Finsbury sq. London who d. 1 Nov. 1822_). _b._ Bury st. St. Mary
Axe, London 13 Jany. 1778; member of firm of Mocatta and Goldsmid,
bullion brokers; treasurer of Univ. coll. hospital 1839–57;
created baronet 15 Oct. 1841, being the first Jew so created;
created Baron de Goldsmid and Da Palmeira of Portugal 1846;
endowed chair of geology in Univ. coll. London, where is portrait
of him by B. R. Faulkner; F.R.S. 13 March 1828. _d._ St. John’s
lodge, Regent’s park, London 27 April 1859. _J. Picciotto’s
Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history_ (1875) 249–56; _N. H. Nixon’s
History of North London hospital_ (1882), 16–18; _Banker’s Mag.
June 1859, pp._ 375–82, _July 1859, pp._ 449–57, _April 1860, pp._
220–4.
GOLDSMITH, GEORGE (_son of John Goldsmith, paymaster R.N._) Entered
navy 20 June 1821; captain 16 Sep. 1842; superintendent of Chatham
dockyard 1856–61; admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; granted
Greenwich hospital pension 1866. _d._ 35 Victoria road, Old
Charlton, Kent 2 July 1888 in 82 year.
GOLDSTUECKER, THEODOR. _b._ Königsberg, Prussia 18 Jany. 1821; Ph.D.
Königsberg 1840; came to England 1850; contributed to _Chambers’
Encyclopædia_ 1862–68 and to _Westminster Review_; professor of
Sanskrit in Univ. coll. London May 1852 to death; chief founder of
Sanskrit Text Society 1866; pres. of Philological Soc. to death;
author of _On the Mahâbhârata_ 1868 and other books. _d._ 14 St.
George’s sq. Primrose hill, London 6 March 1872. _Goldstuecker’s
Literary Remains 2 vols._ (1879); _Trubner’s Record vii_, 109, 145
(1872).
GOLIGHTLY, REV. CHARLES POURTALES (_2 son of William Golightly of
Ham, Surrey_). _b._ 23 May 1807; educ. Eton and at Oriel coll.
Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; C. of Penshurst, Kent 1828; C. of
Littlemore, Oxford 1836; C. of Godalming, Surrey 1839–41; C. of
Headington Quarry, Oxford 1849–58; C. of Marston, Ox. 1858–68; a
prominent opponent of the ritualistic movement 1840; author of
_Look at home or a short and easy method with the Roman Catholics_
1837; _Brief remarks upon No. 90 of the Tracts for the Times_
1841, and many other works against Ritualism. _d._ 6 Holywell st.
Oxford 25 Dec. 1885. _E. M. Goulburn’s Reminiscenses of C. P.
Golightly_ (1886); _Mozley’s Reminiscences ii_, 108–13 (1882).
GOLLOP, GEORGE TILLY (_elder son of Thomas Gollop of Sherborne
1745–93_). _b._ 11 Oct. 1791; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.; student
of I.T. 1811; made a tour on the continent, riding from Holland to
Vienna and on to Naples 1814; held the estate of Strode, Dorset
1793 to death 96 years; published a vol. of translations of
several poems of Schiller, and translations of Eichhorn’s
_Introduction to the New Testament_ and _Introduction to the Old
Testament_. _d._ Strode manor, Dorset 22 Feb. 1889.
GOMERSAL, EDWARD ALEXANDER (_son of a military officer_). _b._
Gomersal near Leeds; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre
16 Sep. 1811; spoke the first words upon boards of new T.R.
Windsor; played Napoleon in _The Battle of Waterloo_ at Astley’s
about 1817, acted same character in every amphitheatre in Great
Britain; proprietor with B. O. Conquest of Garrick theatre,
Whitechapel to 4 Nov. 1846 when it was burned down; is referred to
in the _Bon Gaultier Ballads_ and _The Newcomes_. _d._ Leeds 19
Oct. 1862 aged 74. _Era 26 Oct. 1862 p. 10, col. 4._
GOMM, SIR WILLIAM MAYNARD (_1 son of lieut. col. William Gomme,
killed 1794_). _b._ Barbadoes 10 Nov. 1784; gazetted ensign 9
regt. 24 May 1794; served in Holland 1799, Spain 1800, Hanover
1805, Baltic 1807, Peninsula 1808–9, 1810–14, at Quatre Bras and
Waterloo 1815; lieut. col. of Coldstream guards 1836; K.C.B. 2
Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; commander in Jamaica 1839–41;
governor of Mauritius 1842–49; col. of 13 foot 10 March 1846, of
Coldstream guards 15 Aug. 1863 to death; commander in chief in
India, Jany. 1851 to Dec. 1855, general 1854, field marshal 1
Jany. 1868; constable of Tower of London 31 Oct. 1872 to death;
knight of St. Anne of Russia 1815, of St. Vladimir 1874; author of
_The story of Newcastle, Jamaica, etc._ 1864; five Field-marshal
Gomm scholarships founded at Keble coll. Ox. by the will of his
widow who _d._ 30 Nov. 1877 leaving £15,000 for the purpose. He
_d._ Brighton 15 March 1875. _bur._ Ch. Ch. Rotherhithe. _I.L.N.
lxi_, 412, 414 (1872), _portrait_; _Graphic xi_, 315 (1875),
_portrait_; _Letters and Journals of Sir W. M. Gomm_ (1881),
_portrait_.
NOTE.—The public house Sir William Gomm, 44 Abbeyfield road,
Rotherhithe, London, is named after him.
GOMPERTZ, BENJAMIN (_son of Mr. Gompertz, diamond merchant_). _b._
Bury st. London 5 March 1779; a stock broker; president of Old
Mathematical soc. of Crispin st. Spitalfields which became
Astronomical soc. 1820, member of council 1821–31; F.R.S. 29 June
1819; F.R.A.S., member of council 1832, contributed to the
complete catalogue of stars; actuary of Alliance British and
Foreign assurance Co. 1824–48; propounded the law of human
mortality 1825; author of _The principles and application of
imaginary quantities 2 vols._ 1817–18; _Hints on Porisms_ 1850.
_d._ 1 Kennington terrace, Vauxhall, London 14 July 1865.
_Assurance Mag. April 1866, pp._ 1–20; _Walford’s Insurance
Cyclop. v_, 437–54 (1878).
GOMPERTZ, LEWIS (_younger brother of the preceding_). Spent his life
in enforcing kindness to animals; a strict vegetarian and would
never ride in a coach; hon. sec. of soc. for prevention of cruelty
to animals 1826–32; founded the Animals’ Friend soc. 1832; edited
_The Animals’ Friend or the Progress of Humanity_ 1846; invented
shot proof ships, fortifications for reflecting the balls to the
place fired from, a mechanical cure for apoplexy, and the
expanding chuck which is now found attached to lathes in
workshops; author of _Mechanical inventions and suggestions on
locomotion_ 1850; _Fragments in defence of animals_ 1852. _d._ 5
Kennington oval, London. 2 Dec. 1861. _Fragments in defence of
animals by L. Gompertz_ (1852), _portrait_.
GOOCH, SIR DANIEL, 1 Baronet. (_3 son of John Gooch of Bedlington,
Northumberland 1783–1833_). _b._ Bedlington 24 Aug. 1816; chief
locomotive engineer to Great Western Railway Company 1837–1864,
chairman Nov. 1866 to death; M.P. for Cricklade 1865–85; comr. on
Trades Union; Chairman of Great Eastern Steamship Co.; Chairman of
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company; one of purchasers
of Great Eastern Steamship, with a view to her being employed in
laying Atlantic cable, and this having been effected in 1866,
created baronet 15 Nov. 1866, being first engineer made a baronet.
_d._ Clewer park, Windsor 15 Oct. 1889. _Biograph, March to April
1882 pp._ 329–32; _Touchstone 29 March 1879 pp._ 1–2, _portrait_;
_Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxvi_, 1390 (1879), _portrait_.
GOOCH, SIR EDWARD SHERLOCK, 6 Baronet. _b._ Holbecks, Suffolk 1802;
M.P. for East Suffolk 19 Feb. 1846 to death; provincial grand
master of freemasons 1851 to death; succeeded 18 Dec. 1851. _d._
Benacre hall, Suffolk 9 Nov. 1856.
GOOCH, REV. JOHN HENRY. _b._ Suffolk; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
scholar, 14 wrangler 1834, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; assist. master
Wakefield proprietory sch. 1838–40; master of Heath gr. sch.
Halifax 1840–61; Inc. of Stainland near Halifax 1841–60; author of
_Church catechism expanded_ 1851. _d._ 22 July 1861 aged 60. _T.
Cox’s History of Heath gr. sch._ (1879) 45, 77, _portrait_.
GOOCH, THOMAS LONGRIDGE (_eld. son of John Gooch_). _b._ London 1
Nov. 1808; pupil of George Stephenson 1823–29; made working
drawings for Liverpool and Manchester railway 1827–8, resident
engineer on it at Liverpool 1829–30, had charge of the Dart
locomotive on opening of the line 1830; resident engineer on
London and Birmingham line 1833; with G. Stephenson joint
principal engineer of Manchester and Leeds line 1839–41 and alone
1841–44; with G. Stephenson and G. P. Bidder engineer of Trent
valley line 1845; retired from business 1851; as an engineer
second only to the Stephensons and Brunel; M.I.C.E. 3 June 1845.
_d._ Team lodge, Gateshead 23 Nov. 1882. _Min. of proc. of Instit.
of C.E. lxxii_, 300–8 (1883).
GOOCH, SIR THOMAS SHERLOCK, 5 Baronet. _b._ 2 Nov. 1767; M.P. for
Suffolk 1806–30; succeeded his father 7 April 1826; chairman of
Suffolk quarter sessions to 1843. _d._ Benacre hall, Suffolk 18
Dec. 1851.
GOOD, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ Sambrook, Shropshire 18 Nov. 1775; articled
to Sir John Sloane 1795–99; built Apps’ Court park, Surrey and
Horndean, Hampshire; surveyor to Thavies estate, Holborn, and
parish of St. Andrew’s, Holborn; surveyor to Armourers’ co. 1819,
built new hall Coleman st. 1840; architect to Royal Pavilion,
Brighton 1822, to the commissioners for building new churches
1826; clerk of works to the Tower, Royal Mint, Fleet and King’s
bench prisons, etc. 1830 and Kensington palace 1831; F.R.I.B.A.
1834. _d._ Palace Green, Kensington 20 Nov. 1857.
GOOD, THOMAS SWORD. _b._ Berwick-upon-Tweed 4 Dec. 1789; a house
painter, produced cheap portraits; a genre painter of domestic
subjects; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 43 at B.I. and 2 at
Suffolk st. 1820–34; his chief paintings are Coast scene with a
fisherman 1833, The Newspaper, No News, and Study of a boy, all in
the National gallery; J. W. Barnes of Durham has a large
collection of his works. _d._ in a house on the Quay walls,
Berwick 15 April 1872.
GOODALL, EDWARD. _b._ Leeds 17 Sept. 1795; self-taught, from 1811
practised engraving and painting; commenced engraving Turner’s
pictures 1823 and produced a long series; engraved Stanfield’s The
Castle of Ischia and F. Goodall’s The Piper, for the Art Union of
London; etched Maclise’s Shakspeare’s Seven Ages 1850; exhibited 2
engravings at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1822–41. _d._
143 Hampstead road, London 11 April 1870.
GOODALL, FREDERICK TREVELYAN (_son of Frederick Goodall, R.A._)
Student at R.A., gold medal for his picture The return of Ulysses
1869; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A. 1868–71. _d._ Capri, Italy
from an accident 11 April 1871 aged 23.
GOODALL, HOWARD (_brother of the preceding_). Exhibited at R.A.,
Nydia in the house of Glaucus 1870 and Capri girls winnowing 1873.
_d._ Cairo 17 Jany. 1874 aged 24.
GOODALL, ISABELLA. _b._ Liverpool 10 Aug. 1851; appeared at Royal
amphitheatre, Liverpool 1865 in _The Middy ashore_; appeared in
London at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April 1866 as Coralie in _A
winning hazard_; burlesque actress at Strand theatre London
several years. _d._ 124 Pentonville road, London 3 Feb. 1884.
_bur._ Norwood cemetery 9 Feb. beside her mother, her sister Annie
(actress _d._ 1 March 1877 aged 30), and her brother.
GOODALL, WALTER (_youngest son of Edward Goodall 1795–1870_). _b._ 6
Nov. 1830; studied at Somerset house and Royal academy; Assoc. of
Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1853, mem. 1862; exhibited 3
drawings at R.A. 1852 and works at Royal Manchester Institution;
his Lottery Ticket shown at Philadelphia Centennial exhib. 1876;
made drawings from pictures in Vernon gallery for Art Union;
published _Walter Goodall’s Rustic Sketches_. _d._ Clapham near
Bedford 14 May 1889.
GOODALL, WILLIAM. Whip of the Belvoir fox hounds 1837–42, huntsman
1842 to death. _d._ The Kennels near Belvoir 17 May 1859. _Scott
and Sebright, By the Druid_ (1862) 408–11; _Silk and Scarlet, By
the Druid_ (1859) 372, _portrait_; _Sporting Review xli_, 398–400
(1859).
GOODE, JOHN. Ensign 3 West India foot 5 Sep. 1811; lieut. 10 foot 10
Aug. 1826 to 20 Feb. 1835, captain on h.p. 20 Feb. 1835 to death;
arrested at 218 Regent street, London 4 Nov. 1837 for making use
of threatening gestures and language to Queen Victoria in the
Birdcage walk same day, declared before the authorities that he
was John the Second king of England, son of George iv. and Queen
Caroline, and was born in Montague place, Blackheath; tried in
Court of Queen’s Bench for using seditious language to the Queen
and sent to Bethlehem hospital as insane 18 Nov. 1837, moved to
Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum March 1864 where he _d._ from
natural decay 10 Feb. 1883. _Times 6, 7, 20 Nov. 1837._
GOODE, VERY REV. WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Wm. Goode 1762–1816, R. of
St. Andrew’s and St. Ann’s, Blackfriars, London_). _b._ 10 Nov.
1801; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A.
1828, D.D. 1860; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1825–35; R. of
St. Antholin’s, Watling st. 1835–49; R. of Allhallows, Thames st.
1849–56; Warburtonian lecturer 1853–57; R. of St. Margaret,
Lothbury 1856–60; dean of Ripon 10 May 1860 to death; edited
_Christian Observer_; author of _A memoir of the Rev. W. Goode_,
_2 ed._ 1828; _A brief history of church rates_, _2 ed._ 1838;
_The divine rule of faith and practice 2 vols._ 1842, _new ed. 3
vols._ 1853, and 6 other books; found dead in his bed at the
Deanery, Ripon 13 Aug. 1868. _I.L.N. liii_, 187 (1868).
GOODENOUGH, JAMES GRAHAM (_son of Rev. Edmund Goodenough 1785–1845,
dean of Wells_). _b._ Stoke hill near Guildford 3 Dec. 1830; ed.
at Westminster; naval cadet 7 May 1844, captain 9 May 1863;
captain of the Minotaur 1867–70; worked for the _Daily News_
French peasant relief fund 1870; naval attaché to all maritime
courts of Europe 1871–73; commodore of the Australian station 22
May 1873 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1875; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ on
board the Pearl about 500 miles from Sydney 20 Aug. 1875 from
arrow wounds received at Carlyon bay, island of Santa Cruz 12 Aug.
_bur._ St. Leonard’s cemetery, north shore of Sydney harbour 24
Aug., bust by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe in painted hall Greenwich
hospital; the ‘Goodenough royal naval home’ in Sydney was founded
in his honour. _Journal of Commodore Goodenough, edited with a
memoir by his widow_ (1876), _portrait_; _H. A. Page’s Leaders of
men_ (1880) 140–78; _Graphic xi_, 269 (1875), _portrait_.
GOODENOUGH, VEN. WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Edmund Goodenough, V. of
Swindon, Wilts., who d. 8 Nov. 1807 aged 62_). Ed. at Westminster;
matric. at Ch. Ch. Ox. 9 June 1790 aged 17; kept a school at
Ealing, Middlesex; V. of Warkworth, Northumberland 1811, of
Mareham le Fen, Lincs. 1818 to death; archdeacon of Carlisle 20
June 1827 to death; V. of Great Salkeld, Cumberland 1827 to death.
_d._ Mareham le Fen 13 Dec. 1854.
GOODEVE, JOSEPH (_3 son of John Goodeve of Bury hall, Hants._) _b._
Gosport, Hants. 1801; barrister I.T. 28 Nov. 1829; wrote for
_Westminster Review_ and _Monthly Mag._; professor of English law
at Presidency coll. Calcutta 1860; master in equity of supreme
court of Calcutta 1861; author of _The law of evidence as
administered in England and applied to India_ 1862. _d._ Cook’s
Folly near Bristol 29 Jany. 1865. _bur._ Norwood cemetery, Surrey.
GOODEVE, LOUIS ARTHUR (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 11 Jany. 1841;
ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., junior student 1859–66; B.A.
1862; barrister M.T. 9 June 1865; practised at Calcutta; editor
and sec. of _Bengal Law Reports_ 1868–70 and 1873; superintendent
of law and jurisprudence Presidency coll. Calcutta 1871; law
lecturer Bristol Univ. coll. 1878–80; author of _Railway
passengers and railway companies_ 1877; _Modern law of real
property_ 1883, _2 ed._ 1885; _Modern law of personal property_
1887 and other books. _d._ Clayton villa, Clifton park, Clifton 13
March 1888.
