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GRONOW, REES HOWELL (_eld. son of Wm. Gronow of Swansea, d. 1830_).
_b._ 7 May 1794; ed. at Eton; ensign 1 foot guards 24 Dec. 1812,
lieut. 1815–21 when he sold out; served in Spain 1812–14, present
at Waterloo; contested Grimsby 1831, M.P. for Stafford 1832,
unseated 1833, contested Stafford 1835; one of the chief dandies
of London 1814 etc., admitted at Almack’s where he remembered
introduction of quadrilles and waltzes 1813; author of
_Reminiscences_ 1862; _Recollections and anecdotes_ 1863;
_Celebrities of London and Paris_ 1865; _Last recollections_ 1866.
_d._ Paris 20 Nov. 1865. _Reminiscences_ (1862), _portrait_.

GROOME, VEN. ROBERT HINDES (_2 son of Rev. John Hindes Groome, R. of
Earl Soham, d. 1845 aged 68_). _b._ Framlingham, Suffolk 18 Jany.
1810; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836; C. of
Tannington, Suffolk 1833; R. of Monk-Soham, Suffolk 1845 to death;
hon. canon of Norwich 1858–71; archdeacon of Suffolk 1869,
resigned 1887; edited _Christian Advocate Review_ 1861–6; author
of _How to read, a lecture_ 1857. _d._ Monk-Soham 19 March 1889.

GROSE, REV. THOMAS (_2 son of Rev. John Grose, R. of Metteswell,
Essex_). _b._ 1806; ed. at Clare hall, Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830;
lecturer of St. John’s, Wapping 1833; chaplain of Stepney union
1838; C. of St. Peter’s, Cornhill 1839 to death; author of _A
reply to the American Anti-theistical catechism_ 1834; _Discipline
of Church of England defended against W. Tiptaft_ 1838. _d._
London 21 March 1867.

GROSSMITH, GEORGE. _b._ Reading 20 Aug. 1820; connected with the
press, on staff of _Times_ 35 years; first lectured on Wit and
Humour at Reading 9 Dec. 1847; public reader and lecturer,
travelled throughout the United Kingdom. _d._ of apoplexy, Savage
club, Caledonian hotel, London 24 April 1880. _Illust. sp. and dr.
news 15 May_ (1880), _portrait_.

GROSVENOR, THOMAS (_3 son of Thomas Grosvenor 1734–95, M.P. for
Chester_). _b._ 30 May 1764; ed. at Westminster; ensign 3 foot
guards 1 Oct. 1779, captain 1793–1802; served in the Low Countries
1793–99, at Copenhagen 1807 and at Walcheren 1809; received the
thanks of parliament 1 Feb. 1808; col. of 97 foot 25 Feb. 1807, of
65 foot 8 Feb. 1814 to death; general 12 Aug. 1819, field marshal
9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for Chester 1795–1826, for Stockbridge 1826–30.
_d._ Mount Ararat near Richmond, Surrey 20 Jany. 1851.

GROTE, ARTHUR (_younger bro. of the succeeding_). _b._ Beckenham,
Kent 29 Nov. 1814; of Bengal C.S. 1832; in revenue department
1853, retired 1868; president of Asiatic soc. of Bengal 1859–62,
1865; F.L.S., F.Z.S. _d._ 42 Ovington sq. London 4 Dec. 1886.

GROTE, GEORGE (_1 son of George Grote 1762–1830, of city of London,
banker_). _b._ Clay hill near Beckenham 17 Nov. 1794; ed. at
Sevenoaks and the Charterhouse; clerk in bank of Prescott, Grote &
Co. 1810, partner in it 1816–43; one of founders of London
university, opened 2 Oct. 1828, member of council 1828 to death;
M.P. for city of London 1832–41; introduced motion in favor of the
ballot 25 April 1833; F.G.S. 1843; D.C.L. Ox. 1853; V.C. of the
university of London 1862; contested lord rectorship of univ. of
Aberdeen 1866; author of _History of Greece 12 vols._ 1846–56, _4
ed. 10 vols._ 1872; _Plato and other companions of Socrates 3
vols._ 1865, _2 ed._ 1867 and other books. _d._ 12 Savile row,
London 18 June 1871. _bur._ Westminster abbey 24 June. _Personal
history of G. Grote, by Mrs. Grote_ (1873), _portrait_; _J. H.
Friswell’s Modern men of letters_ (1870) 183–94; _Illustrated
Review, vol. ii_ (1871) 33–37, _portrait_; _Rev. P. Anton’s
Masters in history_ (1880) 63–119.

