 Aug. 1857.

GUION, Stephen Barker. b. U.S. of America 1820; went to Liverpool 1851; naturalised 18 Oct. 1858; started the Guion line of Atlantic steamers 1866; pres. of Liverpool Liberal association many years; represented Exchange Ward in the Liverpool city council 1869 to Nov. 1885. d. Devonshire road, Prince’s park, Liverpool 19 Dec. 1885.

GUISE, Sir John Wright, 3 Baronet (2 son of Sir John Guise, 1 Bart. 1733–94). b. Highnam court, Gloucs. 20 July 1777; ensign 70 foot 1794; ensign 3 foot guards 1795, first major 1814–21; served in Spain 1800, Egypt 1801 and in Peninsula 1812–14; K.C.B. 13 Sept. 1831, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; succeeded his brother 23 July 1834; col. 85 foot 1 June 1847 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. Elmore court near Gloucester 1 April 1865.

GULL, Sir William Withey, 1 Baronet (youngest son of John Gull, barge owner, d. 1827). b. Colchester 31 Dec. 1815; M.B. London univ. 1841, M.D. 1846; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1848, censor 1859–61 and 1872–3, Gulstonian lecturer 1849, Harveian orator 1870; medical tutor Guy’s hospital 1841, lecturer 1843–56, physician and lecturer 1856–65; Fullerian prof, of physiology, Royal Instit. 1847–9; D.C.L. Oxf. 1868, LLD. Camb. 1880, and Edinb. 1884; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; attended Prince of Wales when ill from typhoid fever Nov. to Dec. 1871; cr. baronet 20 Jany. 1872; phys. in ordinary to P. of Wales 24 Feb. 1872; phys. in ordinary to the queen 1887; pres. of Clinical soc. of Lond. 1872; pre-eminent as a clinical physician, the first to describe disease known as myxoedema 1873. d. 74 Brook st. London 29 Jany. 1890. bur. Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, left personalty £344,023 besides landed estates. Midland Medical miscell. iii, 97–8 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lix, 612 (1871), portrait, and 1 Feb. 1890 p. 131, portrait.

GULLIVER, George. b. Banbury 4 June 1804; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1843; Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy 1861, Hunterian orator 1863; hospital assistant in army 17 May 1827; surgeon to R. horse guards 1843–53 when placed on h.p.; present at duel 1 July 1843 between Col. Fawcett and Lieut. Munro, tried for murder but acquitted; F.R.S. 7 March 1839; The Amicus of Dr. John Davy’s two books The Angler and his friends 1855 and The Angler in the Lake district 1857; made researches on the blood, chyle, lymph, etc.; edited for the Sydenham soc. The works of William Hewson, F.R.S. 1846; Notes of researches in anatomy, etc. 1870, another ed. 1880. d. 3 Clovis ter. Canterbury 17 Nov. 1882. Biograph May-June 1882 pp. 388–92.

GULLY, James Manby. b. Kingston, Jamaica 14 March 1808; came to England 1814; M.D. of Edin. univ. 1829, M.R.C.S. Edin. 1829; physician in London 1830–42; edited Liverpool Medical Journal 1834; at Malvern as a practiser of hydropathy 1842 to 31 Dec. 1871; became very intimate with Mrs. C. D. T. Bravo and was one of the witnesses in the Bravo poison case July-Aug. 1876; his name removed from medical societies and Medical Register 1876; author of The water cure in chronic disease 1846, 13 ed. 1877; The lady of Belleisle, a drama produced at Drury lane 4 Dec. 1839; appears as Dr. Gullson in Chas. Reade’s novel It is never too late to mend 1857. d. Orwell lodge, Bedford hill road, Balham, Surrey 27 March 1883. Palatine Note-book, iii, 215–6 (1883); The Balham Mystery (1876), 33 portrait.

