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GIBBES, SIR GEORGE SMITH (_son of Rev. George Gibbes, R. of
Woodborough, Wilts._) _b._ 1771; Commoner of Ex. coll. Ox.; B.A.
1792, M.A. 1795, M.B. 1796, M.D. 1799; fellow of Magd. coll. Ox.;
candidate of coll. of physicians 1803, fellow 1804, Harveian
orator 1817; physician to Bath general hospital 1804; physician
extraord. to Queen Charlotte 1819; knighted by George iv. at
Carlton house 10 May 1820; removed to Cheltenham about 1835,
afterwards to Sidmouth; F.L.S. 21 May 1793; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1796;
author of _A treatise on the Bath waters_ 1800 and other books.
_d._ Sidmouth 23 June 1851. _bur._ family vault at Woodborough.
_W. Munk’s Roll_ (1878) _iii_, 13.

GIBBONS, DAVID OCTAVIUS (_eld. child of Edward Augustus Gibbons, who
d. 20 Aug. 1834_). _b._ 28 Oct. 1811; special pleader 1834; author
of _A manual of the law of fixtures_ 1836; _A treatise on the law
of dilapidations and nuisances_ 1838, _2 ed._ 1849 and other
books. _d._ 30 St. George’s sq. London 23 Oct. 1876.

GIBBONS, SIR SILLS JOHN, 1 Baronet (_son of Richard Gibbons of
Sittingbourne, Kent_). _b._ Chatham 1809; hop merchant in London;
alderman for Castle Baynard ward 1862–75, sheriff 1865–6, lord
mayor 1871–2; created baronet 11 March 1872. _d._ Hastings 11
Jany. 1876. _I.L.N. lix_, 457, 458 (1871), _portrait_.

GIBBS, SIR BENJAMIN THOMAS BRANDRETH (_youngest son of Thomas Gibbs
of Ampthill, Beds._) _b._ London 1821; steward of yard of R.
Agricultural soc. 1839–42, hon. director 1843–74, vice president
1871–85; hon. sec. of Smithfield club 1843–85, presented with a
silver candelabra 12 Dec. 1855; associated with agricultural
sections of national exhibitions in London 1851 and 1862, in Paris
1855, 1867 and 1878, in Vienna 1873, in Philadelphia 1875;
commander of order of Francis Joseph 1873; officer of Legion of
honour 1878; knighted for his agricultural services, first person
so rewarded, by the Queen at Windsor 27 Nov. 1878; sec. of
Fisheries exhibition, London 1883; author of _The Smithfield club,
a condensed history_ 1857. _d._ Mossley house, Sinclair road, West
Kensington park 2 June 1885. _Journ. of Royal Agric. Soc. xxi_,
611–20 (1885), _portrait_; _The Biograph, March 1882 pp._ 259–61;
_I.L.N. xxvii_, 725–26 (1855), _portrait_.

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

GIBBS, JOSEPH. _b._ Staffordshire 1798; established extensive sawing
and cutting works at Crayford Mills, Kent and London; invented
“Gibbs’ elbow joint” chiefly used for construction of inlaid
floors; erected much machinery here and in Holland for
manufacturing purposes and lifting water; M.I.C.E. 6 April 1852;
author of _Considerations relative to sewage of London_ 1849;
_Cotton cultivation in its various details_ 1862. _d._ 11 Feb.
1864. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiv_, 528–31 (1865).

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

GIBBS, MRS. (_dau. of Mr. Graddon_). _b._ Taunton 1804; first sang
at Vauxhall 1821, in Dublin 1823; first appeared in London at
Drury Lane Oct. 1824 as Susanna in the _Marriage of Figaro_;
second only to Miss Stephens in ballad singing and to Miss Paton
in bravura singing; sang in New Orleans, Dec. 1835, in New York
Nov. 1836, returned to England; re-appeared in New York 1855 with
an entertainment of song and anecdote entitled _The Lakes of
Killarney_. (_m._ about 1827 Alexander Gibbs of firm of Graddon
and Gibbs, pianoforte makers); date of death not known. _J. N.
Ireland’s Records of New York stage ii_, 180–1 (1867);
_Cumberland’s Minor Theatre vol. iii_, _portrait_; _Le Bal
Costumé, polka composed by Mrs. Gibbs_ (1854), _portrait_.

GIBBS, WILLIAM (_2 son of Antony Gibbs of Exeter, merchant
1756–1815_). _b._ 22 May 1790; partner with his elder brother as
merchants in Cadiz and London, head of the firm on his brother’s
death 21 Aug. 1842; held for some years monopoly of the guano
islands; built the chapel at Keble college, Oxford, dedicated 25
April 1876. _d._ Tyntesfield near Bristol 3 April 1875, personalty
sworn under £800,000, 2 Oct. 1875.

GIBSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire 24 Oct. 1800;
M.D. Edin.; assistant surgeon H.E.I.C. service 1825; passed in
Hindustani, Mahrati and Gujerati; superintendent of botanical
garden at Dapuri 1838; conservator of forests in Bombay 1847–60;
F.L.S. 19 April 1853; author of _Forest Reports Bombay_ 1849–55;
_Bombay Flora_ 1861; _A handbook to forests of Bombay_ 1863. _d._
16 Jany. 1867. _Proc. Linnean Soc._ (1866–67) _p._ 33.

GIBSON, ALEXANDER CRAIG. _b._ Harrington, Cumberland 17 March 1813;
F.S.A.; L.M. Edin.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1846; L.S.A. 1855; in practice
at Branthwaite and Ullock 1841–43, at Coniston 1843–49, at
Hawkshead 1849–57, at Bebington, Cheshire 1857–72; contributed to
_Kendal Mercury_, _Tait’s Mag._, and to _Trans. of Historic Soc.
of Lancashire and Cheshire_; author of _The old man, or ravings
and ramblings round Coniston_, _Kendal_ 1849; _The Folk-speech of
Cumberland, stories and rhymes in dialect of West Border
counties_, _Carlisle_ 1869; wrote _The Lockerbie Lycke_, a ballad
in Annandale dialect. _d._ Bebington 12 June 1874.

