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

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

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

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

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

1116GAINSBOROUGH, Charles Noel, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Sir Gerard Noel Noel, 2 baronet 1759–1838). b. 2 Oct. 1781; M.P. for Rutland 1808–14; succeeded his mother as 3 Baron Barham 12 April 1823; created Baron Noel, Viscount Campden and Earl of Gainsborough 16 Aug. 1841; married four times. d. 17 Prince’s Gate, Hyde park, London 10 June 1866. bur. Teston church, Kent 19 June.

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

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

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

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

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

GALBERRY, Most Rev. Thomas. b. Naas, co. Kildare 1833; taken to Philadelphia 1836; 1117ordained R.C. priest 20 Dec. 1856; pres. of Villanova college; provincial of the Augustinian order 1874; bishop of Hartford 1876 to death; consecrated 19 March 1876. d. New York 10 Oct. 1878.

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

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

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

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

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

1118GALLAGHER, Rev. Hugh P. b. Killygordan, Donegal 1815; went to the U.S. of A. 1837; ordained R.C. priest at Philadelphia 1840; pres. of Theological seminary Pittsburg 1844; founded and edited Pittsburg Catholic; theologian to first plenary council of Baltimore 1852; founded and edited Catholic Standard 1853; built many churches, schools and hospitals. d. San Francisco, March 1882.

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

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

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

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

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

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

GAMBIER, Sir Edward John (3 son of Samuel Gambier 1752–1813, first comr. of the navy). b. 1794; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 7 Feb. 1822; a municipal corporation comr. 1833; 1119recorder of Prince of Wales Island 1834; puisne judge at Madras 28 Nov. 1836, chief justice 11 March 1842 to 1849; knighted at St. James’s palace 6 Aug. 1834; author of A treatise on parochial settlements 1828, 2 ed. 1835. d. 22 Hyde park gate, Kensington, London 31 May 1879 in 86 year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

GAMMON, Frederic Thomas (son of Rev. John Gammon, pres. of Bible Christian conference in London 1859). b. Somerset 1849; entered firm of S. W. Partridge & Co. of London, 1120publishers 1865, head of the firm 1883 to death; edited British Workman, Band of Hope Review, Band of Mercy, and other periodicals; author of The canal boy who became president [J. A. Garfield] 1881 and 4 other small books. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 19 Sep. 1888.

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

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

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

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

1121GARD, Richard Sommers. b. North Tawton near Barnstaple 1797; sheriff of Devon 1854; contested Honiton, Devon 1852; M.P. for Exeter 1857–65. d. Court hall, Monkton near Honiton 16 Dec. 1868 in 72 year.

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

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

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

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

GARDINER, Sir Robert William (brother of Sir John Gardiner 1777–1851). b. 2 May 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 7 April 1797, col. 24 Nov. 1839; A.D.C. to the Sovereign 22 July 1830 1122to 23 Nov. 1841; governor and commander in chief at Gibraltar 21 Nov. 1848 to July 1855; col. commandant R.A. 22 March 1853 to death; general 28 Nov. 1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; K.C.H. 1820; author of Memoir of admiral Sir Graham Moore 1844 and of 12 pamphlets on military organisation 1848–60. d. Melbourne lodge, Claremont, Esher, Surrey 26 June 1864.

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

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

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

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

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

GARDNER, John. b. Great Coggeshall, Essex 1804; apothecary in London 1829 to death, M.D. Giessen 1847; a founder of Royal college of chemistry 1844, sec. 1844–6; professor of chemistry and materia medica to General Apothecaries’ Co.; introduced into England podophyllin and many other American drugs; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1860; translated and edited Liebig’s Familiar Letters on Chemistry 1843, 2nd series 1844; author of Household Medicine 9 ed. 1878; Longevity 5 ed. 1878; Hymns for 1123the sick and convalescent 2 ed. 1879. d. 29 Lansdowne crescent, Notting hill, London 14 Nov. 1880.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1124GARLAND, Thomas (brother of Charles Garland 1813–75). b. Bridge near Redruth, Cornwall, April 1804; edited The Cornubian, Falmouth weekly paper from first number 1 Oct. 1830 to 18 Dec. 1832; author of Letters on the recent agitations in Wesleyan Methodism 1852. d. Fairfield, Illogan 30 July 1865. Memorials, literary and religious, of T. Garland (1868); S. W. Christopher’s Poets of Methodism (1875) 454–66.

