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GLOVER, SIR JOHN HAWLEY (_son of rev. John Glover, English chaplain
at Cologne_). Entered R.N. 1841; in expedition to the Niger under
Dr. Baikie 1857–61; acting consul at Lagos 22 May to 21 Nov. 1863,
colonial secretary 9 May 1864 and administrator of the settlement
19 Oct. 1866 to 1872; commissioner to friendly natives near the
Gold coast 18 Aug. 1873; commanded 800 houssas in the march to
Coomassie 1874, received thanks of both houses of parliament;
G.C.M.G. 8 May 1874; governor of Newfoundland Jany. 1876 to June
1881, and 17 Dec. 1883 to death; retired captain 24 Nov. 1877;
governor of the Leeward islands Dec. 1881 to 17 Dec. 1883. _d._ 35
Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 30 Sept. 1885. _I.L.N. lxiv_. 384,
386 (1874), _portrait_.

GLOVER, PERCY CLABON (_2 son of Rev. Richard Glover, vicar of St.
Luke’s, West Holloway_). _b._ Holy Trinity parsonage, Maidstone 14
May 1856; educ. Highgate and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1880, M.A.
1883; founded the De Quincy soc. at his coll. 1878; served as
tutor with various families in England and abroad; his collar bone
fractured playing Lacrosse at Dulwich 5 March 1888. _d._ of
rheumatic fever at Addiscombe vicarage 1 April 1888. _Self
Discipline, a memoir of P. C. Glover by Rev. Richard Glover_
(1889), _with portrait_.

GLOVER, STEPHEN. Author of _The Peak guide, Derby_ 1830; _The
history and gazetteer of county of Derby, ed. by Thomas Noble,
vol. i, pt. i_, 1831, _vol. ii_, _pt. i_, 1833, never finished;
assisted Thomas Bateman in his _Vestiges of the Antiquities of
Derbyshire_ 1848. _d._ 26 Dec. 1869. _bur._ Moreton, Cheshire.

GLOVER, STEPHEN (_brother of Charles W. Glover 1806–63_). _b._
London 1812; teacher of music, London; composer of Merry is the
Greenwood, a cavatina 1847; Beauty and the beast, chamber opera
1868; The dream is past 1837, What are the wild waves saying 1850,
Stars of the summer night 1855, There is a sweet wild rose 1863,
duets; Annie on the Banks o’ Dee 1857, Emigrants’ Farewell 1850,
songs; and upwards of 1200 other works all of which commanded a
sale. _d._ 71 Talbot road, Bayswater, London 7 Dec. 1870. _Grove’s
Music and Musicians_ (1889) _iv_, 648–9.

GLOVER, WILLIAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister M.T. 23 Jany.
1829; serjeant at law 19 June 1840; purchased _Morning Chronicle_
from Duke of Newcastle, W. E. Gladstone and Sidney Herbert for
£7500 in 1854, receiving from them £3000 a year for 3 years;
engaged with Napoleon III. to edit the paper in his interest 1855,
brought actions against French government for breach of contract;
sold the paper to George Stiff 1860, it ceased 1862; author of _A
practical treatise on the law of municipal corporations_ 1836.
_d._ 3 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 21 Dec. 1870. _Grant’s
Newspaper Press_ (1871) _i_, 310–12.

GLOVER, WILLIAM HOWARD (_brother of Edmund Glover 1813–60_). _b._
Kilburn, London 6 June 1819; a violinist in Lyceum orchestra under
Wagstaff 1834; with his mother founded Music and dramatic agency
Soho sq. London; gave a season of opera in Manchester with his own
pupils; gave annual monster concerts at St. James’s hall and Drury
Lane; initiated performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony with
pictorial and choregraphic illustrations 1863, and of Israel in
Egypt 1865; his cantata Tam o’Shanter produced at Philharmonic 4
July 1855; his opera Ruy Blas brought out at Covent Garden 24 Oct.
1861; musical critic on _Morning Post_ 1849–65; conductor of
Niblo’s orchestra, New York 1868; _Palomita_ operetta produced at
Niblo’s 1875. _d._ New York 28 Oct. 1875.

GLYN, HENRY CARR. _b._ 17 April 1829; entered navy 4 March 1844;
captain 20 Aug. 1861; V.A. 9 June 1882; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ 32
Eaton place, London 16 Feb. 1884. _bur._ family vault, Stanbridge
church 21 Feb. _Illust. sp. and dr. news xx_, 661 (1884),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_, 205 (1884), _portrait_.

GLYN, ISABELLA DALLAS (_dau. of Mr. Gearns, architect_). _b._
Edinburgh 22 May 1823; appeared at Manchester under her mother’s
maiden name Glyn 8 Nov. 1847 as Constance in _King John_; at
Olympic, London as Lady Macbeth 26 Jany. 1848; played at Sadler’s
Wells 1848–51; gave her first Shakespearian reading Sep. 1851;
appeared at Drury Lane as Bianca in _Fazio_ 26 Dec. 1851, at St.
James’ 1854, at Standard 1855, at Sadler’s Wells 1859, at
Princess’s 1867; gave recitals at Boston, U.S.A. 1870; gave
Shakespeare readings at Steinway hall and St. James’ hall 1878,
1879; a theatrical instructor; the latest adherent of the Kemble
sch. of acting. _m._ (1) Edward Wills; _m._ (2) in Glasgow, Dec.
1853 and in London 12 July 1855 Eneas Sweetland Dallas _d._ 1879,
divorced on her petition 10 May 1874, she was imprisoned at
Holloway for contempt of court in declining to give up documents
relating to her divorce case, released 28 June 1876. _d._ of
cancer 13 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 18 May 1889. _The Duchess
of Malfi, with a memoir of Miss Glyn_ (1851) _pp._ 1–6,
_portrait_; _Tallis’s Dramatic Mag._ (1850) 37–40, _2 portraits_;
_Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 1–2, _portrait_, _and
parts_ 7, 10, 12, 17, 21, _5 portraits_; _The Players iii_, 391,
408 (1861), _portrait_.

GLYNN, HENRY RICHARD (_youngest son of John Glynn 1722–79, serjeant
at law, M.P. for Middlesex_). _b._ 2 Sep. 1768; entered navy 19
May 1780; captain 10 April 1797; admiral 9 Nov. 1846, placed on
half pay June 1851; mayor of Plymouth 1838. _d._ Bideford 20 July
1856.

GLYNN, JOSEPH (_son of James Glynn of Ouseburn iron foundry,
Newcastle_). _b._ Hanover sq. Newcastle 6 Feb. 1799; designed and
executed gas works for Berwick upon Tweed 1821; engineer to
Butterley iron co. Derbyshire; employed the water wheel or scoop
wheel for draining marshes and fens by steam power; chairman of
Eastern counties railway 2 years; M.I.C.E. 22 April 1828; member
of Society of Arts 16 Nov. 1836; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1838; author of
_Rudimentary treatise on the construction of cranes_ 1849, _4 ed._
1865. _d._ 28 Westbourne park villas, London 6 Feb. 1863.

GLYNNE, SIR STEPHEN RICHARD, 9 Baronet. _b._ Hawarden castle,
Flintshire 22 Sep. 1807; succeeded 5 March 1815; ed. at Eton and
Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; M.P. for Flint district 1832–5,
for Flintshire 1837–41 and 1842–47; lord lieut. of Flintshire 30
June 1845 to death; taken ill in street and _d._ Dr. Flack’s
surgery 56 High st. Shoreditch, London 17 June 1874. _Times 18,
19, 20 June 1874._

GOAD, JOHN. _b._ Plymouth 20 Feb. 1825; known universally as the
quarrier and worker of Devonshire marble having 4 large quarries
near Plymouth, supplied all the polished marble for interior of
the Oratory at Brompton, London 1854; found dead in his bed at his
residence, Buckingham place, Stonehouse, Plymouth 25 Jany. 1886.