GOODFELLOW, SAMUEL. Second lieut. Bombay engineers 1795, col. 29
July 1825 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ 19 Fitzroy sq. London
14 June 1860.
GOODFORD, REV. CHARLES OLD (_2 son of Rev. John Goodford of Chilton
Cantelo, Somerset 1784–1835_). _b._ Chilton Cantelo 15 July 1812;
ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., fellow to 1844; B.A. 1836, M.A.
1839, D.D. 1853; assistant master at Eton 1835, head master
1853–62, provost 27 Jany. 1862 to death; R. of Chilton Cantelo
1856 to death; edited _P. Terentii Afri Comœdiæ_ 1854. _d._ The
lodge, Eton 9 May 1884. _Lyte’s Eton College_ (1875) 475–8, 517,
519; _I.L.N. 17 May 1884 pp._ 465, 475, _portrait_; _Graphic 7
June 1884 pp._ 546, 549, _portrait_.
GOODLAKE, FRANCIS. Printer and publisher of _The Times_ 1858–1882
when he retired on pension. _d._ Brixton 12 April 1890 in 68 year.
GOODLAKE, GERALD LITTLEHALES (_youngest son of T. M. Goodlake of
Letcombe, Berkshire 1807–77_). _b._ Wadley, Berkshire 14 May 1832;
ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 21 foot 14 June 1850; ensign Coldstream
guards 27 June 1851, major 14 Aug. 1872 to 7 Aug. 1875 when placed
on h.p.; D.A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1855–1856; A.D.C. to the Queen
1869–1879; M.G. 11 Aug. 1879; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; one of the best
all-round sportsmen of his time. _d._ Denham fishery, Uxbridge 5
April 1890. _Baily’s Mag. xxxii_, 373 (1878), _portrait_;
_Sporting Mirror ii_, 197–8 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic 26 April
1890 p._ 533, _portrait_.
GOODMAN, SIR GEORGE (_son of Benjamin Goodman of Leeds, who d. 10
June 1848 aged 85_). Woolstapler at Leeds and Bradford; mayor of
Leeds 1836, 1847 and 9 Nov. 1850 to 20 March 1852; represented
Leeds at Great Exhibition 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 26
Feb. 1852; M.P. for Leeds 1852–1857. _d._ Roundhay near Leeds 13
Oct. 1859 aged 67. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865)
477–80.
GOODSIR, JOHN (_eld. son of John Goodsir of Anstruther, Fife,
surgeon_). _b._ Anstruther 14 March 1814; ed. at St. Andrews and
Univ. of Edin.; L.C.S. Edin. 1836, curator of Museum 1841–43;
curator of Museum in Univ. of Edin. 1845–46; professor of anatomy
in Univ. of Edin. 1846 to Dec. 1866; author of _Anatomical and
pathological observations_ 1845; conducted _Annals of anatomy and
physiology_, _Nos._ 1–3, 1850–53. _d._ South Cottage, Wardie near
Edinburgh 6 March 1867. _J. Goodsir’s Anatomical memoirs, edited
by W. Turner i_, 1–191 (1868), _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc.
xvi_, 14–16 (1868).
GOODWIN, CHARLES WYCLIFFE (_eld. son of Charles Goodwin of King’s
Lynn, Norfolk, solicitor_). _b._ King’s Lynn 1817; ed. at St.
Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 14 Nov.
1848; edited the _Literary Gazette_ 1871, _The Parthenon_ 1872;
assistant judge of supreme court for China and Japan 31 March
1865, acting judge 1869 and 22 May 1876 to death; wrote essays on
_Hieratic Papyri_ in _Cambridge Essays_ 1858, and _On the Mosaic
Cosmogony_ in _Essays and Reviews_ 1860. _d._ Shanghai 17 Jany.
1878.
GOODWIN, JOSIAH. Journalist in Devonshire; editor of _Journal of
Bath and West of England Soc._ 1859–90, sec. 1866–83; assisted in
editing _Journal of Royal Agricultural Soc._ 1863 etc. _d._ Bath 3
June 1890 aged 70. _I.L.N. 14 June 1890 p. 741_, _portrait_.
GOODWIN, THOMAS (_brother of William Goodwin, music librarian, d. 1
April 1876_). _b._ London 1799; landed in New York 24 Aug. 1827;
music librarian New York. _d._ New York 28 June 1886. _O. Mason’s
Sketches and Impressions from after dinner talk of T. Goodwin_
(1887) _p. iii_.
GOODWYN, HENRY. 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 18 Dec. 1823, lieut. col.
5 Dec. 1848, col. commandant 3 Aug. 1855 to death; general 14 July
1871; author of _Memoir on the Taperchain suspension bridge_,
_Calcutta_ 1844; _The last Adam_ 1868; _The book of the Revelation
of Jesus Christ_ 1877. _d._ Bournemouth 8 Nov. 1886.
GOODWYN, JULIUS EDMUND (_son of Wildman Goodwyn of Blackheath_).
_b._ 21 Feb. 1824; ensign 41 foot 5 Jany. 1844, lieut. col. 9
March 1855 to March 1866; brigadier general Bengal 14 March 1866
to 28 Feb. 1870; col. of 1 battalion Gloucestershire regiment 5
Nov. 1880, of 1 battalion Welsh regiment 20 Jany. 1883 to death;
general 10 Jany. 1881; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 2
Jany. 1857; author of _Antitypical parallels, or the kingdom of
Israel and of Heaven, By Gershom_ 1866. _d._ Bath 4 March 1890.
GOOLD, WYNDHAM (_youngest son of Thomas Goold of Dublin, master in
chancery, who d. 16 July 1846_). Ed. at Westminster school and
Univ. of Dublin; called to Irish bar 1837; M.P. for co. Limerick
14 Dec. 1850 to death. _d._ London 27 Nov. 1854 in 40 year.
GORDON, EDWARD STRATHEARN GORDON, 1 Baron (_eld. son of John Gordon,
major 2 foot_). _b._ Inverness 10 April 1814; ed. at royal
academy, Inverness and Univ. of Edin.; LL.B. Glasgow and Edin.;
called to bar in Scotland 1835; Q.C. 12 Nov. 1868; sheriff of
Perthshire 26 July 1858 to 12 July 1866; solicitor general for
Scotland 12 July 1866 to 28 Feb. 1867; lord advocate of Scotland
28 Feb. 1867 to Dec. 1868 and 26 Feb. 1874 to Oct. 1876; M.P. for
Thetford 3 Dec. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868 when borough was
disfranchised; contested Glasgow and Aberdeen univs. 1868, M.P.
for these univs. 1869–76; dean of faculty of advocates 1869–74;
P.C. 17 March 1874; lord of appeal in ordinary 6 Oct. 1876 to
death; created Baron Gordon of Drumearn, co. Stirling 6 Oct. 1876.
_d._ Brussels 21 Aug. 1879. _Journal of jurisprudence xxiii_,
541–2 (1879).
GORDON, ADAM LINDSAY (_son of Capt. Adam D. Gordon_). _b._ Fayal in
the Azores 1833; educ. Cheltenham coll. and Woolwich; in the
mounted police, South Australia 1853; a horse breaker; member of
the house of assembly, Victoria 1865; livery stable keeper
Ballarat 1867; a steeple chaser; settled at Brighton near
Melbourne 1869; failed in securing reversion to Esselmont estate,
Scotland 1869; author of _Sea spray and smoke drift_ 1867; _Bush
ballads and galloping rhymes_ 1870; _Ashtaroth, a dramatic lyric_;
shot himself on the beach at Brighton 24 June 1870. _J. H. Ross’
Laureate of the Centaurs_ (1888), _portrait_; _Poems ed. by Marcus
Clarke_ (1887); _Temple Bar, Feb. 1884 pp._ 208–20.
GORDON, ALEXANDER (_2 son of David Gordon, inventor of system of
compressing gas, who d. about 1830_). _b._ New York 5 May 1802;
ed. at Univ. of Edin.; manager of the portable gas works in London
until they were abolished about 1827; constructed many
lighthouses, especially in the colonies; designed and erected the
original great sea-light in an iron tower at Morant point,
Jamaica, the first of many of a similar character 1842; founded
with Sir George Cayley and others the Polytechnic Institution,
London 1838; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1827, M.I.C.E. 17 Feb. 1835; his
widow Sarah Gordon granted civil list pension of £50, 20 Dec.
1872; author of _An historical and practical treatise upon
elemental locomotion_ 1832, _3 ed._ 1836 and other books. _d._
Sandown, Isle of Wight 14 May 1868.
GORDON, SIR ALEXANDER CORNEWALL DUFF- 3 Baronet (_elder son of Sir
Wm. Duff-Gordon, 2 baronet 1772–1823_). _b._ Great Marylebone st.
London 3 Feb. 1811; ed. at Eton; a senior clerk in Treasury
1854–56; sec. to chancellor of Exchequer 1854; a comr. of Board of
Inland Revenue 1856; asst. gentleman usher of privy chamber to
death; translated Von Ense’s _Sketches of German life_ 1847, _A.
Weill’s Village tales from Alsatia_ 1847; translated with his wife
Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, L. Ranke’s _Memoirs of the house of
Brandenburg and history of Prussia 3 vols._ 1849. _d._ 4 Upper
Eccleston st. Belgrave sq. London 27 Oct. 1872.
GORDON, SIR ALEXANDER HAMILTON- (_2 son of 4 Earl of Aberdeen
1784–1860_). _b._ 11 Dec. 1817; ed. at Harrow; ensign Grenadier
guards 2 May 1834, captain 10 April 1849 to 17 Oct. 1856; D.Q.M.G.
at head quarters 1855–60; brigadier general Dublin district
1861–66; commanded Bombay division 1867–70; col. 100 foot 5 July
1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July
1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; M.P. for East
Aberdeenshire 1875–85; author of _Remarks on national defences,
volunteers and rifles_ 1853; _An enquiry into the organization of
the Army_ 1875. _d._ 34 Lennox gardens, London 18 May 1890.
_Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p._ 697, _portrait_.
GORDON, ARCHIBALD. Ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1834; assistant
surgeon in army 28 June 1836, surgeon major 1854; principal
medical officer of 2nd division in Crimea 1854–55; inspector
general 9 March 1867 to 1 July 1870; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; hon.
surgeon to Queen 9 Aug. 1871 to death. _d._ West Hoathly, Sussex 3
Aug. 1886.
GORDON, CHARLES (_son of Francis Grant, captain R.N., who assumed
name of Gordon 1768 and d. 1803_). Entered navy June 1796; captain
21 Dec. 1807; C.B. 4 July 1840; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half
pay 20 Jany. 1858. _d._ Duke st. Bath 3 Oct. 1860 aged 79.
GORDON, CHARLES. Entered navy 19 June 1810; captain 17 April 1828;
retired admiral 24 April 1865. _d._ Huntly, Aberdeenshire 19 May
1876.
GORDON, CHARLES GEORGE (_4 son of lieut. general Henry William
Gordon d. 1865_). _b._ Woolwich 28 Jany. 1833; 2 lieut. R.E. 23
June 1852; lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death; served in Crimea
1854–56; went to China June 1860; commander of the ‘Ever
Victorious Army’ in China 1863–64 when in 33 engagements he
stamped out the Taiping rebellion, received from emperor yellow
jacket and peacock’s feather of a mandarin of first class, always
known afterwards as Chinese Gordon; hon. C.B. 9 Dec. 1864;
governor of equatorial provinces of Central Africa where he
suppressed slavery 1874–76; created Pasha by Khedive of Egypt
1877; governor general of the Soudan, Darfour, the Equatorial
provinces and the Red Sea littoral 1877–79; taken prisoner by King
John of Abyssinia, Nov. 1879; private sec. to marquis of Ripon
viceroy of India, May 1880; adviser of Chinese government in their
relations with Russia, Sep. 1880; commander of troops in Mauritius
1881–82; M.G. 23 March 1882; commandant of colonial forces Cape of
Good Hope 1882; author of _Colonel Gordon in Central Africa_ 1881;
_Reflections in Palestine_ 1883; _General Gordon’s Letters from
Crimea, Danube and Armenia_ 1884; sent by the English government
to the Soudan to withdraw the garrisons and evacuate the country,
arrived at Khartoum 18 Feb. 1884, besieged by the Mahdi 12 March;
killed in the storming of Khartoum 26 Jany. 1885, _monu._ by Hamo
Thornycroft erected in Trafalgar sq. 15 Oct. 1888, Gordon Boys’
Home for homeless boys founded 1889. _A. E. Hake’s Journals at
Khartoum of C. G. Gordon_ (1885); _A. Forbes’ Chinese Gordon_
(1886), _portrait_; _Events in life of C. G. Gordon, By Sir H. W.
Gordon_ (1886); _Letters of C. G. Gordon_ (1888); _Chesney’s
Essays in modern military biography_ (1874) 163–213; _D. C.
Boulger’s China iii_, 578–628 (1884), _portrait_.
GORDON, CHARLES WILLIAM. _b._ 19 March 1817; captain Madras cavalry;
contested Berwick-on-Tweed, March 1857; M.P. for Berwick-on-Tweed,
April 1859 to death. _d._ Pall Mall, London 15 June 1863.
GORDON, COSMO (_youngest son of Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville
1739–92_). _b._ 28 Nov. 1777; ensign 71 foot 6 Dec. 1792; major 94
foot 12 Feb. 1807 to 20 July 1809; lieut. col. 63 foot 20 July
1809 to 1810 when placed on h.p.; granted service reward 1 July
1851; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Exton, Hants. 7 March 1867.
GORDON, DOUGLAS WILLIAM COPE (_3 son of 10 Marquis of Huntley
1792–1863_). _b._ 11 Oct. 1851; lieut. Coldstream Guards
1871–1880; contested Hunts. 1874; M.P. for West Aberdeenshire
1876–80, for Hunts. 1880–85. _d._ Green Park chambers, 90
Piccadilly, London 4 Aug. 1888.
GORDON, ELIZABETH, Duchess of Gordon (_dau. of Alexander Brodie,
M.P. Elgin 1796–1802. d. 15 Jany. 1812_). _b._ London 20 June
1794; owner of great wealth on father’s death 1812. (_m._ 11 Dec.
1813 George Gordon, marquis of Huntley, who became 5 duke of
Gordon 1827 and _d._ 28 May 1836); the unblushing vice she found
in high quarters led her to make a renunciation of the world 1826;
left the episcopal ch. and joined the Free ch. of Scotland and
held an important position in the evangelical party 1847; a great
patron of open air preaching. _d._ Huntly lodge, Strathbogie 31
Jany. 1864. _A. M. Stuart’s Life of duchess of Gordon_ (1865),
_portrait_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 271–78,
_portrait_.
GORDON, GABRIEL. Ensign 60 foot 6 Jany. 1781, lieut. col. 9 March
1802 to 4 Jany. 1808 when placed on h.p.; col. 91 foot 19 April
1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Higher Ardwick lodge near
Manchester 7 Aug. 1855 aged 92.
GORDON, GEORGE. _b._ Lucan co. Dublin 25 Feb. 1806; learnt gardening
under his father 1820; with J. Colvill, King’s road, Chelsea 1827;
on staff of Horticultural Soc. Chiswick 18 Feb. 1828, foreman of
the arboretum to his decease; A.L.S. 16 Feb. 1841; author with R.
Glendenning of _The Pinetum_, 1858, _supplement_ 1862, _2 ed._
1875, _New ed._ 1880. _d._ Kew 11 Oct. 1879; his herbarium
purchased by Sir J. Hooker and given to royal gardens, Kew.
_Gardener’s Chronicle xii_, 569 (1879).
GORDON, GEORGE HUNTLY (_son of Pryse Lockhart Gordon_). educ. for
the Scottish church; licensed to preach; transcribed manuscript of
Waverley novels for the press in order that the secret of the
authorship might not be betrayed; Sir Walter Scott wrote two
sermons for him published under title of _Religious discourses, By
A Layman_ 1828, preface signed W.S. which Gordon sold for £250;
clerk in the treasury, clerk in government stationery office 30
years; contributed much to _Notes and Queries_. _d._ Inverness 27
Dec. 1868 aged 72.
GORDON, GEORGE THOMAS. (_2 son of Samuel Gordon, captain R.N._) _b._
1807; entered navy 5 March 1818; captain 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 28 Oct.
1864; retired 1 April 1870; admiral 1 Aug. 1877; K.H. 1837. _d._
Ingleden, Kent 30 July 1887.
GORDON, HENRY (_brother of Charles Gordon who d. 3 Oct. 1860_).
Entered navy 18 May 1791; captain 8 April 1805; admiral on h.p. 21
Jany. 1854; mayor of Bath twice. _d._ Nelson place, Bath 14 Sep.
1855.
GORDON, SIR HENRY PERCY, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir James W. Gordon
1772–1851_). _b._ 52 Upper Seymour st. London 1806; ed. at St.
Peter’s coll. Cam., fellow 1830; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister
L.I. 5 May 1831; F.R.S. 9 Dec. 1830. _d._ Blackhall, Aberdeenshire
29 July 1876.
GORDON, HENRY WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; col.
commandant 22 Feb. 1863 to death; L.G. 19 May 1863. _d._
Southampton 19 Sep. 1865 aged 79.
GORDON, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (_brother of Charles George Gordon
1833–85_). _b._ Blackheath, Kent 18 July 1818; ensign 59 foot Aug.
1835; entered ordnance department 1855; controller general Jany.
1870; commissary general Nov. 1875 to 9 July 1878 when he retired;
C.B. 22 Jany. 1857, K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of _Events in the
life of Charles George Gordon_ 1886. _d._ Oat hall, Hayward’s
heath, Sussex 22 Oct. 1887. _Graphic 26 Nov. 1887 pp._ 581–82,
_portrait_.
