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GORDON, LADY LUCY DUFF- (_only child of John Austin 1790–1859_).
_b._ Queen sq. Westminster 24 June 1821; left Unitarian ch. for
ch. of England 1837. (_m._ 16 May 1840 Sir Alexander Cornewall
Duff-Gordon, bart. 1811–72); intimate with Dickens, Thackeray,
Eliot Warburton and others; visited Heinrich Heine in Paris 1854;
lived in Egypt 1862 to decease; translated many works from German
and French; author of _Letters from the Cape_ in Galton’s
_Vacation Tourist_ 1862–63, _pp._ 119–222; _Letters from Egypt_
1865. _d._ Cairo 14 July 1869. _Lady Duff-Gordon’s Last letters
from Egypt with a memoir by her daughter Mrs. Ross_ (1875) _i-xl_,
_portrait_; _Macmillan’s Mag. Sep. 1869 pp._ 457–62; _Good Words_
(1875) _pp._ 637–40.

GORDON, REV. OSBORNE (_2 son of George Gordon of Broseley, Salop_).
_b._ Broseley 21 April 1813; educ. Bridgnorth sch. and Christ
Church, Oxford; double first class in classics and mathematics;
B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1847; rhetoric reader to university
1845 and Greek reader 1846; proctor 1846–47; censor Christ Church
1846; university examiner 1848–52; select preacher 1849 and 1862;
member hebdomadal council 1854, 1857; Prince of Wales became his
pupil at Christ Church 1859; member of Oxford univ. commission
1877; R. of Easthampstead, Berks. 1860 to death; author of
_Eusebii Pamphili historiæ ecclesiasticæ Annotationes variorum_
1842; _Considerations on improvement of examination statute_ 1847.
_d._ Easthampstead 25 May 1883. _G. Marshall’s Osborne Gordon_
(1885) _pp._ 1–72, _with portrait_.

GORDON, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Glencairn, Dumfriesshire 5 May 1786; educ.
Edin. univ. to 1809 and at Marischal coll. Aberdeen D.D. 1823;
presbyterian minister at Kinfauns, Perthshire 1816, at St.
Cuthbert’s chapel of ease, Edin. 1821, at Hope park chapel of ease
1824, at New North ch. 1825, at the High ch. 1830; moderator of
general assembly 20 May 1841; joined Free ch. and was minister of
Free High ch. Edin. 1843 to death; invented a self registering
hygrometer; author of articles Euclid, geography and meteorology
in _Edinburgh Encyclopædia_; wrote _Sermons_ 1825; _Christ as made
known to the Ancient Church 4 vols._ 1854–55. _d._ 14
Northumberland st. Edinburgh 21 Oct. 1853. _Wylie’s Disruption
Worthies_ (1881) _pp._ 309–316; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_
(1882) _p._ 19–21, _portrait_.

GORDON, SAMUEL ENDERBY (_2 son of Henry Wm. Gordon, col. commandant
R.A. who d. 19 Sep. 1865 aged 79_). _b._ 14 Nov. 1824; 2 lieut.
R.A. 19 June 1844; col. 23 Dec. 1875; director of artillery
studies at Woolwich 1 May 1871 to 31 Oct. 1877; L.G. 23 May 1882;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 Nov. 1882; C.B.
13 March 1867. _d._ Brook lodge, The Park, Cheltenham 5 Feb. 1883.

GORDON, WILLIAM (_2 son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo 1764–91_). _b._
1785; midshipman R.N. 2 July 1797; captain 12 March 1810; V.A. 11
Feb. 1854: commander-in-chief at the Nore 1 July 1854 to 1 July
1857; M.P. for Aberdeenshire 1820–54; a lord of the Admiralty 8
Sep. 1841 to 17 Feb. 1846. _d._ Exmouth 3 Feb. 1858.

GORDON, WILLIAM. _b._ 26 June 1821; ensign 17 foot 20 July 1838;
lieut. col. 15 Jany. 1861 to 1 April 1873; lieut. col. brigade
depot 1 April 1873 to 14 April 1875 when placed on h.p.; A.A.G. 1
April 1870 to 31 March 1873; L.G. 29 April 1880; placed on retired
list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._
while grouse shooting on the hill of Correen, Aberdeenshire 14
Aug. 1883.

GORDON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Ensign 112 foot 2 Oct. 1794; captain 50
foot 23 Oct. 1806 to 26 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; colonel 54
foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831.
_d._ Nairn, Scotland 10 Aug. 1856 aged 87.

GORE, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (_only son of Edward Gore 1797–1879,
captain R.N._) _b._ 1 Feb. 1826; colonial sec. Barbadoes 1867–74;
lieut. governor of Tobago 29 Sep. 1877, of St. Vincent 5 Aug. 1880
to 1886; F.G.S. _d._ 21 Sep. 1887.

GORE, CATHERINE GRACE FRANCES (_dau. of C. Moody of East Retford,
Nottinghamshire, wine merchant_). _b._ East Retford 1799. (_m._ 15
Feb. 1823 Charles Arthur Gore, lieut. and capt. 1 life guards,
_d._ 1846). Resided in France 1832–35; her dramas _The School for
Coquettes_ produced at Haymarket theatre 1831 and _Quid pro Quo or
the Days of Dupes_, a prize drama, at Haymarket 1844; author of
_Theresa Marchmont, or the Maid of Honour_ 1824; _Manners of the
day, or Women as they are 3 vols._ 1830, greatly praised by Geo.
IV.; _Mothers and daughters 3 vols._ 1831 anon.; _Cecil, or the
Adventures of a Coxcomb 3 vols._ 1841 anon.; _The Royal Favourite
3 vols._ 1845 and 65 other works. _d._ Linwood, Lyndhurst,
Hampshire 29 Jany. 1861. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 7 Feb. _New
Monthly mag. xlix, pt. i_, 434–35 (1837), _portrait_; _I.L.N. 16
Feb. 1861 p._ 147, _portrait_; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the
age, i_, 232–39 (1844).

NOTE.—She was a ward of Sir John Dean Paul, her novel _The
Banker’s Wife_ 1843 was dedicated to him, which is very
curious as in it is described a swindling banker just like he
turned out to be in 1855 when she lost £20,000.

GORE, SIR CHARLES STEPHEN (_4 son of 2 Earl of Arran 1734–1809_).
_b._ 26 Dec. 1793; cornet 16 light dragoons 21 Oct. 1808; served
in Peninsula and at Waterloo 1811–15; col. of 91 foot 8 Aug. 1855,
of 6 foot 9 March 1861 to death; general Feb. 1863; lieut.
governor of Chelsea hospital Dec. 1868 to death; C.B. 1838, K.C.B.
18 May 1860, G.C.B. 13 March 1867; K.H. 1836. _d._ Chelsea
hospital 4 Sep. 1869. _Register and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p._
198.

GORE, JOHN. Entered navy Sep. 1797; captain 27 July 1825; retired
admiral 15 Dec. 1863. _d._ 9 York place, Clifton 7 Dec. 1869 aged
85.

GORE, MONTAGUE (_eld. son of Rev. Charles Gore of Barrow court,
Somerset, who d. 21 April 1841_). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 8 May
1818 aged 18; student of L.I. 1821; M.P. for Devizes 1832–34, for
Barnstaple 1841–47; author of 20 pamphlets on political and social
subjects; translated Valentini’s _Description of the seat of war
in European Turkey_ 1854. _d._ Chapel place, Vere st. London 5
Oct. 1864.

GORE, ROBERT (_brother of 6 Earl of Arran 1801–84_). _b._ 5 May
1810; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; captain R.N. 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for
New Ross 1841–47; chargé d’affaires and consul general at Monte
Video 23 Oct. 1846, at Buenos Ayres 29 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._
Monte Video 4 Aug. 1854.

GORE-LANGTON, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ London 1802; M.P. for Bristol
1852–65. _d._ 2 Prince’s Gate, London 16 May 1875.

GORE-LANGTON, WILLIAM HENRY POWELL. _b._ Burdrop, Wilts. 25 July
1824; M.P. for West Somerset 1851–59 and 1863 to death. _d._
Newton park near Bath 11 Dec. 1873.