GIBSON, DAVID COOKE. _b._ Edinburgh 4 March 1827; artist in Edin.
1844–52, in London 1852 to death; exhibited 5 domestic pictures at
the R.A. 1855–57; wrote _Angelo and Zelica_ and other poems. _d._
London 5 Oct. 1856. _Struggles of a young artist, being a memoir
of D. C. Gibson_ (_anon. by W. Macduff_) 1858, _portrait_.

GIBSON, GEORGE STACEY (_only son of Wyatt George Gibson of Saffron
Walden, Essex_). _b._ Saffron Walden 20 July 1818; senior partner
in firm of Gibson, Tuke and Gibson, bankers, Saffron Walden; clerk
of yearly meeting of Soc. of Friends; added six species to the
British flora, described in the _Phytologist_ 1842–51; F.L.S.
1847; author of _The Flora of Essex_ 1862. _d._ Temperance hotel,
12 Bishopsgate st. without, London 5 April 1883. _Journal of
Botany 1883, pp._ 161–65, _2 portraits_.

GIBSON, REV. JAMES. _b._ Crieff, Perthshire 31 Jany. 1799; educ.
Glasgow univ.; licensed presbyterian minister 1820; travelled with
Capt. Elliot in Portugal 1825; assistant in the College parish,
Glasgow; built a ch. at Kingston, Glasgow, and was minister
1839–43; joined the Free church and had a chapel built for him at
Kingston 1843; professor of systematic theology in Free ch. coll.
Glasgow 1856; edited _Church of Scotland Mag._ 1834–37, and
_Scottish Protestant vols. i, ii_, 1852; author of _Marriage
affinity question_ 1854; _The public worship of God_ 1869 and
other books. _d._ Glasgow 2 Nov. 1871. _Wylie’s Disruption
Worthies_ (1876) 261–64, _portrait_.

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

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

GIBSON, JAMES YOUNG (_4 son of William Gibson of Edinburgh,
merchant_). _b._ Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1826; educ. Edin. univ. and at
divinity hall of United Presbyterian ch. 1847–52, licensed
preacher 1853, at Melrose 1853–59; travelled in Egypt and
Palestine 1865 and in Spain 1871–72; settled in London 1872, at
Long Ditton near Surbiton 1884; corrected proofs of J. Duffield’s
_Don Quixote_ 1881; translator and editor of _Journey to Parnassus
by Miguel de Cervantes_ 1883; _Numantia, a tragedy by Miguel de
Cervantes_ 1885. _d._ Granville hotel, Ramsgate 2 Oct. 1886.
_bur._ Dean cemetery, Edin. _The Cid by J. Y. Gibson, ed. M. D.
Gibson, memoir by Agnes Smith 1887 pp. xxiii-lv_, _portrait_;
_Illust. sp. and dr. news xxvi_, 122 (1886).

GIBSON, JANE (_2 dau. of John Gibson of Oakbank near Glasgow_). _b._
Oakbank 22 May 1785; resided for many years in Edinburgh with Mrs.
Grant of Laggan; founded the John Gibson bursaries in Glasgow
Univ. at cost of £1000 in 1877. _d._ 9 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 25
Nov. 1887 aged 102 years and 6 months. _Glasgow Herald 26 Nov.
1887 p._ 4.

GIBSON, JOHN. _b._ Newcastle 1794; ornamental and house painter and
enameller in glass; painted church windows in Newcastle and
neighbourhood; formed a gallery of paintings; sheriff of Newcastle
1853–4. _d._ the Leazes ter. Newcastle 25 Nov. 1854. _Mackenzie’s
Hist. of Newcastle_ (1827) _pp._ 345, 761.

GIBSON, JOHN (_son of a market gardener_). _b._ Gyffin near Conway
19 June 1790; removed to Liverpool 1799; sent to Royal Academy
Psyche drawn by Zephyrs 1816; came to London 1817; arrived in Rome
20 Oct. 1817; stayed there to 1844 where he studied under Canova
and Thorwalsden; A.R.A. 1833, R.A. 1838; exhibited 33 works at
R.A. 1816–64; his better known works are Mars and Cupid 1819,
Hylas and the Nymphs 1826, Cupid tormenting the soul 1839, The
Queen 1846, The tinted Venus 1854, Christ blessing little children
1862; revived the use of colour in statuary. _d._ Rome 27 Jany.
1866. _bur._ English cemetery, left £32,000 and the contents of
his studio to the Royal Academy. _Lady Eastlake’s Life of John
Gibson_ (1870), _portrait_; _W. B. Scott’s British school of
sculpture_ (1871) 109–22; _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_,
188–92 (1862); _Illust. news of the world iii_ (1859), _portrait_.

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

GIBSON, JOHN (_son of George Gibson of Leith, merchant_). _b._ Leith
15 Jany. 1796; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin.; writer to
the Signet 1819; agent for the Buccleuch estates 1821 to death;
legal adviser to Sir Walter Scott 1821–32; deputy keeper of the
privy seal 1850; treasurer to Society of writers to the signet;
published _Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott_ 1871. _d._ 29
Greenhill gardens, Edinburgh 14 Sep. 1877. _A Mackie’s Review of
the conduct of J. Gibson_ (1823).

GIBSON, JOHN THOMAS. Entered Madras army 1800; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841;
colonel 1 European regiment 27 Feb. 1842 to death. _d._
Kotagherry, Madras 30 June 1851.