GULLY, John. b. Crown inn, Wick and Abson, Gloucs. 21 Aug. 1783; a butcher at Bath; fought Henry Pearce the ‘Game Chicken’ 8 Oct. 1805 when he was beaten; beat Bob Gregson the Lancashire giant 14 Oct. 1807, again 10 May 1808; declined title of champion of England 1808; landlord of the Plough inn 23 Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1808–10; bookmaker and owner of race horses from 1812; bought Mameluke from Lord Jersey in 1827 for £4200; won the St. Leger with Margrave 1832, the 2000 guineas with Ugly Buck 1844 and with Hermit 1854; the Derby with Pyrrhus the First 1846 and with Andover 1854; the Oaks with Mendicant 1846; M.P. for Pontefract 1832–7, contested Pontefract 1841; proprietor of Wingate colliery, Durham 1862. d. the North Bailey, city of Durham 9 March 1863. bur. Ackworth near Pontefract 14 March. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, i, 182–91 (1880), portrait; W. Day’s Reminiscences (1886) 53–70; Famous racing men (1882) 72–82; The Fancy, ii, 365–72 (1826), portrait; Rice’s British Turf, i, 288–93 (1879).

GUNDRY, Thomas. A miner in Cornwall; champion wrestler of Cornwall 25 years; beat the Devonshire champion twice; a carrier; was married 4 times. d. Stennack, Camborne 23 Oct. 1888 aged 70. The Cornishman 1 Nov. 1888 p. 3.

GUNN, Robert Campbell. b. Cape of Good Hope 4 April 1808; assist. superintendent of convict prisons, Tasmania 1829; superintendent, police magistrate and coroner; sent collections of plants to Sir W. Hooker and W. Lindley, and mammals, birds, etc. to Dr. J. E. Gray; clerk to executive and legislative councils of Tasmania and private sec. to Sir John Franklin 1837–43; F.L.S. Jany. 1850; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; a commissioner to select site for capital of New Zealand, when Wellington was chosen 1864. d. Hobart Town 12 March 1881. Proc. Royal Soc. xxxiv, pp. xiii-xv (1883).

GUNNER, Thomas (2 son of Wm. Gunner of Bishop’s Waltham, Hants.) b. 23 Nov. 1815; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1842; recorder of Southampton, Oct. 1870 to death. d. Heathfield, Winchester 3 March 1883.

GUNNING, Henry (1 son of Rev. Francis Gunning, V. of Newton near Cambridge, d. 1788). b. Newton 13 Feb. 1768; ed. at Christ’s coll. Cam., 5 wr. 1788, B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; one of esquires bedells of the univ. 13 Oct. 1789, senior esquire bedell 1827 to death; mem. of town council of Cambridge 1835–41; author of Poll books of Cambridge 7 vols. 1822–47; The ceremonies in the senate house, Cambridge 1836. d. Brighton 4 Jany. 1854. Reminiscences of Cambridge, by H. Gunning 2 vols. 1854, portrait; G.M. xli, 207–208 (1854).

GUNNING, John. b. 1774; hospital assistant in the army Oct. 1793; surgeon to commander in chief through Peninsular war; surgeon in chief at Waterloo; inspector general 1 Feb. 1816, placed on h.p. 1 Oct. 1816; lived at Paris 1815 to death; C.B. 17 Aug. 1849. d. 52 Rue du ColisÉe, Paris 11 Jany. 1863. Proc. of Med. and Chir. society, iv, 207 (1864).

GUNNING, Ven. William. Ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., LL.B. 1828; V. of Stowey near Bath 1839–51; preb. of Wells 24 Aug. 1840 to death; V. of Buckland Newton, Dorset 1851 to death; archdeacon of Bath, Aug. 1852 to death. d. Manila crescent, Weston-super-Mare 11 Oct. 1860 aged 64.

GUNSON, Rev. William Mandell. Ed. at Bolton-Gate sch. near Mealsgate and Christ’s coll. Cam., 28 wrangler and 1 class cl. trip. 1847, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, fellow of his coll. 1847, tutor 1851–70; drowned himself near the Knowe, Baggrew, Aspatria, Cumberland 30 Sep. 1881.

GUNTER, Robert. Confectioner at Berkeley sq. London 1819–44. d. Earl’s court, Old Brompton 16 Oct. 1852 aged 69.