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

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

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

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

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

GARNETT, William (2 son of Thomas Garnett of Old Hutton, Kendal, who d. 1793). b. London 13 Nov. 1793; deputy registrar of the land-tax 1819, registrar to 1841; assistant inspector general of stamps and taxes 1835, inspector general 1842; took a leading part in introduction of income tax in Great Britain 1842 and in Ireland 1853; author of The guide to 1125the property and income tax 1842; The guide to the income tax laws as applicable to Ireland 1853. d. 4 Argyll road, Kensington 30 Sep. 1873.

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

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

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

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

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

GARRETT, Richard (son of Richard Garrett, agricultural implement maker d. 1837). b. about 1805; entered his father’s works at an early age; became head of firm of Garrett and Sons, Leiston Works, Saxmundham, Suffolk 1836, 1126where 500 men were employed; manufactured patent steam engines, thrashing machines, corn and seed drilling and manuring machines, etc.; one of the founders of R. Agricultural soc. of England 1837, member of council; retired from active business 1855. d. Carlton house, Saxmundham 26 June 1866. Journal of Agriculture, Sept. 1866, portrait; Farmer’s Mag. July 1857 pp. 1–2, portrait.

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

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

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

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

1127GARSTIN, Edwin. Second lieut. Bengal engineers 6 May 1815, col. commandant 5 Dec. 1848 to death; general 1 March 1867. d. Bangalore 13 July 1871.

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

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

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

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

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

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

GASELEE, Stephen (eld. son of Sir Stephen Gaselee 1762–1839 judge of court of Common 1128Pleas). b. 77 Upper Guilford st. London 1 Sep. 1807; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 16 June 1832; serjeant at law 2 Nov. 1840, treasurer of Serjeants’ Inn 1866; contested Portsmouth 1855; M.P. for Portsmouth 1865–68. d. 2 Cambridge sq. Hyde Park, London 20 Oct. 1883.

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

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

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

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

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

GASKELL, Rev. William (eld. son of Wm. Gaskell of Latchford near Warrington, sail-canvas maker, who d. 15 March 1819). b. Latchford 24 July 1805; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1824; studied at Manchester college, York 1825–28; pastor of Cross st. chapel, Manchester 3 Aug. 1828 to death; sec. of York college, Manchester 1840–46; professor of English history, literature and composition in it 1846–53 when it was moved to London; professor of literature in Unitarian home missionary board 1854–84, principal 1876–84; one of 1129editors of Unitarian Herald 1861–75; author of Temperance Rhymes 1839; Two lectures on the Lancashire dialect 1844 and other books. (m. 30 Aug. 1832 Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson 1810–65). d. Plymouth Grove, Manchester 11 June 1884. bur. Unitarian Chapel yard, Knutsford 14 June. Sir T. Baker’s Memorials of a dissenting chapel (1884) pp. 54, 153; John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1876) 96–101.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1130GASSIOT, John Peter. b. London 2 April 1797; midshipman R.N.; member of firm of Martinez, Gassiot & Co. wine merchants of London and Oporto; chairman of committee of Kew observatory which he purchased for £10,000 and presented to Royal Soc. 1871; discovered dark bands, or stratification of electric discharge 1852; author of 44 papers in scientific periodicals; F.R.S. 9 April 1840, founded the Scientific Relief fund. d. St. John’s house, Ryde 15 Aug. 1877.

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

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

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

GATTI, Carlo. b. Dongio, valley of Blenio, canton Ticino, Switzerland 27 July 1817; walked to Paris with 25 francs in his pocket 1829, sold roast chestnuts in the streets and a peculiar dough called goffre, in Paris 1829–47, and in London 1847–49; chocolate maker with Battista Bolla at 129 Holborn hill 1849; pastry cook at 33, 34 and 65 Great hall, Hungerford market; built Hungerford hall, Villiers st. Strand 1851, pulled down for Charing Cross station 1862; an ice merchant at Caledonian road, King’s Cross 1857 to death, imported ice from Norway. d. Dongio 6 Sep. 11311878. Penny pictorial news 21 Sep. 1878 pp. 1, 3, portrait; Graphic xviii, 341 (1878), portrait; Marcus Fall’s London Town (1880) i, 244–52.

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

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

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

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

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

1132GAWEN, John Charles Gawen Roberts. b. 25 Aug. 1787; captain R.N. 13 June 1815; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. Park st. Grosvenor square, London 21 Nov. 1874.

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

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

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

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

1133GEARY, Stephen. Architect and civil engineer at Hamilton place, New road, London; erected an octagonal structure with a colossal statue of George iv. on the top, in the centre of the 6 roads uniting at Battle Bridge 1831 when the name was changed to King’s Cross; took out patents for artificial fuel, paving streets, water supply, obtaining motive power, and 3 other patents 1838–47; designed the first gin palace in London about 1830; founded the London Cemetery Co. 1838 for which he laid out Highgate cemetery, opened 20 May 1839. d. 19 Euston place, London 28 Aug. 1854 in 75 year. A. W. Pugin’s Contrasts (1841), plate xiv.