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

GIBSON, THOMAS MILNER (_son of Thomas Milner Gibson, major 37 foot,
d. 1807_). _b._ Port of Spain, Trinidad 3 Sep. 1806; educ.
Charterhouse 1819 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830; M.P. Ipswich
1837–39; M.P. Manchester 1841–57; M.P. Ashton-under-Lyne 1857–68;
a free trader 1837 and a prominent orator of Anti-corn law league;
V.P. of board of trade 1846–48; P.C. 8 July 1846; moved vote of
censure on Palmerston for his law of conspiracy bill which caused
resignation of ministry 19 Feb. 1858; president of poor law board
1859; president of board of trade 1859–66; assumed additional
surname of Milner 7 Feb. 1839; president of Assoc. for repeal of
taxes on knowledge 1850, on repeal received testimonial 1 Oct.
1861; amateur yachtsman, navigating his own vessel, the last
person who cruised in the Mediterranean with a pass from the dey
of Algiers 1830. (_m._ 23 Feb. 1832 Susanna Arethusa only child of
Rev. Sir T. G. Cullum, she was a leader in society and an advocate
of mesmerism and spiritualism, _d._ Paris 23 Feb. 1885 aged 71).
_d._ on board his yacht Resolute at Algiers 25 Feb. 1884. _bur._
Theberton churchyard 13 March. _G. H. Francis’s Orators of the
age_ (1847) 294–300; _J. Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 101–5;
_I.L.N. 31 Dec. 1842 p._ 541, _portrait_, _8 March 1884 pp._ 217,
227, _portrait_.

GIBSON, REV. WILLIAM (_son of James Gibson of Ballymena, co. Antrim,
merchant_). _b._ Ballymena 8 May 1808; Presbyterian minister of
First Ballybay, co. Monaghan 1834; colleague of Rev. S. Hannay in
Rosemary st. ch. Belfast 1840; professor of christian ethics in
the assembly’s coll. Belfast 1847; moderator of the general
assembly 1859; author of _The position of the church of Ireland
and the duty of presbyterians in reference to it_ 1835; _The year
of grace, a history of the Ulster revival of 1859_, _Edin._ 1860;
chief founder of the _Banner of Ulster_ newspaper 1842. _d._
Dublin 8 June 1867.

GIBSON, WILLIAM SIDNEY. _b._ Parson’s Green, Fulham, Middlesex 1814;
barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1845; registrar of Newcastle upon Tyne
district court of bankruptcy 1843 to 1870 when granted sum of
£1000 on abolition of the court; M.A. Durham 1857; F.S.A. 24 Feb.
1842; F.G.S.; author of _The history of the monastery founded at
Tynemouth 2 vols._ 1846–7; _Lord Lyndhurst In memoriam_ 1865, _new
ed._ 1869 and 11 other books. _d._ Grosvenor hotel, London 3 Jany.
1871. _bur._ in disused burial ground of the Old Priory,
Tynemouth. _Colburn’s New monthly mag. April 1871 p._ 244.

GIBSONE, JOHN CHARLES HOPE (_son of general D. A. Gibsone_). _b._ 21
May 1810; cornet 7 dragoon guards 1830, lieut. col. 1847–49;
lieut. col. 17 light dragoons 1860–62; col. of 8 hussars 10 Dec.
1868, of 17 lancers 22 Sep. 1875 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877.
_d._ Redcross lodge, Leamington 18 July 1884.

GIFFARD, SIR GEORGE MARKHAM (_4 son of the succeeding_). _b._
Portsmouth dockyard 4 Nov. 1813; ed. at Winchester and New coll.
Ox., fellow 1832; B.C.L. 1841; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1840;
practised in court of chancery; Q.C. Jany. 1859, bencher of his
inn 1859; vice chancellor March 1868; knighted at Windsor Castle
14 May 1868; a lord justice of appeal 1 Jany. 1869 to death; P.C.
4 Feb. 1869. _d._ 4 Princes gardens, Hyde park, London 13 July
1870. _Foss’s Biographia Juridica_ (1870) 299, 792; _I.L.N. lii_,
320 (1868), _portrait_, _lvii_, 107, 259 (1870).

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

GIFFARD, JOHN WALTER DE LONGUEVILLE (_eld. son of the succeeding_).
_b._ 1817; ed. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. and M.A. 1843; barrister
I.T. 19 Nov. 1843; reported in V.C. Stuart’s court 1852–70; judge
of county courts, circuit 12 (West Riding of Yorkshire), 15 March
1875, of circuit 58 (Devonshire) March 1883 to death; author of
_Reports of cases adjudged in court of chancery by Sir John Stuart
1858–1865_, _5 vols._ 1860–71; author with John Smale of _Reports
of cases adjudged in court of chancery by Sir John Stuart
1852–1857_, _3 vols._ 1855–58. _d._ North Huish near Ivybridge,
Devon 20 Oct. 1888.

GIFFARD, STANLEY LEES (_youngest son of John Giffard of Dromartin,
co. Dublin 1747–1819_). _b._ Dublin 4 Aug. 1788; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1811; barrister M.T. 24 May 1811;
edited _St. James’s Chronicle_ some years; edited _Standard_
newspaper 1827 to death; contributed articles to _Quarterly
Review_ and _Blackwood’s Mag._ _d._ Folkestone 6 Nov. 1858.

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

GIFFORD, JAMES (_eld. son of James Gifford, unitarian writer
1740–1813_). _b._ Halifax, Nova Scotia 20 Nov. 1768; midshipman
R.N. 1 Oct. 1783; captain 12 Aug. 1812 when he left the sea, rear
admiral 1 Oct. 1846; spent his income in works of benevolence and
in furthering cause of unitarianism; author of _The remonstrance
of a unitarian addressed to the Bishop of St. Davids’_ 1818, _2
ed._ 1820; _Letter of a unitarian to the minister of St. James’s
church, Jersey_ 1845. _d._ Mount Orgueil cottage near St. Helier,
Jersey 20 Aug. 1853.