GORHAM, REV. GEORGE CORNELIUS (_son of George James Gorham of St.
Neots, Hunts, merchant_). _b._ St. Neots 21 Aug. 1787; ed. at St.
Neots and Queen’s coll. Cam., fellow 1809–27; 3rd wrangler and 2nd
Smith’s prizeman 1808; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1820; C. of
Beckenham, Kent 1814–18; C. of Clapham, Surrey 1818–27; C. of St.
Mary’s chapel, Maidenhead 1840–42; C. of Fawley near Henley
1843–46; V. of St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall 1846–50; presented by
Lord Chancellor Cottenham to vicarage of Brampford Speke near
Exeter 2 Nov. 1847, but the Bishop of Exeter refused to institute
him on account of his views on baptismal regeneration, the result
was more than 2½ years’ litigation at end of which Gorham was
instituted by Sir H. J. Fust, judge of the court of arches; author
of: _The history and antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neots 2
vols._ 1820 and many other books. _d._ Brampford Speke 19 June
1857; _Bentley’s Miscellany xxvii_, 612–16 (1850), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 25 May 1850 p._ 373, _portrait_.

GORING, SIR HARRY DENT, 7 Baronet. _b._ Devonshire place, London 30
Dec. 1801; M.P. for Shoreham 1832–41; succeeded 26 March 1844;
sheriff of Anglesea 1848. _d._ Hotel Windsor, Rue Rivoli, Paris 19
April 1859.

GORMANSTON, EDWARD ANTHONY JOHN PRESTON, 1 Baron (eld. child of 12
Viscount Gormanston 1775–1860). _b._ Dublin 3 June 1796; sheriff
of co. Dublin 1845; created baron Gormanston of Whitewood co.
Meath in peerage of U.K. 8 Dec. 1868. _d._ Gormanston castle,
Balbriggan 28 Sep. 1876.

GORRIE, REV. PETER DOUGLAS. _b._ Glasgow 21 April 1813; went to U.S.
of A. 1820; minister of Methodist Episcopal church; member of New
York conference 1836 to death; author of _The churches and sects
in the United States, New York_ 1850; _Episcopal methodism as it
was and is_ 1852; _Black River Conference memorial 2 vols._
1852–81 and other books. _d._ Potsdam, New York 12 Sep. 1884.

GORRINGE, HENRY HONEYCHURCH (_son of Rev. Mr. Gorringe of the Church
of England_). _b._ Barbadoes 11 Aug. 1841; a common sailor in the
U.S. Federal navy 1862; commanded sloop Portsmouth 1869–71;
transported from Alexandria to New York an Egyptian obelisk
1879–80, erected it in Central Park, N.Y. 1880, total expense was
103,732 dollars; formed American shipbuilding co.; author of
_Egyptian obelisks_, _New York_ 1882, _Another ed._ 1885. _d._ New
York 7 July 1885. _bur._ at Sparkhill on the Hudson.

GORTON, SANDFORD. Established the _Astronomical Register_ Jany. 1863
and edited it to 1872, printed all the first volume himself at his
own private printing press, Stamford villa, Downs Road, Clapton
where he established an observatory; F.R.A.S. 8 June 1860. _d._ 38
Pembury road, Clapton 14 Feb. 1879 in 56 year. _Monthly notices of
Royal Astronom. Soc. xl_, 194 (1880).

GOSFORD, ARCHIBALD ACHESON, 3 Earl of (_only son of 2 Earl of
Gosford 1776–1849_). _b._ Portland place, London 20 Aug. 1806; ed.
at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828; M.P. for Armagh 1830–47; col. of Armagh
militia 1834; created Baron Acheson of Clancairney, co. Armagh 18
Sep. 1847; succeeded 27 March 1849; K.P. 1855. _d._ 59 Grosvenor
st. London 15 June 1864.

GOSLING, WILLIAM CLARKE FRANCIS. _b._ 9 Aug. 1822; 2 lieut. Madras
artillery 11 June 1840; A.A.G. R.A. Madras 1868–73; col. R.A. 1
Aug. 1872 to death; L.G. 12 May 1882; hon. general 31 Dec. 1883.
_d._ Folkestone 14 June 1885.

GOSS, MOST REV. ALEXANDER. _b._ Ormskirk, Lancs. 5 July 1814; ed. at
St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw 1827–39; studied at English coll. Rome
1839–42; vice pres. of St. Edward’s coll. Everton, Liverpool 16
Jany. 1843 (date of opening) to 21 June 1853; bishop of Gerra _in
partibus_. and co-adjutor bishop of Liverpool 29 July 1853, bishop
25 Jany. 1856 to death, consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman 25 Sep.
1853; edited for Chetham Soc. _Abbot’s Journal and The trials at
Manchester in 1694_, 1864, and for Manx Soc. _The Chronicle of Man
and the Sudreys 2 vols._ 1874. _d._ St. Edward’s college 3 Oct.
1872. _bur._ St. Sepulchre’s cemetery, Ford 8 Oct. _Gillow’s
English Catholics ii_, 535–40 (1885); _Brady’s Episcopal
Succession iii_, 418–22 (1877).

GOSS, SIR JOHN (_son of Joseph Goss of Fareham, Hants., organist_).
_b._ Fareham 27 Dec. 1800; chorister of chapel royal, London
1811–16: pupil of Thomas Attwood 1816; organist of St. Luke’s,
Chelsea 9 Jany. 1825; professor of harmony Royal Academy 1827;
organist to St. Paul’s 1838, resigned 1872; composer to the chapel
royal 1856; knighted at Windsor Castle 19 March 1872 for his
anthem on Prince of Wales’ recovery “The Lord is my strength”;
entertained at a banquet at Albion tavern, London 17 April 1872;
Mus. D. of Cambridge 1876; writer of ‘Cantate Domino’ a canon sung
at meeting of Concentores Sodales 13 Feb. 1824, ‘Have mercy on me’
an anthem 1833, ‘If we believe that Jesus died’ anthem for funeral
of D. of Wellington 1852; author of _Introduction to Harmony_
1833; edited _Sacred Minstrel 3 vols._ 1833; ed. with W. Mercer
_The Church Psalter with appropriate chants and tunes_ 1855, _ten
editions_. _d._ 15 Clarewood ter. Lambeth road, Brixton Rise 10
May 1880, his memorial tablet in crypt of St. Paul’s was designed
by John Belcher, unveiled 10 May 1886. _W. A. Barrett’s English
church composers_ (1882) 173–8.

GOSSE, EMILY (_dau. of Wm. Bowes of Boston, Mass._) _b._ London 9
Nov. 1806; one of the earliest workers in the East End of London;
author of _Abraham and his children_ 1855 and of a series of
popular religious tracts; author with P. H. Gosse of _Seaside
Pleasures_ 1853, anon. (_m._ 1848 Philip Henry Gosse, he _d._
1888). _d._ Barnsbury, London 9 Feb. 1857. _Memorials of Mrs.
Gosse, By P. H. Gosse_ (1857); _Tell Jesus, recollections of E.
Gosse, By A. Shipton_ (1858).

GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY (_son of Thomas Gosse of Worcester, miniature
painter 1765–1844_). _b._ Worcester 6 April 1810; ed. at Poole and
Blandford; lived in Newfoundland 1827–35; collected birds and
insects in Jamaica for British Museum 1844–46; lived at St.
Marychurch, Torquay 1857 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; author of
_The Canadian Naturalist_ 1840; _The Aquarium_ 1854; _Omphalos_
1857; _Actinologia Britannica_ 1860; _A year at the shore_ 1865
and 30 other books. _d._ Sandhurst villa, St. Marychurch, Torquay
23 Aug. 1888. _I.L.N. 8 Sep. 1888 p._ 279, _portrait_; _Graphic 22
Sep. 1888 p._ 314, 320, _portrait_.

GOSSELIN, GERARD (_3 son of Joshua Gosselin of St. Peter’s Port,
Guernsey 1739–1813_). _b._ St. Peter’s Port 4 Feb. 1769; ensign 34
foot 27 Sep. 1787; captain 2 life guards 6 June 1794; governor of
Halifax 1815; general 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Mount Ospringe,
Faversham, Kent 11 June 1859.

