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GRENVILLE, Ralph Neville (eld. son of the preceding). b. 27 Feb. 1817; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Camb., M.A. 1837; M.P. Windsor 12371841–7 as Ralph Neville; M.P. East Somerset 1865–8; M.P. Mid Somerset 1868–78; a lord of the treasury 1846–7; took additional name of Grenville on death of his father 1854; sheriff of Somerset 1862; author of Cathedrals 1871. d. Butleigh court near Glastonbury 20 Aug. 1886.

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

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

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

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

1238GRESWELL, Edward (3 son of Rev. W. Parr Greswell 1765–1854). b. Denton near Manchester 3 Aug. 1797; educ. Manchester gram. sch. 1811–15; scholar of Brasen. coll. Oxf. 1815; Lancash. scholar Corpus Christi 1816, took a double first 1819, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1830, tutor of his coll. 1822–34, fellow 1823 to death, vice president 1840–69; author of Harmonia Evangelica 1830, 5 ed. 1855; Fasti temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariæ 4 vols. 1852; Origines Kalendariæ Italicæ 4 vols. 1854; Origines Kalendariæ Hellenicæ 6 vols. 1862 and 8 other books, d. Corpus Christi coll. 29 June 1869. Smith’s Manchester School register, iii, 79–82 (1874); Register and Mag. of Biog. ii, 92–93 (1869).

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

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

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

GRETTON, Rev. Frederick Edward (youngest son of Rev. George Gretton, prebendary of Hereford). b. 1803 or 1804; ed. at St. John’s 1239coll. Cam., fellow 1829, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1836; C. of Tickencote, Rutland and head master Stamford gram. sch. 1834–72; R. of St. Mary, Stamford 1847–64; select preacher at Cambridge 1861–2; author of Elmsleiana Critica 1833; Parochial sermons 1843; Passages from English poetry with a Latin verse translation 1873 and 15 other books. d. Oddington, Gloucs. 27 March 1890.

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

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

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

GREVILLE, Henry William (younger brother of the preceding). b. 28 Oct. 1801; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823; present at Duchess of Richmond’s ball at Brussels 15 June 1815; private sec. to Lord Francis Egerton chief sec. for Ireland 1828–30; 1240precis writer to Viscount Palmerston 1834; first paid attaché to British embassy in Paris 1835–44; kept a diary which was edited by Viscountess Enfield as Leaves from the diary of H. Greville 2 vols. 1883–4. d. 19 Queen st. Mayfair, London 12 Dec. 1872. Leaves from the diary, second series (1884) v-viii, portrait.

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

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

GREY, Sir Charles Edward (younger son of Ralph Wm. Grey of Backworth, Northumberland). b. 1785; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810; fellow of Oriel coll. 1808; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; a bankruptcy commissioner 1817; judge of supreme court of Madras 17 May 1820 to 1825; knighted by George iv. at Carlton house 17 May 1820; chief justice of supreme court of Bengal 2 Feb. 1825 to 1832; a commissioner for affairs of Lower Canada 19 June 1835 to 1836; P.C. 1 July 1835; G.C.H. 1837; contested 1241Tynemouth 1837, M.P. for Tynemouth 1838–41; governor of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Trinidad and St. Lucia 24 Aug. 1841 to 1 Oct. 1846; governor of Jamaica 26 Sep. 1846 to Aug. 1853. d. Tunbridge Wells 1 June 1865.

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

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

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

GREY, Sir John (younger son of Charles Grey of Morwick, Northumberland). Ensign 75 foot 18 July 1798; major 5 foot 1811–16 when placed on h.p.; served in India 1799 etc., in Peninsula 1806 etc.; held a divisional command in Bengal 1840–45, at head of left wing of army 1242of Gwalior defeated the Mahratta army of 12,000 men at Punniar on 29 Dec. 1843; K.C.B. 2 May 1844; col. 73 foot 1846–9; col. 5 foot 1849 to death; commander in chief Bombay 30 Dec. 1850 to Nov. 1852; general 20 Feb. 1855. d. Morwick hall 19 Feb. 1856. Canon’s Records of 5th Fusiliers (1838) 75 etc.