GILBART, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ London 21 March 1794; clerk in a London
bank 1813; cashier in a Birmingham office 1825–7; manager of
branches of Provincial Bank of Ireland at Kilkenny and Waterford
1829–33; general manager of London and Westminster bank 1833–59
when he retired on pension of £1600, bank opened 10 March 1834;
F.R.S. 18 June 1846; author of _A practical treatise on banking_
1827, _6 ed._ 1856; _The history and principles of banking_ 1834
and 14 other books republished in _6 vols._ 1865. _d._ Brompton
crescent, London 8 Aug. 1863. _J. W. Gilbart’s Practical treatise
on banking_, _vol. i_ (1856), _portrait_; _Drawing room portrait
gallery of eminent_ personages, _3rd series_ (1860), _portrait_.

GILBERT, ANN (_eld. child of Rev. Isaac Taylor of Ongar 1759–1829_).
_b._ opposite Islington ch. London 30 Jany. 1782; engraved small
plates for Darton and Harvey’s juvenile works; co-author with her
sister Jane of _Original poems for infant minds 2 vols._ 1804–5;
_Hymns for infant minds_ 1810 and other books. (_m._ 24 Dec. 1813
Rev. Joseph Gilbert 1779–1852). _d._ College st. Nottingham 20
Dec. 1866. _Josiah Gilbert’s Autobiography of Mrs. Gilbert 2
vols._ (1874), _2 portraits_.

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

GILBERT, ELIZABETH MARGARETTA MARIA (_2 dau. of the preceding_).
_b._ Oxford 7 Aug. 1826; became entirely blind April 1829;
established work rooms for blind people at New Turnstile, Holborn,
London, May 1854 which developed into Association for promoting
the general welfare of the blind 1855; writer of fugitive verses.
_d._ 5 Stanhope place, Hyde park, London 7 Feb. 1885. _F. Martin’s
Elizabeth Gilbert and her works for the blind_ (1887), _portrait_.

GILBERT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Wrangle, Lincs. 20 March 1779;
Independent minister at Southend, Essex; classical tutor at
Rotherham college; pastor of Nether chapel, Sheffield 1818; pastor
of James st. chapel, Nottingham 1825, of Friar lane chapel,
Nottingham 1828 to 1851; chairman of Congregational Union 1833;
author of _The Christian Atonement, its basis, nature and
bearings_ 1836, _2 ed._ 1852. _d._ Nottingham 12 Dec. 1852. _A
biographical sketch of J. Gilbert, by his widow_ 1853 _pp._ 1–150.

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

GILBERT, MISS. _b._ Hants.; pupil of J. S. Rarey the horse tamer
1859; kept a riding school in London; the best performer with the
Queen’s hounds; the chief subject of Landseer’s picture called
“The pretty horsebreaker.” _d._ Dec. 1863. _I.L.N. xxxii_, 593,
594 (1858), _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1864 p._ 321.

GILBERT, RICHARD (_son of Robert Gilbert of St. John’s sq.
Clerkenwell, printer, who d. 10 Jany. 1815 aged 51_). _b._ St.
John’s sq. 1794; a printer with his brother in London 1815; head
of firm of Gilbert and Rivington, printers 1830 to death;
projected and edited _Clergyman’s Almanack_ 1818, _Gilbert’s
Clergyman’s Almanack_ 1835; author of _Liber Scholasticus_ 1829,
_2nd ed._ entitled _The parents school and college guide_ 1843;
_The Clerical guide, or ecclesiastical directory_ 1817 anon., _2
ed._ 1821 anon., _3 ed._ 1829, _4 ed._ 1836. _d._ 70 Euston sq.
London 26 Feb. 1852.

GILBERT, SIR WALTER RALEIGH, 1 Baronet (_3 son of Rev. Edmund
Gilbert, R. of Helland, Cornwall, who d. 1816_). _b._ Bodmin 18
March 1785; entered Bengal army 1800; lieut. col. 39 Bengal N.I.
1824; col. 35 Bengal N.I. 1832; commanded divisions in first and
second Sikh wars 1845–6 and 1849; col. 1 European regiment 1845 to
death; member of council of India 3 April 1850 to death; L.G. 11
Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 3 April 1846, G.C.B. 9 June 1849; created
baronet 31 Dec. 1850. _d._ Stevens’ hotel, Bond st. London 10 May
1853, memorial obelisk erected on the Beacon, Bodmin 1856–7. _G.M.
xxxix_, 652–3 (1853); _I.L.N. vii_, 269 (1845), _portrait_,
_viii_, 269 (1846), _portrait_, _xxii_, 404, 483 (1853);
_Bentley’s Miscellany xxxiii_, 627–32 (1853).

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

GILBERT, WILLIAM. Author of _On present system of rating for the
poor in the metropolis_ 1857; _De Profundis 2 vols._ 1864; _Sir
Thomas Bramston 3 vols._ 1869; _King George’s Middy_ 1869; _Doctor
Austin’s Guests 2 vols._ 1866; _The City, an enquiry into the
corporation, its livery companies_ 1877 and 20 other books; some
of his books are illustrated by his son W. S. Gilbert. _d._ The
Close, Salisbury 3 Jany. 1889 in 86 year. _Contemporary Review
xii_, 437–40 (1869).

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

GILCHRIST, ALEXANDER (_son of James Gilchrist of Newington Green,
London 1783–1835_). _b._ Newington Green 25 April 1828; ed. at
Univ. college school; barrister M.T. 3 May 1850; author of _Life
of William Etty, R.A. 2 vols._ 1855; _Life of William Blake,
Pictor Ignotus 2 vols._ 1863; contributed to _Eclectic Review_,
_Literary Review_ and _Critic_. _d._ 6 Cheyne row, Chelsea 30 Nov.
1861. _A. Gilchrist’s Life of W. Blake_, (_2 ed._ 1880) _ii_,
359–76.