GOSSELIN, SIR THOMAS LE MARCHANT (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey 7 May 1765; entered navy 2 Aug. 1778;
captain 23 July 1795; received thanks from both Houses of
Parliament 1809 for embarking British army after battle of
Corunna; admiral 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Jersey 27 Nov. 1857. _bur._
Bengeo church, Herts.

GOSSET, HENRY (_2 son of Matthew Gosset of Bagot, Jersey, d. 1843_).
Entered navy 15 June 1809; captain 1 Jany. 1829; admiral on h.p.
12 Sep. 1865. _d._ Old Quebec st. Portman sq. London 1 March 1877
aged 82.

GOSSET, REV. ISAAC (_eld. son of Rev. Isaac Gosset, D.D., F.R.S.,
who d. 1812_). _b._ 1783; ed. at Exeter coll. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A.
1807; C. of Windsor 1809–14; V. of Datchet 1814–21; chaplain to
royal household Windsor Castle 1818 to death; V. of New Windsor
1821 to death. _d._ Windsor? 11 Feb. 1855. _G.M. April 1855 p._
435.

GOSSET, MONTAGUE (_2 son of Daniel Gosset of Tanner’s End,
Edmonton_). _b._ 1 July 1792; ed. at Broxbourne; entered navy Nov.
1806; apprenticed to Mr. Stocker of Guy’s hospital 1809–14;
M.R.C.S. 1814, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; practised in city of London
1820 to death; communicated to the profession the only case of
renal aneurism then detected 1829. _d._ 40 Broad st. buildings,
city of London 21 Oct. 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 633–5 (1854).

GOSSET, SIR RALPH ALLEN (_only son of Sir William Gosset, serjeant
at arms 1835 to death 27 March 1848_). Assistant serjeant at arms
to the Queen, July 1836, deputy serjeant April 1854, serjeant at
arms in ordinary 5 April 1875, retired Aug. 1885; had to employ
force to prevent Mr. Bradlaugh re-entering the house 3 Aug. 1881;
K.C.B. 11 Aug. 1885. _d._ The Wick, Richmond hill 27 Nov. 1885
aged 76. _I.L.N. lxxxvii_, 157, 582 (1885), _2 portraits_; _Times
28 Nov. 1885 p._ 10, _3 Dec. p._ 8; _Guardian 2 Dec. 1885 p._
1811.

GOTCH, REV. FREDERIC WILLIAM. _b._ Kettering 1807; pastor of baptist
chapel at Boxmoor 1836–45; classical and mathematical tutor at
Bristol college 1845, pres. 1868–82, hon. pres. 1882 to death;
B.A. Dublin 1839, M.A. 1842, LL.B. and LLD. 1859; member of Old
Testament revision committee; author of _Revised English Bible,
Genesis to Deuteronomy_ 1877; edited _A supplement to
Tischendorf’s Reliquiae ex incendio ereptae codicis Cottoniani_
1881. _d._ 21 Pembroke road, Clifton 17 May 1890 in 83 year.
_I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p._ 680, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 29 May
1890 p._ 697, _portrait_.

GOTT, JOSEPH. _b._ Calverley near Leeds 1785; student of R. Academy,
gold medallist for group of Jacob wrestling with the angel 1819;
his namesake Benjamin Gott sent him to Rome where he lived nearly
40 years; exhibited 30 sculptures at R.A. and 7 at B.I. 1820–48;
his principal works were executed for Armley house and ch. Leeds,
the residence of his patron B. Gott. _d._ Rome Jany. 1860.

GOUDY, REV. ALEXANDER PORTER (_son of Andrew Goudy, presbyterian
minister_). _b._ Ballywalter, co. Down, Feb. 1809; educ. Belfast
coll. 1823; assist. presbyterian minister Strabane 1831 and
minister 1833 to death; engaged in controversy with Archibald
Boyd, afterwards dean of Exeter, on the merits of episcopacy 1839;
aided in passing Marriages, Ireland, Act 7 & 8 Vict. c. 81, 1843;
D.D. of Jefferson coll. U.S.A. 1851; moderator of general assembly
of his ch. 1857; author of _Worship of the Presbyterian church_
1839. _d._ Dublin 14 Dec. 1858.

GOUGH, HUGH GOUGH, 1 Viscount (_4 son of George Gough of Woodstown,
co. Limerick 1751–1836_). _b._ Woodstown 3 Nov. 1779; lieut. 78
highlanders 6 June 1795; served at Cape of Good Hope 1795, in West
Indies 1796–1803, in Peninsula 1808–13 twice severely wounded; in
Ireland 1819–26, in command of Mysore division of Madras army
1837–41; commander of troops in China 1841; commander in chief
Madras 1841; commander in chief in India 11 Aug. 1843; routed the
Mahratta army at Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843; defeated the Sikhs at
Mudki 18 Dec. 1845, at Ferozeshah 21–22 Dec. 1845, at Sobraon 10
Feb. 1846, at Ramnuggar 22 Nov. 1848, at Chillianwallah 13 Jany.
1849 and at Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849; col. 87 foot 15 March 1844,
general 20 June 1854; col. in chief of 60 royal rifles 28 Jany.
1854 to death; col. royal horse guards 29 June 1855 to death;
field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; knighted at Carlton house 4 Dec. 1815;
C.B. 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831, G.C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; created a
baronet 23 Dec. 1842; received the thanks of parliament in 1842
and 1843 and of H.E.I.C. in 1842 and 1849; created Baron Gough 25
April 1846; cr. viscount Gough 15 June 1849 with a pension of
£2000 to himself and next 2 heirs to title; K.P. 1857; P.C. 11
June 1859; K.C.S.I. 1861, G.C.S.I. 1861. _d._ St. Helen’s near
Booterstown, co. Dublin 2 March 1869. _bur._ Stillorgan ch. yard 9
March. _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i_, 222–59
(1880); _Shadwell’s Life of Lord Clyde_ (1881) _i_, 147 _et seq._;
_Register and Mag. of Biog. i_, 286–89, 522; _History of the
campaign on the Sutlej_ (1846) _p._ 11, _etc._; _Nolan’s British
empire in India, ii_, 663, _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvi_,
192–208, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xiv_, 265 (1849), _portrait_, _liv_,
274, 293 (1869), _portrait_.

GOUGH, ALEXANDER DICK. _b._ 3 Nov. 1804; pupil of Benjamin Wyatt
1823; superintended erection of Apsley house and D. of York’s
column 1834; partner with R. L. Roumieu 1836–48; made surveys for
railways 1845–48; with Roumieu exhibited 19 works at R.A. 1837–49;
built Islington literary and scientific institution 1837–38;
rebuilt Old St. Pancras ch. in the Anglo-Norman style 1847–48 and
many churches, schools and houses. _d._ 6 Second grove, Tollington
park, London 8 Sep. 1871. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _The Architect
30 Sept. 1871 p._ 173.

GOUGH, JOHN BALLANTINE or BARTHOLOMEW. _b._ Sandgate, Kent 22 Aug.
1817; went to America 1829; temperance lecturer 1843; lectured in
England 1853–55, 1857–60 and 1878; M.A. of Amherst Univ.; author
of _Orations delivered on various occasions_ 1854; _Temperance
gleanings_ 1879; _Sunlight and shadow_ 1881 and about 20 small
books. _d._ of paralysis at Frankford, Philadelphia 18 Feb. 1886.
_Autobiography of J. B. Gough_ (1879), _portrait_; _Appleton’s
Cyclop, of American Biog. ii_, 692 (1887), _portrait_; _Drawing
room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
xxv_, 208, 209 (1854), _portrait_.

GOULBURN, EDWARD (_3 son of Munbee Goulburn of Portland place,
London, who d. 29 Nov. 1793 aged 36_). _b._ 1787; cornet royal
horse guards 1803, lieut. 1804–5 when he sold out having been
prosecuted for libelling some of his brother officers in his book
_The Blueviad, a satyrical poem_ 1805; barrister M.T. 9 June 1815;
a Welsh judge; recorder of Leicester to 1835, of Lincoln, and of
Boston; serjeant at law 4 Feb. 1829, received patent of precedence
after Serjeant Storks 1840; a comr. of Court of Bankruptcy 21 Oct.
1842 to 1868; contested Ipswich 1832, M.P. for Leicester 1835–37;
author of _The pursuits of fashion, a satirical poem_ 1809, anon.,
_4 ed._ 1812; _Edward de Montfort 3 vols._ 1812. _d._ 5 Seymour
st. Portman sq. London 24 Aug. 1868.