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

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

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

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

GRIERSON, James. b. 10 Oct. 1827; traffic manager Shrewsbury and Birmingham railway 1851; goods manager Great Western railway 1857 and general manager Oct. 1863 to death, by his management raised the stock from £47 to £135; author of Railway rates, English and Foreign 1886; his residence 4 Holland villas 1243road, Kensington, damaged by fire 1887. d. Bridge house, Marlow 7 Oct. 1887. bur. Barnes cemetery 12 Oct. London Figaro 15 Oct. 1887 p. 6, portrait; Herapath’s Railway Journal 15 Oct. 1887 p. 1064.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1244GRIFFIN, John Joseph. b. London 1802; bookseller, publisher and dealer in chemical apparatus at Glasgow to 1852, partly edited Encyclopædia Metropolitana; chemical apparatus dealer as J. J. Griffin & Sons, 22 Garrick st. Covent Garden, London 1852 to death; a founder of Chemical soc. 1840; devised new forms of chemical apparatus; author of Chemical recreations 1834, 10 ed. 1860; Treatise on the blowpipe 18—; The chemical testing of wines and spirits 1866, 2 ed. 1872 and other books. d. 31 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 9 June 1877. Journ. Chemical soc. xxxiii, 229 (1878).

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

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

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

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

GRIFFITH, Rev. John. b. 1789 or 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, Bell’s univ. scholar 1810, 8 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1822, D.D. 1831; fellow of Em. coll. 1814, tutor 1818–27; chaplain to Lord Amherst in China 1816, wrecked in the Alceste on Gaspar island 18 Nov. 1817; canon of Rochester 1827–72; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1830–32; V. of Boxley, Kent 1832–53; prosecuted Strahan, Paul and Bates bankers 1245for having unlawfully disposed of deeds valued at £22,000, defendants sentenced to 14 years’ transportation 26 Oct. 1855. d. 3 Bay’s hill lawn, Cheltenham 29 May 1879.

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

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

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

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

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

1246GRIFFITH, William Petit (son of John William Griffith, architect, d. 27 Nov. 1855 aged 65). b. 9 St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell, London 7 July 1815; F.S.A. 12 May 1842; F.R.I.B.A. 14 June 1847; some of his work was the reparation of St. John ch. Clerkenwell 1845, the restoration of St. John’s gate 1845–6, designing Cherrytree tavern, Clerkenwell 1852, the goldsmiths’ and jewellers’ annuity institution asylum 1853, designing the house of detention, Kingston-on-Thames; author of The geometrical proportion of architecture 1843; Ancient Gothic churches 3 parts 1847–52; Suggestions for a more perfect period of gothic architecture 1855. d. 3 Isledon road, Highbury, London 14 Sept. 1884.

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

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

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

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

1247GRIFFITHS, Rev. John (son of Dr. John Griffiths, head master Rochester gr. sch.) b. 1807; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., scholar 1824–30, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1833, B.D. and D.D. 1872, fellow 1830–54, subwarden 1837–54, hon. fellow 1868, warden 4 Nov. 1871 to Sep. 1881; keeper of the university archives 1857 to death; one of the four tutors who signed the protest against Newman’s Tract xc. March 1841; sold his collection of rare engravings and etchings May 1883, Rembrandt’s portrait of Dr. Arnold Tholinx went for £1510 the largest sum ever given for a print; author of Laws of the Greek Accents 1831, 5 ed. 1853; An index to the wills in the Court of the Chancellor of Oxford 1862 and other works. d. 63 St. Giles’ street, Oxford 14 Aug. 1885.

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

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

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

GRIMALDI, Stacey (2 son of Wm. Grimaldi of London 1751–1830, portrait painter). b. 7 1248King st. St. James’s sq. London 18 Oct. 1790; attorney and solicitor 1 Copthall court, city of London; engaged in many record and peerage cases; F.S.A. 1824; marquis Grimaldi in Italy 27 May 1830; lecturer at the Incorporated Law Soc. on the public records 1834, auditor there 1853; contributed to Gent. Mag. 1813–61; author of A synopsis of the history of England 1825, 2 ed. 1871; Origines genealogicæ 1828; The genealogy of the family of Grimaldi 1834 and 5 other books. d. Hernden house, Eastry, Kent 28 March 1863.