GILCHRIST, ANNE (_dau. of John Parker Burrows, solicitor, d. 1839_).
_b._ 7 Gower st. London 25 Feb. 1828; educ. under the Misses
Cahusac at Highgate 1833; resided at Guildford and Chelsea 1828
etc.; in U.S. America 1876–79; friend of W. M. Rossetti 1862.
(_m._ 4 Feb. 1851 the preceding); author of _Lost in the woods_
1864; _Secular ethics of a national education_ 1872; _Mary Lamb_
1883; contributed to _Household Words_ and _Blackwood’s Mag._ _d._
Keat’s corner, Well road, Hampstead 29 Nov. 1885. _Life and
writings of Anne Gilchrist_ (1887), _with portraits_.

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

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

GILES, REV. HENRY. _b._ Cranford, Wexford 1 Nov. 1809; Unitarian
minister at Greenock 2 years, at Liverpool 3 years; went to
America 1840 where he became a brilliant lecturer; author of
_Lectures and essays 2 vols._ 1850; _Christian thought on life_
1850; _Human life in Shakespeare_ 1868, all at Boston, U.S.A., and
other books. _d._ Hyde park near Boston 10 July 1882.

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

GILES, REV. JOHN ALLEN (_eld. son of Wm. Giles of Mark, Somerset_).
_b._ Southwick house, Mark 26 Oct. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and
C.C. coll. Ox., scholar 1824, fellow 1832–33; double first class
1828; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.C.L. 1838; Vinerian scholar 1831;
head master of Camberwell coll. sch. 1834–6; head master of City
of London sch. 1836–40; C. of Bampton, Oxon. 1845–54; sentenced at
Oxford assizes 6 March 1855 to a year’s imprisonment in Oxford
Castle for making a false entry in marriage register book of
Bampton parish church, but released by royal warrant 4 June 1855;
C. of Perivale, Mid. 1857–61; R. of Sutton, Surrey 1867 to death;
published _Patres Ecclesiae Anglicanæ 34 vols._ 1837–43; _Life and
letters of Thomas Becket 2 vols._ 1846; _History of Bampton_ 1847,
_2 ed._ 1848; _Christian records on the age, authorship and
authenticity of the New Testament_ 1854 which he suppressed, and
80 other books. _d._ Sutton rectory 24 Sep. 1884.

GILES, VEN. JOHN DOUGLAS (_eld. son of Robert Giles of Wedmore,
Somerset_). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 28 Nov. 1828 aged 16,
exhibitioner 1828–32; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836; V. of Swinstead,
Lincs. 1840–50; R. of Belleau with Aby, Lincs. 1850–61; R. of
Willoughby, Lincs. 1861 to death; archdeacon of Stow 1863 to
death; precentor of Lincoln cath. April 1866 to death; author of
_Village sermons_ 1861. _d._ Willoughby rectory 5 Feb. 1867.

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

GILFILLAN, REV. GEORGE (_11 child of Rev. Samuel Gilfillan
1762–1826_). _b._ Comrie, Perthshire 30 Jany. 1813; ed. at Glasgow
coll.; licensed as a United Presbyterian minister 1835: minister
of the School-Wynd ch. Dundee, March 1836 to death; a successful
public lecturer; took an important part in political and religious
meetings; author of _Hades or the Unseen, a sermon_ 1843, _three
editions_; _A gallery of literary portraits_ 1845, _Second ser._
1850, _Third ser._ 1854; _Life of Robert Burns_ 1856; _History of
a Man: By B. E. ed. by G. G., a semi-autobiographical romance_
1856; _British Poets 6 vols._ 1853–60; _Night, a poem_ 1867 and
about 100 other books. _d._ Arnhalt, Brechin 13 Aug. 1878. _bur._
Balgay cemetery, Dundee, the funeral procession being 2 miles
long. _The lamps of the temple_, _3 ed._ (1856) 242–68; _Our
Scottish clergy 2 series_ (1849) 368–78; _P. R. Drummond’s
Perthshire_ (1879) 160–70.

GILFILLAN, JAMES (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Comrie,
Perthshire 11 May 1797; educ. Glasgow coll. 1808, and at the
divinity hall of antiburgher synod, Edin.; United Secession ch.
minister Stirling 24 Dec. 1822, resigned 1869; D.D. of Glasgow
univ. 1866; author of _The Sabbath viewed in the light of reason,
revelation and history_ 1861. _d._ Portobello near Edinburgh 28
Jany. 1874.

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

GILL, WILLIAM JOHN (_son of Robert Gill, major Madras army_). _b._
Bangalore 10 Sep. 1843; ed. at Brighton college and R.M. academy,
Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 11 Nov. 1864, captain 21 Dec. 1877 to
death; travelled in Persia with col. Valentine Baker 1873;
contested Hackney 1874, Nottingham 1880; travelled in China and
Tibet 1876–78; gold medallist of R.G.S. 26 May 1879; gold
medallist of Paris geographical society 1880; author of _The river
of golden sand 2 vols._ 1880; started from Suez for the desert 8
Aug. 1882, murdered by Bedouins at Wady Sudr 11 Aug. 1882. _bur._
in the crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 6 April 1883, stained glass
memorial window in Rochester cathedral. _W. J. Gill’s River of
golden sand_, _new ed._ (1883) _pp._ 19–66, _portrait_; _Graphic
xxvi_, 469 (1882), _portrait_.

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

GILLIES, MARGARET (_2 dau. of William Gillies, merchant_). _b._
Throgmorton st. London 7 Aug. 1803; educ. Edinburgh; had lessons
in painting from F. Cruikshank in London, and from Hendrik and Ary
Scheffer in Paris; Assoc. of Old Soc. of painters in water-colours
1852 and a constant contributor to its gallery; exhibited 101
subjects at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; some of
her best known works are Past and present 1855, The heavens are
telling 1856, Cercando Pace 1875; resided Church row, Hampstead,
but _d._ The Warren, Crockham hill, Kent 20 July 1887. _Clayton’s
English Female artists_ (1876) _ii_, 87–94; _Hays’s Women of the
Day_ (1885) 77–78.