GOULBURN, FREDERICK (_youngest son of the succeeding_). _b._ 8 April
1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; comr.
of customs 28 Jany. 1845; vice chairman of board of customs 1859,
chairman 1875 to death; C.B. 10 July 1871. _d._ 57 Ennismore
gardens, London 8 May 1878.

GOULBURN, HENRY (_brother of Edward Goulburn 1787–1868_). _b._
Marylebone, London 19 March 1784; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1805, M.A. 1808, hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; contested Horsham 1807,
Univ. of Cam. 1826; M.P. for Horsham 1808–12, for St. Germans
1812–18, for West Looe 1818–26, for Armagh 1826–31, for Univ. of
Cam. 1831 to death; under sec. of state for home department
1810–12, for the Colonies 1812–21; chief sec. for Ireland 1821–27;
P.C. 10 Dec. 1821; chancellor of exchequer 1828–30 and 1841–46;
sec. of state for home department 1834–35; conservative candidate
for speakership of House of Commons 27 May 1839 when defeated by
C. S. Lefevre by 18 votes; an ecclesiastical comr. for England
1845. _d._ Betchworth house near Dorking 12 Jany. 1856. _Portraits
of eminent conservatives 2nd series_ (1846), _portrait_; _G.M.
xlv_, 183–4 (1856).

GOULD, REV. GEORGE (_eld. son of George Gould of Bristol,
tradesman_). _b._ Castle green, Bristol 20 Sep. 1818; clerk to a
wine merchant 1832; articled to an accountant 1836; student of
Bristol Baptist coll. Sep. 1838; pastor Lower Abbey st. Dublin
1841, at South st. chapel, Exeter 1846, at St. Mary’s chapel,
Norwich 1849 to decease; president of Baptist Union 1879; one of
the founders of Anti-state church association 1844; author of
_India, its history, religion and government_ 1858; _Open
communion and the baptists of Norwich_ 1860 and 10 other works;
edited _Church Examiner_ 1852. _d._ Norwich 13 Feb. 1882. _Sermons
and addresses with a memoir by G. P. Gould_ (1884), _with
portrait_.

GOULD, GERALD FRANCIS. Attaché at Hanover 1 Jany. 1854; minister
resident at Belgrade 3 March 1879; minister resident at Stuttgardt
16 April 1881 to death; C.B. 20 April 1880. _d._ Stuttgardt 5 Sep.
1883 aged 48.

GOULD, MOST REV. JAMES ALPIUS. _b._ Cork 4 Nov. 1812; entered
Augustinian order, educ. at Grantstown; ordained priest at Perugia
1835; arrived in Sydney, Feb. 1838; R.C. priest at Campbeltown
near Sydney 1838–48; elected 9 July 1847 and consecrated the first
bishop of the Port Philip settlement 8 Aug. 1848 which became the
colony of Victoria 1 July 1851; archbishop of Melbourne 4 May 1874
to death. _d._ Brighton near Melbourne 11 June 1886.

GOULD, JOHN. _b._ Lyme Regis 14 Sep. 1804; gardener Ripley castle,
Yorkshire; taxidermist Zoological gardens, London 1827; travelled
in Australia and adjoining islands 1838–40; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1843;
exhibited his collection of 5000 humming birds in Zoological
gardens 1851, sold to British Museum for £3000 in 1881; produced
41 folio volumes illustrated by 2999 plates; his chief works were
_A Century of birds from the Himalayan mountains_ 1832; _The birds
of Europe 5 vols._ 1832–7; _The birds of Australia 8 vols._
1848–69; _Monograph of the Trochilidæ_ 1849–61; _The birds of Asia
7 vols._ 1850–83; _The birds of Great Britain 5 vols._ 1862–73;
_The birds of New Guinea_ 1875–80. (_m._ 1829 Elizabeth Coxen who
assisted him in his writings and executed all his drawings, she
_d._ Egham 15 Aug. 1841). _d._ 26 Charlotte St. Bedford sq. London
3 Feb. 1881. _I.L.N. xx_, 457 (1852), _portrait_, _lxxviii_, 220
(1881), _portrait_; _Zoologist v_, 109–15 (1881); _Nature xxiii_,
364–5, 491 (1881).

GOULDING, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Joshua Goulding of Birr, King’s
co._) _b._ 1817; a merchant at Cork and Dublin; contested Cork
city, Feb. 1874; M.P. for Cork city 25 May 1876 to 24 March 1880.
_d._ Summerhill house, Sidney place, Cork 8 Dec. 1884.

GOULSTON, JAMES. An aeronaut known as Giuseppe Lunardini; fell from
his balloon during an ascent from Belle Vue gardens, Manchester,
and was killed at Stone breaks hill near Saddleworth, Yorkshire 3
June 1852.

GOURLAY, WILLIAM CAMERON. _b._ Edinburgh 1817; first appeared on
stage at T.R. Edinburgh 18 May 1836 as Norval in Home’s _Douglas_;
the best actor of Bailie Nicol Jarvie in _Rob Roy_ except Charles
Mackay; manager of Victoria Temple, Edinburgh, changed the name to
Royal Victoria theatre 4 Sep. 1848. _d._ 80 Great Western road,
Glasgow 3 Feb. 1883.

GOURLIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Glasgow, March 1815; educ. Glasgow univ.;
partner with his father as a merchant; studied botany under Sir W.
J. Hooker and Dr. J. H. Balfour; collected mosses, shells and
fossil plants; member Edin. Botanical soc. 1836 and of Glasgow
Philosophical soc. 1841; F.L.S. 1855. _d._ of cancer at his
brother’s house, Pollokshields, Glasgow 24 June 1856. _Proc.
Linnæan soc._ (1857) _p. xxvii_.

GOVER, CHARLES E. (_son of Thomas Gover of Poplar, Middlesex_).
Principal and sec. of Madras military male orphan asylum Egmore,
Madras 1864; member R. Asiatic soc. 1868–71; fellow
Anthropological soc.; wrote in _Journal Asiatic soc._ and in
_Cornhill Mag._; author of _Indian weights and measures_, _Madras_
1865; _The folk songs of Southern India_, _Madras_ 1872. _d._
Madras 20 Sep. 1872.

GOW, JAMES. _b._ Soutar’s Close, West Port, Dundee 16 March 1814; a
weaver in Dundee; wrote many short poems in the _Dundee
Chronicle_, _Tait’s Mag._, _Chambers’s Journal_ and _Hogg’s
Instructor_; published a collection of his pieces entitled _The
lays of the loom_; wrote no new poem after 1847 so that he was
frequently spoken of as the late James Gow and confused with James
Gow the political agitator who _d._ 4 Oct. 1849. _d._ 29 Jany.
1872. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 382–90.

GOWAN, GEORGE EDWARD. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 1 April 1806;
col. commandant 3 July 1845 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 19 June
1846 to 20 June 1854; commanded Ferozepore district 1849–52,
Lahore division 1853–58; L.G. 27 Sep. 1859; C.B. 22 May 1843. _d._
Pen hill near Bath 19 Dec. 1865 aged 77.

GOWAN, OGLE ROBERT. _b._ co. Wexford, Ireland 1796; edited the
_Antidote_ 1822–25 and the _Sentinel_ 1825–29, Dublin weekly
papers; went to Canada 1829; commanded 2nd regiment of Leeds
militia; during Mc Kenzie-Papineau rebellion of 1837–9, he was
designated “the right arm of British power in America”; founder of
Orange lodges of North America, grand master 20 years; a member of
Canadian parliament 1834–41; edited the _Brockville Statesman_
weekly paper 1829–51 and the _Patriot_ and the _British Empire_
1851–55; author of _Orangeism, its origin and history 3 vols._
1859. _d._ Toronto 21 Aug. 1876.