GUPPY, Thomas Richard (2 son of Samuel Guppy of Bristol, merchant). b. Bristol 1797; a sugar refiner at Bristol about 1826–30; started with I. K. Brunel a company for constructing a railway from Bristol to London 1830 for which they got an act 1832; constructed with Brunel the ‘Great Western’ steamship which was launched 19 July 1837, ran from Bristol to New York 1838–46, became property of Royal mail steam packet company 1846 and was broken up 1857; invented the cellular system of ship building; constructed the Great Britain, launched 19 July 1843; assisted in the introduction of the screw propeller; manager of Cwmavon, Glamorgan, copper works 1844; practised at Naples 1849, a mechanical engineer there 1854; A.I.C.E. 3 May 1842, M.I.C.E. 19 Feb. 1878. d. Portici near Naples 28 June 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxix, 411–15 (1882).

GURDON, Brampton. b. London 25 Sep. 1797; sheriff of Norfolk 1855; M.P. for West Norfolk 1857–65. d. 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 28 April 1881.

GURDON, William (4 son of lieut. col. Theophilus Thornhagh Gurdon of Letton, Norfolk 1764–1849). b. 1804; ed. at Eton and Downing coll. Cam., fellow 1838, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 3 July 1829: recorder of Bury St. Edmunds 185-to 1860; judge of county courts, circuit 38 (Essex), March 1847 to March 1871; author of Our highways: what they are and what they might be; Bankruptcy for the million 1862. d. Brantham court, Manningtree, Suffolk 12 Oct. 1884.

GURDON-REBOW, John. b. London 1799; assumed additional name of Rebow 1835; sheriff of Essex 1853; M.P. for Colchester 1857–59 and 1865 to death. d. Wivenhoe park near Colchester 12 Oct. 1870.

GURNEY, Anna (youngest child of Richard Gurney of Keswick near Norwich, d. 16 July 1811). b. 31 Dec. 1795; paralysed at 10 months old and deprived for ever of the use of her lower limbs; translated the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, By A Lady in the country 1819; lived at Northrepps cottage near Cromer 1825 to death; travelled in Italy and Greece. d. Keswick near Norwich 6 June 1857. bur. in Overstrand church. Journal of British ArchÆol. Assoc. xiv, 187–9 (1858).

GURNEY, Rev. Archer Thompson (son of Richard Gurney 1790–1843, vice-warden of stannaries of Devon). b. Tregony, Cornwall 15 July 1820; barrister of M.T. 8 May 1846; ordained C. of Holy Trinity, Exeter 1849; chaplain to Court chapel, Paris 1858–71; C. of Llangunider, Brecon 1882–3; author of Turandot, Princess of China, a drama 1836; Songs of early summer 1856; Words of faith and cheer 1874 and other books, besides songs and hymns. d. Castle hotel, 4 Northgate st. Bath 21 March 1887.

GURNEY, Daniel (youngest son of John Gurney d. 1809). b. Earlham hall near Norwich 9 March 1791; partner in firm of Gurney & Co. bankers, Norwich 1820–80; F.S.A. 12 March 1818; sheriff of Norfolk 1853; author of The record of the house of Gournay 1848–58. d. North Runcton, Norfolk 14 June 1880.

GURNEY, Edmund (3 son of John Hampden Gurney 1802–62). b. Hersham near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey 23 March 1847; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1871, fellow 1872; resided at Harrow 1872–5; studied music 1872–5, medicine 1877–81 and law 1881–3; a founder of Soc. for Psychical research 1882 and a writer of numerous articles on the subject; a student of hypnotism 1887; author of The power of sound 1880; Tertium Quid, chapters on disputed questions 2 vols. 1887; principal author of Phantasms of the living 1886. d. from taking an overdose of narcotic at the Royal Albion hotel, Brighton 23 June 1888. Brighton Gazette 28 June 1888 p. 6.