GOBAT, RIGHT REV. SAMUEL. _b._ Cremuse, canton Berne, Switzerland 26
Jany. 1799; studied at Bale, Paris and London; entered service of
Church Missionary Soc., laboured in Abyssinia 1830–32; principal
of Missionary college, Malta 1839; nominated bishop of Jerusalem
by King of Prussia 1846; consecrated at Lambeth 5 July 1846;
naturalised in England by act of parliament 9 & 10 Vict. c. 49, 13
Aug. 1846; author of _Journal of a three years residence in
Abyssinia_ 1847. _d._ Jerusalem 11 May 1879.

GODBY, CHRISTOPHER. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 55 Bengal N.I.
1853 to death; L.G. 22 Nov. 1862; C.B. 21 May 1846. _d._ South
bank, Batheaston 8 Dec. 1867 aged 77.

GODDARD, GEORGE BOUVERIE. _b._ Salisbury 25 Dec. 1832; self taught
artist; spent 2 years in zoological gardens, London, studying
animal life 1849–51; drew sporting subjects on wood for Punch;
settled in London 1857; exhibited 19 paintings at R.A. and 2 at
Suffolk st. 1856–79; chiefly an animal painter; his principle
works were Lord Wolverton’s blood hounds 1875, The struggle for
existence 1879 now in Walker gallery, Liverpool, Love and War in
the Abbotsbury swannery 1883. _d._ 37 Brook green, Hammersmith,
London 6 March 1886.

GODFREY, ADOLPHUS FREDERICK (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1837;
bandmaster of the Coldstream Guards Dec. 1863 to death; wrote many
lancers, polkas, galops and quadrilles; confined in Peckham
lunatic asylum, Surrey 1 June 1881. _d._ there 28 Aug. 1882.

GODFREY, CHARLES. _b._ Kingston, Surrey 22 Nov. 1790; bandmaster of
Coldstream guards nearly 50 years; musician in ordinary to Wm. IV.
1831; editor and arranger of _Jullien’s Military Band Journal_
1847. _d._ London 12 Dec. 1863.

GODKIN, JAMES. _b._ Gorey, co. Wexford 1806; pastor of dissenting
ch. at Armagh 1834; missionary to Roman Catholics to 1845; went to
London as a journalist 1847; established in Belfast _The Christian
Patriot_ 1849; editor of _Derry Standard_; editor of _Daily
Express_, Dublin; member of Irish tenant league 1850; special
commissioner of _Irish Times_ to ascertain feeling of the farmers
on land question 1869; granted civil list pension of £90, 5 April
1869; author of _A guide from the church of Rome to the church of
Christ_ 1836, _3 ed._ 1845; _Ireland and her churches_ 1867; _The
land war in Ireland_ 1870 and other books. _d._ Upper Norwood,
Surrey 2 May 1879.

GODLEY, DENIS (_son of John Godley of Killigar, co. Leitrim_). _b._
1823; ensign 74 highlanders 1839; sec. to governor general of
Canada 1861–68; sec. to commission on Irish church temporalities
1869–81; sec. to Irish land commission 1881–88; C.B. 1881. _d._
Guardswell, Ascot 24 Jany. 1890.

GODLEY, JOHN ROBERT (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1814; ed. at
Harrow and Christ church, Ox., B.A. 1836; proposed to emigrate one
million Irish to Canada; contested Leitrim county 12 Aug. 1847;
Canterbury colony, New Zealand, founded by him and E. G. Wakefield
1850, guided Canterbury 1850–52, agent in England 1854–56;
commissioner of income tax Ireland 1853; assistant under secretary
at war 1855–61; F.R.G.S.; author of _Letters from America 2 vols_.
1844; _Observations on an Irish poor law_ 1847. _d._ 11 Gloucester
place, Portman square, London 17 Nov. 1861. _Selection from
writings and memoir by J. E. Fitzgerald_ (1863) 1–32, _portrait_.

GODWIN, EDWARD WILLIAM. _b._ Old Market st. Bristol 26 May 1833;
architect Bristol and then in partnership with Henry Crisp;
removed to London 1862; built Northampton and Congleton town
halls; assisted W. Burgess in his designs for new law courts
London, and R. W. Eddis in his designs for parliament houses
Berlin; designed theatrical costumes for Hamlet, Claudian, Helena
in Troas and the Bachelors 1886; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1862; F.R.I.B.A.;
a constant contributor to the _British Architect_; author of _Art
furniture by W. Watt, from designs by E. W. Godwin_ 1877; _Temple
Bar illustrated_ 1877; _A few notes on the architecture and
costumes of Claudian_ 1883 and other books. _d._ 6 Great College
st. Westminster 6 Oct. 1886. _British Architect 15 Oct. 1886 pp._
347–48, _portrait_.

GODWIN, GEORGE. _b._ Brompton, London 28 Jany. 1815; chief founder
of Art Union of London 14 Feb. 1837, hon. sec.; author of _The
last day_, a farce played at Olympic 28 Oct. 1840, and of several
dramas; editor of _The Builder_ Dec. 1842 to Oct. 1883; F.R.S. 7
March 1839; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1838; vice pres. of R.I. of British
Architects, gold medallist 1881, founded the Godwin bursary 1881;
architect of St. Mary’s ch. West Brompton and many other edifices;
restored St. Mary’s, Redcliffe, Bristol 1846–75; made a collection
of ancient chairs, including Shakespeare’s chair, sold 19 April
1888; author of _The churches of London 2 vols_. 1839; _A history
of St. Paul’s cathedral_ 1837; _Facts and fancies_ 1844; _History
in Ruins, letters on history of architecture_ 1853; _London
Shadows_ 1854; _Another blow for life_ 1864. _d._ 6 Cromwell
place, South Kensington 27 Jany. 1888. _Colburn’s New Monthly
Mag._, _vol. 167 p. 182_, _portrait_.

GODWIN, HENRY. Ensign 9 foot 30 Oct. 1799; lieut. col. 41 foot 26
July 1821; lieut. col. 87 foot 5 April 1827 to 25 June 1827, when
placed on h.p.; employed in 6 several commands during Burmese war
1824–6; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; recaptured Pegu Nov. 1852; col. 20 foot
25 Oct. 1853; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, gazetted K.C.B. 9 Dec. 1853;
author of _Burmah, Letters and papers written_ 1852–53, 1854. _d._
Simla, Bengal 26 Oct. 1853 aged 69.

GODWIN, JOHN. _b._ Swansea; pupil of Sir James M’Adam; engineer to
Ulster railway 1836–62; the first professor of engineering Queen’s
college, Belfast 1849; M.I.C.E. 24 June 1845. _d._ Tamnagharrie,
co. Down 15 Jany. 1869.

GODWIN, REV. JOHN HENSLEY. _b._ Bristol 18 June 1809; educ. Highbury
coll. 1833–36 and Edin. univ. 1836–37; congregational minister Old
Meeting, Norwich 1837; resident and philosophical tutor Highbury
coll. 1839; professor of New Testament exegesis, mental and moral
philosophy and English, New coll. 1850–72; author of _Christian
Baptism_ 1845; _Christian Faith_ 1852; _Translations of The
Revelations_ 1856, _St. Matthew_ 1863, _St. Mark_ 1869, _The
Epistle to the Galatians_ 1871 and _The Romans_ 1873; a
contributor to the _Contemporary Review_ and the _Evangelical
Mag_. _d._ 1 Belsize ter. Hampstead 26 Feb. 1889.

GODWIN, MARIANNE ELIZABETH. Caricaturist in London; signed her
pictures with the word “Jack.” _d._ University college hospital
London 12 Aug. 1887 from her muslin dress catching fire at the
ironing stove at her residence 13 Fitzroy sq. London.

GODWIN-AUSTEN, ROBERT ALFRED CLOYNE (_eld. son of Sir Henry Edmund
Austen_. 1785–1871). _b._ Shalford house, Guildford 17 March 1808;
ed. at Midhurst, Sussex and Oriel coll. Ox. fellow 1830, B.A.
1830; student of L.I. 1830; F.G.S. 19 March 1830, sec. 1843–4 and
1853–4; Wollaston medallist 1862; member of British Association
1846, pres. of geological section at Norwich 1868, and at Brighton
1872; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; made a splendid collection of palæozoic
fossils in Cornwall which he presented to Jermyn st. Museum; took
additional name of Godwin by royal license 1854; author of
numerous papers on geology in scientific journals. _d._ Shalford
house near Guildford 25 Nov. 1884. _Geological Mag. Jany_. 1885
_pp._ 1–10; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxviii_, _pp. ix-xiii_ (1885);
_Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xli_, 37–9 (1885).