GORDON, SIR JAMES ALEXANDER. (_eld. son of Charles Gordon of
Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire_). _b._ Kildrummie castle, Aberdeen 1782;
entered navy 25 Nov. 1793; captain 16 May 1805; lost a leg at
capture of French frigate “La Pomone” at Pelagosa 29 Nov. 1811;
governor of royal naval hospital Plymouth 1827–32; superintendent
of Chatham dockyard 1832–37; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital
1 July 1840, governor 17 Oct. 1853 to death; admiral 21 Jany.
1854; admiral of the Fleet 30 Jany. 1868 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany.
1851, G.C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Greenwich hospital 8 Jany. 1869.
_Macmillan’s Mag. xix_, 353–54 (1869); _I.L.N. liv_, 74, 165, 166
(1869), _portrait_.
GORDON, JAMES ALEXANDER. _b._ Middlesex; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D.
24 June 1814; established _The Quarterly Journal of Foreign
Medicine and Surgery_ 1819, edited it; L.R.C.P. 16 April 1821,
fellow 9 July 1836, Censor 1838; Assist. physician to London
hospital 18 July 1827, physician 18 Nov. 1828 to Dec. 1844;
retired from practice and lived at Dorking about 1846 to death;
F.R.S. 2 April 1835. _d._ Dorking 18 April 1872 aged 78. _Munk’s
Roll of royal college of physicians_ (1878) _iii_, 232.
GORDON, SIR JAMES DAVIDSON (_son of Evelyn M. Gordon of the Bengal
C.S._) Entered Bengal C.S. 1854; private sec. to governor general
of India Jany. 1866; resident Mysore and chief comr. of Coorg
1881–83 when he retired; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1881. _d._ 31 St. James’s
st. London 27 June 1889 aged 54. _bur._ Aston ch. near Knebworth 4
July.
GORDON, SIR JAMES WILLOUGHBY, 1 Baronet (_brother of Charles Gordon,
who d. 3 Oct. 1860_). _b._ 21 Oct. 1772; ensign 66 foot 17 Oct.
1783; lieut. col. royal African corps 13 June 1808, col. 25 July
1810 to 27 Nov. 1815; Q.M.G. in the Peninsula 1811–12; Q.M.G. at
head quarters 1812 to death; col. of 85 foot 27 Nov. 1815, of 23
foot 23 April 1823 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; created baronet
5 Dec. 1818; G.C.H. 1825; G.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831; F.R.S. 11 June
1801. _d._ his residence near royal hospital, Chelsea 24 Jany.
1851.
GORDON, JOHN (_brother of 4 Earl of Aberdeen 1784–1860_). _b._ 1792;
captain R.N. 31 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 23 March 1863. _d._ 28
Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 11 Nov. 1869.
GORDON, SIR JOHN (_son of Samuel Gordon of Clonmel, co. Tipperary_).
_b._ Clonmel 1798; general medical practitioner at Cork 1820 to
death; mayor of Cork 1855; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland
1855. _d._ Cork 29 Jany. 1871.
GORDON, JOHN SHEPHEARD. Publisher of _The Record_ more than 50
years. _d._ 1 Albert road, Crouch hill near London 31 Oct. 1884
aged 76.
GORDON, SIR JOHN WATSON- (_eld. son of James Watson, captain R.A._)
_b._ Edinburgh 1788; leading portrait painter in Scotland 1823 to
death; exhibited 123 portraits at R.A. London 1827–64; assumed
name of Watson-Gordon by which he is always known; A.R.A. 1841,
R.A. 11 Feb. 1851; pres. of R.S.A. March 1850 to death; knighted
at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; limner to the Queen for
Scotland 1850 to death. _d._ Catherine bank house, Edinburgh 1
June 1864, the Watson-Gordon professorship of fine art instituted
in Univ. of Edin. 1879. _Sandby’s Royal Academy ii_, 287–9 (1862);
_Redgrave’s Century of Painters ii_, 76–8 (1866); _I.L.N. xviii_,
219 (1851), _portrait_.
GORDON, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (_elder son of Thomas Gordon of
Harperfield, Lanarkshire who d. 1832_). _b._ 1814; 2 lieut. R.E. 1
Dec. 1833; commanded R.E. in Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. R.E.
1856–66; A.D.C. to the Queen 1855–66; D.A.G. at head quarters
1856–61; M.G. 3 Aug. 1866; inspector general of R.E. 1 June 1869
to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb.
1857; cut his throat at house of lieut. col. Hutchinson, Golfston,
Westward Ho. Devon 8 Feb. 1870; full length portrait in
head-quarter messroom of R.E. at Chatham. _Chesney’s Essays in
modern military biography_ (1874) 154–62. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxi_, 241–5 (1871); _I.L.N. lvi_, 211 (1870).
GORDON, JOSEPH. _b._ 1836; borough surveyor of Carlisle; designed
many plans for draining large towns in North of England and
Scotland; designed and carried out sewerage of Frankfort-on-Main
1886 and of other foreign cities; surveyor of Leicester 1880 where
he greatly reduced the death rate; engineer to London county
council 9 July 1889 to death; A.I.C.E. 1862; M.I.C.E. 1874. _d._
in an omnibus outside Eyre Arms tavern St. John’s Wood, London 9
Nov. 1889. _bur._ Leicester cemetery 13 Nov.
GORDON, LADY LUCY DUFF- (_only child of John Austin 1790–1859_).
_b._ Queen sq. Westminster 24 June 1821; left Unitarian ch. for
ch. of England 1837. (_m._ 16 May 1840 Sir Alexander Cornewall
Duff-Gordon, bart. 1811–72); intimate with Dickens, Thackeray,
Eliot Warburton and others; visited Heinrich Heine in Paris 1854;
lived in Egypt 1862 to decease; translated many works from German
and French; author of _Letters from the Cape_ in Galton’s
_Vacation Tourist_ 1862–63, _pp._ 119–222; _Letters from Egypt_
1865. _d._ Cairo 14 July 1869. _Lady Duff-Gordon’s Last letters
from Egypt with a memoir by her daughter Mrs. Ross_ (1875) _i-xl_,
_portrait_; _Macmillan’s Mag. Sep. 1869 pp._ 457–62; _Good Words_
(1875) _pp._ 637–40.
GORDON, REV. OSBORNE (_2 son of George Gordon of Broseley, Salop_).
_b._ Broseley 21 April 1813; educ. Bridgnorth sch. and Christ
Church, Oxford; double first class in classics and mathematics;
B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1847; rhetoric reader to university
1845 and Greek reader 1846; proctor 1846–47; censor Christ Church
1846; university examiner 1848–52; select preacher 1849 and 1862;
member hebdomadal council 1854, 1857; Prince of Wales became his
pupil at Christ Church 1859; member of Oxford univ. commission
1877; R. of Easthampstead, Berks. 1860 to death; author of
_Eusebii Pamphili historiæ ecclesiasticæ Annotationes variorum_
1842; _Considerations on improvement of examination statute_ 1847.
_d._ Easthampstead 25 May 1883. _G. Marshall’s Osborne Gordon_
(1885) _pp._ 1–72, _with portrait_.
GORDON, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Glencairn, Dumfriesshire 5 May 1786; educ.
Edin. univ. to 1809 and at Marischal coll. Aberdeen D.D. 1823;
presbyterian minister at Kinfauns, Perthshire 1816, at St.
Cuthbert’s chapel of ease, Edin. 1821, at Hope park chapel of ease
1824, at New North ch. 1825, at the High ch. 1830; moderator of
general assembly 20 May 1841; joined Free ch. and was minister of
Free High ch. Edin. 1843 to death; invented a self registering
hygrometer; author of articles Euclid, geography and meteorology
in _Edinburgh Encyclopædia_; wrote _Sermons_ 1825; _Christ as made
known to the Ancient Church 4 vols._ 1854–55. _d._ 14
Northumberland st. Edinburgh 21 Oct. 1853. _Wylie’s Disruption
Worthies_ (1881) _pp._ 309–316; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_
(1882) _p._ 19–21, _portrait_.
GORDON, SAMUEL ENDERBY (_2 son of Henry Wm. Gordon, col. commandant
R.A. who d. 19 Sep. 1865 aged 79_). _b._ 14 Nov. 1824; 2 lieut.
R.A. 19 June 1844; col. 23 Dec. 1875; director of artillery
studies at Woolwich 1 May 1871 to 31 Oct. 1877; L.G. 23 May 1882;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 Nov. 1882; C.B.
13 March 1867. _d._ Brook lodge, The Park, Cheltenham 5 Feb. 1883.
GORDON, WILLIAM (_2 son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo 1764–91_). _b._
1785; midshipman R.N. 2 July 1797; captain 12 March 1810; V.A. 11
Feb. 1854: commander-in-chief at the Nore 1 July 1854 to 1 July
1857; M.P. for Aberdeenshire 1820–54; a lord of the Admiralty 8
Sep. 1841 to 17 Feb. 1846. _d._ Exmouth 3 Feb. 1858.
GORDON, WILLIAM. _b._ 26 June 1821; ensign 17 foot 20 July 1838;
lieut. col. 15 Jany. 1861 to 1 April 1873; lieut. col. brigade
depot 1 April 1873 to 14 April 1875 when placed on h.p.; A.A.G. 1
April 1870 to 31 March 1873; L.G. 29 April 1880; placed on retired
list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._
while grouse shooting on the hill of Correen, Aberdeenshire 14
Aug. 1883.
GORDON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Ensign 112 foot 2 Oct. 1794; captain 50
foot 23 Oct. 1806 to 26 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; colonel 54
foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831.
_d._ Nairn, Scotland 10 Aug. 1856 aged 87.
GORE, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (_only son of Edward Gore 1797–1879,
captain R.N._) _b._ 1 Feb. 1826; colonial sec. Barbadoes 1867–74;
lieut. governor of Tobago 29 Sep. 1877, of St. Vincent 5 Aug. 1880
to 1886; F.G.S. _d._ 21 Sep. 1887.
GORE, CATHERINE GRACE FRANCES (_dau. of C. Moody of East Retford,
Nottinghamshire, wine merchant_). _b._ East Retford 1799. (_m._ 15
Feb. 1823 Charles Arthur Gore, lieut. and capt. 1 life guards,
_d._ 1846). Resided in France 1832–35; her dramas _The School for
Coquettes_ produced at Haymarket theatre 1831 and _Quid pro Quo or
the Days of Dupes_, a prize drama, at Haymarket 1844; author of
_Theresa Marchmont, or the Maid of Honour_ 1824; _Manners of the
day, or Women as they are 3 vols._ 1830, greatly praised by Geo.
IV.; _Mothers and daughters 3 vols._ 1831 anon.; _Cecil, or the
Adventures of a Coxcomb 3 vols._ 1841 anon.; _The Royal Favourite
3 vols._ 1845 and 65 other works. _d._ Linwood, Lyndhurst,
Hampshire 29 Jany. 1861. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 7 Feb. _New
Monthly mag. xlix, pt. i_, 434–35 (1837), _portrait_; _I.L.N. 16
Feb. 1861 p._ 147, _portrait_; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the
age, i_, 232–39 (1844).
NOTE.—She was a ward of Sir John Dean Paul, her novel _The
Banker’s Wife_ 1843 was dedicated to him, which is very
curious as in it is described a swindling banker just like he
turned out to be in 1855 when she lost £20,000.
GORE, SIR CHARLES STEPHEN (_4 son of 2 Earl of Arran 1734–1809_).
_b._ 26 Dec. 1793; cornet 16 light dragoons 21 Oct. 1808; served
in Peninsula and at Waterloo 1811–15; col. of 91 foot 8 Aug. 1855,
of 6 foot 9 March 1861 to death; general Feb. 1863; lieut.
governor of Chelsea hospital Dec. 1868 to death; C.B. 1838, K.C.B.
18 May 1860, G.C.B. 13 March 1867; K.H. 1836. _d._ Chelsea
hospital 4 Sep. 1869. _Register and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p._
198.
GORE, JOHN. Entered navy Sep. 1797; captain 27 July 1825; retired
admiral 15 Dec. 1863. _d._ 9 York place, Clifton 7 Dec. 1869 aged
85.
GORE, MONTAGUE (_eld. son of Rev. Charles Gore of Barrow court,
Somerset, who d. 21 April 1841_). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 8 May
1818 aged 18; student of L.I. 1821; M.P. for Devizes 1832–34, for
Barnstaple 1841–47; author of 20 pamphlets on political and social
subjects; translated Valentini’s _Description of the seat of war
in European Turkey_ 1854. _d._ Chapel place, Vere st. London 5
Oct. 1864.
GORE, ROBERT (_brother of 6 Earl of Arran 1801–84_). _b._ 5 May
1810; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; captain R.N. 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for
New Ross 1841–47; chargé d’affaires and consul general at Monte
Video 23 Oct. 1846, at Buenos Ayres 29 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._
Monte Video 4 Aug. 1854.
GORE-LANGTON, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ London 1802; M.P. for Bristol
1852–65. _d._ 2 Prince’s Gate, London 16 May 1875.
GORE-LANGTON, WILLIAM HENRY POWELL. _b._ Burdrop, Wilts. 25 July
1824; M.P. for West Somerset 1851–59 and 1863 to death. _d._
Newton park near Bath 11 Dec. 1873.
GORHAM, REV. GEORGE CORNELIUS (_son of George James Gorham of St.
Neots, Hunts, merchant_). _b._ St. Neots 21 Aug. 1787; ed. at St.
Neots and Queen’s coll. Cam., fellow 1809–27; 3rd wrangler and 2nd
Smith’s prizeman 1808; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1820; C. of
Beckenham, Kent 1814–18; C. of Clapham, Surrey 1818–27; C. of St.
Mary’s chapel, Maidenhead 1840–42; C. of Fawley near Henley
1843–46; V. of St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall 1846–50; presented by
Lord Chancellor Cottenham to vicarage of Brampford Speke near
Exeter 2 Nov. 1847, but the Bishop of Exeter refused to institute
him on account of his views on baptismal regeneration, the result
was more than 2½ years’ litigation at end of which Gorham was
instituted by Sir H. J. Fust, judge of the court of arches; author
of: _The history and antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neots 2
vols._ 1820 and many other books. _d._ Brampford Speke 19 June
1857; _Bentley’s Miscellany xxvii_, 612–16 (1850), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 25 May 1850 p._ 373, _portrait_.
GORING, SIR HARRY DENT, 7 Baronet. _b._ Devonshire place, London 30
Dec. 1801; M.P. for Shoreham 1832–41; succeeded 26 March 1844;
sheriff of Anglesea 1848. _d._ Hotel Windsor, Rue Rivoli, Paris 19
April 1859.
GORMANSTON, EDWARD ANTHONY JOHN PRESTON, 1 Baron (eld. child of 12
Viscount Gormanston 1775–1860). _b._ Dublin 3 June 1796; sheriff
of co. Dublin 1845; created baron Gormanston of Whitewood co.
Meath in peerage of U.K. 8 Dec. 1868. _d._ Gormanston castle,
Balbriggan 28 Sep. 1876.
GORRIE, REV. PETER DOUGLAS. _b._ Glasgow 21 April 1813; went to U.S.
of A. 1820; minister of Methodist Episcopal church; member of New
York conference 1836 to death; author of _The churches and sects
in the United States, New York_ 1850; _Episcopal methodism as it
was and is_ 1852; _Black River Conference memorial 2 vols._
1852–81 and other books. _d._ Potsdam, New York 12 Sep. 1884.
GORRINGE, HENRY HONEYCHURCH (_son of Rev. Mr. Gorringe of the Church
of England_). _b._ Barbadoes 11 Aug. 1841; a common sailor in the
U.S. Federal navy 1862; commanded sloop Portsmouth 1869–71;
transported from Alexandria to New York an Egyptian obelisk
1879–80, erected it in Central Park, N.Y. 1880, total expense was
103,732 dollars; formed American shipbuilding co.; author of
_Egyptian obelisks_, _New York_ 1882, _Another ed._ 1885. _d._ New
York 7 July 1885. _bur._ at Sparkhill on the Hudson.
GORTON, SANDFORD. Established the _Astronomical Register_ Jany. 1863
and edited it to 1872, printed all the first volume himself at his
own private printing press, Stamford villa, Downs Road, Clapton
where he established an observatory; F.R.A.S. 8 June 1860. _d._ 38
Pembury road, Clapton 14 Feb. 1879 in 56 year. _Monthly notices of
Royal Astronom. Soc. xl_, 194 (1880).
GOSFORD, ARCHIBALD ACHESON, 3 Earl of (_only son of 2 Earl of
Gosford 1776–1849_). _b._ Portland place, London 20 Aug. 1806; ed.
at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828; M.P. for Armagh 1830–47; col. of Armagh
militia 1834; created Baron Acheson of Clancairney, co. Armagh 18
Sep. 1847; succeeded 27 March 1849; K.P. 1855. _d._ 59 Grosvenor
st. London 15 June 1864.
GOSLING, WILLIAM CLARKE FRANCIS. _b._ 9 Aug. 1822; 2 lieut. Madras
artillery 11 June 1840; A.A.G. R.A. Madras 1868–73; col. R.A. 1
Aug. 1872 to death; L.G. 12 May 1882; hon. general 31 Dec. 1883.
_d._ Folkestone 14 June 1885.