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

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

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

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

1134GELDART, Rev. Edmund Martin (2 son of Thomas Geldart of Thorpe, Norwich and of Hannah Ransome Geldart who was a writer of children’s books and d. 1861). b. Norwich 20 Jany. 1844; ed. at Ball. coll. Oxf., scholar 1863–67; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1873; assist. master Manchester gram. sch. 1867 and 1869–71; a teacher at Athens 1867–69; C. of All Saints, Manchester 1869–71; C. of St. George’s ch. Everton 1871; minister of Hope st. unitarian chapel, Liverpool 1873–77; unitarian minister Croydon 1877–85; author of Modern Greek in relation to ancient 1870; Faith and Freedom 14 sermons 1881 and other works; left Newhaven on 10 April 1885 for Paris, supposed to have been lost during passage to Dieppe. A son of Belial, autobiographical sketches by Nitram Tradleg i.e. M. Geldart (1883); Echoes of Truth ed. Mrs. Geldart (1886) with portrait.

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

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

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

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

1135GEAREY, Sir William Richard Powlett, 3 Baronet. b. Oxon-Heath, Tunbridge 13 Nov. 1810; succeeded his father 6 Aug. 1825; contested West Kent, Dec. 1832, M.P. for West Kent, Jany. 1835 to Feb. 1838. d. Oxon-Heath 19 Dec. 1877.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1136GEORGE, John (eld. son of John George of Dublin, merchant, who d. 1837). b. Dublin 18 Nov. 1804; ed. at Frascati school and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar at King’s Inns, Dublin 1826, bencher 1859; barrister G.I. 16 May 1827; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; M.P. for co. Wexford 1852–57 and 1859–66; solicitor general for Ireland, Feb. to July 1859; judge of court of Queen’s Bench, Ireland, Nov. 1866 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866. d. 45 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 15 Dec. 1871.

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

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

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

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

1137GIBBES, Sir George Smith (son of Rev. George Gibbes, R. of Woodborough, Wilts.) b. 1771; Commoner of Ex. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, M.B. 1796, M.D. 1799; fellow of Magd. coll. Ox.; candidate of coll. of physicians 1803, fellow 1804, Harveian orator 1817; physician to Bath general hospital 1804; physician extraord. to Queen Charlotte 1819; knighted by George iv. at Carlton house 10 May 1820; removed to Cheltenham about 1835, afterwards to Sidmouth; F.L.S. 21 May 1793; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1796; author of A treatise on the Bath waters 1800 and other books. d. Sidmouth 23 June 1851. bur. family vault at Woodborough. W. Munk’s Roll (1878) iii, 13.

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

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

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

GIBBS, James (son of Michael Gibbs of Walbrook, London, merchant). b. 25 July 1825; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1846; barrister I.T. 6 June 1864; judge of high court Bombay, Feb. 1866 to 1879; vice chancellor of Univ. 1138of Bombay 1870–79; mem. of governor general’s council 10 May 1880 to 1885, pres. 1884; C.S.I. 1878; C.I.E. 1878. d. 58 Courtfield gardens, South Kensington, London 30 Oct. 1886.

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

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

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

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

GIBSON, Alexander. b. Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire 24 Oct. 1800; M.D. Edin.; assistant surgeon H.E.I.C. service 1825; passed 1139in Hindustani, Mahrati and Gujerati; superintendent of botanical garden at Dapuri 1838; conservator of forests in Bombay 1847–60; F.L.S. 19 April 1853; author of Forest Reports Bombay 1849–55; Bombay Flora 1861; A handbook to forests of Bombay 1863. d. 16 Jany. 1867. Proc. Linnean Soc. (1866–67) p. 33.

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

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

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

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

1140GIBSON, James. Called to bar in Ireland 1828; law adviser to general assembly of Irish presbyterian church; a comr. of national education in Ireland 1848 to death; chairman of Queen’s co.; chairman of co. Donegal to 1879; M.P. for Belfast, Aug. 1837 to March 1838 when unseated on petition; Q.C. 30 Jany. 1869. d. 35 Mountjoy sq. Dublin 5 Feb. 1880.