GOWANS, SIR JAMES. _b._ 1821; a railway contractor; constructed
Bathgate railway, various sections of North British railway, 35
miles of Highland railway and other lines; laid down first tramway
in Scotland sanctioned by Parliament; member of Edinburgh town
council many years; chairman of executive committee of Edinburgh
Exhibition 1886; knighted by the Queen at Holyrood palace 19 Aug.
1886; Lord Dean of Guild of Edinburgh 1886 to death; author of
_Model dwelling-houses_ 1886; _Edinburgh and its neighbourhood in
the days of our grandfathers_ 1886. _d._ 1 Blantyre terrace,
Edinburgh 25 June 1890.

GOWANS, WILLIAM. _b._ Lismahagow, Scotland 29 March 1803; went to
U.S.A. 1821; a gardener in New York 1825, afterwards a
stonecutter, a stevedore and a vendor of newspapers; bookseller in
New York 1828–37 and 1840 to death; book auctioneer 1837, issued
28 book catalogues 1842–70, his stock of books at his death
numbered nearly 300,000 vols.; author of _Gowans’ Bibliotheca
Americana 5 numbers_ 1845–69; _A catalogue of books on
Freemasonry_ 1858. _d._ New York 27 Nov. 1870. _Appleton’s
American Biography_ (1887) _ii_, 698, _portrait_.

GOYDER, REV. DAVID GEORGE. _b._ Angel’s court, Westminster 1 March
1796; educ. Westminster sch. 1805; apprenticed to a brush maker
1810 and to a printer 1814; schoolmaster to the Swedenborgians’
soc. at Bristol 1821 and a minister 3 Nov. 1822; school organiser,
inspector and missionary for the Swedenborgians 1825 etc.;
lecturer on phrenology; author of _Swedenborg and his mission_
1853; _Lectures on Freemasonry_ 1864; _The book of family worship_
1871 and 15 other books, _d._ Bradford, Yorkshire 2 July 1878 aged
82. _My battle for life, The autobiography of a phrenologist, by
D. G. Goyder_ (1857).

GRABHAM, JOHN. Entered British Museum 4 March 1833, second
superintendent of Reading-room there 1850 to death; compiled
_Index to Encyclopedia Metropolitana_ 1842 and to _Townsend and
Cattley’s ed. of Foxe’s “Acts and Monuments”_ 1849; edited and
made additions to Bishop E. Maltby’s _Greek Gradus 3rd ed._ 1850.
_d._ 15 Noel st., Islington, London 9 Aug. 1858 aged 57.

GRACE, GEORGE FREDERICK (_youngest son of the succeeding_). _b._
Downend near Bristol 13 Dec. 1850; played many cricket matches as
one of the Gloucestershire eleven; played in South v. North at
Canterbury 1866; a good batsman and bowler, and one of the finest
fieldsmen ever known at long-leg and cover-point. _d._ of
pneumonia at Red Lion hotel, Basingstoke 22 Sep. 1880. _bur._
Downend ch. 27 Sep. _Sporting Mirror i_, 157–8 (1881), _portrait_;
_Illust. sp. and dr. news, i_, 568, 570 (1874), _portrait_, _xiv_,
53 (1880), _portrait_; _Hants. and Berks. gazette 25 Sept. 1880,
p._ 5.

GRACE, HENRY MILLS. _b._ Long Ashton, Somerset; L.S.A. 1829,
M.R.C.S. 1830; surgeon to Royal Gloucs. hussars 1841 to death;
father of the 5 Messrs. Grace; kept up West Gloucs. cricket club
many years; founder & treasurer of Gloucestershire county cricket
club; a right hand batsman but fielded and threw left. _d._
Downend 23 Dec. 1871 aged 63. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores v_, 93
(1876).

GRACE, OLIVER DOWELL JOHN. _b._ Mantua house, Elphin 19 Oct. 1791;
sheriff of Roscommon 1830; M.P. for co. Roscommon 1847–59. _d._
Mantua house 25 Jany. 1871.

GRAFTON, HENRY FITZROY, 5 Duke of. _b._ 10 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin.
coll. Cam., M.A. 1814; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 1818–30, for
Thetford 1834–44; col. East Suffolk militia 1823–30, col. West
Suffolk militia 1830–45; succeeded 28 Sep. 1844. _d._ Wakefield
lodge, Northamptonshire 26 March 1863.

GRAFTON, WILLIAM HENRY FITZROY, 6 Duke of. _b._ Grosvenor place,
London 4 Aug. 1819; M.P. for Thetford 1847–63; succeeded 26 March
1863. _d._ 4 Grosvenor place, London 21 May 1882. _Baily’s Mag.
xxxiv_, 311 (1879), _portrait_.

GRAFTON, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ 1816; head of firm of F. W. Grafton
& Co., calico printers of Broad Oak, Accrington and Manchester;
owner of Heysham hall, Lancs.; M.P. for North-East Lancs. 1880–85.
_d._ 7 Kensington palace gardens, London 27 Jany. 1890.

GRAHAM, CLEMENTINA STIRLING (_eldest dau. of Patrick Stirling of
Pittendriech, who in 1802 took the surname of Graham_). _b._
Dundee, May 1782; an intimate friend of Francis Lord Jeffrey and
Henry T. Lord Cockburn; lived partly in Edinburgh and partly at
Duntrune, Forfarshire; her house was a meeting place for all
literary persons; had great powers of personation and of
disguising herself; author of _The Bee preserver, By Jonas de
Gelieu, a translation_ 1829, _another ed._ 1876; _Mystification,
with poems and sketches, privately printed_ 1859, _published_
1865, _4 ed._ 1869. _d._ Duntrune 22 Aug. 1877. _Mystification_,
_4 ed._ (1869) _p. i, etc., with portrait_; _W. Chambers’s Stories
of remarkable persons_ (1878) 289–302; _John Leech and other
papers, By John Brown_, _2 ed._ (1882) 169–75.

GRAHAM, DAVID. _b._ London 8 Feb. 1808; admitted to New York bar;
professor of law of pleading and practice in New York university
1838; author of _Practice of the supreme court of state of New
York_ 1832, _2 ed._ 1836; _An essay on New Trials_ 1834; _A
treatise on the Courts of law and equity in state of New York_
1839; edited _Smith’s Chancery practice_ 1842. _d._ Nice 27 May
1852.

GRAHAM, SIR FORTESCUE (_son of Richard Graham, lieut. col. R.M._)
_b._ Tintinhull near Yeovil 1794; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Nov. 1808;
A.D.C. to the Queen 10 July 1854 to 27 Feb. 1857; commanded
Portsmouth division of R.M. 22 June 1855 to 20 Feb. 1857 and
Plymouth division 1 June 1863 to 23 Aug. 1866; col. royal marine
artillery 23 Aug. 1866 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on full
pay; general 10 Nov. 1866; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865.
_d._ 69 Durnford st. Stonehouse, Plymouth 9 Oct. 1880.

GRAHAM, GEORGE (_4 son of Sir James Graham, 1 baronet 1761–1824_).
_b._ 1801; military sec. at Bombay 1828–30; private sec. to his
brother Sir James Graham 1831–34 and 1841–42; registrar general of
births, deaths, and marriages 1838–79. _d._ 31 Chapel st.,
Belgrave sq., London 20 May 1888.

GRAHAM, GEORGE FARQUHAR (_eld. son of lieut. col. Humphrey Graham_).
_b._ Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1789; a self taught musician and violinist;
sec. of first Edin. musical festival with G. Hogarth 1815; studied
music in Italy; composed three well known songs, County Guy 1823,
You never longed nor loved, and The mariner’s song; wrote for the
Encyclopædia Britannica the articles on music and the organ;
author of _An account of the first Edinburgh musical festival_
1816; _An essay on the theory and practice of musical composition_
1838; _Ancient Scottish melodies a selection from the Skene M.S.,
By G. F. Graham and Finlay Dun_ 1839; _The songs of Scotland, The
biographical notices by G. F. Graham_ 1848, _New ed._ 1884. _d._
Gilmore place, Edinburgh 12 March 1867.

GRAHAM, HENRY HOPE. _b._ 16 Sep. 1808; ensign 57 foot 1829; lieut.
col. 59 foot 29 April 1853; superintending officer of recruiting
1860–67; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. of 77 foot 1875 to death; C.B.
1858. _d._ Somerset st. Portman sq., London 9 July 1886.