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

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

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

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

1249GRIMSTON, Robert (4 son of 1 earl of Verulam, d. 1845). b. 42 Grosvenor sq. London 18 Sept. 1816; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1843; director of Electric telegraph co. 1852, and connected with telegraph companies till his death; hon. treasurer and one of first members of I Zingari 1845, played at Lords 1838–52; assisted in formation of Surrey county eleven which began playing in Kennington oval then a market garden 1846; very successful against fast bowling; is described in Whyte Melville’s novel Captain Digby Grand 2 vols. 1853. d. in his chair at Gorhambury 7 April 1884. F. Gale’s Life of R. Grimston (1885), portrait; Sporting Mirror, vii, 165 (1884), portrait.

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

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

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

GRISSELL, Thomas (1 son of Thomas De la Garde Grissell of Stockwell, d. 1863). b. London 4 Oct. 1801; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; partner with Henry Peto, builder 1825–30 when Peto died; partner with Sir Samuel Morton Peto, baronet 1830–47 when Sir S. M. Peto was 1250elected M.P. Norwich; in business alone 1847–50; purchased Norbury park near Dorking 1850; A.I.C.E. 7 March 1843; F.S.A. 16 March 1843; F.H.S.; sheriff of Surrey 1854–55. d. Norbury park, Dorking 26 May 1874.

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

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

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

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

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

1251GROSVENOR, Thomas (3 son of Thomas Grosvenor 1734–95, M.P. for Chester). b. 30 May 1764; ed. at Westminster; ensign 3 foot guards 1 Oct. 1779, captain 1793–1802; served in the Low Countries 1793–99, at Copenhagen 1807 and at Walcheren 1809; received the thanks of parliament 1 Feb. 1808; col. of 97 foot 25 Feb. 1807, of 65 foot 8 Feb. 1814 to death; general 12 Aug. 1819, field marshal 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for Chester 1795–1826, for Stockbridge 1826–30. d. Mount Ararat near Richmond, Surrey 20 Jany. 1851.

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

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

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

GROTE, Rev. John (brother of George Grote 1794–1871). b. Beckenham 5 May 1813; ed. 1252at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, fellow 1837 to death; V. of Trumpington near Cambridge 1847 to death; prof. of moral philos. in Univ. of Cam., May 1855 to death; author of Exploratio philosophica 1865, pt. i only; An examination of the utilitarian philosophy of J. S. Mill 1870. d. Trumpington vicarage 21 Aug. 1866.

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

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

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

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

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

GRUBB, Thomas. b. Kilkenny, Ireland 1800; a practical optician and manufacturer of reflectors in Dublin, made the Melbourne reflector 1867 the largest except the Parsonstown speculum then known; much consulted by 1253Lord Rosse and other astronomers; retired from business 1868; F.R.S. 2 June 1864; F.R.A.S. 1870; writer of many papers on microscopes and telescopes; M.R.I.A. 14 Jany. 1839. d. 141 Leinster road, Rathmines, Dublin 19 Sep. 1878.

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

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

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

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

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

1254GUBBINS, Martin Richard. b. 1812; of H.E.I.C.S. 1830; member of British commission in Oudh 1856–7; manager of intelligence department during the mutiny 1857–8; judge of supreme court of Agra 1858–63; author of Reports upon the settlement of Zillah Etawah, Agra 1844; Accounts of the mutinies in Oudh 1858, 3 ed. 1858; hanged himself at Somerset house, Clarendon place, Leamington 6 May 1863. Royal Leamington Spa Courier 9 May 1863 p. 10.

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

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

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

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

GUEST, John (son of James Guest, tailor). b. Bridge-gate, Rotherham 5 May 1799; clerk at the Phœnix iron works; head of firm of Guest and Chrimes, brass founders 1847; a temperance advocate 1836; alderman of Rotherham 1871 and a benefactor to the town; 1255F.S.A. 5 May 1874; author of Relics and records of Rotherham 1866; Historic notices of Rotherham 1879. d. Moorgate Grange, Rotherham 18 July 1880. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 438; Sketches of the life of J. Guest, by T. Beggs (1881), portrait.

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

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

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

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

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

1256GUILLEMARD, Rev. William Henry (son of Daniel Guillemard, silk merchant, Spitalfields). b. Hackney 23 Nov. 1815; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1870; fellow of his coll. 1839; head master of Royal coll. Armagh 1848–69; V. of St. Mary the Less, Camb. 1869, resigned 1887; author of The Greek Testament, Hebraistic edition 1875; Hebraisms in the Greek Testament, Camb. 1879 an unfinished work. d. Waterbeach near Cambridge 2 Sep. 1887.