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

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

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

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

GIBSON, John (son of a market gardener). b. Gyffin near Conway 19 June 1790; removed to Liverpool 1799; sent to Royal Academy Psyche drawn by Zephyrs 1816; came to London 1817; arrived in Rome 20 Oct. 1817; stayed there to 1844 where he studied under 1141Canova and Thorwalsden; A.R.A. 1833, R.A. 1838; exhibited 33 works at R.A. 1816–64; his better known works are Mars and Cupid 1819, Hylas and the Nymphs 1826, Cupid tormenting the soul 1839, The Queen 1846, The tinted Venus 1854, Christ blessing little children 1862; revived the use of colour in statuary. d. Rome 27 Jany. 1866. bur. English cemetery, left £32,000 and the contents of his studio to the Royal Academy. Lady Eastlake’s Life of John Gibson (1870), portrait; W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture (1871) 109–22; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 188–92 (1862); Illust. news of the world iii (1859), portrait.

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

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

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

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

GIBSON, Thomas Milner (son of Thomas Milner Gibson, major 37 foot, d. 1807). b. Port of Spain, Trinidad 3 Sep. 1806; educ. Charterhouse 1819 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830; M.P. Ipswich 1837–39; M.P. Manchester 1841–57; M.P. Ashton-under-Lyne 1857–68; a free trader 1837 and a prominent orator of Anti-corn law league; V.P. of board of trade 1846–48; P.C. 8 July 1846; moved vote of censure on Palmerston for his law of conspiracy bill which caused resignation of ministry 19 Feb. 1858; president 1142of poor law board 1859; president of board of trade 1859–66; assumed additional surname of Milner 7 Feb. 1839; president of Assoc. for repeal of taxes on knowledge 1850, on repeal received testimonial 1 Oct. 1861; amateur yachtsman, navigating his own vessel, the last person who cruised in the Mediterranean with a pass from the dey of Algiers 1830. (m. 23 Feb. 1832 Susanna Arethusa only child of Rev. Sir T. G. Cullum, she was a leader in society and an advocate of mesmerism and spiritualism, d. Paris 23 Feb. 1885 aged 71). d. on board his yacht Resolute at Algiers 25 Feb. 1884. bur. Theberton churchyard 13 March. G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 294–300; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 101–5; I.L.N. 31 Dec. 1842 p. 541, portrait, 8 March 1884 pp. 217, 227, portrait.

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

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

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

GIFFARD, Sir George Markham (4 son of the succeeding). b. Portsmouth dockyard 4 Nov. 1813; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1832; B.C.L. 1841; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1840; practised in court of chancery; 1143Q.C. Jany. 1859, bencher of his inn 1859; vice chancellor March 1868; knighted at Windsor Castle 14 May 1868; a lord justice of appeal 1 Jany. 1869 to death; P.C. 4 Feb. 1869. d. 4 Princes gardens, Hyde park, London 13 July 1870. Foss’s Biographia Juridica (1870) 299, 792; I.L.N. lii, 320 (1868), portrait, lvii, 107, 259 (1870).

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

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

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

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

GIFFORD, James (eld. son of James Gifford, unitarian writer 1740–1813). b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 20 Nov. 1768; midshipman R.N. 1 Oct. 1783; captain 12 Aug. 1812 when he left the sea, rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846; spent his income in works of benevolence and in 1144furthering cause of unitarianism; author of The remonstrance of a unitarian addressed to the Bishop of St. Davids’ 1818, 2 ed. 1820; Letter of a unitarian to the minister of St. James’s church, Jersey 1845. d. Mount Orgueil cottage near St. Helier, Jersey 20 Aug. 1853.

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

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

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

GILBERT, Elizabeth Margaretta Maria (2 dau. of the preceding). b. Oxford 7 Aug. 1826; became entirely blind April 1829; established work rooms for blind people at New Turnstile, Holborn, London, May 1854 which developed into Association for promoting the general welfare of the blind 1855; writer of fugitive 1145verses. d. 5 Stanhope place, Hyde park, London 7 Feb. 1885. F. Martin’s Elizabeth Gilbert and her works for the blind (1887), portrait.

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

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

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

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

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

1146GILBERT, William. Entered Bombay army 1795; col. 21 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to 17 Feb. 1852; col. 3 Bombay N.I. 17 Feb. 1852 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Tweed near Lymington, Hants. 5 Nov. 1866 aged 85.

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

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

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

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

GILDEA, Very Rev. George Robert. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; 1147C. of Westport, Tuam 1826–28; C. of Kilmaine 1828–34; R. of Newport, Ireland 1834–44; R. of Kilmaine 1844–67; R. of Moylough 1867–73; provost of Tuam cathedral 1872 to death; author of Reproductive relief spinning in the West of Ireland 1849. d. 17 Alfred place, Thurloe sq. London 2 June 1887 in 84 year.