GROTE, HARRIET (_dau. of Thomas Lewin of H.E.I.C.S., d. June 1843_).
_b._ the Ridgeway near Southampton 1 July 1792. (_m._ 5 March 1820
George Grote 1794–1871); educated herself to assist her husband in
his literary work and managed his landed property for him; held
receptions for foreigners and English politicians; a friend of
Mendelssohn and Jenny Lind; known as the Queen of the Radicals;
author of _Memoir of life of Ary Scheffer_ 1860, _2 editions_;
_Collected Papers_ 1862; _The personal life of George Grote_ 1873.
_d._ The Ridgeway, Shere near Guildford 29 Dec. 1878. Mrs. Grote,
by Lady Eastlake (1880); _Englishwoman’s Domestic Mag. xvi_, 120,
176 (1874).

GROTE, REV. JOHN (_brother of George Grote 1794–1871_). _b._
Beckenham 5 May 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1835, M.A.
1838, fellow 1837 to death; V. of Trumpington near Cambridge 1847
to death; prof. of moral philos. in Univ. of Cam., May 1855 to
death; author of _Exploratio philosophica_ 1865, _pt. i only_; _An
examination of the utilitarian philosophy of J. S. Mill_ 1870.
_d._ Trumpington vicarage 21 Aug. 1866.

GROUCOCK, RICHARD. _b._ Waters Upton, Salop; founded firm of
Groucock and Copestake, warehousemen 5 Bow church yard, London
1826, they were joined by George Moore 1830. _d._ Waters Upton 26
July 1853 aged 51. _D. Puseley’s Commercial companion_ (1858) _p._
46.

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

GROVER, REV. HENRY MONTAGUE (_eld. son of Harry Grover of Hemel
Hempstead, Herts._) _b._ Watford, Herts. 1791; ed. at Peterhouse
coll. Cam., LL.B. 1830; solicitor in Bedford row, London 1816–24;
R. of Hitcham, Bucks. 16 Feb. 1833 to death; author of _Anne
Boleyn, a tragedy_ 1826; _The history of the resurrection_ 1841.
_d._ Hitcham rectory 20 Aug. 1866.

GROVES, ANTHONY NORRIS. _b._ Newton, Hampshire 1795; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin; dentist at Plymouth 1813–6, at Exeter 1816–29; one
of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren 1828; teacher of
christianity at Bagdad 1829–33; travelling missionary in India
1833–4, 1836–48, 1849–52; author of _Journal of a journey from
London to Bagdad_ 1831; _Journal of a residence at Bagdad_ 1837.
_d._ 21 Paul st. Bristol 20 May 1853. _Memoir of A. N. Groves_, _3
ed._ (1869).

GRUBB, EDWARD (_2 son of Edward Grubb of Great Queen st. London_).
Barrister G.I. 11 Feb. 1828; clerk of records and writs in
chancery 186-to death; a total abstainer 1833; author of _Essays,
analytical and philosophical, on the human mind, By E. G._ 1845;
_Old and New Temperance advocacy, a speech_ 1858. _d._ 22 Gordon
st. Gordon sq. London 8 June 1878 aged 77.

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

GRUNDY, JAMES. _b._ New Radford, Nottingham 5 March 1824;
professional bowler to earl of Leicester at Holkham 1847–51;
bowler to the Marylebone club 1851–71; also a good batsman;
landlord of Midland hotel, Carrington st. Nottingham 1869. _d._
Midland hotel, Nottingham 24 Nov. 1873. _Illust. sporting news,
i_, 117 (1862), _portrait, iii_, 361 (1864), _portrait, v_, 457
(1866), _portrait_; _Bell’s Life in London 29 Dec. 1873 p._ 4.