GOLD, CHARLES EMILIUS. Ensign 65 foot 20 March 1828; lieut. col. 30
Dec. 1845 to 15 June 1860; L.G. 27 Dec. 1868. _d._ Dover 29 July
1871 aged 68.

GOLD, WILLIAM GEORGE. Second lieut. royal staff corps 7 April 1825;
lieut. col. of 53 foot 26 July 1844, of 4 foot 8 Dec. 1848 to 7
Sep. 1852, when placed on h.p.; col. of 32 foot 28 Aug. 1865, of
53 foot 2 Feb. 1867 to death; L.G. 29 March 1868. _d._ Garthmyl
hall, Montgomeryshire 26 Dec. 1868 aged 68.

GOLDFINCH, SIR HENRY (_son of Henry Goldfinch of Peckham, Surrey_).
_b._ London 1781; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 March 1790, col. 10 Jany. 1837,
col. commandant 17 Feb. 1854 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4
June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852. _d._ 11 Upper Wimpole st. London
21 Nov. 1854.

GOLDIE, GEORGE. _b._ Mornay house, Edinburgh 25 Oct. 1784; ed. at
Univ. of Edin. M.D. 1808; L.R.C.P. London 1812; practised in
London 1812 at Warminster, at York 1815 to about 1849; phys. to
York county hospital 1822–33; took charge of cholera hospital at
York during epidemic of cholera 1831; took an active part in
agitation for Catholic emancipation; contributed to _British and
Foreign Medical Review_ and medical journals. _d._ Sheffield 2 May
1853. _J. Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 510–13 (1885).

GOLDIE, GEORGE (_son of the preceding_). _b._ York 1828; ed. at St.
Cuthbert’s coll. near Durham; pupil and afterwards partner of
Messrs. Hatfield and Weightman of Sheffield, architects; practised
in London; designed pro-cathedral at Kensington, cathedral at
Sligo and many other Roman Catholic churches, convents, &c. in
Great Britain and Ireland; A.R.I.B.A. _d._ 9 Kensington sq. London
1 March 1887.

GOLDIE, SIR GEORGE LEIGH. Cornet 6 dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1803;
lieut. col. 11 foot 29 May 1835 to 26 Feb. 1841, when placed on
h.p.; col. of 77 foot 22 Dec. 1854, of 35 foot 13 Feb. 1861 to
death; general 6 Nov. 1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June
1861. _d._ Claremont Southampton 26 March 1863 aged 72.

GOLDING, BENJAMIN. _b._ Essex; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ., M.D. 6
Dec. 1823; L.R.C.P. London 4 June 1825; physician to West London
infirmary, founded the Charing Cross hospital which was the
infirmary rebuilt and renamed 1831, director of it to death;
published _An historical account of St. Thomas’s hospital,
Southwark_ 1819. _d._ The Boltons, West Brompton, London 21 June
1863 aged 69.

GOLDING, RICHARD. _b._ London 15 Aug. 1785; engraved B. West’s Death
of Nelson, book plates for Don Quixote and Gil Blas, Sir T.
Lawrence’s Princess Charlotte of Wales 1818, Westall’s Princess
Victoria, W. Fowler’s Princess Victoria 1830 and Rubens’ St.
Ambrose refusing Theodosius admission into the Church; commenced
engraving Maclise’s A Peep into Futurity, for the Art Union 1842
which was still unfinished in 1852. _d._ in a poor lodging
Stebbington st. St. Pancras, London 28 Dec. 1865. _bur._ Highgate
cemetery, body exhumed Sep. 1866 on a suspicion that he had been
poisoned by his doctor.

GOLDNEY, PHILIP (_2 son of Thomas Goldney of Clifton_). _b._ London
21 Nov. 1802; cadet H.E.I.C.S. 1821, capt. 11 June 1836; learned
the native languages and Persian; collector and magistrate in Sind
1844; commissioner in charge of Fyzabad to 1857; lieut. col. 53
Bengal N.I. 1853–56, 22 Bengal N.I. 1856–57, 38 Bengal N.I. 1857
to death; shot by the mutineers on an island in the Gograh 9 June
1857.

GOLDSBROUGH, RICHARD. _b._ Shipley near Bradford, Yorks. 1821; wool
merchant Bradford 1842; went to Adelaide, Australia, settled in
Melbourne 1847 and became a dealer in wool, etc. 1848; in
partnership with Edward Rowe and George Kirk 1853 as dealers in
stations, stock and wool; amalgamated with Australian agency and
banking corporation 1881 when the consolidated concern became a
limited co. and himself chairman, capital 3 millions; steward of
Victoria racing club from its foundation. _d._ Melbourne 8 April
1886.

GOLDSMID, ANNA MARIA (_sister of the succeeding_). Pupil of Thomas
Campbell the poet, who gave her some of his manuscripts which she
bequeathed to British Museum; gave large sums to charity, often
anonymously; published many original pamphlets on education;
translated L. Philippsohn’s _The development of the religious idea
in Judaism_ 1855 and J. Cohen’s _The Deicides, Analysis of the
life of Jesus_ 1872 and other books. _d._ 26 Cambridge sq. Hyde
park, London 8 Feb. 1889 aged 84.

GOLDSMID, SIR FRANCIS HENRY, 2 Baronet (_2 son of Sir Isaac Lyon
Goldsmid, 1 baronet 1778–1859_). _b._ Spital sq. London 1 May
1808; barrister L.I. 31 Jany. 1833, bencher 11 Jany. 1858; Q.C. 9
Jany. 1858, the first Jew called to the English bar and the first
Jewish Q.C. and bencher; pres. of senate of Univ. coll. London,
where is portrait of him by R. Lehmann; M.P. for Reading 11 Jany.
1860 to death; founded Jews’ infant sch. 1841, now largest infant
sch. in England; founded Anglo-Jewish Association 1871; author of
many pamphlets. _d._ St. Thomas’s hospital, London 2 May 1878 from
effects of an accident at Waterloo station same day. _Memoir of
Sir F. H. Goldsmid, by D. W. Marks and Albert Löwy_, 2 ed. (1882),
_portrait_.

GOLDSMID, FREDERICK DAVID. _b._ London 1812; M.P. for Honiton 12
July 1865 to death. _d._ 20 Portman sq. London 18 March 1866,
personalty sworn under £400,000 23 June 1866.

GOLDSMID, HENRY EDWARD (_son of Edward Goldsmid of Upper Harley st.
London_). _b._ 9 May 1812; educ. Haileybury coll. where he learnt
Persian and Hindustani; went to Bombay 1832; assistant revenue
commissioner Tauna 1835 when he devised the revenue survey and
assessment system which was applied to the whole of the lands in
Bombay 1865–68 with great success; sec. to Bombay government in
revenue department 1848 and chief sec. 1854. _d._ Cairo 3 Jany.
1855.

GOLDSMID, SIR ISAAC LYON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Asher Goldsmid of
Finsbury sq. London who d. 1 Nov. 1822_). _b._ Bury st. St. Mary
Axe, London 13 Jany. 1778; member of firm of Mocatta and Goldsmid,
bullion brokers; treasurer of Univ. coll. hospital 1839–57;
created baronet 15 Oct. 1841, being the first Jew so created;
created Baron de Goldsmid and Da Palmeira of Portugal 1846;
endowed chair of geology in Univ. coll. London, where is portrait
of him by B. R. Faulkner; F.R.S. 13 March 1828. _d._ St. John’s
lodge, Regent’s park, London 27 April 1859. _J. Picciotto’s
Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history_ (1875) 249–56; _N. H. Nixon’s
History of North London hospital_ (1882), 16–18; _Banker’s Mag.
June 1859, pp._ 375–82, _July 1859, pp._ 449–57, _April 1860, pp._
220–4.