GOSS, MOST REV. ALEXANDER. _b._ Ormskirk, Lancs. 5 July 1814; ed. at
St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw 1827–39; studied at English coll. Rome
1839–42; vice pres. of St. Edward’s coll. Everton, Liverpool 16
Jany. 1843 (date of opening) to 21 June 1853; bishop of Gerra _in
partibus_. and co-adjutor bishop of Liverpool 29 July 1853, bishop
25 Jany. 1856 to death, consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman 25 Sep.
1853; edited for Chetham Soc. _Abbot’s Journal and The trials at
Manchester in 1694_, 1864, and for Manx Soc. _The Chronicle of Man
and the Sudreys 2 vols._ 1874. _d._ St. Edward’s college 3 Oct.
1872. _bur._ St. Sepulchre’s cemetery, Ford 8 Oct. _Gillow’s
English Catholics ii_, 535–40 (1885); _Brady’s Episcopal
Succession iii_, 418–22 (1877).
GOSS, SIR JOHN (_son of Joseph Goss of Fareham, Hants., organist_).
_b._ Fareham 27 Dec. 1800; chorister of chapel royal, London
1811–16: pupil of Thomas Attwood 1816; organist of St. Luke’s,
Chelsea 9 Jany. 1825; professor of harmony Royal Academy 1827;
organist to St. Paul’s 1838, resigned 1872; composer to the chapel
royal 1856; knighted at Windsor Castle 19 March 1872 for his
anthem on Prince of Wales’ recovery “The Lord is my strength”;
entertained at a banquet at Albion tavern, London 17 April 1872;
Mus. D. of Cambridge 1876; writer of ‘Cantate Domino’ a canon sung
at meeting of Concentores Sodales 13 Feb. 1824, ‘Have mercy on me’
an anthem 1833, ‘If we believe that Jesus died’ anthem for funeral
of D. of Wellington 1852; author of _Introduction to Harmony_
1833; edited _Sacred Minstrel 3 vols._ 1833; ed. with W. Mercer
_The Church Psalter with appropriate chants and tunes_ 1855, _ten
editions_. _d._ 15 Clarewood ter. Lambeth road, Brixton Rise 10
May 1880, his memorial tablet in crypt of St. Paul’s was designed
by John Belcher, unveiled 10 May 1886. _W. A. Barrett’s English
church composers_ (1882) 173–8.
GOSSE, EMILY (_dau. of Wm. Bowes of Boston, Mass._) _b._ London 9
Nov. 1806; one of the earliest workers in the East End of London;
author of _Abraham and his children_ 1855 and of a series of
popular religious tracts; author with P. H. Gosse of _Seaside
Pleasures_ 1853, anon. (_m._ 1848 Philip Henry Gosse, he _d._
1888). _d._ Barnsbury, London 9 Feb. 1857. _Memorials of Mrs.
Gosse, By P. H. Gosse_ (1857); _Tell Jesus, recollections of E.
Gosse, By A. Shipton_ (1858).
GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY (_son of Thomas Gosse of Worcester, miniature
painter 1765–1844_). _b._ Worcester 6 April 1810; ed. at Poole and
Blandford; lived in Newfoundland 1827–35; collected birds and
insects in Jamaica for British Museum 1844–46; lived at St.
Marychurch, Torquay 1857 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; author of
_The Canadian Naturalist_ 1840; _The Aquarium_ 1854; _Omphalos_
1857; _Actinologia Britannica_ 1860; _A year at the shore_ 1865
and 30 other books. _d._ Sandhurst villa, St. Marychurch, Torquay
23 Aug. 1888. _I.L.N. 8 Sep. 1888 p._ 279, _portrait_; _Graphic 22
Sep. 1888 p._ 314, 320, _portrait_.
GOSSELIN, GERARD (_3 son of Joshua Gosselin of St. Peter’s Port,
Guernsey 1739–1813_). _b._ St. Peter’s Port 4 Feb. 1769; ensign 34
foot 27 Sep. 1787; captain 2 life guards 6 June 1794; governor of
Halifax 1815; general 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Mount Ospringe,
Faversham, Kent 11 June 1859.
GOSSELIN, SIR THOMAS LE MARCHANT (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey 7 May 1765; entered navy 2 Aug. 1778;
captain 23 July 1795; received thanks from both Houses of
Parliament 1809 for embarking British army after battle of
Corunna; admiral 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Jersey 27 Nov. 1857. _bur._
Bengeo church, Herts.
GOSSET, HENRY (_2 son of Matthew Gosset of Bagot, Jersey, d. 1843_).
Entered navy 15 June 1809; captain 1 Jany. 1829; admiral on h.p.
12 Sep. 1865. _d._ Old Quebec st. Portman sq. London 1 March 1877
aged 82.
GOSSET, REV. ISAAC (_eld. son of Rev. Isaac Gosset, D.D., F.R.S.,
who d. 1812_). _b._ 1783; ed. at Exeter coll. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A.
1807; C. of Windsor 1809–14; V. of Datchet 1814–21; chaplain to
royal household Windsor Castle 1818 to death; V. of New Windsor
1821 to death. _d._ Windsor? 11 Feb. 1855. _G.M. April 1855 p._
435.
GOSSET, MONTAGUE (_2 son of Daniel Gosset of Tanner’s End,
Edmonton_). _b._ 1 July 1792; ed. at Broxbourne; entered navy Nov.
1806; apprenticed to Mr. Stocker of Guy’s hospital 1809–14;
M.R.C.S. 1814, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; practised in city of London
1820 to death; communicated to the profession the only case of
renal aneurism then detected 1829. _d._ 40 Broad st. buildings,
city of London 21 Oct. 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 633–5 (1854).
GOSSET, SIR RALPH ALLEN (_only son of Sir William Gosset, serjeant
at arms 1835 to death 27 March 1848_). Assistant serjeant at arms
to the Queen, July 1836, deputy serjeant April 1854, serjeant at
arms in ordinary 5 April 1875, retired Aug. 1885; had to employ
force to prevent Mr. Bradlaugh re-entering the house 3 Aug. 1881;
K.C.B. 11 Aug. 1885. _d._ The Wick, Richmond hill 27 Nov. 1885
aged 76. _I.L.N. lxxxvii_, 157, 582 (1885), _2 portraits_; _Times
28 Nov. 1885 p._ 10, _3 Dec. p._ 8; _Guardian 2 Dec. 1885 p._
1811.
GOTCH, REV. FREDERIC WILLIAM. _b._ Kettering 1807; pastor of baptist
chapel at Boxmoor 1836–45; classical and mathematical tutor at
Bristol college 1845, pres. 1868–82, hon. pres. 1882 to death;
B.A. Dublin 1839, M.A. 1842, LL.B. and LLD. 1859; member of Old
Testament revision committee; author of _Revised English Bible,
Genesis to Deuteronomy_ 1877; edited _A supplement to
Tischendorf’s Reliquiae ex incendio ereptae codicis Cottoniani_
1881. _d._ 21 Pembroke road, Clifton 17 May 1890 in 83 year.
_I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p._ 680, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 29 May
1890 p._ 697, _portrait_.
GOTT, JOSEPH. _b._ Calverley near Leeds 1785; student of R. Academy,
gold medallist for group of Jacob wrestling with the angel 1819;
his namesake Benjamin Gott sent him to Rome where he lived nearly
40 years; exhibited 30 sculptures at R.A. and 7 at B.I. 1820–48;
his principal works were executed for Armley house and ch. Leeds,
the residence of his patron B. Gott. _d._ Rome Jany. 1860.
GOUDY, REV. ALEXANDER PORTER (_son of Andrew Goudy, presbyterian
minister_). _b._ Ballywalter, co. Down, Feb. 1809; educ. Belfast
coll. 1823; assist. presbyterian minister Strabane 1831 and
minister 1833 to death; engaged in controversy with Archibald
Boyd, afterwards dean of Exeter, on the merits of episcopacy 1839;
aided in passing Marriages, Ireland, Act 7 & 8 Vict. c. 81, 1843;
D.D. of Jefferson coll. U.S.A. 1851; moderator of general assembly
of his ch. 1857; author of _Worship of the Presbyterian church_
1839. _d._ Dublin 14 Dec. 1858.
GOUGH, HUGH GOUGH, 1 Viscount (_4 son of George Gough of Woodstown,
co. Limerick 1751–1836_). _b._ Woodstown 3 Nov. 1779; lieut. 78
highlanders 6 June 1795; served at Cape of Good Hope 1795, in West
Indies 1796–1803, in Peninsula 1808–13 twice severely wounded; in
Ireland 1819–26, in command of Mysore division of Madras army
1837–41; commander of troops in China 1841; commander in chief
Madras 1841; commander in chief in India 11 Aug. 1843; routed the
Mahratta army at Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843; defeated the Sikhs at
Mudki 18 Dec. 1845, at Ferozeshah 21–22 Dec. 1845, at Sobraon 10
Feb. 1846, at Ramnuggar 22 Nov. 1848, at Chillianwallah 13 Jany.
1849 and at Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849; col. 87 foot 15 March 1844,
general 20 June 1854; col. in chief of 60 royal rifles 28 Jany.
1854 to death; col. royal horse guards 29 June 1855 to death;
field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; knighted at Carlton house 4 Dec. 1815;
C.B. 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831, G.C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; created a
baronet 23 Dec. 1842; received the thanks of parliament in 1842
and 1843 and of H.E.I.C. in 1842 and 1849; created Baron Gough 25
April 1846; cr. viscount Gough 15 June 1849 with a pension of
£2000 to himself and next 2 heirs to title; K.P. 1857; P.C. 11
June 1859; K.C.S.I. 1861, G.C.S.I. 1861. _d._ St. Helen’s near
Booterstown, co. Dublin 2 March 1869. _bur._ Stillorgan ch. yard 9
March. _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i_, 222–59
(1880); _Shadwell’s Life of Lord Clyde_ (1881) _i_, 147 _et seq._;
_Register and Mag. of Biog. i_, 286–89, 522; _History of the
campaign on the Sutlej_ (1846) _p._ 11, _etc._; _Nolan’s British
empire in India, ii_, 663, _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvi_,
192–208, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xiv_, 265 (1849), _portrait_, _liv_,
274, 293 (1869), _portrait_.
GOUGH, ALEXANDER DICK. _b._ 3 Nov. 1804; pupil of Benjamin Wyatt
1823; superintended erection of Apsley house and D. of York’s
column 1834; partner with R. L. Roumieu 1836–48; made surveys for
railways 1845–48; with Roumieu exhibited 19 works at R.A. 1837–49;
built Islington literary and scientific institution 1837–38;
rebuilt Old St. Pancras ch. in the Anglo-Norman style 1847–48 and
many churches, schools and houses. _d._ 6 Second grove, Tollington
park, London 8 Sep. 1871. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _The Architect
30 Sept. 1871 p._ 173.
GOUGH, JOHN BALLANTINE or BARTHOLOMEW. _b._ Sandgate, Kent 22 Aug.
1817; went to America 1829; temperance lecturer 1843; lectured in
England 1853–55, 1857–60 and 1878; M.A. of Amherst Univ.; author
of _Orations delivered on various occasions_ 1854; _Temperance
gleanings_ 1879; _Sunlight and shadow_ 1881 and about 20 small
books. _d._ of paralysis at Frankford, Philadelphia 18 Feb. 1886.
_Autobiography of J. B. Gough_ (1879), _portrait_; _Appleton’s
Cyclop, of American Biog. ii_, 692 (1887), _portrait_; _Drawing
room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
xxv_, 208, 209 (1854), _portrait_.
GOULBURN, EDWARD (_3 son of Munbee Goulburn of Portland place,
London, who d. 29 Nov. 1793 aged 36_). _b._ 1787; cornet royal
horse guards 1803, lieut. 1804–5 when he sold out having been
prosecuted for libelling some of his brother officers in his book
_The Blueviad, a satyrical poem_ 1805; barrister M.T. 9 June 1815;
a Welsh judge; recorder of Leicester to 1835, of Lincoln, and of
Boston; serjeant at law 4 Feb. 1829, received patent of precedence
after Serjeant Storks 1840; a comr. of Court of Bankruptcy 21 Oct.
1842 to 1868; contested Ipswich 1832, M.P. for Leicester 1835–37;
author of _The pursuits of fashion, a satirical poem_ 1809, anon.,
_4 ed._ 1812; _Edward de Montfort 3 vols._ 1812. _d._ 5 Seymour
st. Portman sq. London 24 Aug. 1868.
GOULBURN, FREDERICK (_youngest son of the succeeding_). _b._ 8 April
1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; comr.
of customs 28 Jany. 1845; vice chairman of board of customs 1859,
chairman 1875 to death; C.B. 10 July 1871. _d._ 57 Ennismore
gardens, London 8 May 1878.
GOULBURN, HENRY (_brother of Edward Goulburn 1787–1868_). _b._
Marylebone, London 19 March 1784; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1805, M.A. 1808, hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; contested Horsham 1807,
Univ. of Cam. 1826; M.P. for Horsham 1808–12, for St. Germans
1812–18, for West Looe 1818–26, for Armagh 1826–31, for Univ. of
Cam. 1831 to death; under sec. of state for home department
1810–12, for the Colonies 1812–21; chief sec. for Ireland 1821–27;
P.C. 10 Dec. 1821; chancellor of exchequer 1828–30 and 1841–46;
sec. of state for home department 1834–35; conservative candidate
for speakership of House of Commons 27 May 1839 when defeated by
C. S. Lefevre by 18 votes; an ecclesiastical comr. for England
1845. _d._ Betchworth house near Dorking 12 Jany. 1856. _Portraits
of eminent conservatives 2nd series_ (1846), _portrait_; _G.M.
xlv_, 183–4 (1856).
GOULD, REV. GEORGE (_eld. son of George Gould of Bristol,
tradesman_). _b._ Castle green, Bristol 20 Sep. 1818; clerk to a
wine merchant 1832; articled to an accountant 1836; student of
Bristol Baptist coll. Sep. 1838; pastor Lower Abbey st. Dublin
1841, at South st. chapel, Exeter 1846, at St. Mary’s chapel,
Norwich 1849 to decease; president of Baptist Union 1879; one of
the founders of Anti-state church association 1844; author of
_India, its history, religion and government_ 1858; _Open
communion and the baptists of Norwich_ 1860 and 10 other works;
edited _Church Examiner_ 1852. _d._ Norwich 13 Feb. 1882. _Sermons
and addresses with a memoir by G. P. Gould_ (1884), _with
portrait_.
GOULD, GERALD FRANCIS. Attaché at Hanover 1 Jany. 1854; minister
resident at Belgrade 3 March 1879; minister resident at Stuttgardt
16 April 1881 to death; C.B. 20 April 1880. _d._ Stuttgardt 5 Sep.
1883 aged 48.
GOULD, MOST REV. JAMES ALPIUS. _b._ Cork 4 Nov. 1812; entered
Augustinian order, educ. at Grantstown; ordained priest at Perugia
1835; arrived in Sydney, Feb. 1838; R.C. priest at Campbeltown
near Sydney 1838–48; elected 9 July 1847 and consecrated the first
bishop of the Port Philip settlement 8 Aug. 1848 which became the
colony of Victoria 1 July 1851; archbishop of Melbourne 4 May 1874
to death. _d._ Brighton near Melbourne 11 June 1886.
GOULD, JOHN. _b._ Lyme Regis 14 Sep. 1804; gardener Ripley castle,
Yorkshire; taxidermist Zoological gardens, London 1827; travelled
in Australia and adjoining islands 1838–40; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1843;
exhibited his collection of 5000 humming birds in Zoological
gardens 1851, sold to British Museum for £3000 in 1881; produced
41 folio volumes illustrated by 2999 plates; his chief works were
_A Century of birds from the Himalayan mountains_ 1832; _The birds
of Europe 5 vols._ 1832–7; _The birds of Australia 8 vols._
1848–69; _Monograph of the Trochilidæ_ 1849–61; _The birds of Asia
7 vols._ 1850–83; _The birds of Great Britain 5 vols._ 1862–73;
_The birds of New Guinea_ 1875–80. (_m._ 1829 Elizabeth Coxen who
assisted him in his writings and executed all his drawings, she
_d._ Egham 15 Aug. 1841). _d._ 26 Charlotte St. Bedford sq. London
3 Feb. 1881. _I.L.N. xx_, 457 (1852), _portrait_, _lxxviii_, 220
(1881), _portrait_; _Zoologist v_, 109–15 (1881); _Nature xxiii_,
364–5, 491 (1881).
GOULDING, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Joshua Goulding of Birr, King’s
co._) _b._ 1817; a merchant at Cork and Dublin; contested Cork
city, Feb. 1874; M.P. for Cork city 25 May 1876 to 24 March 1880.
_d._ Summerhill house, Sidney place, Cork 8 Dec. 1884.
GOULSTON, JAMES. An aeronaut known as Giuseppe Lunardini; fell from
his balloon during an ascent from Belle Vue gardens, Manchester,
and was killed at Stone breaks hill near Saddleworth, Yorkshire 3
June 1852.
GOURLAY, WILLIAM CAMERON. _b._ Edinburgh 1817; first appeared on
stage at T.R. Edinburgh 18 May 1836 as Norval in Home’s _Douglas_;
the best actor of Bailie Nicol Jarvie in _Rob Roy_ except Charles
Mackay; manager of Victoria Temple, Edinburgh, changed the name to
Royal Victoria theatre 4 Sep. 1848. _d._ 80 Great Western road,
Glasgow 3 Feb. 1883.
GOURLIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Glasgow, March 1815; educ. Glasgow univ.;
partner with his father as a merchant; studied botany under Sir W.
J. Hooker and Dr. J. H. Balfour; collected mosses, shells and
fossil plants; member Edin. Botanical soc. 1836 and of Glasgow
Philosophical soc. 1841; F.L.S. 1855. _d._ of cancer at his
brother’s house, Pollokshields, Glasgow 24 June 1856. _Proc.