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

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

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

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

GULL, Sir William Withey, 1 Baronet (youngest son of John Gull, barge owner, d. 1827). 1257b. Colchester 31 Dec. 1815; M.B. London univ. 1841, M.D. 1846; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1848, censor 1859–61 and 1872–3, Gulstonian lecturer 1849, Harveian orator 1870; medical tutor Guy’s hospital 1841, lecturer 1843–56, physician and lecturer 1856–65; Fullerian prof, of physiology, Royal Instit. 1847–9; D.C.L. Oxf. 1868, LLD. Camb. 1880, and Edinb. 1884; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; attended Prince of Wales when ill from typhoid fever Nov. to Dec. 1871; cr. baronet 20 Jany. 1872; phys. in ordinary to P. of Wales 24 Feb. 1872; phys. in ordinary to the queen 1887; pres. of Clinical soc. of Lond. 1872; pre-eminent as a clinical physician, the first to describe disease known as myxoedema 1873. d. 74 Brook st. London 29 Jany. 1890. bur. Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, left personalty £344,023 besides landed estates. Midland Medical miscell. iii, 97–8 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lix, 612 (1871), portrait, and 1 Feb. 1890 p. 131, portrait.

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

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

1258GULLY, John. b. Crown inn, Wick and Abson, Gloucs. 21 Aug. 1783; a butcher at Bath; fought Henry Pearce the ‘Game Chicken’ 8 Oct. 1805 when he was beaten; beat Bob Gregson the Lancashire giant 14 Oct. 1807, again 10 May 1808; declined title of champion of England 1808; landlord of the Plough inn 23 Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1808–10; bookmaker and owner of race horses from 1812; bought Mameluke from Lord Jersey in 1827 for £4200; won the St. Leger with Margrave 1832, the 2000 guineas with Ugly Buck 1844 and with Hermit 1854; the Derby with Pyrrhus the First 1846 and with Andover 1854; the Oaks with Mendicant 1846; M.P. for Pontefract 1832–7, contested Pontefract 1841; proprietor of Wingate colliery, Durham 1862. d. the North Bailey, city of Durham 9 March 1863. bur. Ackworth near Pontefract 14 March. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, i, 182–91 (1880), portrait; W. Day’s Reminiscences (1886) 53–70; Famous racing men (1882) 72–82; The Fancy, ii, 365–72 (1826), portrait; Rice’s British Turf, i, 288–93 (1879).

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

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

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

GUNNING, Henry (1 son of Rev. Francis Gunning, V. of Newton near Cambridge, d. 1788). b. Newton 13 Feb. 1768; ed. at Christ’s coll. Cam., 5 wr. 1788, B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; one of esquires bedells of the univ. 13 Oct. 1789, senior esquire bedell 1827 to death; mem. of town council of Cambridge 1835–41; 1259author of Poll books of Cambridge 7 vols. 1822–47; The ceremonies in the senate house, Cambridge 1836. d. Brighton 4 Jany. 1854. Reminiscences of Cambridge, by H. Gunning 2 vols. 1854, portrait; G.M. xli, 207–208 (1854).

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

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

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

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

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

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

1260GURDON, William (4 son of lieut. col. Theophilus Thornhagh Gurdon of Letton, Norfolk 1764–1849). b. 1804; ed. at Eton and Downing coll. Cam., fellow 1838, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 3 July 1829: recorder of Bury St. Edmunds 185-to 1860; judge of county courts, circuit 38 (Essex), March 1847 to March 1871; author of Our highways: what they are and what they might be; Bankruptcy for the million 1862. d. Brantham court, Manningtree, Suffolk 12 Oct. 1884.

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

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

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

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

GURNEY, Edmund (3 son of John Hampden Gurney 1802–62). b. Hersham near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey 23 March 1847; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1871, fellow 1872; resided at Harrow 1872–5; studied music 1872–5, medicine 1877–81 and law 1881–3; a founder of Soc. for Psychical research 1882 and a writer of numerous articles on the subject; a student of hypnotism 1887; author of The power of sound 1880; Tertium Quid, 1261chapters on disputed questions 2 vols. 1887; principal author of Phantasms of the living 1886. d. from taking an overdose of narcotic at the Royal Albion hotel, Brighton 23 June 1888. Brighton Gazette 28 June 1888 p. 6.