GOLDSMITH, GEORGE (_son of John Goldsmith, paymaster R.N._) Entered
navy 20 June 1821; captain 16 Sep. 1842; superintendent of Chatham
dockyard 1856–61; admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; granted
Greenwich hospital pension 1866. _d._ 35 Victoria road, Old
Charlton, Kent 2 July 1888 in 82 year.

GOLDSTUECKER, THEODOR. _b._ Königsberg, Prussia 18 Jany. 1821; Ph.D.
Königsberg 1840; came to England 1850; contributed to _Chambers’
Encyclopædia_ 1862–68 and to _Westminster Review_; professor of
Sanskrit in Univ. coll. London May 1852 to death; chief founder of
Sanskrit Text Society 1866; pres. of Philological Soc. to death;
author of _On the Mahâbhârata_ 1868 and other books. _d._ 14 St.
George’s sq. Primrose hill, London 6 March 1872. _Goldstuecker’s
Literary Remains 2 vols._ (1879); _Trubner’s Record vii_, 109, 145
(1872).

GOLIGHTLY, REV. CHARLES POURTALES (_2 son of William Golightly of
Ham, Surrey_). _b._ 23 May 1807; educ. Eton and at Oriel coll.
Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; C. of Penshurst, Kent 1828; C. of
Littlemore, Oxford 1836; C. of Godalming, Surrey 1839–41; C. of
Headington Quarry, Oxford 1849–58; C. of Marston, Ox. 1858–68; a
prominent opponent of the ritualistic movement 1840; author of
_Look at home or a short and easy method with the Roman Catholics_
1837; _Brief remarks upon No. 90 of the Tracts for the Times_
1841, and many other works against Ritualism. _d._ 6 Holywell st.
Oxford 25 Dec. 1885. _E. M. Goulburn’s Reminiscenses of C. P.
Golightly_ (1886); _Mozley’s Reminiscences ii_, 108–13 (1882).

GOLLOP, GEORGE TILLY (_elder son of Thomas Gollop of Sherborne
1745–93_). _b._ 11 Oct. 1791; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.; student
of I.T. 1811; made a tour on the continent, riding from Holland to
Vienna and on to Naples 1814; held the estate of Strode, Dorset
1793 to death 96 years; published a vol. of translations of
several poems of Schiller, and translations of Eichhorn’s
_Introduction to the New Testament_ and _Introduction to the Old
Testament_. _d._ Strode manor, Dorset 22 Feb. 1889.

GOMERSAL, EDWARD ALEXANDER (_son of a military officer_). _b._
Gomersal near Leeds; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre
16 Sep. 1811; spoke the first words upon boards of new T.R.
Windsor; played Napoleon in _The Battle of Waterloo_ at Astley’s
about 1817, acted same character in every amphitheatre in Great
Britain; proprietor with B. O. Conquest of Garrick theatre,
Whitechapel to 4 Nov. 1846 when it was burned down; is referred to
in the _Bon Gaultier Ballads_ and _The Newcomes_. _d._ Leeds 19
Oct. 1862 aged 74. _Era 26 Oct. 1862 p. 10, col. 4._

GOMM, SIR WILLIAM MAYNARD (_1 son of lieut. col. William Gomme,
killed 1794_). _b._ Barbadoes 10 Nov. 1784; gazetted ensign 9
regt. 24 May 1794; served in Holland 1799, Spain 1800, Hanover
1805, Baltic 1807, Peninsula 1808–9, 1810–14, at Quatre Bras and
Waterloo 1815; lieut. col. of Coldstream guards 1836; K.C.B. 2
Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; commander in Jamaica 1839–41;
governor of Mauritius 1842–49; col. of 13 foot 10 March 1846, of
Coldstream guards 15 Aug. 1863 to death; commander in chief in
India, Jany. 1851 to Dec. 1855, general 1854, field marshal 1
Jany. 1868; constable of Tower of London 31 Oct. 1872 to death;
knight of St. Anne of Russia 1815, of St. Vladimir 1874; author of
_The story of Newcastle, Jamaica, etc._ 1864; five Field-marshal
Gomm scholarships founded at Keble coll. Ox. by the will of his
widow who _d._ 30 Nov. 1877 leaving £15,000 for the purpose. He
_d._ Brighton 15 March 1875. _bur._ Ch. Ch. Rotherhithe. _I.L.N.
lxi_, 412, 414 (1872), _portrait_; _Graphic xi_, 315 (1875),
_portrait_; _Letters and Journals of Sir W. M. Gomm_ (1881),
_portrait_.

NOTE.—The public house Sir William Gomm, 44 Abbeyfield road,
Rotherhithe, London, is named after him.

GOMPERTZ, BENJAMIN (_son of Mr. Gompertz, diamond merchant_). _b._
Bury st. London 5 March 1779; a stock broker; president of Old
Mathematical soc. of Crispin st. Spitalfields which became
Astronomical soc. 1820, member of council 1821–31; F.R.S. 29 June
1819; F.R.A.S., member of council 1832, contributed to the
complete catalogue of stars; actuary of Alliance British and
Foreign assurance Co. 1824–48; propounded the law of human
mortality 1825; author of _The principles and application of
imaginary quantities 2 vols._ 1817–18; _Hints on Porisms_ 1850.
_d._ 1 Kennington terrace, Vauxhall, London 14 July 1865.
_Assurance Mag. April 1866, pp._ 1–20; _Walford’s Insurance
Cyclop. v_, 437–54 (1878).

GOMPERTZ, LEWIS (_younger brother of the preceding_). Spent his life
in enforcing kindness to animals; a strict vegetarian and would
never ride in a coach; hon. sec. of soc. for prevention of cruelty
to animals 1826–32; founded the Animals’ Friend soc. 1832; edited
_The Animals’ Friend or the Progress of Humanity_ 1846; invented
shot proof ships, fortifications for reflecting the balls to the
place fired from, a mechanical cure for apoplexy, and the
expanding chuck which is now found attached to lathes in
workshops; author of _Mechanical inventions and suggestions on
locomotion_ 1850; _Fragments in defence of animals_ 1852. _d._ 5
Kennington oval, London. 2 Dec. 1861. _Fragments in defence of
animals by L. Gompertz_ (1852), _portrait_.

GOOCH, SIR DANIEL, 1 Baronet. (_3 son of John Gooch of Bedlington,
Northumberland 1783–1833_). _b._ Bedlington 24 Aug. 1816; chief
locomotive engineer to Great Western Railway Company 1837–1864,
chairman Nov. 1866 to death; M.P. for Cricklade 1865–85; comr. on
Trades Union; Chairman of Great Eastern Steamship Co.; Chairman of
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company; one of purchasers
of Great Eastern Steamship, with a view to her being employed in
laying Atlantic cable, and this having been effected in 1866,
created baronet 15 Nov. 1866, being first engineer made a baronet.
_d._ Clewer park, Windsor 15 Oct. 1889. _Biograph, March to April
1882 pp._ 329–32; _Touchstone 29 March 1879 pp._ 1–2, _portrait_;
_Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxvi_, 1390 (1879), _portrait_.

GOOCH, SIR EDWARD SHERLOCK, 6 Baronet. _b._ Holbecks, Suffolk 1802;
M.P. for East Suffolk 19 Feb. 1846 to death; provincial grand
master of freemasons 1851 to death; succeeded 18 Dec. 1851. _d._
Benacre hall, Suffolk 9 Nov. 1856.

GOOCH, REV. JOHN HENRY. _b._ Suffolk; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
scholar, 14 wrangler 1834, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; assist. master
Wakefield proprietory sch. 1838–40; master of Heath gr. sch.
Halifax 1840–61; Inc. of Stainland near Halifax 1841–60; author of
_Church catechism expanded_ 1851. _d._ 22 July 1861 aged 60. _T.
Cox’s History of Heath gr. sch._ (1879) 45, 77, _portrait_.