Linnæan soc._ (1857) _p. xxvii_.
GOVER, CHARLES E. (_son of Thomas Gover of Poplar, Middlesex_).
Principal and sec. of Madras military male orphan asylum Egmore,
Madras 1864; member R. Asiatic soc. 1868–71; fellow
Anthropological soc.; wrote in _Journal Asiatic soc._ and in
_Cornhill Mag._; author of _Indian weights and measures_, _Madras_
1865; _The folk songs of Southern India_, _Madras_ 1872. _d._
Madras 20 Sep. 1872.
GOW, JAMES. _b._ Soutar’s Close, West Port, Dundee 16 March 1814; a
weaver in Dundee; wrote many short poems in the _Dundee
Chronicle_, _Tait’s Mag._, _Chambers’s Journal_ and _Hogg’s
Instructor_; published a collection of his pieces entitled _The
lays of the loom_; wrote no new poem after 1847 so that he was
frequently spoken of as the late James Gow and confused with James
Gow the political agitator who _d._ 4 Oct. 1849. _d._ 29 Jany.
1872. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 382–90.
GOWAN, GEORGE EDWARD. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 1 April 1806;
col. commandant 3 July 1845 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 19 June
1846 to 20 June 1854; commanded Ferozepore district 1849–52,
Lahore division 1853–58; L.G. 27 Sep. 1859; C.B. 22 May 1843. _d._
Pen hill near Bath 19 Dec. 1865 aged 77.
GOWAN, OGLE ROBERT. _b._ co. Wexford, Ireland 1796; edited the
_Antidote_ 1822–25 and the _Sentinel_ 1825–29, Dublin weekly
papers; went to Canada 1829; commanded 2nd regiment of Leeds
militia; during Mc Kenzie-Papineau rebellion of 1837–9, he was
designated “the right arm of British power in America”; founder of
Orange lodges of North America, grand master 20 years; a member of
Canadian parliament 1834–41; edited the _Brockville Statesman_
weekly paper 1829–51 and the _Patriot_ and the _British Empire_
1851–55; author of _Orangeism, its origin and history 3 vols._
1859. _d._ Toronto 21 Aug. 1876.
GOWANS, SIR JAMES. _b._ 1821; a railway contractor; constructed
Bathgate railway, various sections of North British railway, 35
miles of Highland railway and other lines; laid down first tramway
in Scotland sanctioned by Parliament; member of Edinburgh town
council many years; chairman of executive committee of Edinburgh
Exhibition 1886; knighted by the Queen at Holyrood palace 19 Aug.
1886; Lord Dean of Guild of Edinburgh 1886 to death; author of
_Model dwelling-houses_ 1886; _Edinburgh and its neighbourhood in
the days of our grandfathers_ 1886. _d._ 1 Blantyre terrace,
Edinburgh 25 June 1890.
GOWANS, WILLIAM. _b._ Lismahagow, Scotland 29 March 1803; went to
U.S.A. 1821; a gardener in New York 1825, afterwards a
stonecutter, a stevedore and a vendor of newspapers; bookseller in
New York 1828–37 and 1840 to death; book auctioneer 1837, issued
28 book catalogues 1842–70, his stock of books at his death
numbered nearly 300,000 vols.; author of _Gowans’ Bibliotheca
Americana 5 numbers_ 1845–69; _A catalogue of books on
Freemasonry_ 1858. _d._ New York 27 Nov. 1870. _Appleton’s
American Biography_ (1887) _ii_, 698, _portrait_.
GOYDER, REV. DAVID GEORGE. _b._ Angel’s court, Westminster 1 March
1796; educ. Westminster sch. 1805; apprenticed to a brush maker
1810 and to a printer 1814; schoolmaster to the Swedenborgians’
soc. at Bristol 1821 and a minister 3 Nov. 1822; school organiser,
inspector and missionary for the Swedenborgians 1825 etc.;
lecturer on phrenology; author of _Swedenborg and his mission_
1853; _Lectures on Freemasonry_ 1864; _The book of family worship_
1871 and 15 other books, _d._ Bradford, Yorkshire 2 July 1878 aged
82. _My battle for life, The autobiography of a phrenologist, by
D. G. Goyder_ (1857).
GRABHAM, JOHN. Entered British Museum 4 March 1833, second
superintendent of Reading-room there 1850 to death; compiled
_Index to Encyclopedia Metropolitana_ 1842 and to _Townsend and
Cattley’s ed. of Foxe’s “Acts and Monuments”_ 1849; edited and
made additions to Bishop E. Maltby’s _Greek Gradus 3rd ed._ 1850.
_d._ 15 Noel st., Islington, London 9 Aug. 1858 aged 57.
GRACE, GEORGE FREDERICK (_youngest son of the succeeding_). _b._
Downend near Bristol 13 Dec. 1850; played many cricket matches as
one of the Gloucestershire eleven; played in South v. North at
Canterbury 1866; a good batsman and bowler, and one of the finest
fieldsmen ever known at long-leg and cover-point. _d._ of
pneumonia at Red Lion hotel, Basingstoke 22 Sep. 1880. _bur._
Downend ch. 27 Sep. _Sporting Mirror i_, 157–8 (1881), _portrait_;
_Illust. sp. and dr. news, i_, 568, 570 (1874), _portrait_, _xiv_,
53 (1880), _portrait_; _Hants. and Berks. gazette 25 Sept. 1880,
p._ 5.
GRACE, HENRY MILLS. _b._ Long Ashton, Somerset; L.S.A. 1829,
M.R.C.S. 1830; surgeon to Royal Gloucs. hussars 1841 to death;
father of the 5 Messrs. Grace; kept up West Gloucs. cricket club
many years; founder & treasurer of Gloucestershire county cricket
club; a right hand batsman but fielded and threw left. _d._
Downend 23 Dec. 1871 aged 63. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores v_, 93
(1876).
GRACE, OLIVER DOWELL JOHN. _b._ Mantua house, Elphin 19 Oct. 1791;
sheriff of Roscommon 1830; M.P. for co. Roscommon 1847–59. _d._
Mantua house 25 Jany. 1871.
GRAFTON, HENRY FITZROY, 5 Duke of. _b._ 10 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin.
coll. Cam., M.A. 1814; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 1818–30, for
Thetford 1834–44; col. East Suffolk militia 1823–30, col. West
Suffolk militia 1830–45; succeeded 28 Sep. 1844. _d._ Wakefield
lodge, Northamptonshire 26 March 1863.
GRAFTON, WILLIAM HENRY FITZROY, 6 Duke of. _b._ Grosvenor place,
London 4 Aug. 1819; M.P. for Thetford 1847–63; succeeded 26 March
1863. _d._ 4 Grosvenor place, London 21 May 1882. _Baily’s Mag.
xxxiv_, 311 (1879), _portrait_.
GRAFTON, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ 1816; head of firm of F. W. Grafton
& Co., calico printers of Broad Oak, Accrington and Manchester;
owner of Heysham hall, Lancs.; M.P. for North-East Lancs. 1880–85.
_d._ 7 Kensington palace gardens, London 27 Jany. 1890.
GRAHAM, CLEMENTINA STIRLING (_eldest dau. of Patrick Stirling of
Pittendriech, who in 1802 took the surname of Graham_). _b._
Dundee, May 1782; an intimate friend of Francis Lord Jeffrey and
Henry T. Lord Cockburn; lived partly in Edinburgh and partly at
Duntrune, Forfarshire; her house was a meeting place for all
literary persons; had great powers of personation and of
disguising herself; author of _The Bee preserver, By Jonas de
Gelieu, a translation_ 1829, _another ed._ 1876; _Mystification,
with poems and sketches, privately printed_ 1859, _published_
1865, _4 ed._ 1869. _d._ Duntrune 22 Aug. 1877. _Mystification_,
_4 ed._ (1869) _p. i, etc., with portrait_; _W. Chambers’s Stories
of remarkable persons_ (1878) 289–302; _John Leech and other
papers, By John Brown_, _2 ed._ (1882) 169–75.
GRAHAM, DAVID. _b._ London 8 Feb. 1808; admitted to New York bar;
professor of law of pleading and practice in New York university
1838; author of _Practice of the supreme court of state of New
York_ 1832, _2 ed._ 1836; _An essay on New Trials_ 1834; _A
treatise on the Courts of law and equity in state of New York_
1839; edited _Smith’s Chancery practice_ 1842. _d._ Nice 27 May
1852.
GRAHAM, SIR FORTESCUE (_son of Richard Graham, lieut. col. R.M._)
_b._ Tintinhull near Yeovil 1794; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Nov. 1808;
A.D.C. to the Queen 10 July 1854 to 27 Feb. 1857; commanded
Portsmouth division of R.M. 22 June 1855 to 20 Feb. 1857 and
Plymouth division 1 June 1863 to 23 Aug. 1866; col. royal marine
artillery 23 Aug. 1866 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on full
pay; general 10 Nov. 1866; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865.
_d._ 69 Durnford st. Stonehouse, Plymouth 9 Oct. 1880.
GRAHAM, GEORGE (_4 son of Sir James Graham, 1 baronet 1761–1824_).
_b._ 1801; military sec. at Bombay 1828–30; private sec. to his
brother Sir James Graham 1831–34 and 1841–42; registrar general of
births, deaths, and marriages 1838–79. _d._ 31 Chapel st.,
Belgrave sq., London 20 May 1888.
GRAHAM, GEORGE FARQUHAR (_eld. son of lieut. col. Humphrey Graham_).
_b._ Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1789; a self taught musician and violinist;
sec. of first Edin. musical festival with G. Hogarth 1815; studied
music in Italy; composed three well known songs, County Guy 1823,
You never longed nor loved, and The mariner’s song; wrote for the
Encyclopædia Britannica the articles on music and the organ;
author of _An account of the first Edinburgh musical festival_
1816; _An essay on the theory and practice of musical composition_
1838; _Ancient Scottish melodies a selection from the Skene M.S.,
By G. F. Graham and Finlay Dun_ 1839; _The songs of Scotland, The
biographical notices by G. F. Graham_ 1848, _New ed._ 1884. _d._
Gilmore place, Edinburgh 12 March 1867.
GRAHAM, HENRY HOPE. _b._ 16 Sep. 1808; ensign 57 foot 1829; lieut.
col. 59 foot 29 April 1853; superintending officer of recruiting
1860–67; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. of 77 foot 1875 to death; C.B.
1858. _d._ Somerset st. Portman sq., London 9 July 1886.
GRAHAM, JAMES GILLESPIE (_son of a poor man called Gillespie_). _b._
1777; a working joiner. (_m._ Margaret Anne Græme, dau. of William
Graham of Orchill, on whose death in 1825 he took the surname of
Graham, she _d._ 1826); architect Edinburgh; laid out part of
lower new town Edinburgh 1815; built, enlarged, and restored many
residences for the Scotch nobility 1810, etc.; erected many
churches and chapels 1813, etc.; introduced a purer gothic style
into Scotland; great friend of A. W. Pugin from 1830, with him
erected Victoria hall, Castle hill, Edinburgh for the meetings of
the general assembly 1842–3; F.S.A. Scotland as James Gillespie 24
March 1817. _d._ York place, Edinburgh 21 March 1855. _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882), 141–43, _portrait_.
GRAHAM, SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir James
Graham, 1 Baronet 1761–1824_). _b._ Naworth, Cumberland 1 June
1792; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; private sec. to Lord
Montgomerie, British minister in Sicily; M.P. for Hull 1818, for
St. Ives 1820–21, for Carlisle 1826–9, 1852–61, for Cumberland
1829–32, for East Cumberland 1832–7, for Pembroke 1838–41, for
Dorchester 1841–7, for Ripon 1847–52; first lord of the Admiralty
25 Nov. 1830 to 11 June 1834, and 30 Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; sec.
of state for home department 6 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; lord
rector of Glasgow Univ.; ecclesiastical comr. Sep. 1846; K.C.B. 15
April 1854; F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1831; author of _Corn and currency, an
address_ 1826 and other pamphlets. _d._ Netherby near Carlisle 25
Oct. 1861. _bur._ north side of Arthuret church. _Life by T. M.
Torrens 2 vols._ (1863), _portrait_; _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of
Cumberland ii_, _1 et seq._ (1868); _G. H. Francis’s Orators of
the age_ (1847), 183–205; _D. O. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties ii_,
242–56 (1859); _Saddle and Sirloin By the Druid, Part North_
(1870), 33–9.
GRAHAM, RIGHT REV. JOHN (_only son of John Graham, managing clerk to
Thos. Griffith of The Bailey, city of Durham_). _b._ Claypath,
city of Durham 23 Feb. 1794; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Ch. coll.
Cam., 4th wrangler 1816, Chancellor’s medallist 1816, B.A. 1816,
M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll. 1816; deacon 1818; preb. of Sanctæ
Crucis in Linc. cath. 1828 and of Leighton Ecclesia 1834; master
of Christ’s coll. Cam. 1830–49, vice chancellor of the Univ. 1834
and 1840; chap. in ord. to Prince Albert 26 Jany. 1841; R. of
Willingham, Cambs. 1843–8; bishop of Chester 11 March 1848 to
death, consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall 18 May 1848; clerk
of the Closet to the Queen 25 Sep. 1849 to death; published
_Sermons on the Commandments_ 1826. _d._ the Palace, Chester 15
June 1865. _G.M. xix_, 240–42 (1865).
GRAHAM, JOHN MURRAY (_eld. son of Andrew Murray 1782–1847_). _b._
Aberdeenshire 15 Oct. 1809; educ. Edin. univ., M.A. 1828; advocate
1831; succeeded to part of estate of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch
1859 and took his name of Graham; author of _A month’s tour in
Spain_ 1867; _Memoir of General Lord Lynedoch_ 1868, _2 ed._ 1877;
_An historical view of literature and art from accession of House
of Hanover to Victoria_ 1871, _2 ed._ 1872; _Annals of the
Viscount and the first and second Earls of Stair 2 vols._ 1875.
_d._ Murray’s hall, Perthshire 18 Jany. 1881. _Antiquary iii_, 136
(1881); _Academy 29 Jany. 1881 p._ 81.
GRAHAM, MONTAGU WILLIAM (_younger son of 3 Duke of Montrose
1755–1836_). _b._ 25 Grosvenor sq. London 2 Feb. 1807; M.P. for
Grantham 1852–57, for Herefordshire 1858–65. _d._ Wilton st.
Belgrave sq. London 21 June 1878.
GRAHAM, THOMAS (_eld. son of James Graham, merchant_). _b._ Glasgow
20 Dec. 1805; educ. Glasgow gram. sch. and univ., M.A. 1826;
professor of chemistry, Andersonian Instit. Glasgow 1830–37;
professor at London univ. now Univ. coll. 1837–55; non-resident
assayer of Royal Mint and master April 1855 to death; F.R.S. 25
Dec. 1836; F.G.S.; D.C.L. Oxf. 20 June 1855; discovered law of
diffusion of gases, Keith medal R.S. Edin. 1834; discovered
polybasic character of phosphoric acid, gold medal R.S. 1840;
investigated transpirability of gases, gold medal 1850; speculated
on constitution of phosphates and discovered diffusion of liquids,
Copley medal 1862; a founder and first president Chemical Soc.
1840; a founder and first president Cavendish Soc. 1846; author of
_Outlines of botany_ 1841; _Elements of chemistry_ 1842, _2 ed._
1847 and other books. _d._ 4 Gordon sq. London 16 Sep. 1869.
_Walford’s Portraits of living celebrities_ (1859), _No._ 8,
_portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xviii, pp. xvii-xxvi_ (1870);
_Proc. of Royal Soc. Edin. vii_, 15 (1872); _S. Muspratt’s
Chemistry, i_, (1853), _portrait_.
GRAHAM, WILLIAM. Gretna Green post-boy; known by the sobriquet of
“Carwinley;” important witness in celebrated Wakefield marriage
case 24 March 1827. _d._ Carlisle 18 Dec. 1864 aged 79.
GRAHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ Dufton Wood near Appleby 1808; a successful
wrestler; member of a large London firm; chiefly raced under
pseudonyms, his 3 Oaks winners are registered as Regalia 1865
belonging to Mr. Harlock, and Formosa 1868 and Gamos 1870 to Mr.
G. Jones; Sabinus was said to belong to Mr. Hessey, other names he
used were Brown, Keswick, Fischer & Winchester; made £18,965 in
1868. _d._ 8 Holloway road, Highbury, London 19 Jany. 1876.
_Baily’s Mag. xxviii_, 126–30 (1876); _Bell’s Life 22 Jany. 1876
p._ 6.
GRAHAM, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Clough farm, co. Antrim 1810;
presbyterian minister at Dundonald near Belfast 1836; missionary
to the Jews at Damascus 1842, at Hamburg, at Bonn to 1883; D.D.,
M.R.I.A.; author of _The spirit of love, a commentary_ 1857;
_Fifty songs of Zion_ 1857; _A practical commentary on the epistle
to Titus_ 1860; _Lectures on St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians_
1870. _d._ Belfast 11 Dec. 1883.
GRAHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ 1816; M.P. for Glasgow 14 July 1865 to 26
Jany. 1874. _d._ Oakdene near Guildford 16 July 1885. _I.L.N.
xlviii_, 144 (1866), _portrait_.
GRAHAM, REV. WILLIAM. Educ. Glasgow univ. D.D.; licentiate of United
Presbyterian ch.; pastor of Mount Pleasant ch. Liverpool 1846–80;
moderator of English Presbyterian synod 1877; professor of church
history, Presbyterian coll., Guildford st., London 1880; author of
_Memoirs of John Macfarlane_ 1876. _d._ Acton West 26 Nov. 1887
aged 64. _bur._ Birkenhead 1 Dec. _Christian World 1 Dec. 1887 p._
917.