GURNEY, Sir Goldsworthy (son of John Gurney of Trevorgus, Cornwall, d. 1823). b. Treator near Padstow 14 Feb. 1793; surgeon at Wadebridge 1814, in London 1820; invented the steam jet 1820 and the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe 1823; discovered Drummond light 1826; invented an instrument of musical glasses played as a piano; applied high pressure steam to a locomotive on the road from London to Bath 28 July 1829; invented Bude light 1839; introduced new mode of lighting house of commons 1839, superintendent of lighting and ventilation there 1854–63; knighted by patent 10 Aug. 1863. d. The Reeds near Bude 28 Feb. 1875.

GURNEY, Hudson (brother of Anna Gurney 1775–1857). b. Norwich 19 Jany. 1775; M.P. Shaftesbury 1812, unseated on petition; M.P. Newton, Isle of Wight 1816–31; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1812, V.P. 1822–46; F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1818; sheriff of Norfolk 1835; purchased from Mrs. Woodward all S. Woodward’s manuscripts, and printed the Norfolk Topographer’s Manual 1842 and the The history of Norwich castle 1847; wrote Cupid and Psyche: a mythological tale from the Golden Ass of Apuleius 1799, 3 ed. 1801; printed privately a translation of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso 1843. d. Keswick hall near Norwich 9 Nov. 1864. bur. Intwood ch. yard, personalty sworn under £1,100,000, 24 Dec. 1864. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections, i, 242–45 (1883).

GURNEY, Rev. John Hampden (1 son of Sir John Gurney 1768–1845). b. 12 Serjeant’s inn, Fleet st. London 15 Aug. 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; C. of Lutterworth, Leics. 1827–44; R. of St. Mary’s, Bryanston sq. London 6 Dec. 1847 to death; preb. of St. Pancras, St. Paul’s cath. 1857 to death; author of Historical sketches 1400–1546, 1852; St. Louis and Henry iv, 1855; God’s heroes and the world’s heroes 1858. d. 63 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 8 March 1862. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) p. 40, portrait.

GURNEY, John Henry (only son of Joseph John Gurney the philanthropist 1788–1847). b. 1819; of firm of Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay and Buxton, bankers in the eastern counties; M.P. Lynn Regis 1854–65; an active partner in Overend, Gurney & Co. bill discounters, London 1865, the firm suspended payment 10 May 1866 liabilities £11,000,000; presented his collections of birds to Norfolk and Norwich museum; author of A sketch of the raptorial birds in the Norwich museum 1872. d. Northrepps, Norfolk 21 April 1890. I.L.N. xxvi, 181 (1855), portrait; Pictorial World 8 May 1890 p. 598, portrait.

GURNEY, Rev. John Phillips. ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1834; chaplain of Black chapel, Great Waltham, Essex; V. of Great Canfield, Essex 22 Dec. 1822 to death; author of The woman and the dragon, an exposition of twelfth chapter of Apocalypse 1851; The approaching fall of Rome 1857. d. Great Canfield vicarage 9 March 1872.

GURNEY, Joseph (eld. son of W. B. Gurney 1777–1855). b. London 15 Oct. 1804; shorthand writer to houses of parliament 1849–72; treasurer of Religious Tract soc. and of Baptist coll. in Regent’s park; author of The annotated paragraph Bible, By J. G. 2 vols. 1850–60; The revised English Bible, Preface, By J. G. 1877. d. Tynedale lodge, Wimbledon common, Surrey 12 Aug. 1879.

GURNEY, Russell (brother of Rev. J. H. Gurney 1802–62). b. Norwood, Surrey 2 Sep. 1804; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1828, bencher 1845; Q.C 1845; judge of sheriff’s court and small debts court, city of London 1850; common serjeant of city of London, Jany. 1856; recorder of city of London 16 Dec. 1856, resigned Feb. 1878; M.P. Southampton, July 1865 to death; a comr. to inquire into disturbances in Jamaica Jany. 1866; P.C. 11 June 1866; F.R.S. 22 April 1875; prime warder of Fishmongers’ co. 1876. d. 8 Kensington palace gardens 31 May 1878. Times 1 June 1878 p. 13, 6 June p. 7; I.L.N. lxxii, 589–90 (1878), portrait.