GOOCH, THOMAS LONGRIDGE (_eld. son of John Gooch_). _b._ London 1
Nov. 1808; pupil of George Stephenson 1823–29; made working
drawings for Liverpool and Manchester railway 1827–8, resident
engineer on it at Liverpool 1829–30, had charge of the Dart
locomotive on opening of the line 1830; resident engineer on
London and Birmingham line 1833; with G. Stephenson joint
principal engineer of Manchester and Leeds line 1839–41 and alone
1841–44; with G. Stephenson and G. P. Bidder engineer of Trent
valley line 1845; retired from business 1851; as an engineer
second only to the Stephensons and Brunel; M.I.C.E. 3 June 1845.
_d._ Team lodge, Gateshead 23 Nov. 1882. _Min. of proc. of Instit.
of C.E. lxxii_, 300–8 (1883).

GOOCH, SIR THOMAS SHERLOCK, 5 Baronet. _b._ 2 Nov. 1767; M.P. for
Suffolk 1806–30; succeeded his father 7 April 1826; chairman of
Suffolk quarter sessions to 1843. _d._ Benacre hall, Suffolk 18
Dec. 1851.

GOOD, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ Sambrook, Shropshire 18 Nov. 1775; articled
to Sir John Sloane 1795–99; built Apps’ Court park, Surrey and
Horndean, Hampshire; surveyor to Thavies estate, Holborn, and
parish of St. Andrew’s, Holborn; surveyor to Armourers’ co. 1819,
built new hall Coleman st. 1840; architect to Royal Pavilion,
Brighton 1822, to the commissioners for building new churches
1826; clerk of works to the Tower, Royal Mint, Fleet and King’s
bench prisons, etc. 1830 and Kensington palace 1831; F.R.I.B.A.
1834. _d._ Palace Green, Kensington 20 Nov. 1857.

GOOD, THOMAS SWORD. _b._ Berwick-upon-Tweed 4 Dec. 1789; a house
painter, produced cheap portraits; a genre painter of domestic
subjects; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 43 at B.I. and 2 at
Suffolk st. 1820–34; his chief paintings are Coast scene with a
fisherman 1833, The Newspaper, No News, and Study of a boy, all in
the National gallery; J. W. Barnes of Durham has a large
collection of his works. _d._ in a house on the Quay walls,
Berwick 15 April 1872.

GOODALL, EDWARD. _b._ Leeds 17 Sept. 1795; self-taught, from 1811
practised engraving and painting; commenced engraving Turner’s
pictures 1823 and produced a long series; engraved Stanfield’s The
Castle of Ischia and F. Goodall’s The Piper, for the Art Union of
London; etched Maclise’s Shakspeare’s Seven Ages 1850; exhibited 2
engravings at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1822–41. _d._
143 Hampstead road, London 11 April 1870.

GOODALL, FREDERICK TREVELYAN (_son of Frederick Goodall, R.A._)
Student at R.A., gold medal for his picture The return of Ulysses
1869; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A. 1868–71. _d._ Capri, Italy
from an accident 11 April 1871 aged 23.

GOODALL, HOWARD (_brother of the preceding_). Exhibited at R.A.,
Nydia in the house of Glaucus 1870 and Capri girls winnowing 1873.
_d._ Cairo 17 Jany. 1874 aged 24.

GOODALL, ISABELLA. _b._ Liverpool 10 Aug. 1851; appeared at Royal
amphitheatre, Liverpool 1865 in _The Middy ashore_; appeared in
London at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April 1866 as Coralie in _A
winning hazard_; burlesque actress at Strand theatre London
several years. _d._ 124 Pentonville road, London 3 Feb. 1884.
_bur._ Norwood cemetery 9 Feb. beside her mother, her sister Annie
(actress _d._ 1 March 1877 aged 30), and her brother.

GOODALL, WALTER (_youngest son of Edward Goodall 1795–1870_). _b._ 6
Nov. 1830; studied at Somerset house and Royal academy; Assoc. of
Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1853, mem. 1862; exhibited 3
drawings at R.A. 1852 and works at Royal Manchester Institution;
his Lottery Ticket shown at Philadelphia Centennial exhib. 1876;
made drawings from pictures in Vernon gallery for Art Union;
published _Walter Goodall’s Rustic Sketches_. _d._ Clapham near
Bedford 14 May 1889.

GOODALL, WILLIAM. Whip of the Belvoir fox hounds 1837–42, huntsman
1842 to death. _d._ The Kennels near Belvoir 17 May 1859. _Scott
and Sebright, By the Druid_ (1862) 408–11; _Silk and Scarlet, By
the Druid_ (1859) 372, _portrait_; _Sporting Review xli_, 398–400
(1859).

GOODE, JOHN. Ensign 3 West India foot 5 Sep. 1811; lieut. 10 foot 10
Aug. 1826 to 20 Feb. 1835, captain on h.p. 20 Feb. 1835 to death;
arrested at 218 Regent street, London 4 Nov. 1837 for making use
of threatening gestures and language to Queen Victoria in the
Birdcage walk same day, declared before the authorities that he
was John the Second king of England, son of George iv. and Queen
Caroline, and was born in Montague place, Blackheath; tried in
Court of Queen’s Bench for using seditious language to the Queen
and sent to Bethlehem hospital as insane 18 Nov. 1837, moved to
Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum March 1864 where he _d._ from
natural decay 10 Feb. 1883. _Times 6, 7, 20 Nov. 1837._

GOODE, VERY REV. WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Wm. Goode 1762–1816, R. of
St. Andrew’s and St. Ann’s, Blackfriars, London_). _b._ 10 Nov.
1801; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A.
1828, D.D. 1860; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1825–35; R. of
St. Antholin’s, Watling st. 1835–49; R. of Allhallows, Thames st.
1849–56; Warburtonian lecturer 1853–57; R. of St. Margaret,
Lothbury 1856–60; dean of Ripon 10 May 1860 to death; edited
_Christian Observer_; author of _A memoir of the Rev. W. Goode_,
_2 ed._ 1828; _A brief history of church rates_, _2 ed._ 1838;
_The divine rule of faith and practice 2 vols._ 1842, _new ed. 3
vols._ 1853, and 6 other books; found dead in his bed at the
Deanery, Ripon 13 Aug. 1868. _I.L.N. liii_, 187 (1868).

GOODENOUGH, JAMES GRAHAM (_son of Rev. Edmund Goodenough 1785–1845,
dean of Wells_). _b._ Stoke hill near Guildford 3 Dec. 1830; ed.
at Westminster; naval cadet 7 May 1844, captain 9 May 1863;
captain of the Minotaur 1867–70; worked for the _Daily News_
French peasant relief fund 1870; naval attaché to all maritime
courts of Europe 1871–73; commodore of the Australian station 22
May 1873 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1875; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ on
board the Pearl about 500 miles from Sydney 20 Aug. 1875 from
arrow wounds received at Carlyon bay, island of Santa Cruz 12 Aug.
_bur._ St. Leonard’s cemetery, north shore of Sydney harbour 24
Aug., bust by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe in painted hall Greenwich
hospital; the ‘Goodenough royal naval home’ in Sydney was founded
in his honour. _Journal of Commodore Goodenough, edited with a
memoir by his widow_ (1876), _portrait_; _H. A. Page’s Leaders of
men_ (1880) 140–78; _Graphic xi_, 269 (1875), _portrait_.

GOODENOUGH, VEN. WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Edmund Goodenough, V. of
Swindon, Wilts., who d. 8 Nov. 1807 aged 62_). Ed. at Westminster;
matric. at Ch. Ch. Ox. 9 June 1790 aged 17; kept a school at
Ealing, Middlesex; V. of Warkworth, Northumberland 1811, of
Mareham le Fen, Lincs. 1818 to death; archdeacon of Carlisle 20
June 1827 to death; V. of Great Salkeld, Cumberland 1827 to death.
_d._ Mareham le Fen 13 Dec. 1854.