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

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

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

GURNEY, John Henry (only son of Joseph John Gurney the philanthropist 1788–1847). b. 1819; of firm of Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay and Buxton, bankers in the eastern counties; M.P. Lynn Regis 1854–65; an active partner in Overend, Gurney & Co. bill discounters, 1262London 1865, the firm suspended payment 10 May 1866 liabilities £11,000,000; presented his collections of birds to Norfolk and Norwich museum; author of A sketch of the raptorial birds in the Norwich museum 1872. d. Northrepps, Norfolk 21 April 1890. I.L.N. xxvi, 181 (1855), portrait; Pictorial World 8 May 1890 p. 598, portrait.

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

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

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

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

GURNEY, Samuel (2 son of the preceding). b. Upton, Essex 1816; partner in Overend, Guerney & Co. London; M.P. Penryn and 1263Falmouth 1857–65; sheriff of Surrey 1861; director of several telegraph companies; F.L.S. F.R.G.S. d. The Spa, Tunbridge Wells 4 April 1882 aged 66. I.L.N. 24 July 1859 pp. 92 94, portrait.

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

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

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

GUTCH, John Wheeley Gough (only child of the preceding). b. Bristol 1809; M.R.C.S. 1830; practised in Florence; a queen’s messenger 1850–61; contributed to Felix Farley’s Journal; edited The literary and scientific register 12641842–56. d. 38 Bloomsbury sq. London 30 April 1862. F. O. List (1862) p. 161.

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

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

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

1265GUTHRIE, James Alexander (1 son of David Charles Guthrie of Craigie, Dundee). b. 8 Sep. 1823; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1852; merchant and banker 9 Idol lane, London as Chalmers and Guthrie; director of bank of England 1858–60, 1861–66, 1867–69 and 1870 to death. d. 78 Portland place, London 17 Jany. 1873.

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

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

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

GUTTERIDGE, Thomas (son of Mr. Gutteridge, a wharfinger, London, then landlord of White Lion tavern, Birmingham). L.S.A. 1826; M.R.C.S. 1827; surgeon Birmingham; professor of anatomy Soc. of Arts 1832, presented with 100 guineas 1842; G. F. Muntz found guilty of assaulting him in an anti-church rate riot at the Old Church, Birmingham 1837; opposed confirmation of Dr. James Prince Lee as bp. of Manchester in St. James’ ch. Piccadilly, London 10 Jany. 1848; found guilty of libels on Dr. Lee at Warwick 6 April 1848; 1266author of Church rates 1842 and of 4 works on the corruptions and abuses in the Birmingham hospital 1844–51. d. Birmingham 3 May 1880. Edgbastoniana, iii, 34–6 (1883), portrait; Langford’s Modern Birmingham, i, 13, 519 (1868).

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

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

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

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

GUY, William Augustus. b. Chichester 1810; ed. Pemb. coll. Cam., M.B. 1837, M.L. 1838; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1844, Croonian lecturer 1861, Lumleian 1868 and Harveian 1875; professor of forensic medicine King’s coll. Lond. 1838, dean of the medical faculty 1846, 1849, permanent dean 1850–58; edited Journal Statistical soc. 1852–6, hon. sec. 1843–68, president 1873–5; F.R.S. 7 June 1866, V.P. 1876–7; 1267author of Principles of Forensic medicine 1844, 4 ed. 1857; Public Health 2 parts 1870–74. d. 12 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 10 Sept. 1885 in 76 year. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865) 59–64, portrait.

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

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

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

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

GWYN, Howel (1 son of William Gwyn of Abercrane, Brecon, d. 1830). b. 24 June 1806; 1268ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; contested Penryn 1841 and 1859, M.P. 1847–57; contested Barnstaple 1865; M.P. Brecknock 1866–8 when unseated; contested Brecon county 1875; sheriff of co. Glamorgan 1837, of co. Carmarthen 1838 and of co. Brecon 1842. d. Duffryn, Neath 25 Jany. 1888.

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

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

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