GURNEY, Samuel (2 son of John Gurney, banker, d. 1809). b. Earlham hall near Norwich 18 Oct. 1786; partner with Richardson and Overend, bill and money lenders, 14 Birchin lane, London 1807; firm became Overend, Gurney & Co. 1824; known as the bankers’ banker; in 1856 the firm had deposits of eight millions, insolvent 1866; a patron of the colony of Liberia, his name given to a town in Gallenas 1851. d. Paris 5 June 1856. bur. Friends’ cemet. Barking 19 June. H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 347–64 (1866); I.L.N. xxix, 16 (1856), portrait.

GURNEY, Samuel (2 son of the preceding). b. Upton, Essex 1816; partner in Overend, Guerney & Co. London; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1857–65; sheriff of Surrey 1861; director of several telegraph companies; F.L.S. F.R.G.S. d. The Spa, Tunbridge Wells 4 April 1882 aged 66. I.L.N. 24 July 1859 pp. 92 94, portrait.

GURNEY, William Brodie (son of Joseph Gurney, shorthand writer, d. 1815). b. Stamford hill, London 24 Dec. 1777; a public shorthand writer, reported many state trials 1806–20; shorthand writer to houses of parliament 1813; founded Sunday school union 1803, sec., treasurer, pres. 1803 to death; a founder and editor of The Youth’s magazine 1805; lay preacher at London female penitentiary 1807; author of A lecture to children and youth 1848; edited Brachygraphy by T. Gurney, 15 ed. 1824, 16 ed. 1835. d. Denmark hill, Camberwell 25 March 1855. W. H. Watson’s First fifty years of the Sunday school (1873) 69–75.

GÜTZLAFF, Carl Friedrich August. b. Pyritz, Pomerania 8 July 1803; D.D.; sent to the East by Netherland missionary soc. 1827; went to Macao, China 1831; interpreter to British superintendency 1834; travelled in Japan 1837; Chinese sec. to British consulate, Canton 1844 to death; founded Christian union of Chinese to propagate the gospel 1840; visited England 1850; author of The Journal of three voyages along the coast of China 1834, 3 ed. 1840; A sketch of Chinese history 2 vols. 1834; China opened 2 vols. 1838 and many other works in Dutch, German, Latin, Siamese, Chinese and Japanese. d. Victoria, Hong Kong 9 Aug. 1851. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, x, 236–7 (1879).

GUTCH, John Mathew (eld. son of Rev. John Gutch 1746–1831, chaplain of All Souls’ coll. Ox.) b. Oxford 1776; ed. at Christ’s hospital; law stationer in Southampton buildings, Chancery lane to 1803; proprietor and printer of Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal 1804–44; second-hand bookseller at Bristol; partner in Lavender’s bank, Worcester 1823–48 when the bank failed; F.S.A. 1839; started with Robert Alexander the Morning Journal, London 6 Oct. 1828, last number 30 May 1830; wrote or edited The Country Constitutional Guardian, Bristol 1822–24 a monthly serial; edited Poems of Geo. Withers 3 vols. 1820 and works about Robin Hood 1847–66. d. Barbourne near Worcester 20 Sep. 1861.

GUTCH, John Wheeley Gough (only child of the preceding). b. Bristol 1809; M.R.C.S. 1830; practised in Florence; a queen’s messenger 1850–61; contributed to Felix Farley’s Journal; edited The literary and scientific register 1842–56. d. 38 Bloomsbury sq. London 30 April 1862. F. O. List (1862) p. 161.

GUTHRIE, Charles Seton (1 son of George Dempster Guthrie of Scots Calder). b. 1808; ed. at H.E.I.C. coll. Addiscombe; lieut. col. Bengal engineers 1855–57 when he retired; made a collection of 18,440 eastern coins, the largest ever brought together, which was offered to German government for £5,000; member of Numismatic soc. to death. d. 26 Dec. 1874. Numismatic Chronicle Proceedings, xv, 12 (Dec. 1875).