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

GRUNEISEN, CHARLES LEWIS (_son of Charles Gruneisen of Stuttgart_).
_b._ Bloomsbury, London 2 Nov. 1806; special correspondent of
Morning Post to Carlist army in Spain 1837–8, correspondent in
Paris 1839–44 when he organised a pigeon express; organiser of the
Italian opera at Covent Garden 1846, supported it till 1869;
entrusted by Meyerbeer with the score of _Le Prophète_ which was
produced at Covent Garden 1849; musical critic for _Athenæum_ 1868
to death; a founder and director of Conservative land soc. 1852,
sec. 1853–72; author of _The opera and the press_ 1869; _Sketches
of Spain_ 1874. _d._ 16 Surrey st. Strand, London 1 Nov. 1879.

GRYLLS, REV. HENRY (_3 son of Rev. Richard Gerveys Grylls 1758–1841,
V. of St. Neot, Cornwall_). _b._ Helston, Cornwall 1 Feb. 1794;
ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; V. of St. Neot 21 Dec.
1820 to death; author of _A selection of masonic prayers_ 1844; _A
descriptive sketch of the windows of St. Neot church_ 1830, _4
ed._ 1854; _A manual of private and domestic prayer_ 1861. _d._
Helston 11 June 1862.

GRYLLS, MARY (_1 dau. of Rev. Charles Grylls 1812–76, V. of
Lanhydrock, Cornwall_). _b._ Helston, Cornwall 15 Feb. 1836;
author of _Death in the palace_ 1861; _Helen and her cousins_ 1863
and 4 other books all being anonymous. _d._ Lanhydrock 13 Nov.
1863.

GUBBINS, MARTIN RICHARD. _b._ 1812; of H.E.I.C.S. 1830; member of
British commission in Oudh 1856–7; manager of intelligence
department during the mutiny 1857–8; judge of supreme court of
Agra 1858–63; author of _Reports upon the settlement of Zillah
Etawah_, _Agra_ 1844; _Accounts of the mutinies in Oudh_ 1858, _3
ed._ 1858; hanged himself at Somerset house, Clarendon place,
Leamington 6 May 1863. _Royal Leamington Spa Courier 9 May 1863
p._ 10.

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

GUERINT, SEBASTIAN FRANCIS (_son of Mr. Guerint a Swiss who was the
first engine turner of watch cases in England_). _b._ 1791;
appeared at Sadler’s Wells theatre 23 April 1817 as Harlequin in
_The yellow dwarf_ to Grimaldi’s clown; ballet master at the
Olympic 1848; proprietor of exhibition of hydraulics and moving
figures on site of old Savile house, Leicester sq.; acting manager
at Royalty theatre 1869. _d._ 87 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London
9 March 1870.

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

GUEST, EDWIN (_son of E. Guest_). _b._ 1802; ed. at Caius coll.
Cam., fellow 1824; 11 wrangler 1824, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, LLD.
1853; barrister L.I. 19 June 1828; master of Caius coll. 1852,
resigned 14 Oct. 1880; V.C. of Univ. of Cam. 1854–5; F.R.S. 20
June 1839; founder of Philological soc., and sec. 1842, wrote many
papers in _Transactions_; author of _A history of English rhythms
2 vols._ 1838, _new ed._ 1882; _Guest’s Compendious Shorthand_
1883; _Origines Celticæ_ 1883. _d._ Sandford park near Oxford 23
Nov. 1880 in 78 year. _Spectator 4 Dec. 1880 p._ 1551.