GRAHAM-GILBERT, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 1794; educ. R. Acad. sch. London
1818–21; portrait painter; in Italy 1823, 1826; exhibited 27
pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1820–64; settled in Edinburgh
1827, Glasgow 1834; R.S.A. 1829; painted Portrait of Walter Scott
1829, The pear tree wall 1844, Females at a fountain 1846. (_m._
1834 Miss Gilbert of Yorkhill near Glasgow, and assumed the
surname of Gilbert. She was also an artist, and on her death in
1877 left pictures to Corporation galleries at Glasgow). _d._
Yorkhill 4 June 1866.
GRAHAME, ROBERT. _b._ Stockwell st., Glasgow 1759; the leading
democrat of the West of Scotland 1793; the first Lord Provost of
Glasgow after enactment of Burgh Reform; leading partner of firm
of Grahame and Mitchell of Glasgow, writers. _d._ Hatton hall,
Northamptonshire 28 Dec. 1851.
GRAINGER, RICHARD. _b._ Newcastle upon Tyne 1796; ed. at St.
Andrew’s charity sch. there; apprenticed to a carpenter; erected
Eldon square, Leazes terrace and crescent, the Arcade, Grey st.,
Grainger St., Market st., Clayton st. and Clayton st. west, all in
Newcastle upon Tyne 1826–31; purchased the Elswick estate on the
Tyne for £200,000. _d._ West Clayton st. Newcastle upon Tyne 4
July 1861. _Once a week, v_, 401–406 (1861).
GRAINGER, RICHARD DUGARD (_son of Edward Grainger of Birmingham,
surgeon_). _b._ Birmingham 1801, ed. at gr. school there and
Woolwich, at St. Thomas’ and Webb st. sch.; M.R.C.S. 1822,
F.R.C.S. 1843; kept a private anatomical school in Webb st.
Borough, London 1822–42 when it was amalgamated with St. Thomas’s
hospital; professor of anatomy and physiology at St. Thomas’s
1842–60; F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846; delivered Hunterian oration 1848; a
cholera inspector 1849; an inspector under the Burials Act 1853 to
death; one of Children’s employment comrs. 13 Feb. 1862; author of
_Elements of general anatomy_ 1829; _Observations on the spinal
cord_ 1837; _Observations on the cultivation of organic science_
1848; _Sanitary report on cholera_ 1848–9. _d._ 6 Hornsey lane,
Highgate 1 Feb. 1865. _bur._ Eltham 7 Feb. _Medical times and
gazette, i_, 157–58 (1865).
GRAINGER, THOMAS, _b._ Gogar green, Ratho near Edinburgh 12 Nov.
1794; civil engineer and surveyor in Edin. 1816; executed the
Monkland and Kirkintilloch railway 1824, the first in Scotland on
which ‘edge rails’ were used; partner with Mr. Miller 1825–45;
executed Paisley and Renfrew railway 1834, Arbroath and Forfar
line 1835, Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven line 183 , Edinburgh,
Perth and Dundee lines 1847; pres. of royal Scottish society of
arts 2 years; M.I.C.E. 1829; F.R.S. Edin.; F.S.A. Edin. _d._
Stockton on Tees 25 July 1852 from injuries received in a
collision of trains near Stockton on Tees 21 July. _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xii_, 159 (1853).
GRANARD, GEORGE ARTHUR HASTINGS FORBES, 7 Earl of. _b._ Chilton
hall, Suffolk 5 Aug. 1833; succeeded 9 June 1837; attaché to
legation at Dresden 1852–54; lord lieut. of Leitrim, Nov. 1856 to
July 1872; K.P. 30 Jany. 1857. _d._ Castle Forbes, co. Longford 25
Aug. 1889. _I.L.N. xlii_, 181 (1862), _portrait_.
GRANGER, THOMAS COLPITTS (_eld. son of Joseph Granger of Durham_).
Barrister I.T. 14 May 1830, bencher 1850; recorder of Hull 1847 to
death; Q.C. 1850; contested city of Durham Jany. 1835 and July
1837; M.P. for city of Durham June 1841 to death; author of _A
supplement to the statutes by Sir W. D. Evans_ 1836; author with
R. P. Tyrwhitt of _Reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer and
Exchequer Chamber 1835–37_, _1 vol._ 1837; author with James
Manning of _Reports of cases in the Court of Common Pleas
1840–45_, _7 vols._ 1841–46. _d._ York 13 Aug. 1852 aged 50.
_bur._ in vaults of Temple church, London.
GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER, 8 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Robert Innes
Grant, 7 baronet 1794–1856_). _b._ New York 13 Sep. 1826; ed. at
Harrow and Balliol coll. Ox., scholar 1844–9, fellow 1849–60, hon.
fellow 1882; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852, D.C.L. 1860; examiner for
Indian civil service 1855; inspector of schools in Madras 1859;
professor of history and political economy in Elphinstone coll.,
Madras 1860, principal 1862; vice chancellor of Univ. of Bombay
1863–5 and 1865–8; director of public instruction in Bombay 1865;
member of legislative council of Bombay 1868; vice chancellor and
principal of Univ. of Edin. 6 July 1868 to death, installed 3 Nov.
1868; devised and carried out tercentenary festival 1884; F.R.S.
Edin. 1869; author of _The story of the University of Edinburgh
during its first three hundred years_ 1884 and other books. _d._
21 Landowne crescent, Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1884. _W. Hole’s Quasi
Cursores_ (1884) 6, 7–17; _Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin._ (1885).
GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER CRAY, 6 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir Alexander
Grant, 5 baronet, who d. 25 July 1825_). _b._ Bowring’s Leigh,
Devon 30 Nov. 1782; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; member of
colonial assembly of Jamaica 1810–11; M.P. for Tregony 1812–18,
for Lostwithiel 1818–26, for Aldborough 1826–30, for Westbury
1830–32, for town of Cambridge 1840–43; contested Great Grimsby
1835 and Honiton 1837; chairman of committees of house of commons
1826–32; a member of board of control for India 20 Dec. 1834 to 29
April 1835; a comr. for auditing public accounts 1843 to death.
_d._ Somerset house,? London 29 Nov. 1854.
GRANT, VEN. ANTHONY (_youngest son of Thomas Grant of Portsea_).
_b._ 31 Jany. 1806; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow
1825–39; B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1842; select preacher 1852 and 1861;
C. of Chelmsford 1836; V. of Romford, Essex 1838–62; V. of
Aylesford, Kent 1862–77; archdeacon of St. Albans 1846 to death;
archdeacon of Rochester 1863–82; canon of Rochester 1860 to death;
author of _The past and prospective extension of the gospel to the
heathen_ 1844, a Bampton lecture which marked an epoch in mission
work. _An historical sketch of the Crimea_ 1855 and other books.
_d._ 11 Royal crescent, Ramsgate 25 Nov. 1883.
GRANT, CHARLES. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 22 April 1819, col.
16 Feb. 1861, col. commandant 11 Jany. 1868 to death; general 1
Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ 3 Suffolk sq., Cheltenham 13
Jany. 1882.
GRANT, COLESWORTHY. _b._ London 25 Oct. 1813; went to Calcutta 1832;
well known as an artist; professor of drawing Howrah engineering
coll. 1849 and at Presidency engineering coll. Calcutta 185-;
founded Calcutta soc. for prevention of cruelty to animals, and
became hon. sec. 4 Oct. 1861; contributed 167 portrait sketches to
the _India Review_ and other papers 1838–50; made 78 sketches of
Oriental heads; author of _Rough pencillings of a rough trip to
Rangoon in 1846_, _Calcutta_ 1853; _Anglo-Indian domestic life_
185-, anon.; _Rural life in Bengal, Letters from an Artist in
India to his sisters in England_ 1860; _To the children of
Calcutta, On cruelty, Calcutta_ 1872. _d._ Calcutta 31 May 1880.
_P. C. Mittra’s Life of C. Grant_ (1881), _portrait_.
GRANT, DAVID. _b._ Upper Banchory, Kincardineshire 1823; educ.
Aberdeen univ.; schoolmaster Elgin; French master Oundle gram.
sch. Northamptonshire 1861; assist. master Eccleshall coll. near
Sheffield 1865; kept a day sch. at Sheffield by which he was
ruined 1880; private tutor Edinburgh 1880 to death; author of
_Metrical tales, Sheffield_ 1880; _Lays and legends of the North,
Edin._ 1884; _A book of ten songs with music_ 1887. _d._ Edinburgh
1886. _D. H. Edwards’ Modern Scotch poets, Brechin_ (1880).
GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (_4 son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston,
Perthshire, who d. 1819_). _b._ Edinburgh 18 Jany. 1803; ed. at
Harrow; exhibited 253 portraits at R.A. 1834–79; the fashionable
portrait painter of the day from 1840; A.R.A. 1842, R.A. 11 Feb.
1851, pres. 1866; member of Belgian academy 1855; knighted at
Buckingham Palace 24 March 1866; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1870. _d._ The
Lodge, Melton Mowbray 5 Oct. 1878. _Illustrated Review, v_,
449–55, _portrait_; _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, ii_,
1–3; _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 295–7 (1862); _I.L.N.
vi_, 293 (1845), _portrait_, _xviii_, 219 (1851), _portrait_,
_xlviii_, 232 (1866), _portrait_.
GRANT, GERTRUDE ELIZABETH. Author under pseudonym of Gerald Grant of
3 novels _Coming home to roost 3 vols._ 1872, _The old ✠ quarry 3
vols._ 1873, _The great gulf fixed 3 vols._ 1877. _d._ Göritz,
Austria 29 Dec. 1882.
GRANT, JAMES. _b._ Elgin, Morayshire 1802; a founder and editor of
_Elgin Courier_ 1827; went to London 1833; conducted _London
Saturday Journal_ 1839, _Grant’s London Journal_ 1840; editor of
_Morning Advertiser_ 1850–71, of _Christian Standard_ 1872; author
of _The great metropolis 1836_, 1837; _Random recollections of
House of Commons and House of Lords 2 vols._ 1836, _second ser.
called The British senate_ 1838; _The metropolitan pulpit_ 1839;
_The newspaper press, its origin, progress and present position 3
vols._ 1871–72; _The Plymouth Brethren_ 1875 and upwards of 30
other works. _d._ 35 Cornwall road, Bayswater, London 23 May 1879.
_Bookseller, June 1879 p._ 510; _Licensed Victuallers Almanac_
(1862), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_, 561 (1879), _portrait_.
GRANT, JAMES. _b._ Glen Urquhart, Invernessshire 1840; educ.
Aberdeen univ., M.A.; studied law in Edinburgh; assistant to
professor Cosmo Innes, whom he helped in his books; worked under
John Hill Burton and professor Masson in publication of Scottish
privy council records; F.S.A.; author of _History of the burgh and
parish schools of Scotland_, _vol. 1_, 1876, vol. 2 though
completed not printed; _History of the university of Edinburgh,
unprinted_. _d._ at his brother’s residence 114 Bell terrace,
Newcastle-on-Tyne 9 Aug. 1885.
GRANT, JAMES (_eld. son of John Grant, capt. 92 highlanders_). _b._
Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1822; resident in Newfoundland 1833–39; ensign 62
foot 1840, resigned 1843; with David Rhind architect, Edin. 1843;
founder and sec. of National association for Vindication of
Scottish rights 1852 which was ridiculed in _Punch_; an early
volunteer; joined Roman Catholic ch. 1875; author of _The Romance
of war 4 vols._ 1846–47; _Memorials of the castle of Edinburgh_
1850; _The adventures of an aide-de-camp 3 vols._ 1848; _Old and
new Edinburgh 3 vols._ 1880; _Love’s labour won 3 vols._ 1888 and
about 60 other works. _d._ 25 Tavistock road, Westbourne park,
London 5 May 1887.
GRANT, JAMES GREGOR. Lecturer for Northern Union of Mechanics’
institutes; resided in Sunderland; wrote a series of stories on
local legends for _Newcastle Weekly Chronicle_; author of _Madonna
Pia and other poems 2 vols._ 1848. _d._ London 25 Dec. 1875.
GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (_youngest son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston,
Perthshire_). _b._ 22 July 1808; cornet 9 lancers 29 Aug. 1826,
lieut. col. 29 April 1850 to 26 Feb. 1858; colonel 4 hussars 18
Jany. 1861 to 6 Feb. 1865; col. 9 lancers 9 Feb. 1865 to death;
general 23 April 1872, took an important part in suppression of
Indian mutiny 1857–8; commanded British forces during Chinese war
1860; commander in chief at Madras 1861–5; quartermaster general
at head quarters 1865–70; commanded division at Aldershot 1 Nov.
1870 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, G.C.B. 9
Nov. 1860. _d._ at house of Baroness Gray, 42 Grosvenor gardens,
London 7 March 1875. _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age,
ii_, 252–307 (1880); _Golden Hours_ (1869) 818–32, _portrait_; _D.
C. Boulger’s History of China, iii_, 483 _et seq._ (1884); _I.L.N.
lxvi_, 258, 273, 277, 278, 470 (1875), _portrait_.
GRANT, JAMES MACPHERSON. _b._ Alvie, Invernessshire 1822; went with
his parents to New South Wales 1836; articled to Chambers and
Thurlow, solicitors, Sydney 1841–47; solicitor 1847, partner with
Mr. Thurlow; solicitor Melbourne 1854; member for Bendigo to
legislative council Victoria, Nov. 1855, member for Sandhurst
boroughs 1856, for Avoca 1859 to decease; V.P. of Board of lands
and works 1861, president 1864–68, 1868–69, 1871–72; minister of
justice 1875, 1877–80; chief sec. 1881–83; did much in settling
the people on the public lands. _d._ Melbourne? 1 April 1885. _Men
of the time in Australia_, _Victoria_ (1878) 73.
GRANT, SIR JAMES ROBERT (_son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in
Strathspey_). _b._ Forres co. Moray Feb. 1773; assistant surgeon
22 Jany. 1792; inspector general of army hospitals 14 July 1814;
chief of medical department at Waterloo; received order of St.
Anne of Russia from Emperor Alexander at Paris 1815; K.H. 1816;
knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 18 March 1819; C.B. 16
Aug. 1850. _d._ Basford vicarage, Notts 10 Jany. 1864. _bur._ St.
Mary’s churchyard, Carlisle 18 Jany.
GRANT, JAMES WILLIAM (_son of Robert Grant_). _b._ Wester Elchies,
Morayshire 12 Aug. 1788; writer H.E.I.C.S. 22 July 1805 in Bengal;
retired 1849; detected the companion of Antares 23 July 1844 two
years before Mitchel perceived the duplicity of the star; erected
an observatory at Elchies 1849, where he placed the Trophy
telescope purchased from great exhibition of 1851, this was sold
to Mr. Aytoun in 1864; F. R. Astronom. Soc. 13 Jany. 1854. _d._
Wester Elchies 17 Sept. 1865.
GRANT, JOHN (_brother of Sir Francis Grant 1803–78_). _b._ 13 June
1798; master of Perthshire hounds 1836–41; chairman of Tay
district board of salmon fishing; his residence Kilgraston house,
Perthshire burnt 1872. _d._ London 20 Jany. 1873. _Babington’s
Fife foxhounds_ (1883) 66, _portrait_; _Perthshire Constitutional
22 Jany. 1873 p._ 2.
GRANT, JOHN (_eld. son of Ewen Grant_). _b._ Glasgow 22 May 1819;
assisted in Tithe commutation commission survey in Devon 1838;
employed on Exeter and Yeovil railway 1845; assist, surveyor
metropolitan commission of sewers April 1849, engineer 1852;
assist. engineer metropolitan board of works 1856; superintended
construction of numerous streets, sewers, pumping stations and the
outfall works at Crossness; connected with construction of
portions of Chelsea and Albert embankments; made successful
experiments on use of portland cement 1858 etc.; M.I.C.E. 3 Dec.
1861, Telford medal 1880; reported on Artizans’ dwellings, Glasgow
1877, Fish supply of London 1881, and on Sludge filter presses
1885. _d._ 48 Blessington road, Lee, Kent 24 March 1888. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcii_, 389–92 (1888).
GRANT, SIR JOHN THORNTON (_eld. son of Wm. Charles Grant, captain 92
foot, killed at Waterloo 18 June 1815_). _b._ Ireland 26 Dec.
1810; ensign 49 foot 28 April 1828, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1854 to 3
Aug. 1860; lieut. col. 18 foot 3 Aug. 1860 to 28 May 1866 when
placed on h.p.; brig. gen. Madras 1863–68, M.G. Bombay 1869–74;
col. 94 foot 25 June 1879 to death; general 21 May 1880; C.B. 5
July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._ Upton park, Slough 16 Jany.
1886.
GRANT, SIR LEWIS (_younger son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in
Strathspey_). Ensign 95 foot 15 Feb. 1794; lieut. col. 70 foot
1804–24; governor of Bahama islands May 1820 to 1829; governor of
Trinidad 5 Dec. 1831 to 9 June 1833; knighted at St. James’s
palace 13 Sep. 1831; K.C.H. 13 Sep. 1831; colonel 96 regt. 9 April
1839 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ suddenly in an omnibus
in Regent st. London 26 Jany. 1852 aged 70.
GRANT, PHILIP. Power loom weaver; very active in trying to further
the cause of the Ten Hours’ Bill 1825 etc.; edited the _Ten Hours’
Advocate_, a periodical; Ten Hours’ Bill passed 1874; author of
_History of factory legislation_. _d._ Granville st. Upper Brook
st. Chorlton-on-Medlock 4 April 1880. _Manchester Courier 7 April
1880 p._ 6.