GILLIES, MARY (_sister of the preceding_). Author of _The voyage of
the Constance_ 1860; _The Carewes_ 1861; _Great fun for our little
friends_ 1862; _More fun for little friends, by Harriet Myrtle_
1864. _d._ 1870.

GILLIES, ROBERT PIERCE (_son of Dr. Thomas Gillies. d. 1808_). _b._
at or near Arbroath 1788; educ. Edin. univ.; admitted advocate
1813; in pecuniary difficulties from 1813 to his decease;
imprisoned for debt 1847–9; friend of Scott and Wordsworth; an
early contributor to _Blackwood’s Mag._; called Kempferhausen in
the _Noctes Ambrosianæ_; founder and editor of _Foreign Quarterly
Review_, July 1827; resided in London 1827 and at Boulogne
1840–47; author of _Childe Alarique, a poet’s reverie, by R. P.
G._ 1814; _The confessions of Sir H. Longueville, by R. P. G. 2
vols._ 1814; _German stories 3 vols._ 1826; _Tales of a voyager to
the Arctic Ocean 6 vols._ 1826–29; _Memoirs of a literary veteran
3 vols._ 1851. _d._ Kensington 28 Nov. 1858.

GILLIS, MOST REV. JAMES (_only child of Alexander Gillis of
Fochabers, Elgin, who d. Nov. 1833_). _b._ Montreal 7 April 1802;
founded St. Margaret’s convent, Edinburgh for nuns of the Ursuline
order 16 June 1835; coadjutor bishop of Eastern district of
Scotland 28 July 1837; consecrated bishop of Limyra _in partibus_
22 July 1838; vicar apostolic of East of Scotland 24 May 1852 to
death; introduced the Jesuits into his district 1859; author of
_Facts relating to admission into catholic church of viscount and
viscountess Feilding_ 1850 and many letters and discourses. _d._
Greenhill near Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1864. _Gordon’s Catholic mission
in Scotland_ (18 ) 480, _portrait_; _History of St. Margaret’s
convent, Edinburgh_ (1886), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca
Canadensis_ (1867) 151–3.

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

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

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

GILLOW, REV. JOHN (_youngest son of John Gillow of Elswick Grange_).
_b._ 27 Feb. 1814; ed. at Ushaw college, Durham, professor of
mathematics there 1837–42, of natural philosophy 1842–50, of
dogmatic theology 1850–59 and 1863 to death, of moral theology
1859–60; canon theologian of cathedral chapter of Hexham 1857;
created D.D. by Pius ix, 1859; vice pres. of Ushaw college 1859 to
death. _d._ Ushaw college 9 Aug. 1877. _J. Gillow’s English
Catholics ii_, 476–81 (1885).

GILLY, REV. WILLIAM STEPHEN (_son of Rev. Wm. Gilly, R. of Wanstead,
Essex, who d. 23 Nov. 1837 aged 75_). _b._ 28 Jany. 1789; ed. at
Christ’s hospital and Caius and St. Catharine’s hall, Cam., B.A.
1812, M.A. 1817, D.D. 1833; R. of North Fambridge, Essex 1817;
canon of Durham 1826; P.C. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1827–51; V.
of Norham on the Tweed 1851 to death; canon residentiary of Durham
1853 to death; author of _The Spirit of the Gospel_ 1818; _A
memoir of Felix Neff_ 1832, _many eds._; _Our Protestant
Forefathers_ 1835, _many eds._, and numerous other books. _d._
Norham 10 Sep. 1855. _G.M. xliv_, 437–39 (1855).

GILPIN, REV. BERNARD (_4 son of Rev. Wm. Gilpin, R. of Pulverbatch,
Salop_). _b._ Cheam, Surrey 26 Jany. 1803; ed. at Queen’s coll.
Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; R. of St. Andrew, Hertford 15 Jany.
1829 to Oct. 1835 when he resigned and seceded from Church of
England; preached for 35 years in a chapel at Port Vale Bengeo,
Hertford, built for him by his followers. _d._ Pulverbatch 10
Jany. 1871. _Benson’s Memorials of B. Gilpin_ (1874), _with
portrait_.

GILPIN, CHARLES (_son of James Gilpin of Bristol_). _b._ Bristol
1815; publisher and bookseller in Bishopsgate st. London to 1853;
common councilman London 1848; parliamentary sec. of Poor law
board 28 June 1859 to 22 Feb. 1865; contested Perth 1852; M.P. for
Northampton, April 1857 to death; chairman of National freehold
land society. _d._ 10 Bedford sq. Holborn, London 8 Sep. 1874.
_The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 3rd
series_ (1860), _portrait_; _The statesmen of England_ (1862) _No.
45, portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxiii_, 92, 94 (1858), _portrait_, _lxv_,
260, 273, 379 (1874), _portrait_.

GILPIN, HENRY DILWOOD (_son of Joshua Gilpin of Philadelphia
1765–1840_). _b._ Lancaster 14 April 1801; ed. in England 1811–16;
graduated at Univ. of Pennsylvania 1819; attorney in Philadelphia
1822 to death; attorney general of the U.S. 1840–1; edited
_Atlantic Souvenir 7 vols._ 1826–32; published _Opinions of the
attorney generals of the United States 2 vols._, _Washington_ 1841
and other books. _d._ Philadelphia 29 Jany. 1860. _Memorials of H.
D. Gilpin, Privately printed Philadelphia_ (1860); _Appleton’s
American biography ii_, 659 (1887), _portrait_.

