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.