GUTHRIE, Frederick (son of Alexander Guthrie of 54 New Bond st. London, tailor). b. Bayswater, London 15 Oct. 1833; ed. at Univ. sch. and coll. London; B.A. London 1855, M.A.?; Ph.D. of Marburg univ. Prussia 1854; F.R.S. Edin. 1860; assist. prof. of chemistry Owen’s coll. Manchester 1856–9 and at Edin. 1859–61; prof. of chemistry and physics R. coll. Mauritius 1861–7; lecturer and prof. Sch. of science, South Kensington 1869 to death; discovered the Approach caused by vibration 1870; F.R.S. 8 June 1871; founder of Physical soc. of London 1873, president 1884; author of The Jew, a poem 1863, Logrono, a metric drama 1877, both under name of Frederick Cerny; Elements of heat 1868; The first book of knowledge 1881, new ed. 1883. d. of cancer of the throat 24 St. James’ sq. Notting hill, London 21 Oct. 1886. Nature 4 Nov. 1886 pp. 8–10.

GUTHRIE, George James (only son of Andrew Guthrie of Lower James st. Golden sq. London, chiropodist). b. London 1 May 1785; M.R.C.S. 5 Feb. 1801, member of council 1824, president 1833, 41, 54; assist. surgeon to 29 regt. 1801; served in Canada 1803–8, the Peninsula 1808–14 and at Waterloo 1815; surgeon on half pay Sep. 1814; lectured on surgery in London 1816–45; the first in England who used a lithotrite for crushing a stone in the bladder 1816; founded infirmary for diseases of the eye 1816 which became R. Westminster ophthalmic hospital; assist. surgeon to Westminster hospital 1823, surgeon 1827–43; professor of anatomy and surgery 1828–31; F.R.S. 1827; author of Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye 1827; On diseases and injuries of arteries, with their cure 1830; On the operation for extraction of a cataract from the eye 1834; Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, &c. 6 ed. 1853. d. 4 Berkeley st. Berkeley sq. London 1 May 1856. Lancet 15 June 1850 pp. 726–36, portrait; Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery, iv, (1840), portrait; Medical Circular, iv, 13–15, 33–34, (1854).

GUTHRIE, James Alexander (1 son of David Charles Guthrie of Craigie, Dundee). b. 8 Sep. 1823; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1852; merchant and banker 9 Idol lane, London as Chalmers and Guthrie; director of bank of England 1858–60, 1861–66, 1867–69 and 1870 to death. d. 78 Portland place, London 17 Jany. 1873.

GUTHRIE, Rev. John. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar; 10 wrangler and B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; R. of Thorpe, Notts. 1827; V. of Helmarton, Wilts. 1833; R. of Calstone-Willington 1833; V. of Calne, Wilts. 7 Feb. 1835 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. 1852–8; canon residentiary Bristol cath. 1858 to death; author of On the neglect of christian ordinances 1855 and other pamphlets. d. Dorset house, Clifton 6 July 1865.

GUTHRIE, Rev. Thomas (6 son of David Guthrie of Brechin, merchant, d. March 1824). b. Brechin 12 July 1803; ed. at univ. of Edin. 1815–26, D.D. 1849; manager of his father’s bank, Brechin 1827–9; minister of Arbirlot, Forfarshire 1830–37; a minister of Old Greyfriar’s church, Edin. 1837 and of St. John’s parish 1840–3; minister of Free St. John’s ch. 1843–64; moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1862; presented with £5000, 20 Feb. 1865; F.R.S. Edin. 1869; ed. the Sunday Mag. 1864 to death; author of The gospel in Ezekiel 1856, circulated 50,000 copies; The city, its sins and sorrows 1857; Studies of character from the Old Testament, 2 series 1867–70 and about 30 lectures, sermons and tracts. d. Eversfield place, St. Leonard’s on Sea 24 Feb. 1873. bur. Grange cemet. Edin. 28 Feb. Autobiography of T. Guthrie 2 vols. (1874–5), 3 portraits; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 83–7, portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); Illust. news of the world, viii, (1861), portrait.