GRANT, SIR RICHARD (_son of Richard Grant, H.M.’s proctor at
Jamaica_). _b._ Kingston, Jamaica 1783; entered navy July 1798;
captain 17 May 1828; R.A. on half pay 7 Feb. 1855; knighted by
Earl Talbot, lord lieut. of Ireland 1820. _d._ Shawefield, Havant,
Hants. 3 March 1859 aged 75.
GRANT, REV. ROBERT (_son of Thomas Grant of Sheerness, Kent_).
Matric. from New coll. Ox. 15 Nov. 1815 aged 18, fellow 1815–28;
B.C.L. 1823; V. of Bradford Abbas, Dorset 1828–86; preb. of
Salisbury 1845 to death; author of _Lectures on the parable of the
prodigal son_ 1830; _Kapiolani and other poems_ 1848;
_Reminiscences of a clergyman during a ministry of forty years in
a country parish_ 1873. _d._ 11 Clarendon row, Southsea 15 Sep.
1887 in 91 year.
GRANT, ROBERT EDMOND (_7 son of Alexander Grant of Edinburgh, writer
to the signet, d. 1808_). _b._ Argyle sq. Edin. 11 Nov. 1793; ed.
at high school and univ. Edin., M.D. Edin. 1814; M.R.C.S. Edin.
1814; F.R.S. Edin. 1824; professor of comparative anatomy and
zoology in univ. of London, June 1827 to death, lectured 5 times a
week, never omitted a single lecture; Fullerian professor of
physiology in royal institution 1837–40; Swiney lecturer on
geology at British Museum 5 years; F.R.S. 4 Feb. 1836; styled the
Cuvier of England; author of _An essay on the study of the animal
kingdom_ 1828, _2 ed._ 1829; _Outlines of comparative anatomy_
1835–41, and papers in _Lancet_. _d._ 2 Euston grove, Euston sq.
London 23 Aug. 1874, left all his property to Univ. coll. London.
_Proc. of Royal society, xxiii, pp. vi-x_ (1875); _Quarterly
Journal of Geological society, xxxi_, 49–52.
GRANT, MOST REV. THOMAS (_2 son of Bernard Grant of Ackerson’s Mill
near Newry, quartermaster 82 foot, who d. May 1856 aged 69_). _b._
Ligny-les-Aires, France 5 Nov. 1816; entered St. Cuthbert’s
college, Ushaw, Durham 1 Jany. 1829; entered English college, Rome
1 Dec. 1836; created D.D. 27 Aug. 1841; priest 28 Nov. 1841; sec.
to Cardinal Acton 1841–47 when he died; prorector of English
college, Rome 13 April 1844, rector 13 Oct. 1844 to 27 June 1851;
bishop of Southwark 27 June 1851 to death, consecrated in church
of English college, Rome by Cardinal Fransoni 4 July 1851; author
of _Meditations of the Sisters of Mercy before renewal of vows_
1874. _d._ the English college, Rome 1 June 1870. _bur._ in
cemetery of orphanage at Norwood, Surrey. _Thomas Grant, bishop of
Southwark, by Grace Ramsay_ 1874, _with 2 portraits_; _Gillow’s
English Catholics, iii_, 5–11 (1887).
GRANT, SIR THOMAS TASSELL (_eld. son of Thomas Grant of Soberton,
Hants._) _b._ Portsea, Hants. 1795; entered naval service 1812;
storekeeper Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1828; controller of
victualling and transport service Dec. 1850 to 1858; invented
steam machinery for making biscuits 1829 for which he had
parliamentary grant of £2000; invented a life buoy, a feathering
paddle wheel, and Grant’s patent fuel 1839 which is used in the
navy; distilled fresh water from the sea 1849, the Wye with his
apparatus sent to the Crimea produced 10,000 gallons daily 1855;
K.C.B. 6 Sep. 1858; F.R.S. _d._ 20 Chester ter. Regent’s park,
London 15 Oct. 1859 aged 64. _Times 19 Oct. 1859 p._ 7; _G.M. Nov.
1859 p._ 534.
GRANT, WILLIAM (_brother of Most Rev. Thomas Grant 1816–70_).
Professor at St. Peter’s college, Agra 18—to death; started the
_Agra Weekly Register_. _d._ Agra 20 May 1863.
GRANT, WILLIAM AUGUSTINE IGNATIUS. _b._ 1838; a Presbyterian; a
member of Church of England; a Roman Catholic 1857–68; an
Irvingite 1868–73; an extreme Ritualist 1873–80; a Roman Catholic
again 1880 to death; a landscape painter, exhibited 1 picture at
R.A. and 4 at B.I. 1862–64; lived at Peckham many years; one of
the ablest controversialists of his day; author of _The Communion
of Saints in the Church of God_ 1867; _Apostolic Lordship and the
interior life: a narrative of five years’ communion with Catholic
Apostolic Angels_, privately printed 1873, published under title
of _Apostolic Lordship, or five years with the Irvingites: and why
I left them_ 1874; _The peoples’ mass book, By a Layman of the
Church of England_ 1874 and other books. _d._ Clifton 21 May 1883.
_Gillow’s English Catholics iii_, 11–14 (1887).
GRANT, WILLIAM JAMES. _b._ Hackney, London 1829; student at R.A.
1844; exhibited 39 works at R.A. and 5 at B.I. 1847–66; some of
his pictures were, Edward the Black Prince entertaining French
King 1848, Samson and Delilah 1852, The morning of the duel 1860,
The lady and the wasp 1866. _d._ London? 2 June 1866.
GRANT, SIR WILLIAM KEIR (_son of Archibald Keir of H.E.I.C.S._) _b._
1771; cornet 15 dragoons 30 May 1792; one of 8 officers who saved
Francis II. Emperor of Germany from being taken prisoner by the
French in the plains of Catau Cambresis 24 April 1794, received
gold medal and was made knight of Maria Theresa; lieut. col. 22
light dragoons 3 Dec. 1800; served in India as adjutant general
1806–14; commander in chief and second member of council in Java
1815–16; served in India 1819–21; col. 8 dragoons 1 Feb. 1833 to
24 Aug. 1839, and of 2 dragoons 24 Aug. 1839 to death; general 23
Nov. 1841; K.C.H. 1821, G.C.H. 1835; K.C.B. 3 Dec. 1822; G.C. of
Lion and Sun, Persia. _d._ 20 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 7 May
1852. _G.M. June 1852 pp._ 619–20; _Dod’s Peerage 1852 p._ 258.
GRANTHAM, GEORGE. Entered Madras army 1823; col. 5 Madras N.I. 4
Nov. 1856–61; col. 39 Madras N.I. 1861–69; L.G. 6 March 1868;
drowned in collision between steamers Mary and Normandy about 20
miles from the Needles, Isle of Wight 17 March 1870 aged 67.
_Times 18–26 March 1870._
GRANTHAM, REV. GEORGE PEIRCE (_son of George Grantham of firm of
Gosling and Sharp, bankers, London_). _b._ Finsbury, London 11
Jany. 1833; educ. King’s coll. Lond. and Univ. of Lond.; C. of
Allhallows East, Exeter 1859–61; C. of Rame, Cornwall 1861–65; C.
of Hotham 1865–67; senior C. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1867–76;
precentor and senior curate of St. Michael’s, Swanmore, Ryde
1876–79; V. of Llanbadoc near Usk 1879–81; C. of Holy Cross
mission ch. Bedminster 1881–83; C. of St. Augustine, Kensington
1883; V. of Ston Easton with Farrington Gurney 1885; author of
_Holy Songs_ 1866; _The mysteries of holy church and other verses_
1871; _History of St. Saviour’s, Leeds_ 1872; _Carols for yule
tide, with original music_ 1877; editor of _Ecclesiastical Art
Rev._ 1878. _d._ The Elms, Farrington Gurney 13 Oct. 1885. _bur._
Arnos vale cemetery, Bristol. _International Mag., Oct. 1885 pp._
110–11.
GRANTHAM, JOHN. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; L.S.A. 1823;
M.R.C.S. 21 Feb. 1823, hon. fellow 26 Aug. 1844; author of _Facts
and observations on medicine and surgery_ 1844. _d._ Crayford,
Kent 14 Nov. 1873 in 73 year.
GRANTHAM, JOHN (_2 son of John Grantham, surveyor_). _b._ Croydon
1809; managing partner of firm of Mather, Dickson & Co.; one of
founders of Polytechnic society, Liverpool; a naval architect and
consulting engineer at Liverpool; planned and executed several of
the largest iron sailing and steam ships; took out patents for
screw propellers, and invented a system of sheathing iron built
ships with copper; practised in London 1859 to death; constructed
the first tramway in Copenhagen 1863; patented a steam tramway
car; one of founders of Institution of naval architects Jany.
1860, member of council Jany. 1860 to death; A.I.C.E. 11 Feb.
1840, M.I.C.E. 29 Nov. 1864; author of _Iron as a material for
ship building_ 1842; _Iron ship building_ 1858, _5 ed._ 1868. _d._
Croydon 10 July 1874. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_,
266–68 (1875).
GRANVILLE, AUGUSTUS BOZZI (_3 son of Carlo Bozzi, postmaster general
Milan_). _b._ Milan 7 Oct. 1783; studied at Univ. of Pavia
1799–1802, M.D. 28 Aug. 1802; assistant surgeon in British navy
March 1807, retired as surgeon on half pay 1813; assumed maternal
name of Granville; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1813; L.R.C.P. 1817; studied at
La Maternité, Paris, and qualified as an accoucher 1816–17;
settled at 8 Saville row, London 1818; F.R.S. 1817; physician
accoucher Westminster general dispensary 1819; introduced use of
prussic acid for chest affections; established a West-end
infirmary for young children; pres. of Westminster medical soc.
1829; visited Kissingen 1840–68 and set the fashion of drinking
its waters; confidential friend of ex-king Joseph Bonaparte
1832–44; author of _St. Petersburg_, _a journal of travels 2
vols._ 1828, _2 ed._ 1829; _The spas of Germany 2 vols._ 1837, _2
ed._ 1838; _The spas of England and sea-bathing places 3 vols._
1841 and 31 other works. _d._ 20 Folkestone ter. Dover 3 March
1872. _Autobiography of A. B. Granville_ (1874), _portrait_;
_Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii_, 174–7 (1878); _Physic and
physicians, ii_, 269–71 (1839).
GRATTAN, SIR EDMUND ARNOUT (_son of Thomas C. Grattan 1792–1864_).
_b._ 1818; British consul at Boston for state of Massachusetts 4
Aug. 1848 to 1858; consul at Antwerp 11 Jany. 1858 to 1883; consul
general for Belgium 28 Nov. 1883 to 1888; British commissioner
Antwerp exhibition 1885; V.P. Royal Geog. soc. Antwerp; F.R.G.S.;
knighted by patent 18 Nov. 1889. _d._ Ostend Aug. 1890 aged 72.
GRATTAN, HENRY PLUNKETT, stage name of Henry Willoughby Grattan
Plunkett. _b._ Dublin 1808; made his début at Milton st. theatre
London in _The Rake’s Progress_; author of _The Minerali, or the
dying gift_, a drama by H. Plunkett, produced at Cobourg theatre;
_The Dumb Conscript_ produced at Astley’s 1835; _Faust or the
Demon of the Drachenfels_ produced at Sadler’s Wells 15 Sep. 1842;
wrote the first few numbers of _Punch_ with Henry Mayhew and 4
others 17 July 1841 _et seq._; edited _The Squib_ June to Dec.
1842 30 numbers; played Hamlet at Park theatre New York 11 May
1843; built the first theatre at Memphis; editor and owner of _The
Age_ newspaper; author of _The Bottle, a poem, New York_ 1848;
sometimes used name of Harry Plunkett as a stage name; founded the
Actors’ Fund; produced many plays; spent 23 years in America;
author of _The Fairy Circle_, _The Sisters_, _Glory_, _Orson_ and
other pieces all produced in England. _d._ 25 Dec. 1889. _bur._
Fulham cemetery 30 Dec.
GRATTAN, MRS. Henry Plunkett (_dau. of Mr. M’Phain_). _b._ London
1811; acted in the provinces and then at Garrick theatre, London;
made first appearance in America at St. Charles theatre, New
Orleans, as lady Anne in _Richard iii_, 1836; at the new Chatham
theatre, America, was the original Madelon in the _Carpenter of
Rouen_ 16 Nov. 1840. _m._ (1) H. P. Grattan; sang in the role of
Pollio in Norma at Adelphi, London Oct. 1842; _m._ (2) Mr. Barker;
_m._ (3) Mr. Madison; returned to America, at Chatham theatre 8
July 1850, retook name of Mrs. Grattan when appearing as Amelia in
_Wild Oats_; travelled throughout the United States and the West
Indies playing chief roles in standard dramas; final engagement at
Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 18 Sept. 1876 in _Led Astray_. _d._
101 West Twenty-ninth st. New York 14 Dec. 1876. _Era 7 Jany. 1877
p._ 5; _The Squib 22 Oct. 1842 p._ 92.
GRATTAN, JAMES (_eld. son of right hon. Henry Grattan 1746–1820_).
_b._ 7 April 1787; cornet 20 light dragoons 9 Aug. 1810; lieut. 9
light dragoons 4 July 1811 to 18 Aug. 1814 when placed on h.p.;
M.P. for co. Wicklow 1821–41; P.C. Ireland 1841. _d._ Tinnehinch,
co. Carlow 21 Oct. 1854.
GRATTAN, JOHN. Ensign 18 foot 8 July 1813, lieut. col. 25 May 1853
to 31 July 1854 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 1 May 1868 to
death; L.G. 15 Sep. 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ Brussels 29
April 1871 aged 75.
GRATTAN, THOMAS COLLEY (_son of Colley Grattan, solicitor_). _b._
Dublin 1792; settled at Bordeaux 1818, Paris 1820?; proprietor and
editor of _The Paris monthly review_ Jany. 1822 to April 1823, 15
numbers; produced _Ben Nazir the Saracen_, a tragedy at Drury lane
21 May 1827; removed to Brussels 1828; British consul to state of
Massachusetts 1839–46; assisted Lord Ashburton in treaty of
Washington 1842; author of _Highways and byways or Tales of the
roadside 2 vols._ 1823, _second ser. 3 vols._ 1825, _third ser. 3
vols._ 1827; _The history of the Netherlands_ 1830; _Legends of
the Rhine 3 vols._ 1832; _Civilised America 2 vols._ 1859, and
about 15 other works. _d._ Jermyn st. London 4 July 1864. _Dublin
Univ. Mag. Dec. 1853_, _pp._ 658–65, _portrait_; _Colburn’s New
Monthly xxxii_, 77–80 (1831), _portrait_.
GRATWICKE, WILLIAM GRATWICKE KINDLESIDES (_son of rev. William
Kindlesides, R. of Angmering, Sussex, who took name of Gratwicke,
d. 1820_). _b._ Angmering 1794; began racing 1825; won the Derby
with Frederick 1825, with Merry Monarch 1845; won One thousand
guineas and Oaks with Governess 1858. _d._ Ham near Arundel 5 Dec.
1862. _Baily’s Mag. iv_, 55–9 (1862), _portrait_; _Sporting Review
xlix_, 179–80 (1863); _Sporting Times 11 July 1885, p._ 2.
GRAVATT, WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Gravatt lieut. col. R.E. who d. 13
June 1851 aged 80_). _b._ Gravesend 14 July 1806; apprenticed to
Bryan Donkin C.E. 1822; placed under I. K. Brunel; F.R.S. 1832,
F.R.A.S. 1832; worked on the Thames tunnel 1826–32 when works
stopped; engineer to Calder and Hebble navigation 1832; examined
the county for original scheme of London and Dover railway 183-;
invented a level which generally bears his name but which he
called the ‘dumpy,’ also the level staff universally employed, and
a pocket instrument called a nadir; traced the line for the
Bristol and Exeter railway 75 miles in about a month 184-; printed
“_Companion to the mountain barometer_,” which was translated into
Chinese; A.I.C.E. 1826, M.I.C.E. 1828. _d._ 15 Park st.
Westminster 30 May 1866, having been poisoned by an overdose of
morphia given inadvertently by his nurse. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxvi_, 565–75 (1867).
GRAVES, FRANCIS (_son of Robert Graves d. 1825 and grandson of
Robert Graves of Catherine st. Strand, both of them
printsellers_). _b._ 25 Dec. 1802; with A. Molteno of Pall Mall at
age of 13, removed to M. Colnaghi’s in Cockspur st. 1826;
printseller with his brother, Henry Graves 1838 to death. _d._ 6
Pall Mall, London 15 Oct. 1859.
GRAVES, JAMES (_eld. son of rev. Richard Graves, R. of Coolcullen_).
_b._ Kilkenny 11 Oct. 1815; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1839;
C. of Skeirke, Queen’s county 1840–46; C. of St. Patrick’s,
Kilkenny 1846–54; R. of Maine 1854–60; V. of Kilsheelan, Clonmel
1860–66; R. of Inisnag near Kilkenny 1863 to decease; with J. G.
A. Prim established Kilkenny archæological soc. 1849, which became
R. Hist, and Archæol. assoc. of Ireland 1869; awarded civil list
pension of £100, 19 June 1878; had finest collection of ferns in
Ireland; edited _A Roll of the proceedings of the King’s council
in Ireland 1392–3_, (_Rolls Series_ 1877); author of _A brief
memoir of the Lady E. Fitzgerald, The Fair Geraldine_ 1874; with
G. A. Prim issued _History of cathedral church of St. Canice,
Kilkenny_ 1857. _d._ Inisnag 20 March 1886. _Journal R. Historical
Assoc. of Ireland vii_, 465–69 (1887); _Academy 25 Dec. 1886, p._
427.