GUEST, JOHN (_son of James Guest, tailor_). _b._ Bridge-gate,
Rotherham 5 May 1799; clerk at the Phœnix iron works; head of firm
of Guest and Chrimes, brass founders 1847; a temperance advocate
1836; alderman of Rotherham 1871 and a benefactor to the town;
F.S.A. 5 May 1874; author of _Relics and records of Rotherham_
1866; _Historic notices of Rotherham_ 1879. _d._ Moorgate Grange,
Rotherham 18 July 1880. _Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury_ (1882)
438; _Sketches of the life of J. Guest, by T. Beggs_ (1881),
_portrait_.

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

GUICCIOLI, COUNTESS TERESA (_dau. of Count Gamba of Ravenna_). _b._
1801. (_m._ 1818 Count Guiccioli of Ravenna); first met Lord Byron
April 1819 at Venice; separated from her husband and lived under
protection of Byron Jany. 1820 to July 1823; (_m._ 1851 Hilaire
marquis de Boissy, he was _b._ 1798, _d._ 26 Sep. 1866); visited
England; author of _Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie_
1869. _d._ Setimello near Florence, March 1873. _Mary R. Darby
Smith’s Recollections of la marquise de Boissy_ (1878), _with 3
portraits_.

GUILFORD, REV. FRANCIS NORTH, 6 Earl of. _b._ 17 Dec. 1772; master
of St. Cross hospital, Winchester 9 Jany. 1808 to 1855, the Rolls
court obliged him to give up part of the income in 1855; succeeded
14 Oct. 1827; R. of Old Alresford, New Alresford and Medstead
1797–1850; author of _Tract on the Epiphany_ 1835. _d._
Waldershare park near Dover 29 Jany. 1861. _C. Beavan’s Chancery
Reports, xvi_, 435–69 (1854), _xviii_, 475–7, 601–8 (1855).

GUILFORD, DUDLEY FRANCIS NORTH, 7 Earl of. _b._ Weavering, Kent 14
July 1851; succeeded his grandfather 1861; cornet R. horse guards
1868, lieut. 1870, retired 1871; master of East Kent hounds 1872.
_d._ Sydling court near Dorchester 19 Dec. 1885 from injuries
received while hunting day before. _Baily’s Mag. xxiii_, 125
(1873), _portrait_.

GUILLE, VERY REV. WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Guille of Guernsey_). Matric.
from Oriel coll. Ox. 15 Nov. 1810 aged 18, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817;
R. of St. Andrew’s, Guernsey 1837–58; R. of St. Peter’s Port,
Guernsey 1858 to death; dean of Guernsey 1858 to death. _d._
Guernsey 14 June 1869.

GUILLEMARD, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Daniel Guillemard, silk
merchant, Spitalfields_). _b._ Hackney 23 Nov. 1815; ed. at Pemb.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1870; fellow of
his coll. 1839; head master of Royal coll. Armagh 1848–69; V. of
St. Mary the Less, Camb. 1869, resigned 1887; author of _The Greek
Testament, Hebraistic edition_ 1875; _Hebraisms in the Greek
Testament_, _Camb._ 1879 an unfinished work. _d._ Waterbeach near
Cambridge 2 Sep. 1887.

GUINNESS, SIR BENJAMIN LEE, 1 Baronet (_3 son of Arthur Guinness b.
12 March 1768, head of firm of Guinness & Co. brewers, Dublin, d.
Beaumont house near Dublin 9 June 1855_). _b._ Dublin 1 Nov. 1798;
lord mayor of Dublin 1851; sole proprietor of firm of Arthur
Guinness & Co. 1857, developed the business which became largest
in the world, it was made a limited liability co. 1886 with
capital of £6,000,000; restored St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin at cost
of £150,000, 1860–67; LLD. of univ. of Dublin 1863; M.P. for city
of Dublin 17 July 1865 to death; cr. baronet 15 April 1867. _d._
27 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 19 May 1868. _bur._ Mount Jerome
cemetery, Dublin 27 May, personalty sworn under £1,100,000, 8 Aug.
1868; bronze statue erected in St. Patrick’s ch. yard Sep. 1875.
_I.L.N. xlvi_, 207, 209 (1865), _portrait_, _lii_, 547 (1868);
_Graphic xii_, 278, 293 (1875).