GRAHAM, JAMES GILLESPIE (_son of a poor man called Gillespie_). _b._
1777; a working joiner. (_m._ Margaret Anne Græme, dau. of William
Graham of Orchill, on whose death in 1825 he took the surname of
Graham, she _d._ 1826); architect Edinburgh; laid out part of
lower new town Edinburgh 1815; built, enlarged, and restored many
residences for the Scotch nobility 1810, etc.; erected many
churches and chapels 1813, etc.; introduced a purer gothic style
into Scotland; great friend of A. W. Pugin from 1830, with him
erected Victoria hall, Castle hill, Edinburgh for the meetings of
the general assembly 1842–3; F.S.A. Scotland as James Gillespie 24
March 1817. _d._ York place, Edinburgh 21 March 1855. _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882), 141–43, _portrait_.

GRAHAM, SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir James
Graham, 1 Baronet 1761–1824_). _b._ Naworth, Cumberland 1 June
1792; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; private sec. to Lord
Montgomerie, British minister in Sicily; M.P. for Hull 1818, for
St. Ives 1820–21, for Carlisle 1826–9, 1852–61, for Cumberland
1829–32, for East Cumberland 1832–7, for Pembroke 1838–41, for
Dorchester 1841–7, for Ripon 1847–52; first lord of the Admiralty
25 Nov. 1830 to 11 June 1834, and 30 Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; sec.
of state for home department 6 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; lord
rector of Glasgow Univ.; ecclesiastical comr. Sep. 1846; K.C.B. 15
April 1854; F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1831; author of _Corn and currency, an
address_ 1826 and other pamphlets. _d._ Netherby near Carlisle 25
Oct. 1861. _bur._ north side of Arthuret church. _Life by T. M.
Torrens 2 vols._ (1863), _portrait_; _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of
Cumberland ii_, _1 et seq._ (1868); _G. H. Francis’s Orators of
the age_ (1847), 183–205; _D. O. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties ii_,
242–56 (1859); _Saddle and Sirloin By the Druid, Part North_
(1870), 33–9.

GRAHAM, RIGHT REV. JOHN (_only son of John Graham, managing clerk to
Thos. Griffith of The Bailey, city of Durham_). _b._ Claypath,
city of Durham 23 Feb. 1794; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Ch. coll.
Cam., 4th wrangler 1816, Chancellor’s medallist 1816, B.A. 1816,
M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll. 1816; deacon 1818; preb. of Sanctæ
Crucis in Linc. cath. 1828 and of Leighton Ecclesia 1834; master
of Christ’s coll. Cam. 1830–49, vice chancellor of the Univ. 1834
and 1840; chap. in ord. to Prince Albert 26 Jany. 1841; R. of
Willingham, Cambs. 1843–8; bishop of Chester 11 March 1848 to
death, consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall 18 May 1848; clerk
of the Closet to the Queen 25 Sep. 1849 to death; published
_Sermons on the Commandments_ 1826. _d._ the Palace, Chester 15
June 1865. _G.M. xix_, 240–42 (1865).

GRAHAM, JOHN MURRAY (_eld. son of Andrew Murray 1782–1847_). _b._
Aberdeenshire 15 Oct. 1809; educ. Edin. univ., M.A. 1828; advocate
1831; succeeded to part of estate of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch
1859 and took his name of Graham; author of _A month’s tour in
Spain_ 1867; _Memoir of General Lord Lynedoch_ 1868, _2 ed._ 1877;
_An historical view of literature and art from accession of House
of Hanover to Victoria_ 1871, _2 ed._ 1872; _Annals of the
Viscount and the first and second Earls of Stair 2 vols._ 1875.
_d._ Murray’s hall, Perthshire 18 Jany. 1881. _Antiquary iii_, 136
(1881); _Academy 29 Jany. 1881 p._ 81.

GRAHAM, MONTAGU WILLIAM (_younger son of 3 Duke of Montrose
1755–1836_). _b._ 25 Grosvenor sq. London 2 Feb. 1807; M.P. for
Grantham 1852–57, for Herefordshire 1858–65. _d._ Wilton st.
Belgrave sq. London 21 June 1878.

GRAHAM, THOMAS (_eld. son of James Graham, merchant_). _b._ Glasgow
20 Dec. 1805; educ. Glasgow gram. sch. and univ., M.A. 1826;
professor of chemistry, Andersonian Instit. Glasgow 1830–37;
professor at London univ. now Univ. coll. 1837–55; non-resident
assayer of Royal Mint and master April 1855 to death; F.R.S. 25
Dec. 1836; F.G.S.; D.C.L. Oxf. 20 June 1855; discovered law of
diffusion of gases, Keith medal R.S. Edin. 1834; discovered
polybasic character of phosphoric acid, gold medal R.S. 1840;
investigated transpirability of gases, gold medal 1850; speculated
on constitution of phosphates and discovered diffusion of liquids,
Copley medal 1862; a founder and first president Chemical Soc.
1840; a founder and first president Cavendish Soc. 1846; author of
_Outlines of botany_ 1841; _Elements of chemistry_ 1842, _2 ed._
1847 and other books. _d._ 4 Gordon sq. London 16 Sep. 1869.
_Walford’s Portraits of living celebrities_ (1859), _No._ 8,
_portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xviii, pp. xvii-xxvi_ (1870);
_Proc. of Royal Soc. Edin. vii_, 15 (1872); _S. Muspratt’s
Chemistry, i_, (1853), _portrait_.

GRAHAM, WILLIAM. Gretna Green post-boy; known by the sobriquet of
“Carwinley;” important witness in celebrated Wakefield marriage
case 24 March 1827. _d._ Carlisle 18 Dec. 1864 aged 79.

GRAHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ Dufton Wood near Appleby 1808; a successful
wrestler; member of a large London firm; chiefly raced under
pseudonyms, his 3 Oaks winners are registered as Regalia 1865
belonging to Mr. Harlock, and Formosa 1868 and Gamos 1870 to Mr.
G. Jones; Sabinus was said to belong to Mr. Hessey, other names he
used were Brown, Keswick, Fischer & Winchester; made £18,965 in
1868. _d._ 8 Holloway road, Highbury, London 19 Jany. 1876.
_Baily’s Mag. xxviii_, 126–30 (1876); _Bell’s Life 22 Jany. 1876
p._ 6.

GRAHAM, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Clough farm, co. Antrim 1810;
presbyterian minister at Dundonald near Belfast 1836; missionary
to the Jews at Damascus 1842, at Hamburg, at Bonn to 1883; D.D.,
M.R.I.A.; author of _The spirit of love, a commentary_ 1857;
_Fifty songs of Zion_ 1857; _A practical commentary on the epistle
to Titus_ 1860; _Lectures on St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians_
1870. _d._ Belfast 11 Dec. 1883.

GRAHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ 1816; M.P. for Glasgow 14 July 1865 to 26
Jany. 1874. _d._ Oakdene near Guildford 16 July 1885. _I.L.N.
xlviii_, 144 (1866), _portrait_.

GRAHAM, REV. WILLIAM. Educ. Glasgow univ. D.D.; licentiate of United
Presbyterian ch.; pastor of Mount Pleasant ch. Liverpool 1846–80;
moderator of English Presbyterian synod 1877; professor of church
history, Presbyterian coll., Guildford st., London 1880; author of
_Memoirs of John Macfarlane_ 1876. _d._ Acton West 26 Nov. 1887
aged 64. _bur._ Birkenhead 1 Dec. _Christian World 1 Dec. 1887 p._
917.

GRAHAM-GILBERT, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 1794; educ. R. Acad. sch. London
1818–21; portrait painter; in Italy 1823, 1826; exhibited 27
pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1820–64; settled in Edinburgh
1827, Glasgow 1834; R.S.A. 1829; painted Portrait of Walter Scott
1829, The pear tree wall 1844, Females at a fountain 1846. (_m._
1834 Miss Gilbert of Yorkhill near Glasgow, and assumed the
surname of Gilbert. She was also an artist, and on her death in
1877 left pictures to Corporation galleries at Glasgow). _d._
Yorkhill 4 June 1866.