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

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

GIRAUD, HERBERT JOHN (_2 son of John Thomas Giraud, surgeon
1764–1836_). _b._ Faversham, Kent 14 April 1817; educ. Edin.
univ., M.D. 1840; entered service of H.E.I.C. 1842, professor of
chemistry and botany 1845 and then principal of Grant Medical
coll. Bombay; medical officer of Sir J. Jeejeeboy’s hospital;
chemical analyst to Bombay government; deputy inspector general of
Bombay army medical service, retired 1868; dean of faculty of
medicine, Bombay university 1863; writer of papers on botany and
chemistry. _d._ Shanklin, Isle of Wight 12 Jany. 1888.

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

GIRDLESTONE, REV. CHARLES (_2 son of Samuel Rainbow Girdlestone of
London, barrister_). _b._ London 6 March 1797; ed. at Wadham coll.
Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; fell. of Balliol coll. 1818–26; C. of
Hastings 1822–24; C. of Ferry Hincksey, Berks. 1824–26; select
preacher at Ox. 1825 and 1830; V. of Sedgley, Staffs. 1826–37; R.
of Alderley, Cheshire 1837–47; R. of Kingswinsford, Staffs.
1847–77; author of _The New Testament with a commentary 2 vols._
1832–5; _The Holy Bible with a commentary 4 vols._ 1842, _new ed.
6 vols._ 1873; _The question of the day, By the Creature of an
Hour_ 1857, and 60 other books. _d._ Holywell house,
Weston-super-Mare 28 April 1881.

GIRDLESTONE, REV. EDWARD (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 6
Sep. 1805; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., scholar 1823–6, B.A. 1826,
M.A. 1829; C. of Deane, Lancs. 1828, V. 1830–55; canon of Bristol
1854; V. of St. Nicholas with St. Leonard’s, Bristol 1855–58; V.
of Wapley, Gloucs. 1858–62; V. of Halberton, Devon 1862–72; V. of
Olveston, Gloucs. 1872 to death; author of _Sermons on Romanism
and Tractarianism_ 1851; _Remarks on Essays and Reviews_ 1861 and
15 other books. _d._ Canon’s house, Bristol 4 Dec. 1884. _Church
of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859) _part 6_,
_portrait_; _Church Portrait Journal, Aug. 1884 pp._ 57–60,
_portrait_.

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

GISBORNE, JOHN (_2 son of John Gisborne of Yoxall, Staffs._) _b._
St. Helen’s, Derby 26 Aug. 1770; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s
coll. Cam., B.A. 1792; author of _The Vales of Wever_ 1797;
_Reflections_ 1833 and other poems. _d._ Pentrich, Derbyshire 17
June 1851. _A brief memoir of the life of John Gisborne with
extracts from his diary_ (1852).

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

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

GIUGLINI, ANTONIO. _b._ Fano, Italy 1827; sang at Her Majesty’s
theatre, London 1857–58; sang with much success in the provinces
and abroad; had a sweet and high tenor voice, the best since
Tamberlik; became insane 1862. _d._ in an asylum at Pesaro, Italy
12 Oct. 1865. _Illust. sporting news iv_, 553 (1865), _portrait_.

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

GLADSTONE, JOHN NEILSON. _b._ 18 Jany. 1807; M.P. for Walsall 1841,
for Ipswich 1842–7, for Devizes 1852–7 and 1859 to death; sheriff
of Wilts. 1859. _d._ Bowden park, Wilts. 7 Feb. 1863. _I.L.N,
xxii_, 197, 198 (1853), _portrait_.

GLADSTONE, MURRAY (_6 son of Robert Gladstone of Liverpool
1773–1835_). _b._ Liverpool 14 Feb. 1816; employed in making
surveys for railways; a merchant at Calcutta 1844–50; established
firm of Gladstone, Latham & Co. in Manchester 1850; erected an
observatory at Penmaenmawr, North Wales; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1860.
_d._ suddenly while walking along the shore at Penmaenmawr 23 Aug.
1875. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxvi_, 142 (1876).

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

GLASGOW, JAMES CARR-BOYLE, 5 Earl of (_2 son of 4 Earl of Glasgow
1766–1843_). _b._ London 10 April 1792; served in the navy
1807–18, retired commander 5 Oct. 1867; assumed name of Carr
before Boyle 2 Aug. 1823; contested Ayrshire 1837, M.P. for
Ayrshire 1839–43; lord lieut. and sheriff principal of
Renfrewshire 21 Oct. 1844; kept many racehorses 1819 to death,
most of which were unnamed; won the Two thousand guineas and
Doncaster Cup with General Peel 1864; master of Renfrewshire fox
hounds. _d._ Hawkhead, Renfrewshire 11 March 1869. _Rice’s British
Turf_ (1879) _ii_, 242–55; _Saddle and Sirloin, By the Druid. Part
North_ (1870) 26–32; _Baily’s Mag. i_, 257–60 (1860), _portrait_.

GLASGOW, GEORGE FREDERICK BOYLE, 6 Earl of (_half-brother of the
preceding_). _b._ 9 Oct. 1825; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1847, M.A.
1852; M.P. for Buteshire, Feb. to July 1865, contested Buteshire,
July 1865; lord clerk register of Scotland 1879 to death;
principal keeper of the Signet. _d._ 32 Palmerston place,
Edinburgh 23 April 1890.

GLASS, JOSEPH. _b._ 1792; invented the chimney-sweeping machine now
in use for which he received a silver medal and prize of £200
about 1828; author of _Chimney-sweeping described_ 1834. _d._
Brixton, London 29 Dec. 1867.

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

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

GLAZEBROOK, THOMAS KIRKLAND (_son of Rev. James Glazebrook
1744–1803_). _b._ Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics. 4 June 1780; glass
manufacturer at Warrington; lived at Southport 1835 to death;
F.L.S.; printed many songs and poems; author of _The first eclogue
of Virgil translated into English verse_ 1807; _A guide to
Southport_ 1809, _2 ed._ 1826 and other books. _d._ Southport 17
Jany. 1855. _J. Kendrick’s Warrington Worthies_, _2 ed._ (1854)
_p._ 6, _portrait_.