GUINNESS, RICHARD SAMUEL. _b._ Dublin 17 June 1797; head of firm of
Guinness & Co. Dublin 1855 to death; M.P. for Kinsale 1847–48, for
Barnstaple 1855–57. _d._ Deepwell, Blackrock, co. Dublin 28 Aug.
1857.

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

GUISE, SIR JOHN WRIGHT, 3 Baronet (_2 son of Sir John Guise, 1 Bart.
1733–94_). _b._ Highnam court, Gloucs. 20 July 1777; ensign 70
foot 1794; ensign 3 foot guards 1795, first major 1814–21; served
in Spain 1800, Egypt 1801 and in Peninsula 1812–14; K.C.B. 13
Sept. 1831, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; succeeded his brother 23 July
1834; col. 85 foot 1 June 1847 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851.
_d._ Elmore court near Gloucester 1 April 1865.

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

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

GULLY, JAMES MANBY. _b._ Kingston, Jamaica 14 March 1808; came to
England 1814; M.D. of Edin. univ. 1829, M.R.C.S. Edin. 1829;
physician in London 1830–42; edited _Liverpool Medical Journal_
1834; at Malvern as a practiser of hydropathy 1842 to 31 Dec.
1871; became very intimate with Mrs. C. D. T. Bravo and was one of
the witnesses in the Bravo poison case July-Aug. 1876; his name
removed from medical societies and _Medical Register_ 1876; author
of _The water cure in chronic disease_ 1846, _13 ed._ 1877; _The
lady of Belleisle_, a drama produced at Drury lane 4 Dec. 1839;
appears as Dr. Gullson in Chas. Reade’s novel _It is never too
late to mend_ 1857. _d._ Orwell lodge, Bedford hill road, Balham,
Surrey 27 March 1883. _Palatine Note-book, iii_, 215–6 (1883);
_The Balham Mystery_ (1876), 33 _portrait_.

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

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

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

GUNNER, THOMAS (_2 son of Wm. Gunner of Bishop’s Waltham, Hants._)
_b._ 23 Nov. 1815; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A.
1838, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1842; recorder of
Southampton, Oct. 1870 to death. _d._ Heathfield, Winchester 3
March 1883.

GUNNING, HENRY (_1 son of Rev. Francis Gunning, V. of Newton near
Cambridge, d. 1788_). _b._ Newton 13 Feb. 1768; ed. at Christ’s
coll. Cam., 5 wr. 1788, B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; one of esquires
bedells of the univ. 13 Oct. 1789, senior esquire bedell 1827 to
death; mem. of town council of Cambridge 1835–41; author of _Poll
books of Cambridge 7 vols._ 1822–47; _The ceremonies in the senate
house_, _Cambridge_ 1836. _d._ Brighton 4 Jany. 1854.
_Reminiscences of Cambridge, by H. Gunning 2 vols._ 1854,
_portrait_; _G.M. xli_, 207–208 (1854).

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

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

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

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

GUPPY, THOMAS RICHARD (_2 son of Samuel Guppy of Bristol,
merchant_). _b._ Bristol 1797; a sugar refiner at Bristol about
1826–30; started with I. K. Brunel a company for constructing a
railway from Bristol to London 1830 for which they got an act
1832; constructed with Brunel the ‘Great Western’ steamship which
was launched 19 July 1837, ran from Bristol to New York 1838–46,
became property of Royal mail steam packet company 1846 and was
broken up 1857; invented the cellular system of ship building;
constructed the Great Britain, launched 19 July 1843; assisted in
the introduction of the screw propeller; manager of Cwmavon,
Glamorgan, copper works 1844; practised at Naples 1849, a
mechanical engineer there 1854; A.I.C.E. 3 May 1842, M.I.C.E. 19
Feb. 1878. _d._ Portici near Naples 28 June 1882. _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. lxix_, 411–15 (1882).

GURDON, BRAMPTON. _b._ London 25 Sep. 1797; sheriff of Norfolk 1855;
M.P. for West Norfolk 1857–65. _d._ 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq.
London 28 April 1881.