GOODEVE, JOSEPH (_3 son of John Goodeve of Bury hall, Hants._) _b._
Gosport, Hants. 1801; barrister I.T. 28 Nov. 1829; wrote for
_Westminster Review_ and _Monthly Mag._; professor of English law
at Presidency coll. Calcutta 1860; master in equity of supreme
court of Calcutta 1861; author of _The law of evidence as
administered in England and applied to India_ 1862. _d._ Cook’s
Folly near Bristol 29 Jany. 1865. _bur._ Norwood cemetery, Surrey.

GOODEVE, LOUIS ARTHUR (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 11 Jany. 1841;
ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., junior student 1859–66; B.A.
1862; barrister M.T. 9 June 1865; practised at Calcutta; editor
and sec. of _Bengal Law Reports_ 1868–70 and 1873; superintendent
of law and jurisprudence Presidency coll. Calcutta 1871; law
lecturer Bristol Univ. coll. 1878–80; author of _Railway
passengers and railway companies_ 1877; _Modern law of real
property_ 1883, _2 ed._ 1885; _Modern law of personal property_
1887 and other books. _d._ Clayton villa, Clifton park, Clifton 13
March 1888.

GOODFELLOW, SAMUEL. Second lieut. Bombay engineers 1795, col. 29
July 1825 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ 19 Fitzroy sq. London
14 June 1860.

GOODFORD, REV. CHARLES OLD (_2 son of Rev. John Goodford of Chilton
Cantelo, Somerset 1784–1835_). _b._ Chilton Cantelo 15 July 1812;
ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., fellow to 1844; B.A. 1836, M.A.
1839, D.D. 1853; assistant master at Eton 1835, head master
1853–62, provost 27 Jany. 1862 to death; R. of Chilton Cantelo
1856 to death; edited _P. Terentii Afri Comœdiæ_ 1854. _d._ The
lodge, Eton 9 May 1884. _Lyte’s Eton College_ (1875) 475–8, 517,
519; _I.L.N. 17 May 1884 pp._ 465, 475, _portrait_; _Graphic 7
June 1884 pp._ 546, 549, _portrait_.

GOODLAKE, FRANCIS. Printer and publisher of _The Times_ 1858–1882
when he retired on pension. _d._ Brixton 12 April 1890 in 68 year.

GOODLAKE, GERALD LITTLEHALES (_youngest son of T. M. Goodlake of
Letcombe, Berkshire 1807–77_). _b._ Wadley, Berkshire 14 May 1832;
ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 21 foot 14 June 1850; ensign Coldstream
guards 27 June 1851, major 14 Aug. 1872 to 7 Aug. 1875 when placed
on h.p.; D.A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1855–1856; A.D.C. to the Queen
1869–1879; M.G. 11 Aug. 1879; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; one of the best
all-round sportsmen of his time. _d._ Denham fishery, Uxbridge 5
April 1890. _Baily’s Mag. xxxii_, 373 (1878), _portrait_;
_Sporting Mirror ii_, 197–8 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic 26 April
1890 p._ 533, _portrait_.

GOODMAN, SIR GEORGE (_son of Benjamin Goodman of Leeds, who d. 10
June 1848 aged 85_). Woolstapler at Leeds and Bradford; mayor of
Leeds 1836, 1847 and 9 Nov. 1850 to 20 March 1852; represented
Leeds at Great Exhibition 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 26
Feb. 1852; M.P. for Leeds 1852–1857. _d._ Roundhay near Leeds 13
Oct. 1859 aged 67. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865)
477–80.

GOODSIR, JOHN (_eld. son of John Goodsir of Anstruther, Fife,
surgeon_). _b._ Anstruther 14 March 1814; ed. at St. Andrews and
Univ. of Edin.; L.C.S. Edin. 1836, curator of Museum 1841–43;
curator of Museum in Univ. of Edin. 1845–46; professor of anatomy
in Univ. of Edin. 1846 to Dec. 1866; author of _Anatomical and
pathological observations_ 1845; conducted _Annals of anatomy and
physiology_, _Nos._ 1–3, 1850–53. _d._ South Cottage, Wardie near
Edinburgh 6 March 1867. _J. Goodsir’s Anatomical memoirs, edited
by W. Turner i_, 1–191 (1868), _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc.
xvi_, 14–16 (1868).

GOODWIN, CHARLES WYCLIFFE (_eld. son of Charles Goodwin of King’s
Lynn, Norfolk, solicitor_). _b._ King’s Lynn 1817; ed. at St.
Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 14 Nov.
1848; edited the _Literary Gazette_ 1871, _The Parthenon_ 1872;
assistant judge of supreme court for China and Japan 31 March
1865, acting judge 1869 and 22 May 1876 to death; wrote essays on
_Hieratic Papyri_ in _Cambridge Essays_ 1858, and _On the Mosaic
Cosmogony_ in _Essays and Reviews_ 1860. _d._ Shanghai 17 Jany.
1878.

GOODWIN, JOSIAH. Journalist in Devonshire; editor of _Journal of
Bath and West of England Soc._ 1859–90, sec. 1866–83; assisted in
editing _Journal of Royal Agricultural Soc._ 1863 etc. _d._ Bath 3
June 1890 aged 70. _I.L.N. 14 June 1890 p. 741_, _portrait_.

GOODWIN, THOMAS (_brother of William Goodwin, music librarian, d. 1
April 1876_). _b._ London 1799; landed in New York 24 Aug. 1827;
music librarian New York. _d._ New York 28 June 1886. _O. Mason’s
Sketches and Impressions from after dinner talk of T. Goodwin_
(1887) _p. iii_.

GOODWYN, HENRY. 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 18 Dec. 1823, lieut. col.
5 Dec. 1848, col. commandant 3 Aug. 1855 to death; general 14 July
1871; author of _Memoir on the Taperchain suspension bridge_,
_Calcutta_ 1844; _The last Adam_ 1868; _The book of the Revelation
of Jesus Christ_ 1877. _d._ Bournemouth 8 Nov. 1886.

GOODWYN, JULIUS EDMUND (_son of Wildman Goodwyn of Blackheath_).
_b._ 21 Feb. 1824; ensign 41 foot 5 Jany. 1844, lieut. col. 9
March 1855 to March 1866; brigadier general Bengal 14 March 1866
to 28 Feb. 1870; col. of 1 battalion Gloucestershire regiment 5
Nov. 1880, of 1 battalion Welsh regiment 20 Jany. 1883 to death;
general 10 Jany. 1881; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 2
Jany. 1857; author of _Antitypical parallels, or the kingdom of
Israel and of Heaven, By Gershom_ 1866. _d._ Bath 4 March 1890.

GOOLD, WYNDHAM (_youngest son of Thomas Goold of Dublin, master in
chancery, who d. 16 July 1846_). Ed. at Westminster school and
Univ. of Dublin; called to Irish bar 1837; M.P. for co. Limerick
14 Dec. 1850 to death. _d._ London 27 Nov. 1854 in 40 year.

GORDON, EDWARD STRATHEARN GORDON, 1 Baron (_eld. son of John Gordon,
major 2 foot_). _b._ Inverness 10 April 1814; ed. at royal
academy, Inverness and Univ. of Edin.; LL.B. Glasgow and Edin.;
called to bar in Scotland 1835; Q.C. 12 Nov. 1868; sheriff of
Perthshire 26 July 1858 to 12 July 1866; solicitor general for
Scotland 12 July 1866 to 28 Feb. 1867; lord advocate of Scotland
28 Feb. 1867 to Dec. 1868 and 26 Feb. 1874 to Oct. 1876; M.P. for
Thetford 3 Dec. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868 when borough was
disfranchised; contested Glasgow and Aberdeen univs. 1868, M.P.
for these univs. 1869–76; dean of faculty of advocates 1869–74;
P.C. 17 March 1874; lord of appeal in ordinary 6 Oct. 1876 to
death; created Baron Gordon of Drumearn, co. Stirling 6 Oct. 1876.
_d._ Brussels 21 Aug. 1879. _Journal of jurisprudence xxiii_,
541–2 (1879).