GRAHAME, ROBERT. _b._ Stockwell st., Glasgow 1759; the leading
democrat of the West of Scotland 1793; the first Lord Provost of
Glasgow after enactment of Burgh Reform; leading partner of firm
of Grahame and Mitchell of Glasgow, writers. _d._ Hatton hall,
Northamptonshire 28 Dec. 1851.

GRAINGER, RICHARD. _b._ Newcastle upon Tyne 1796; ed. at St.
Andrew’s charity sch. there; apprenticed to a carpenter; erected
Eldon square, Leazes terrace and crescent, the Arcade, Grey st.,
Grainger St., Market st., Clayton st. and Clayton st. west, all in
Newcastle upon Tyne 1826–31; purchased the Elswick estate on the
Tyne for £200,000. _d._ West Clayton st. Newcastle upon Tyne 4
July 1861. _Once a week, v_, 401–406 (1861).

GRAINGER, RICHARD DUGARD (_son of Edward Grainger of Birmingham,
surgeon_). _b._ Birmingham 1801, ed. at gr. school there and
Woolwich, at St. Thomas’ and Webb st. sch.; M.R.C.S. 1822,
F.R.C.S. 1843; kept a private anatomical school in Webb st.
Borough, London 1822–42 when it was amalgamated with St. Thomas’s
hospital; professor of anatomy and physiology at St. Thomas’s
1842–60; F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846; delivered Hunterian oration 1848; a
cholera inspector 1849; an inspector under the Burials Act 1853 to
death; one of Children’s employment comrs. 13 Feb. 1862; author of
_Elements of general anatomy_ 1829; _Observations on the spinal
cord_ 1837; _Observations on the cultivation of organic science_
1848; _Sanitary report on cholera_ 1848–9. _d._ 6 Hornsey lane,
Highgate 1 Feb. 1865. _bur._ Eltham 7 Feb. _Medical times and
gazette, i_, 157–58 (1865).

GRAINGER, THOMAS, _b._ Gogar green, Ratho near Edinburgh 12 Nov.
1794; civil engineer and surveyor in Edin. 1816; executed the
Monkland and Kirkintilloch railway 1824, the first in Scotland on
which ‘edge rails’ were used; partner with Mr. Miller 1825–45;
executed Paisley and Renfrew railway 1834, Arbroath and Forfar
line 1835, Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven line 183 , Edinburgh,
Perth and Dundee lines 1847; pres. of royal Scottish society of
arts 2 years; M.I.C.E. 1829; F.R.S. Edin.; F.S.A. Edin. _d._
Stockton on Tees 25 July 1852 from injuries received in a
collision of trains near Stockton on Tees 21 July. _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xii_, 159 (1853).

GRANARD, GEORGE ARTHUR HASTINGS FORBES, 7 Earl of. _b._ Chilton
hall, Suffolk 5 Aug. 1833; succeeded 9 June 1837; attaché to
legation at Dresden 1852–54; lord lieut. of Leitrim, Nov. 1856 to
July 1872; K.P. 30 Jany. 1857. _d._ Castle Forbes, co. Longford 25
Aug. 1889. _I.L.N. xlii_, 181 (1862), _portrait_.

GRANGER, THOMAS COLPITTS (_eld. son of Joseph Granger of Durham_).
Barrister I.T. 14 May 1830, bencher 1850; recorder of Hull 1847 to
death; Q.C. 1850; contested city of Durham Jany. 1835 and July
1837; M.P. for city of Durham June 1841 to death; author of _A
supplement to the statutes by Sir W. D. Evans_ 1836; author with
R. P. Tyrwhitt of _Reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer and
Exchequer Chamber 1835–37_, _1 vol._ 1837; author with James
Manning of _Reports of cases in the Court of Common Pleas
1840–45_, _7 vols._ 1841–46. _d._ York 13 Aug. 1852 aged 50.
_bur._ in vaults of Temple church, London.

GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER, 8 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Robert Innes
Grant, 7 baronet 1794–1856_). _b._ New York 13 Sep. 1826; ed. at
Harrow and Balliol coll. Ox., scholar 1844–9, fellow 1849–60, hon.
fellow 1882; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852, D.C.L. 1860; examiner for
Indian civil service 1855; inspector of schools in Madras 1859;
professor of history and political economy in Elphinstone coll.,
Madras 1860, principal 1862; vice chancellor of Univ. of Bombay
1863–5 and 1865–8; director of public instruction in Bombay 1865;
member of legislative council of Bombay 1868; vice chancellor and
principal of Univ. of Edin. 6 July 1868 to death, installed 3 Nov.
1868; devised and carried out tercentenary festival 1884; F.R.S.
Edin. 1869; author of _The story of the University of Edinburgh
during its first three hundred years_ 1884 and other books. _d._
21 Landowne crescent, Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1884. _W. Hole’s Quasi
Cursores_ (1884) 6, 7–17; _Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin._ (1885).

GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER CRAY, 6 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir Alexander
Grant, 5 baronet, who d. 25 July 1825_). _b._ Bowring’s Leigh,
Devon 30 Nov. 1782; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; member of
colonial assembly of Jamaica 1810–11; M.P. for Tregony 1812–18,
for Lostwithiel 1818–26, for Aldborough 1826–30, for Westbury
1830–32, for town of Cambridge 1840–43; contested Great Grimsby
1835 and Honiton 1837; chairman of committees of house of commons
1826–32; a member of board of control for India 20 Dec. 1834 to 29
April 1835; a comr. for auditing public accounts 1843 to death.
_d._ Somerset house,? London 29 Nov. 1854.

GRANT, VEN. ANTHONY (_youngest son of Thomas Grant of Portsea_).
_b._ 31 Jany. 1806; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow
1825–39; B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1842; select preacher 1852 and 1861;
C. of Chelmsford 1836; V. of Romford, Essex 1838–62; V. of
Aylesford, Kent 1862–77; archdeacon of St. Albans 1846 to death;
archdeacon of Rochester 1863–82; canon of Rochester 1860 to death;
author of _The past and prospective extension of the gospel to the
heathen_ 1844, a Bampton lecture which marked an epoch in mission
work. _An historical sketch of the Crimea_ 1855 and other books.
_d._ 11 Royal crescent, Ramsgate 25 Nov. 1883.

GRANT, CHARLES. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 22 April 1819, col.
16 Feb. 1861, col. commandant 11 Jany. 1868 to death; general 1
Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ 3 Suffolk sq., Cheltenham 13
Jany. 1882.

GRANT, COLESWORTHY. _b._ London 25 Oct. 1813; went to Calcutta 1832;
well known as an artist; professor of drawing Howrah engineering
coll. 1849 and at Presidency engineering coll. Calcutta 185-;
founded Calcutta soc. for prevention of cruelty to animals, and
became hon. sec. 4 Oct. 1861; contributed 167 portrait sketches to
the _India Review_ and other papers 1838–50; made 78 sketches of
Oriental heads; author of _Rough pencillings of a rough trip to
Rangoon in 1846_, _Calcutta_ 1853; _Anglo-Indian domestic life_
185-, anon.; _Rural life in Bengal, Letters from an Artist in
India to his sisters in England_ 1860; _To the children of
Calcutta, On cruelty, Calcutta_ 1872. _d._ Calcutta 31 May 1880.
_P. C. Mittra’s Life of C. Grant_ (1881), _portrait_.

GRANT, DAVID. _b._ Upper Banchory, Kincardineshire 1823; educ.
Aberdeen univ.; schoolmaster Elgin; French master Oundle gram.
sch. Northamptonshire 1861; assist. master Eccleshall coll. near
Sheffield 1865; kept a day sch. at Sheffield by which he was
ruined 1880; private tutor Edinburgh 1880 to death; author of
_Metrical tales, Sheffield_ 1880; _Lays and legends of the North,
Edin._ 1884; _A book of ten songs with music_ 1887. _d._ Edinburgh
1886. _D. H. Edwards’ Modern Scotch poets, Brechin_ (1880).

GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (_4 son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston,
Perthshire, who d. 1819_). _b._ Edinburgh 18 Jany. 1803; ed. at
Harrow; exhibited 253 portraits at R.A. 1834–79; the fashionable
portrait painter of the day from 1840; A.R.A. 1842, R.A. 11 Feb.
1851, pres. 1866; member of Belgian academy 1855; knighted at
Buckingham Palace 24 March 1866; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1870. _d._ The
Lodge, Melton Mowbray 5 Oct. 1878. _Illustrated Review, v_,
449–55, _portrait_; _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, ii_,
1–3; _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 295–7 (1862); _I.L.N.
vi_, 293 (1845), _portrait_, _xviii_, 219 (1851), _portrait_,
_xlviii_, 232 (1866), _portrait_.

GRANT, GERTRUDE ELIZABETH. Author under pseudonym of Gerald Grant of
3 novels _Coming home to roost 3 vols._ 1872, _The old ✠ quarry 3
vols._ 1873, _The great gulf fixed 3 vols._ 1877. _d._ Göritz,
Austria 29 Dec. 1882.

GRANT, JAMES. _b._ Elgin, Morayshire 1802; a founder and editor of
_Elgin Courier_ 1827; went to London 1833; conducted _London
Saturday Journal_ 1839, _Grant’s London Journal_ 1840; editor of
_Morning Advertiser_ 1850–71, of _Christian Standard_ 1872; author
of _The great metropolis 1836_, 1837; _Random recollections of
House of Commons and House of Lords 2 vols._ 1836, _second ser.
called The British senate_ 1838; _The metropolitan pulpit_ 1839;
_The newspaper press, its origin, progress and present position 3
vols._ 1871–72; _The Plymouth Brethren_ 1875 and upwards of 30
other works. _d._ 35 Cornwall road, Bayswater, London 23 May 1879.
_Bookseller, June 1879 p._ 510; _Licensed Victuallers Almanac_
(1862), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_, 561 (1879), _portrait_.

GRANT, JAMES. _b._ Glen Urquhart, Invernessshire 1840; educ.
Aberdeen univ., M.A.; studied law in Edinburgh; assistant to
professor Cosmo Innes, whom he helped in his books; worked under
John Hill Burton and professor Masson in publication of Scottish
privy council records; F.S.A.; author of _History of the burgh and
parish schools of Scotland_, _vol. 1_, 1876, vol. 2 though
completed not printed; _History of the university of Edinburgh,
unprinted_. _d._ at his brother’s residence 114 Bell terrace,
Newcastle-on-Tyne 9 Aug. 1885.

GRANT, JAMES (_eld. son of John Grant, capt. 92 highlanders_). _b._
Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1822; resident in Newfoundland 1833–39; ensign 62
foot 1840, resigned 1843; with David Rhind architect, Edin. 1843;
founder and sec. of National association for Vindication of
Scottish rights 1852 which was ridiculed in _Punch_; an early
volunteer; joined Roman Catholic ch. 1875; author of _The Romance
of war 4 vols._ 1846–47; _Memorials of the castle of Edinburgh_
1850; _The adventures of an aide-de-camp 3 vols._ 1848; _Old and
new Edinburgh 3 vols._ 1880; _Love’s labour won 3 vols._ 1888 and
about 60 other works. _d._ 25 Tavistock road, Westbourne park,
London 5 May 1887.

GRANT, JAMES GREGOR. Lecturer for Northern Union of Mechanics’
institutes; resided in Sunderland; wrote a series of stories on
local legends for _Newcastle Weekly Chronicle_; author of _Madonna
Pia and other poems 2 vols._ 1848. _d._ London 25 Dec. 1875.

GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (_youngest son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston,
Perthshire_). _b._ 22 July 1808; cornet 9 lancers 29 Aug. 1826,
lieut. col. 29 April 1850 to 26 Feb. 1858; colonel 4 hussars 18
Jany. 1861 to 6 Feb. 1865; col. 9 lancers 9 Feb. 1865 to death;
general 23 April 1872, took an important part in suppression of
Indian mutiny 1857–8; commanded British forces during Chinese war
1860; commander in chief at Madras 1861–5; quartermaster general
at head quarters 1865–70; commanded division at Aldershot 1 Nov.
1870 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, G.C.B. 9
Nov. 1860. _d._ at house of Baroness Gray, 42 Grosvenor gardens,
London 7 March 1875. _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age,
ii_, 252–307 (1880); _Golden Hours_ (1869) 818–32, _portrait_; _D.
C. Boulger’s History of China, iii_, 483 _et seq._ (1884); _I.L.N.
lxvi_, 258, 273, 277, 278, 470 (1875), _portrait_.

GRANT, JAMES MACPHERSON. _b._ Alvie, Invernessshire 1822; went with
his parents to New South Wales 1836; articled to Chambers and
Thurlow, solicitors, Sydney 1841–47; solicitor 1847, partner with
Mr. Thurlow; solicitor Melbourne 1854; member for Bendigo to
legislative council Victoria, Nov. 1855, member for Sandhurst
boroughs 1856, for Avoca 1859 to decease; V.P. of Board of lands
and works 1861, president 1864–68, 1868–69, 1871–72; minister of
justice 1875, 1877–80; chief sec. 1881–83; did much in settling
the people on the public lands. _d._ Melbourne? 1 April 1885. _Men
of the time in Australia_, _Victoria_ (1878) 73.

GRANT, SIR JAMES ROBERT (_son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in
Strathspey_). _b._ Forres co. Moray Feb. 1773; assistant surgeon
22 Jany. 1792; inspector general of army hospitals 14 July 1814;
chief of medical department at Waterloo; received order of St.
Anne of Russia from Emperor Alexander at Paris 1815; K.H. 1816;
knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 18 March 1819; C.B. 16
Aug. 1850. _d._ Basford vicarage, Notts 10 Jany. 1864. _bur._ St.
Mary’s churchyard, Carlisle 18 Jany.

GRANT, JAMES WILLIAM (_son of Robert Grant_). _b._ Wester Elchies,
Morayshire 12 Aug. 1788; writer H.E.I.C.S. 22 July 1805 in Bengal;
retired 1849; detected the companion of Antares 23 July 1844 two
years before Mitchel perceived the duplicity of the star; erected
an observatory at Elchies 1849, where he placed the Trophy
telescope purchased from great exhibition of 1851, this was sold
to Mr. Aytoun in 1864; F. R. Astronom. Soc. 13 Jany. 1854. _d._
Wester Elchies 17 Sept. 1865.

GRANT, JOHN (_brother of Sir Francis Grant 1803–78_). _b._ 13 June
1798; master of Perthshire hounds 1836–41; chairman of Tay
district board of salmon fishing; his residence Kilgraston house,
Perthshire burnt 1872. _d._ London 20 Jany. 1873. _Babington’s
Fife foxhounds_ (1883) 66, _portrait_; _Perthshire Constitutional
22 Jany. 1873 p._ 2.

GRANT, JOHN (_eld. son of Ewen Grant_). _b._ Glasgow 22 May 1819;
assisted in Tithe commutation commission survey in Devon 1838;
employed on Exeter and Yeovil railway 1845; assist, surveyor
metropolitan commission of sewers April 1849, engineer 1852;
assist. engineer metropolitan board of works 1856; superintended
construction of numerous streets, sewers, pumping stations and the
outfall works at Crossness; connected with construction of
portions of Chelsea and Albert embankments; made successful
experiments on use of portland cement 1858 etc.; M.I.C.E. 3 Dec.
1861, Telford medal 1880; reported on Artizans’ dwellings, Glasgow
1877, Fish supply of London 1881, and on Sludge filter presses
1885. _d._ 48 Blessington road, Lee, Kent 24 March 1888. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcii_, 389–92 (1888).

GRANT, SIR JOHN THORNTON (_eld. son of Wm. Charles Grant, captain 92
foot, killed at Waterloo 18 June 1815_). _b._ Ireland 26 Dec.
1810; ensign 49 foot 28 April 1828, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1854 to 3
Aug. 1860; lieut. col. 18 foot 3 Aug. 1860 to 28 May 1866 when
placed on h.p.; brig. gen. Madras 1863–68, M.G. Bombay 1869–74;
col. 94 foot 25 June 1879 to death; general 21 May 1880; C.B. 5
July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._ Upton park, Slough 16 Jany.
1886.