Note.—He did more than any other man from 1847 onwards, to popularise ragged schools. Samuel Smiles in his Self-Help calls him The Apostle of the ragged school movement.

GUTTERIDGE, Thomas (son of Mr. Gutteridge, a wharfinger, London, then landlord of White Lion tavern, Birmingham). L.S.A. 1826; M.R.C.S. 1827; surgeon Birmingham; professor of anatomy Soc. of Arts 1832, presented with 100 guineas 1842; G. F. Muntz found guilty of assaulting him in an anti-church rate riot at the Old Church, Birmingham 1837; opposed confirmation of Dr. James Prince Lee as bp. of Manchester in St. James’ ch. Piccadilly, London 10 Jany. 1848; found guilty of libels on Dr. Lee at Warwick 6 April 1848; author of Church rates 1842 and of 4 works on the corruptions and abuses in the Birmingham hospital 1844–51. d. Birmingham 3 May 1880. Edgbastoniana, iii, 34–6 (1883), portrait; Langford’s Modern Birmingham, i, 13, 519 (1868).

GUTTERIDGE, William. b. Chelmsford, Essex 1798; leader of band in the park theatre, Brussels 1815; leader at Birmingham theatre 1818; member of George iv. band and of William iv. band; resided in Brighton 1823 to death; organist of St. Peter’s ch. 1828; conductor of Old Sacred Harmonic soc. 1828; had a music warehouse in Castle sq.; much patronised by Geo. iv. and Victoria. d. 55 London road, Brighton 23 Sept. 1872.

GUY, Joseph (2 son of Joseph Guy of Bristol, schoolmaster). b. 4 May 1784; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf.; private tutor and schoolmaster; author of Guy’s New exercises in orthography 1818; Guy’s Geographia Antiqua 1830; Royal Victoria spelling book 1850; Guy’s New Speaker 1852 and about 12 other school books all of which were often reprinted. d. 5 Eden place, Kentish Town, London 16 Jany. 1867. Bookseller 31 Jany. 1867 p. 11.

GUY, Joseph. b. Nottingham 30 July 1814; a baker; kept Carpenters’ Arms inn, Mansfield road, Nottingham 1856 to death; first played at Lord’s 25–26 June 1838 the Coronation match; after Pilch and Wenman the best batsman in England; had a benefit on Trent Bridge ground 4 Aug. 1856 when he cleared £165 9s. 6d. d. Nottingham 15 April 1873. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 449 (1862), v, page xv (1876).

GUY, Sir Philip Melmoth Nelson (only son of Melmoth Guy of Kenton hall, Devon). b. Sidmouth, Devon 1804; ensign 5 foot 23 Sep. 1824, lieut. colonel 21 May 1850 to 1 Sep. 1861; commanded third infantry brigade at siege and capture of Lucknow 5–28 March 1858; governor of Jersey 1 Oct. 1868 to 1 Oct. 1873; colonel of 55 foot 14 Dec. 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Wiesbaden 10 March 1878.

GUY, William Augustus. b. Chichester 1810; ed. Pemb. coll. Cam., M.B. 1837, M.L. 1838; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1844, Croonian lecturer 1861, Lumleian 1868 and Harveian 1875; professor of forensic medicine King’s coll. Lond. 1838, dean of the medical faculty 1846, 1849, permanent dean 1850–58; edited Journal Statistical soc. 1852–6, hon. sec. 1843–68, president 1873–5; F.R.S. 7 June 1866, V.P. 1876–7; author of Principles of Forensic medicine 1844, 4 ed. 1857; Public Health 2 parts 1870–74. d. 12 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 10 Sept. 1885 in 76 year. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865) 59–64, portrait.