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

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

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

GILES, Rev. John Allen (eld. son of Wm. Giles of Mark, Somerset). b. Southwick house, Mark 26 Oct. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and C.C. coll. Ox., scholar 1824, fellow 1832–33; double first class 1828; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.C.L. 1838; Vinerian scholar 1831; head master of Camberwell coll. sch. 1834–6; head master of City of London sch. 1836–40; C. of Bampton, Oxon. 1845–54; sentenced at Oxford assizes 6 March 1855 to a year’s imprisonment in Oxford Castle for making a false entry in marriage register book of Bampton parish church, but released by royal warrant 4 June 1855; C. of Perivale, Mid. 1857–61; R. of Sutton, Surrey 1867 to death; published Patres Ecclesiae Anglicanæ 34 vols. 1837–43; Life and letters of Thomas Becket 2 vols. 1846; History of Bampton 1847, 2 ed. 1848; Christian 1148records on the age, authorship and authenticity of the New Testament 1854 which he suppressed, and 80 other books. d. Sutton rectory 24 Sep. 1884.

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

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

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

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

1149GILL, Thomas. b. 19 Feb. 1782; entered navy 15 Jany. 1794; captain 10 Jany. 1837, retired R.A. 8 April 1868; on 14 June 1803 in action with Lodi off St. Domingo severely wounded, voted a sword of 50 guineas by Patriotic Soc. d. Grove lodge, Pulteney road, Bath 27 Jany. 1874. Athenæum 21 June 1862 pp. 823–4.

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

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

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

1150GILLIES, Mary (sister of the preceding). Author of The voyage of the Constance 1860; The Carewes 1861; Great fun for our little friends 1862; More fun for little friends, by Harriet Myrtle 1864. d. 1870.

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

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

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

GILLMAN, Joseph. b. Little Over near Derby 1759; fought under Rodney and Hood off Port Royal, Jamaica, April 1782, believed to have been last survivor of that battle; one of the foremost mutineers at the Nore, May-June 1797; one of forlorn hope at storming of Seringapatam 4 May 1799; received a compound 1151fracture of both legs at Copenhagen 2 April 1801. d. Manchester 25 June 1855 in 96 year.

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

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

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

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

1152GILPIN, Charles (son of James Gilpin of Bristol). b. Bristol 1815; publisher and bookseller in Bishopsgate st. London to 1853; common councilman London 1848; parliamentary sec. of Poor law board 28 June 1859 to 22 Feb. 1865; contested Perth 1852; M.P. for Northampton, April 1857 to death; chairman of National freehold land society. d. 10 Bedford sq. Holborn, London 8 Sep. 1874. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 3rd series (1860), portrait; The statesmen of England (1862) No. 45, portrait; I.L.N. xxxiii, 92, 94 (1858), portrait, lxv, 260, 273, 379 (1874), portrait.

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

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

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

GIRAUD, Herbert John (2 son of John Thomas Giraud, surgeon 1764–1836). b. Faversham, Kent 14 April 1817; educ. Edin. univ., M.D. 1840; entered service of H.E.I.C. 1842, professor of chemistry and botany 1845 and then principal of Grant Medical coll. Bombay; medical officer of Sir J. Jeejeeboy’s hospital; chemical analyst to Bombay government; deputy inspector general of Bombay army 1153medical service, retired 1868; dean of faculty of medicine, Bombay university 1863; writer of papers on botany and chemistry. d. Shanklin, Isle of Wight 12 Jany. 1888.

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

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

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

GIRLING, Mary Anne (dau. of Mr. Clouting, farmer). b. Little Glemham, Suffolk 27 April 1827; a wesleyan methodist; believed that she was called to be a new incarnation of the Deity 1864; commenced preaching at 107 Bridge road, Battersea 1870, community named themselves The Children of God, but generally called Shakers; removed to New Forest lodge, Hampshire 2 Jany. 1872; ejected for non-payment of rent 1873 and 1878 and suffered much hardship; rented Tiptoe farm, Hordle, Lymington 1879; members expected 1154to live for ever and that Mrs. Girling would rule over the world. (m. George Stanton Girling a general dealer at Ipswich). d. Tiptoe farm 18 Sep. 1886. Irish Monthly, Oct. 1878 pp. 555–64; Lymington Chronicle 23 and 30 Sept. 1886.

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

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

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

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

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

1155GLADSTONE, John Neilson. b. 18 Jany. 1807; M.P. for Walsall 1841, for Ipswich 1842–7, for Devizes 1852–7 and 1859 to death; sheriff of Wilts. 1859. d. Bowden park, Wilts. 7 Feb. 1863. I.L.N, xxii, 197, 198 (1853), portrait.

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

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

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

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

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