GLEIG, REV. GEORGE ROBERT (_son of Right Rev. George Gleig
1753–1840, primate of Scotch episcopalian church_). _b._ Stirling
20 April 1796; ed. at Glasgow univ. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A.
1818, M.A. 1821; ensign 3 garrison battalion 1812; lieut. 85 foot
1813–16 when placed on h.p., sold out 1826; served in Peninsula
1813–14 and in American war; R. of Ivychurch, Kent 1822–80;
chaplain of Chelsea hospital 1834–40; principal chaplain to the
forces 1844–46, chaplain general 1846–75 when placed on h.p.;
inspector general of military schools 1846–57; preb. of St. Paul’s
29 Dec. 1848 to death; author of _The Subaltern_ 1826; _The
Chelsea pensioners_ 1829; _The history of the British Empire in
India 4 vols._ 1830–5; _Memoirs of the life of Warren Hastings 3
vols._ 1841 and 35 other books; the survivor of original
contributors to _Blackwood’s Mag._ and _Fraser’s Mag._ _d._
Stratfield Turgis near Winchfield 9 July 1888. _Maclise Portrait
Gallery_ (1883) 267–70, _portrait_; _Colburn’s New Monthly xlix_,
220–23 (1837), _portrait_.

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

GLENGALL, RICHARD BUTLER, 2 Earl of (_eld. child of 1 Earl of
Glengall 1775–1819_). _b._ 29 May 1794; succeeded his father 30
Jany. 1819; colonel of South Tipperary artillery 21 Nov. 1826 to
death; Irish representative peer 1 Sep. 1829 to death; wrote _The
Irish tutor_ 1823; _The follies of fashion, a comedy in 5 acts_
1830 and other dramatic works. _d._ Cowes, Isle of Wight 22 June
1858.

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

GLENNY, GEORGE. _b._ 1 Nov. 1793; gained many prizes at flower
shows; wrote a series of letters in _The British Luminary_ 1820 of
which he became editor; edited _Royal ladies’ magazine and St.
James’s Archives_; started _Horticultural Journal_ 1832; edited
_Gardener’s Gazette_, _Garden Journal_, _Practical Florist_,
_Glenny’s Journal_, _&c._; started the Metropolitan Society of
Florists and Amateurs 1832; author of _Cottage gardening_ 1847;
_The handy-book of gardening_ 1858; _The properties of Flowers and
plants_ 1864 and other books. _d._ Gipsy Hill, Norwood, Surrey 17
May 1874. _Gardener’s Mag. 23 May 1874 p._ 269, _portrait_.

GLEW, EDWARD LEES (_son of Thomas Faulkner Glew of Dublin,
solicitor_). _b._ Dublin 3 March 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin;
became a portrait painter; settled at Walsall; published _History
of the borough and foreign of Walsall, Walsall_ 1856; started a
newspaper in Birmingham; resided at 53 Beaver st. New York as a
painter; removed to Philadelphia, then to Trenton, New Jersey.
_d._ Newark, New Jersey 9 Oct. 1870. _Morning Advertiser 11 Oct.
1870 p. 3, col. 5._

GLIDDON, GEORGE ROBINS. _b._ Devonshire 1809; resided in Egypt
nearly 23 years; U.S. vice consul at Alexandria about 20 years;
lectured in Boston, New York and Philadelphia on Egyptian
antiquities; agent for Honduras interoceanic railway at time of
his death; author of _A memoir on the cotton of Egypt_ 1841;
_Discourses on Egyptian archæology_ 1841 and other books; author
with J. C. Nott of _Types of Mankind_ 1854, and edited L. F. A.
Maury’s _Indigenous races of the earth_ 1857. _d._ Panama 16 Nov.
1857.

GLOUCESTER and EDINBURGH, MARY, Duchess of (_4 dau. of King George
the Third 1738–1820_). _b._ 25 April 1776. (_m._ at Buckingham
palace 22 July 1816 her cousin Prince William Frederick, 2 Duke of
Gloucester and Edinburgh, _b._ 15 Jany. 1776, _d._ 30 Nov. 1834);
ranger and keeper of Richmond new park 30 Oct. 1850 to death. _d._
Gloucester house, Park lane, London 30 April 1857. _H. Martineau’s
Biographical Sketches_, 4 ed. (1876) 21–9; _I.L.N. xxx_, 434, 465,
466 (1857), _portrait_.

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

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

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

GLOVER, SARAH ANN (_eld. dau. of Rev. Edward Glover, R. of St.
Lawrence, Norwich_). Governess in family of Sir T. Fowell Buxton;
taught children at Norwich music on the Sol-faing mode 1815;
founded the Tonic Sol-fa method 1840 which Rev. John Curwen
modified and made popular 1844; entertained at a soirée in Jewin
st. schoolroom, London 20 April 1855; author of _A manual of the
Norwich Sol-fa system_ 1845; _Manual of Tetrachordal system_ 1850;
resided 11 St. Owen st. Hereford; portrait in Tonic Sol-fa coll.
Forest Gate, Essex. _d._ Great Malvern 20 Oct. 1867 aged 82.
_Memorials of J. Curwen_ (1882) _pp. viii_, 49, 173.

GLOVER, VEN. GEORGE (_son of George Glover of Wigan_). _b._ 1778;
ed. at Manchester sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A.
1811; R. of South Repps, Norfolk 1804 to death; archdeacon of
Sudbury 21 July 1823 to death; V. of Gayton, Norfolk 1831 to
death; author of _A course of sermons 2 vols._ 1859. _d._ South
Repps 4 May 1862, memorial brass on chancel floor of South Repps
church. _Manchester School Register ii_, 196–8 (1868).