GRAVES, REV. JOHN. Scholar of Christ’s coll. Cam. 1852; B.A. 1855,
M.A. 1858; lecturer in history Trinity coll. Battersea 1857–59;
assist. master Kensington gram. sch. 1859–61; classical master
Cheltenham coll. 1861–74; chaplain to H.M. at Kensington palace
1884 to death. _d._ Kensington palace 4 March 1888 aged 56.
GRAVES, JOHN CROSBIE. _b._ 19 Sep. 1820; cornet 3 Bombay cavalry 3
May 1837; lieut. col. Bombay cavalry 1866, col. 1878 to death;
L.G. 7 May 1882; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Poonah 27 Nov. 1882.
GRAVES, JOHN THOMAS (_eld. son of John Crosbie Graves of Dublin,
barrister_). _b._ Dublin 4 Dec. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin
1823, classical gold medallist and B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832;
incorporated in Oriel coll. Ox. 1830, M.A. 1831; barrister King’s
inns, Dublin 1830 and of Inner Temple 10 June 1831; professor of
jurisprudence in Univ. coll. London 1839; examiner in laws in
Univ. of London; F.R.S. 1839, member of council; assist. poor law
commissioner 7 April 1846; poor law inspector 1847 to Feb. 1871;
elucidated the subject of the logarithms of negative and imaginary
quantities 1826, and sent contributions to _Philos. Trans._,
_British Association Reports_ and _Philos. Mag._; bequeathed his
mathematical library of 10,000 volumes and 5,000 pamphlets to
Univ. coll. London. _d._ Cheltenham 29 March 1870. _Proc. of royal
society, xix_, 27–28 (1871); _University coll. Gazette_, _vol. i,
No. 12_, _pp._ 189–90.
GRAVES, JOHN WOODCOCK (_son of Joseph Graves, plumber_). _b._
Wigton, Cumberland 9 Feb. 1795; worked with his uncle Geo. Graves
a sign painter at Cockermouth; connected with woollen mills at
Caldbeck; landed at Hobart Town, Tasmania, June 1833; invented a
machine for preparing New Zealand flax; author of the hunting song
_D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray_ 1824 and other poems.
_d._ Liverpool st. Hobart Town 17 Aug. 1886. _Sidney Gilpin’s
Songs of Cumberland_ (1866) 408–15; _I.S. and D. News 30 Oct. 1886
pp._ 182 190.
NOTE.—John Peel, hunter died 1854. Graves wrote on hearing of
the death of his friend 2 poems “Monody on John Peel” and “At
the grave of John Peel.”
GRAVES, REV. RICHARD HASTINGS (_son of Richard Graves, D.D., dean of
Armagh 1763–1829_). _b._ 1791; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1812, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1828; R. of Brigown, Cloyne 1812;
preb. of Cloyne 30 July 1832; edited _The whole works of Richard
Graves, D.D._, _Dublin 4 vols._ 1840; author of _Daniel’s Great
period of 2300 days discovered and determined_ 1854; _Terminal
synchronism of Daniel’s two principal periods_ 1858 and 10 other
books. _d._ 118 Upper Leeson st. Dublin 26 Dec. 1877. _Cotton’s
Fasti Hibernici_ (1878) _pp. xii_, 27.
GRAVES, ROBERT (_brother of Francis Graves 1802–59_). _b._ Tottenham
court road, London 7 May 1798; pupil of John Romney, line engraver
1812; studied in the life school, Ship yard, Temple Bar; exhibited
25 engravings at R.A. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1824–73; member of
Soc. of British Artists, Suffolk st.; assoc. engraver of R.A.
1836; engraved Lord Byron after T. Phillips 1836, The Whiskey
Still after Landseer 1842, the Hon. Mrs. Graham after Gainsborough
1866, the Blue Boy after Gainsborough 1868, and many other
subjects besides engravings for books. _d._ 20 Grove ter. Highgate
road, London 28 Feb. 1873. _I.L.N. 8 March 1873 p._ 235, _15 March
pp._ 247, 249, _portrait_; _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii._
222–3 (1862).
GRAVES, ROBERT JAMES (_younger brother of Richard Hastings Graves
1791–1877_). _b._ Dublin 27 March 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1815, M.B. 1818, M.D. 1841; spent 3 years visiting chief
continental schools 1818–21; settled in Dublin 1821; one of
founders of Park st. school of medicine 1821; one of physicians of
Meath hospital 1821; professor of institutes of medicine to King
and Queen’s college of physicians in Ireland 1827, president 1843
and 1844; started with Robert Kane _Dublin Journal of medical
science_ 1832 and was one of the editors to his death; F.R.S.
1849; substituted adequate nourishment and stimulants for the old
lowering treatment in fevers; author of _Clinical lectures
1834–35_, 1836–7; _A system of clinical medicine_ 1843; _Clinical
lectures_ 1848, _2 ed. 2 vols._ 1884, much praised by Trousseau
the great French physician. _d._ 4 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 20
March 1853. _Studies in physiology and medicine, ed. by W. Stokes_
(1863) _pp. ix-lxxiii_, _portrait_; _Medical Times and Gazette,
viii_, 1–5 (1854); _Dublin Univ. Mag. xix_, 260–73 (1842),
_portrait_.
GRAVES, SAMUEL ROBERT (_2 son of William Graves of New Ross_). _b._
Blackwell lodge, co. Kilkenny 1818; merchant and shipowner at
Liverpool; chairman of Liverpool shipowners’ association 1856 and
local marine board 1856; mayor of Liverpool 1860–61; M.P. for
Liverpool 15 July 1865 to death, on 19 Nov. 1868 polled 16,766
votes, largest number polled by any borough member; commodore of
Royal Mersey yacht club; author of _A letter on National dangers_
1860; _A yachting cruise on the Baltic_ 1863. _d._ Euston hotel,
Euston sq. London 18 Jany. 1873, personalty sworn under £180,000.
_I.L.N. l_, 165, 166 (1867), _portrait_, _lxii_, 91, 113, 114
(1873), _portrait_.
GRAVES, THOMAS. Entered R.N. 9 March 1816; in the Adventure
surveying vessel 1827; surveying in the Mediterranean 1832–50;
captain 3 Aug. 1846; F.R.A.S., F.G.S.; port officer Malta; stabbed
by a boatman in the street at Malta 29 Aug. 1856. _United Service
Gazette 6 Sept. 1856 pp._ 5, 6, 8.
GRAVES-SAWLE, SIR JOSEPH SAWLE, 1 Baronet (_son of admiral John
Graves d. 6 May 1811 aged 68_). _b._ Exeter 10 Dec. 1793; took
surname of Sawle by royal license 7 April 1815, took additional
name of Graves by r.l. 30 Nov. 1827; cr. baronet 22 March 1836.
_d._ Ashfield house, Honiton, Devon 13 Jany. 1865.
GRAY, JOHN GRAY, 16 Baron. _b._ Aberdeen 12 May 1798; succeeded 20
Aug. 1842; a representative peer for Scotland, March 1847 to
death. _d._ 18 Champs Elysees, Paris 31 Jany. 1867.
GRAY, REV. ANDREW (_eld. son of William Gray, stocking-maker_). _b._
Aberdeen 2 Nov. 1805; educ. Marischal coll. 1820, M.A. 1824;
presbyterian minister at Woodside near Aberdeen 1 Sept. 1831;
minister of West church, Perth 14 July 1836; minister of the Free
church, Perth 1843 to death; convenor of Glasgow evangelisation
committee 1855; author of _The present conflict between civil and
ecclesiastical courts examined_ 1839; _A catechism of the
principles of the Free church_ 1845; _Gospel contrasts and
parallels_ 1862, and some pamphlets. _d._ Perth 10 March 1861. _A.
Candlish’s Memoir of A. Gray_ (1862), _pp. ix-civ_, _portrait_;
_Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881); _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
Clergy 3 ser._ (1851), 281–8.
GRAY, CHARLES. _b._ Anstruther, Fifeshire 10 March 1782; second
lieut. R.M. 10 Oct. 1804; capt. 9 April 1829 to 13 Nov. 1840, when
he retired on full pay; a founder of Musomanik soc. at Anstruther
which existed 1813–17; Memb. of Soc. of Antiquaries of Scotland;
author of _Poems and songs_, _Cupar_ 1811, _2 ed. Edin._ 1814;
_Lays and Lyrics_ 1841; _A familiar epistle to P. M’Leod Edin._
1845; contributed to _J. F. Wood’s Songs of Scotland 3 vols._
1848–9. _d._ Archibald place, Edinburgh 13 April 1851. _Wilson’s
Poets of Scotland ii_, 41–3 (1877); _Conolloy’s Eminent Men of
Fife_ (1866) _p._ 207; _Whistle Binkie_ (1878) _pp._ 28–32.
GRAY, DAVID. _b._ Kirkaldy, Fifeshire; professor of natural
philosophy Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1845 to death. _d._ Aberdeen
10 Feb. 1856 aged 45.
GRAY, DAVID (_eld. son of a hand-loom weaver_). _b._ Merkland,
Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire 29 Jany. 1838; educ. Glasgow univ.;
private tutor; sent verses to the _Glasgow Citizen_; went to
London 5 May 1860 and spent his first night in Hyde park, then
lived in a garret with R. W. Buchanan; befriended by Monckton
Milnes (Lord Houghton) and Sydney Dobell; returned to Merkland,
Jany. 1861; in Sudbrook park hydropathic establishment, Richmond
1861; author of _The Luggie and other poems_ 1862; _Poems, with
memoirs by Lord Houghton and others_ 1863, _another ed. Glasgow_
1874. _d._ of consumption and in poverty at Merkland 3 Dec. 1861.
_David Gray and other essays by Robert W. Buchanan_ (1868) _pp._
63–174, _with portrait_; _J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_ (1877)
_ii_, 485–88; _Cornhill Mag. ix_, 164–77 (1864).
GRAY, EDMUND DWYER (_2 son of Sir John Gray, M.P. 1816–75_). _b._
Dublin 29 Dec. 1845; stockbroker; connected with the _Freeman’s
Journal_, became manager on his father’s death 1875, converted it
into a limited co. 1887; proprietor of _Belfast Morning News_;
contested Kilkenny 1875, M.P. Tipperary 1877–80, M.P. county
Carlow 1880–85, M.P. St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 1885 to death,
supported Mr. Parnell; lord mayor of Dublin 1880, organised a
famine relief fund amounting to £180,000; high sheriff of Dublin
1882, sent to prison for 3 months for comments in _Freeman’s
Journal_ on trial of Francis Hynes. _d._ Pembroke house, Upper
Mount st. Dublin 27 March 1888. _Freeman’s Journal 28, 29 March
and 2 April 1888_; _Pall Mall Gazette 28 March 1888 p._ 10,
_portrait_.
GRAY, EDWARD WILLIAM. _b._ 1787; cheese factor and mealman,
Bartholomew st. Newbury, Berks. 1823; mayor of Newbury 1839–40;
edited _The history of Newbury, including 28 parishes in Berks.,
also a Catalogue of Plants, Speenhamland_ 1839. _d._ Woodspeen,
Berks. 19 June 1860 aged 73. _N. and Q. 4 ser. iii_, 554, 607
(1869); _Money’s Newbury_ (1887) _pp._ 410, 552.
GRAY, GEORGE ROBERT (_youngest son of Samuel Frederick Gray, chemist
d. 1836_). _b._ Chelsea 8 July 1809; educ. at Merchant Taylors’
sch.; assistant zoological department British Museum 1831,
assistant keeper 1869; F.R.S. 1866; author of _Entomology of
Australia_ 1833; _A list of the genera of birds_ 1840, _2 ed._
1841, _3 ed._ 1855; _Genera of birds 3 vols._ 1844–49; _Hand-list
of the genera and species of birds_ 1869–72 and 13 other books.
_d._ London 5 May 1872. _Annals of Natural History 4 ser. ix_, 480
(1872).
GRAY, HENRY. F.R.C.S.; lecturer on anatomy St. George’s hospital;
took triennial prize of R. coll. surgeons 1849 for essay on
anatomy of the eye; took triennial Astley Cooper prize of £300 for
researches on the spleen 1853; resident Fellow Med. Chir. Soc.
1850; F.R.S. 1852; author of _Anatomy descriptive and surgical_
1858 _11 ed._ 1887; _The pocket Gray or anatomist’s vade mecum_
1879, _6 ed._ 1886 and other books. _d._ of small pox 8 Wilton
st., Belgrave sq., London 8 June 1861 aged 36. _Proc. Royal Soc.
xii, p. xi_ (1863); _Proc. R. Med. Chir. Soc. iv_, 78–79 (1862).
GRAY, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1805; educ. Gordon’s hospital; with White
and Whitmore, solicitors, London; barrister Middle Temple 26 Jany.
1838, bencher 1863; Q.C. 4 Nov. 1863; solicitor to the Treasury
March 1871, conducted prosecution of Arthur Orton, the Tichborne
claimant 1873; author of _Gray’s Country Attorney’s practice_
1836; _The Country Solicitor’s practice_ 1837; _Gray’s Law of
costs_ 1853. _d._ 16 Gloucester road, Regent’s Park, London 22
Jany. 1875 in his 68 year. _I.L.N. lxvi_, 109, 110 (1875),
_portrait_.
GRAY, SIR JOHN (_3 son of John Gray_). _b._ Claremorris, co. Mayo
1816; M.D. practised in Dublin 1839; editor and part proprietor of
Freeman’s Journal 1841, sole proprietor 1850; indicted with D.
O’Connell for conspiracy against the queen and imprisoned in
Richmond bridewell Feb. to Sept. 1843; contested Monaghan 1852,
M.P. Kilkenny city 1865 to death; knighted by the earl of Carlisle
30 June 1863 for his services in procuring water for Dublin from
the Vartry river; declined to serve as lord mayor of Dublin 1868;
originated movement which led to Gladstone’s disestablishment of
Irish church, and was presented with £3,500 Aug. 1863; author of
_The Irish church establishment_ 1866. _d._ Bath 9 April 1875.
_bur._ Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, marble statue erected in
Sackville st. Dublin 1879. _I.L.N. xliii_, 248 (1863) _lxvi_, 379
(1875); _Medical Times 17 April 1875, p._ 431.
GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (_elder bro. of George Robert Gray 1809–72_). _b._
Walsall, Staffs. 12 Feb. 1800; educ. St. Bartholomew’s and
Middlesex hospitals; blackballed at Linnean soc. 1822, elected
Fellow 1857; F. Entom. soc. 1824; assistant British Museum 1824,
keeper of zoological department 31 March 1840, resigned Dec. 1874,
edited many catalogues of the contents of his department; on
natural history, zoology, social, educational and sanitary
questions, wrote 1162 books, papers and memoirs 1824 to death;
F.R.S. 1832, vice president; Dr. Philos. of Munich univ. 1852;
author of _A hand catalogue of postage stamps_ 1862, _2 ed._ 1863;
_Handbook of British waterweeds_ 1864; _Lizards of Australia and
New Zealand_ 1867; _Synopsis of star fishes in British Museum_
1866 and other books. _d._ British Museum 7 March 1875. _Athenæum
13 March 1875, p._ 363; _Portraits of Men of Eminence_ (1863),
_portrait_.
GRAY, REV. JOHN HAMILTON (_only son of Robert Gray of Carntyre,
Lanarks., who d. 1833_). _b._ Glasgow 29 Dec. 1800; ed. at
Glasgow, Magd. coll., Ox. and Gottingen; B.A. Ox. 1824, M.A. Ox.
1826; member of Scottish bar 1824–28; a constant visitor to the
continent and Italy; V. of Bolsover and Scarcliff, co. Derby
1833–66; rural dean of Chesterfield 1847; R. of Walton-le-Wald,
co. Leicester 1866; author of _On the ordaining influence of the
Holy Ghost_ 1837; _Sermons in Rome during Lent_ 1838, 1842;
_Bolsover Castle_ 1838 and other books. (_m._ 23 June 1829
Elizabeth Caroline eld. dau. of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva,
co. Clackmannan, she was author of _Tour to the sepulchres of
Etruria_ 1841, _3 ed._ 1843 and 3 other books, and _d._ 21 Feb.
1887 aged 87), he _d._ 91 Sloane st. London 20 April 1867. _bur._
crypt of Glasgow cath. _Autobiography of Rev. J. H. Gray_ (1868),
_portrait_.
GRAY, VENERABLE JOHN HENRY. Educ. Christ’s coll. Camb.; B.A. 1847,
M.A. 1850, LLD. 1876; D.D. of Lambeth, March 1881; C. of Rothley,
Leicester 1850–52; H.M. consular chaplain, Canton 1852–78;
archdeacon of Hong Kong 1867–78; R. of Hunsdon, Herts. 1881–84;
author of _China, a history of the laws, manners and customs of
the people 2 vols._ 1878; _Walks in the city of Canton_ 1875; _A
journey round the world_ 1879; contributed to the _London and
China Express_ a series of papers on Chinese customs 1889–90. _d._
St. Leonard’s, Sussex 16 March 1890 aged 62.
GRAY, JOSEPH BOWERS (_eld. son of Joseph Gray of Chelmsford_). _b._
1820; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 24 Feb. 1848 aged 28;
principal of Berwick college, Maine, U.S.; M.A. and D. Med. _d._
South Berwick 1 Nov. 1856 aged 39. _G.M. ii_, 247 (1887).