GUYON, Richard Debaufre (3 son of John Guyon, commander R.N. d. 1844). b. Walcot, Bath 31 March 1803; received a commission in Austrian army 1823, capt. 1827; became country gentleman in Hungary 1839; opposed Jellachich at the head of a section of the revolutionists of 1848, defeated him at Pakozd 29 Sept.; fled to Turkey, Aug. 1849; the first Christian who obtained rank of pacha and a Turkish military command without betraying his religion, known as Khourschid Pacha (the Sun); defeated by the Russians at battle of Kurekdere 5 or 6 Aug. 1854. d. of cholera at Scutari 13 Oct. 1856. R. A. Kinglake’s The patriot general Guyon (1856), portrait; E. H. Nolan’s History of Russian war, i, 294 (1855), portrait.

GWATKIN, Edward (eld. son of Robert Lovell Gwatkin of Killiow, Cornwall 1757–1843). Entered Bengal army 1804 and was in India to 1855; col. 31 Bengal N.I. 17 Nov. 1853 to death. d. at sea on board the ‘Hotspur’ near England 13 April 1855. Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 307–8.

GWILT, John Sebastian (son of the succeeding). b. 1811; ed. at Westminster sch.; architect; assisted his father in A project for a New National gallery 1838 and with drawings for An EncyclopÆdia of architecture 1851. d. Hambledon, Henley on Thames 4 March 1890.

GWILT, Joseph (younger son of George Gwilt, surveyor to county of Surrey, d. 9 Dec. 1807). b. parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark 11 Jany. 1784; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; surveyor to county of Surrey 1807–46; built Lee ch. Lewisham 1814, Markree Castle near Sligo 1843 and Ch. of St. Thomas, Charlton, Woolwich 1846; F.S.A. 1815, F.R.A.S. 1833; author of A treatise on the equilibrium of arches 1811, 3 ed. 1839; Notitia architectonica Italiana 1818; Sciography or examples of shadows 1822, 2 ed. 1824, the first English treatise on the subject; An encyclopÆdia of architecture 1842, 3 ed. 1859; translated The Architecture of Vitruvius 1826. d. South Hill, Henley-on-Thames 14 Sep. 1863. Journal British ArchÆol. Assoc. xx, 178–81 (1864).

GWYN, Howel (1 son of William Gwyn of Abercrane, Brecon, d. 1830). b. 24 June 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; contested Penryn 1841 and 1859, M.P. 1847–57; contested Barnstaple 1865; M.P. Brecknock 1866–8 when unseated; contested Brecon county 1875; sheriff of co. Glamorgan 1837, of co. Carmarthen 1838 and of co. Brecon 1842. d. Duffryn, Neath 25 Jany. 1888.

GYE, Frederick. b. 1781; printer with G. Balne, city of London 1806–36; made £30,000 in a state lottery; proprietor of London wine co. 1817–36 and of London genuine tea co. 1818–36; with William Hughes purchased Vauxhall gardens for £28,000, 1821, conducted them to 1840, had the Great Nassau balloon built for him 1836; M.P. Chippenham, Wilts. 1826–30. d. 2 Lansdowne st. Hove, Brighton 13 Feb. 1869.

GYE, Frederick (son of the preceding). b. Finchley, Middlesex 1810; acting manager for Mons. Jullien at Drury Lane 1847; business manager for E. Delafield at Covent Garden 1848; lessee of Covent Garden, Sep. 1849, house burnt down 5 March 1856; lessee of Drury Lane 1852; lessee of Lyceum theatre 1856–7; rebuilt Covent Garden at cost of £120,000, house reopened 15 April 1858; partner with J. H. Mapleson at Covent Garden 1869–70, sole proprietor and manager 1870 to death. d. Dytchley park, Charlbury, Oxon. 4 Dec. 1878 from effects of being accidentally shot near there 27 Nov. bur. Norwood cemetery 9 Dec. I.S. and D. News 24 June 1876 pp. 297, 302, portrait; H. S. Edwards’s Lyrical Drama, i, 15–30 (1881); The Mask (1868), 97 portrait; The Mapleson Memoirs, vol. 1 passim (1888).

GYLL, Sir Robert (5 son of Wm. Gyll 1774–1806, capt. 2 life guards). b. London 11 July 1805; lieut. of yeomen of the guard 1830–40; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Cumbernauld lodge, Feltham hill, Middlesex 17 Aug. 1880.