GORDON, ADAM LINDSAY (_son of Capt. Adam D. Gordon_). _b._ Fayal in
the Azores 1833; educ. Cheltenham coll. and Woolwich; in the
mounted police, South Australia 1853; a horse breaker; member of
the house of assembly, Victoria 1865; livery stable keeper
Ballarat 1867; a steeple chaser; settled at Brighton near
Melbourne 1869; failed in securing reversion to Esselmont estate,
Scotland 1869; author of _Sea spray and smoke drift_ 1867; _Bush
ballads and galloping rhymes_ 1870; _Ashtaroth, a dramatic lyric_;
shot himself on the beach at Brighton 24 June 1870. _J. H. Ross’
Laureate of the Centaurs_ (1888), _portrait_; _Poems ed. by Marcus
Clarke_ (1887); _Temple Bar, Feb. 1884 pp._ 208–20.

GORDON, ALEXANDER (_2 son of David Gordon, inventor of system of
compressing gas, who d. about 1830_). _b._ New York 5 May 1802;
ed. at Univ. of Edin.; manager of the portable gas works in London
until they were abolished about 1827; constructed many
lighthouses, especially in the colonies; designed and erected the
original great sea-light in an iron tower at Morant point,
Jamaica, the first of many of a similar character 1842; founded
with Sir George Cayley and others the Polytechnic Institution,
London 1838; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1827, M.I.C.E. 17 Feb. 1835; his
widow Sarah Gordon granted civil list pension of £50, 20 Dec.
1872; author of _An historical and practical treatise upon
elemental locomotion_ 1832, _3 ed._ 1836 and other books. _d._
Sandown, Isle of Wight 14 May 1868.

GORDON, SIR ALEXANDER CORNEWALL DUFF- 3 Baronet (_elder son of Sir
Wm. Duff-Gordon, 2 baronet 1772–1823_). _b._ Great Marylebone st.
London 3 Feb. 1811; ed. at Eton; a senior clerk in Treasury
1854–56; sec. to chancellor of Exchequer 1854; a comr. of Board of
Inland Revenue 1856; asst. gentleman usher of privy chamber to
death; translated Von Ense’s _Sketches of German life_ 1847, _A.
Weill’s Village tales from Alsatia_ 1847; translated with his wife
Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, L. Ranke’s _Memoirs of the house of
Brandenburg and history of Prussia 3 vols._ 1849. _d._ 4 Upper
Eccleston st. Belgrave sq. London 27 Oct. 1872.

GORDON, SIR ALEXANDER HAMILTON- (_2 son of 4 Earl of Aberdeen
1784–1860_). _b._ 11 Dec. 1817; ed. at Harrow; ensign Grenadier
guards 2 May 1834, captain 10 April 1849 to 17 Oct. 1856; D.Q.M.G.
at head quarters 1855–60; brigadier general Dublin district
1861–66; commanded Bombay division 1867–70; col. 100 foot 5 July
1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July
1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; M.P. for East
Aberdeenshire 1875–85; author of _Remarks on national defences,
volunteers and rifles_ 1853; _An enquiry into the organization of
the Army_ 1875. _d._ 34 Lennox gardens, London 18 May 1890.
_Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p._ 697, _portrait_.

GORDON, ARCHIBALD. Ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1834; assistant
surgeon in army 28 June 1836, surgeon major 1854; principal
medical officer of 2nd division in Crimea 1854–55; inspector
general 9 March 1867 to 1 July 1870; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; hon.
surgeon to Queen 9 Aug. 1871 to death. _d._ West Hoathly, Sussex 3
Aug. 1886.

GORDON, CHARLES (_son of Francis Grant, captain R.N., who assumed
name of Gordon 1768 and d. 1803_). Entered navy June 1796; captain
21 Dec. 1807; C.B. 4 July 1840; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half
pay 20 Jany. 1858. _d._ Duke st. Bath 3 Oct. 1860 aged 79.

GORDON, CHARLES. Entered navy 19 June 1810; captain 17 April 1828;
retired admiral 24 April 1865. _d._ Huntly, Aberdeenshire 19 May
1876.

GORDON, CHARLES GEORGE (_4 son of lieut. general Henry William
Gordon d. 1865_). _b._ Woolwich 28 Jany. 1833; 2 lieut. R.E. 23
June 1852; lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death; served in Crimea
1854–56; went to China June 1860; commander of the ‘Ever
Victorious Army’ in China 1863–64 when in 33 engagements he
stamped out the Taiping rebellion, received from emperor yellow
jacket and peacock’s feather of a mandarin of first class, always
known afterwards as Chinese Gordon; hon. C.B. 9 Dec. 1864;
governor of equatorial provinces of Central Africa where he
suppressed slavery 1874–76; created Pasha by Khedive of Egypt
1877; governor general of the Soudan, Darfour, the Equatorial
provinces and the Red Sea littoral 1877–79; taken prisoner by King
John of Abyssinia, Nov. 1879; private sec. to marquis of Ripon
viceroy of India, May 1880; adviser of Chinese government in their
relations with Russia, Sep. 1880; commander of troops in Mauritius
1881–82; M.G. 23 March 1882; commandant of colonial forces Cape of
Good Hope 1882; author of _Colonel Gordon in Central Africa_ 1881;
_Reflections in Palestine_ 1883; _General Gordon’s Letters from
Crimea, Danube and Armenia_ 1884; sent by the English government
to the Soudan to withdraw the garrisons and evacuate the country,
arrived at Khartoum 18 Feb. 1884, besieged by the Mahdi 12 March;
killed in the storming of Khartoum 26 Jany. 1885, _monu._ by Hamo
Thornycroft erected in Trafalgar sq. 15 Oct. 1888, Gordon Boys’
Home for homeless boys founded 1889. _A. E. Hake’s Journals at
Khartoum of C. G. Gordon_ (1885); _A. Forbes’ Chinese Gordon_
(1886), _portrait_; _Events in life of C. G. Gordon, By Sir H. W.
Gordon_ (1886); _Letters of C. G. Gordon_ (1888); _Chesney’s
Essays in modern military biography_ (1874) 163–213; _D. C.
Boulger’s China iii_, 578–628 (1884), _portrait_.

GORDON, CHARLES WILLIAM. _b._ 19 March 1817; captain Madras cavalry;
contested Berwick-on-Tweed, March 1857; M.P. for Berwick-on-Tweed,
April 1859 to death. _d._ Pall Mall, London 15 June 1863.

GORDON, COSMO (_youngest son of Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville
1739–92_). _b._ 28 Nov. 1777; ensign 71 foot 6 Dec. 1792; major 94
foot 12 Feb. 1807 to 20 July 1809; lieut. col. 63 foot 20 July
1809 to 1810 when placed on h.p.; granted service reward 1 July
1851; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Exton, Hants. 7 March 1867.

GORDON, DOUGLAS WILLIAM COPE (_3 son of 10 Marquis of Huntley
1792–1863_). _b._ 11 Oct. 1851; lieut. Coldstream Guards
1871–1880; contested Hunts. 1874; M.P. for West Aberdeenshire
1876–80, for Hunts. 1880–85. _d._ Green Park chambers, 90
Piccadilly, London 4 Aug. 1888.

GORDON, ELIZABETH, Duchess of Gordon (_dau. of Alexander Brodie,
M.P. Elgin 1796–1802. d. 15 Jany. 1812_). _b._ London 20 June
1794; owner of great wealth on father’s death 1812. (_m._ 11 Dec.
1813 George Gordon, marquis of Huntley, who became 5 duke of
Gordon 1827 and _d._ 28 May 1836); the unblushing vice she found
in high quarters led her to make a renunciation of the world 1826;
left the episcopal ch. and joined the Free ch. of Scotland and
held an important position in the evangelical party 1847; a great
patron of open air preaching. _d._ Huntly lodge, Strathbogie 31
Jany. 1864. _A. M. Stuart’s Life of duchess of Gordon_ (1865),
_portrait_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 271–78,
_portrait_.

GORDON, GABRIEL. Ensign 60 foot 6 Jany. 1781, lieut. col. 9 March
1802 to 4 Jany. 1808 when placed on h.p.; col. 91 foot 19 April
1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Higher Ardwick lodge near
Manchester 7 Aug. 1855 aged 92.

GORDON, GEORGE. _b._ Lucan co. Dublin 25 Feb. 1806; learnt gardening
under his father 1820; with J. Colvill, King’s road, Chelsea 1827;
on staff of Horticultural Soc. Chiswick 18 Feb. 1828, foreman of
the arboretum to his decease; A.L.S. 16 Feb. 1841; author with R.
Glendenning of _The Pinetum_, 1858, _supplement_ 1862, _2 ed._
1875, _New ed._ 1880. _d._ Kew 11 Oct. 1879; his herbarium
purchased by Sir J. Hooker and given to royal gardens, Kew.
_Gardener’s Chronicle xii_, 569 (1879).

GORDON, GEORGE HUNTLY (_son of Pryse Lockhart Gordon_). educ. for
the Scottish church; licensed to preach; transcribed manuscript of
Waverley novels for the press in order that the secret of the
authorship might not be betrayed; Sir Walter Scott wrote two
sermons for him published under title of _Religious discourses, By
A Layman_ 1828, preface signed W.S. which Gordon sold for £250;
clerk in the treasury, clerk in government stationery office 30
years; contributed much to _Notes and Queries_. _d._ Inverness 27
Dec. 1868 aged 72.

GORDON, GEORGE THOMAS. (_2 son of Samuel Gordon, captain R.N._) _b._
1807; entered navy 5 March 1818; captain 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 28 Oct.
1864; retired 1 April 1870; admiral 1 Aug. 1877; K.H. 1837. _d._
Ingleden, Kent 30 July 1887.

GORDON, HENRY (_brother of Charles Gordon who d. 3 Oct. 1860_).
Entered navy 18 May 1791; captain 8 April 1805; admiral on h.p. 21
Jany. 1854; mayor of Bath twice. _d._ Nelson place, Bath 14 Sep.
1855.

GORDON, SIR HENRY PERCY, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir James W. Gordon
1772–1851_). _b._ 52 Upper Seymour st. London 1806; ed. at St.
Peter’s coll. Cam., fellow 1830; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister
L.I. 5 May 1831; F.R.S. 9 Dec. 1830. _d._ Blackhall, Aberdeenshire
29 July 1876.

GORDON, HENRY WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; col.
commandant 22 Feb. 1863 to death; L.G. 19 May 1863. _d._
Southampton 19 Sep. 1865 aged 79.

GORDON, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (_brother of Charles George Gordon
1833–85_). _b._ Blackheath, Kent 18 July 1818; ensign 59 foot Aug.
1835; entered ordnance department 1855; controller general Jany.
1870; commissary general Nov. 1875 to 9 July 1878 when he retired;
C.B. 22 Jany. 1857, K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of _Events in the
life of Charles George Gordon_ 1886. _d._ Oat hall, Hayward’s
heath, Sussex 22 Oct. 1887. _Graphic 26 Nov. 1887 pp._ 581–82,
_portrait_.

GORDON, SIR JAMES ALEXANDER. (_eld. son of Charles Gordon of
Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire_). _b._ Kildrummie castle, Aberdeen 1782;
entered navy 25 Nov. 1793; captain 16 May 1805; lost a leg at
capture of French frigate “La Pomone” at Pelagosa 29 Nov. 1811;
governor of royal naval hospital Plymouth 1827–32; superintendent
of Chatham dockyard 1832–37; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital
1 July 1840, governor 17 Oct. 1853 to death; admiral 21 Jany.
1854; admiral of the Fleet 30 Jany. 1868 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany.
1851, G.C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Greenwich hospital 8 Jany. 1869.
_Macmillan’s Mag. xix_, 353–54 (1869); _I.L.N. liv_, 74, 165, 166
(1869), _portrait_.

GORDON, JAMES ALEXANDER. _b._ Middlesex; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D.
24 June 1814; established _The Quarterly Journal of Foreign
Medicine and Surgery_ 1819, edited it; L.R.C.P. 16 April 1821,
fellow 9 July 1836, Censor 1838; Assist. physician to London
hospital 18 July 1827, physician 18 Nov. 1828 to Dec. 1844;
retired from practice and lived at Dorking about 1846 to death;
F.R.S. 2 April 1835. _d._ Dorking 18 April 1872 aged 78. _Munk’s
Roll of royal college of physicians_ (1878) _iii_, 232.

GORDON, SIR JAMES DAVIDSON (_son of Evelyn M. Gordon of the Bengal
C.S._) Entered Bengal C.S. 1854; private sec. to governor general
of India Jany. 1866; resident Mysore and chief comr. of Coorg
1881–83 when he retired; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1881. _d._ 31 St. James’s
st. London 27 June 1889 aged 54. _bur._ Aston ch. near Knebworth 4
July.

GORDON, SIR JAMES WILLOUGHBY, 1 Baronet (_brother of Charles Gordon,
who d. 3 Oct. 1860_). _b._ 21 Oct. 1772; ensign 66 foot 17 Oct.
1783; lieut. col. royal African corps 13 June 1808, col. 25 July
1810 to 27 Nov. 1815; Q.M.G. in the Peninsula 1811–12; Q.M.G. at
head quarters 1812 to death; col. of 85 foot 27 Nov. 1815, of 23
foot 23 April 1823 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; created baronet
5 Dec. 1818; G.C.H. 1825; G.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831; F.R.S. 11 June
1801. _d._ his residence near royal hospital, Chelsea 24 Jany.
1851.

GORDON, JOHN (_brother of 4 Earl of Aberdeen 1784–1860_). _b._ 1792;
captain R.N. 31 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 23 March 1863. _d._ 28
Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 11 Nov. 1869.

GORDON, SIR JOHN (_son of Samuel Gordon of Clonmel, co. Tipperary_).
_b._ Clonmel 1798; general medical practitioner at Cork 1820 to
death; mayor of Cork 1855; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland
1855. _d._ Cork 29 Jany. 1871.

GORDON, JOHN SHEPHEARD. Publisher of _The Record_ more than 50
years. _d._ 1 Albert road, Crouch hill near London 31 Oct. 1884
aged 76.

GORDON, SIR JOHN WATSON- (_eld. son of James Watson, captain R.A._)
_b._ Edinburgh 1788; leading portrait painter in Scotland 1823 to
death; exhibited 123 portraits at R.A. London 1827–64; assumed
name of Watson-Gordon by which he is always known; A.R.A. 1841,
R.A. 11 Feb. 1851; pres. of R.S.A. March 1850 to death; knighted
at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; limner to the Queen for
Scotland 1850 to death. _d._ Catherine bank house, Edinburgh 1
June 1864, the Watson-Gordon professorship of fine art instituted
in Univ. of Edin. 1879. _Sandby’s Royal Academy ii_, 287–9 (1862);
_Redgrave’s Century of Painters ii_, 76–8 (1866); _I.L.N. xviii_,
219 (1851), _portrait_.

GORDON, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (_elder son of Thomas Gordon of
Harperfield, Lanarkshire who d. 1832_). _b._ 1814; 2 lieut. R.E. 1
Dec. 1833; commanded R.E. in Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. R.E.
1856–66; A.D.C. to the Queen 1855–66; D.A.G. at head quarters
1856–61; M.G. 3 Aug. 1866; inspector general of R.E. 1 June 1869
to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb.
1857; cut his throat at house of lieut. col. Hutchinson, Golfston,
Westward Ho. Devon 8 Feb. 1870; full length portrait in
head-quarter messroom of R.E. at Chatham. _Chesney’s Essays in
modern military biography_ (1874) 154–62. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxi_, 241–5 (1871); _I.L.N. lvi_, 211 (1870).

GORDON, JOSEPH. _b._ 1836; borough surveyor of Carlisle; designed
many plans for draining large towns in North of England and
Scotland; designed and carried out sewerage of Frankfort-on-Main
1886 and of other foreign cities; surveyor of Leicester 1880 where
he greatly reduced the death rate; engineer to London county
council 9 July 1889 to death; A.I.C.E. 1862; M.I.C.E. 1874. _d._
in an omnibus outside Eyre Arms tavern St. John’s Wood, London 9
Nov. 1889. _bur._ Leicester cemetery 13 Nov.