GURDON, WILLIAM (_4 son of lieut. col. Theophilus Thornhagh Gurdon
of Letton, Norfolk 1764–1849_). _b._ 1804; ed. at Eton and Downing
coll. Cam., fellow 1838, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 3
July 1829: recorder of Bury St. Edmunds 185-to 1860; judge of
county courts, circuit 38 (Essex), March 1847 to March 1871;
author of _Our highways: what they are and what they might be_;
_Bankruptcy for the million_ 1862. _d._ Brantham court,
Manningtree, Suffolk 12 Oct. 1884.

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

GURNEY, ANNA (_youngest child of Richard Gurney of Keswick near
Norwich, d. 16 July 1811_). _b._ 31 Dec. 1795; paralysed at 10
months old and deprived for ever of the use of her lower limbs;
translated the _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, By A Lady in the country_
1819; lived at Northrepps cottage near Cromer 1825 to death;
travelled in Italy and Greece. _d._ Keswick near Norwich 6 June
1857. _bur._ in Overstrand church. _Journal of British Archæol.
Assoc. xiv_, 187–9 (1858).

GURNEY, REV. ARCHER THOMPSON (_son of Richard Gurney 1790–1843,
vice-warden of stannaries of Devon_). _b._ Tregony, Cornwall 15
July 1820; barrister of M.T. 8 May 1846; ordained C. of Holy
Trinity, Exeter 1849; chaplain to Court chapel, Paris 1858–71; C.
of Llangunider, Brecon 1882–3; author of _Turandot, Princess of
China, a drama_ 1836; _Songs of early summer_ 1856; _Words of
faith and cheer_ 1874 and other books, besides songs and hymns.
_d._ Castle hotel, 4 Northgate st. Bath 21 March 1887.

GURNEY, DANIEL (_youngest son of John Gurney d. 1809_). _b._ Earlham
hall near Norwich 9 March 1791; partner in firm of Gurney & Co.
bankers, Norwich 1820–80; F.S.A. 12 March 1818; sheriff of Norfolk
1853; author of _The record of the house of Gournay_ 1848–58. _d._
North Runcton, Norfolk 14 June 1880.

GURNEY, EDMUND (_3 son of John Hampden Gurney 1802–62_). _b._
Hersham near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey 23 March 1847; ed. at Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1871, fellow 1872; resided at Harrow 1872–5;
studied music 1872–5, medicine 1877–81 and law 1881–3; a founder
of Soc. for Psychical research 1882 and a writer of numerous
articles on the subject; a student of hypnotism 1887; author of
_The power of sound_ 1880; _Tertium Quid, chapters on disputed
questions 2 vols._ 1887; principal author of _Phantasms of the
living_ 1886. _d._ from taking an overdose of narcotic at the
Royal Albion hotel, Brighton 23 June 1888. _Brighton Gazette 28
June 1888 p._ 6.

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

GURNEY, HUDSON (_brother of Anna Gurney 1775–1857_). _b._ Norwich 19
Jany. 1775; M.P. Shaftesbury 1812, unseated on petition; M.P.
Newton, Isle of Wight 1816–31; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1812, V.P. 1822–46;
F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1818; sheriff of Norfolk 1835; purchased from Mrs.
Woodward all S. Woodward’s manuscripts, and printed the _Norfolk
Topographer’s Manual_ 1842 and the _The history of Norwich castle_
1847; wrote _Cupid and Psyche: a mythological tale from the Golden
Ass of Apuleius_ 1799, _3 ed._ 1801; printed privately a
translation of Ariosto’s _Orlando Furioso_ 1843. _d._ Keswick hall
near Norwich 9 Nov. 1864. _bur._ Intwood ch. yard, personalty
sworn under £1,100,000, 24 Dec. 1864. _C. R. Smith’s
Retrospections, i_, 242–45 (1883).

GURNEY, REV. JOHN HAMPDEN (_1 son of Sir John Gurney 1768–1845_).
_b._ 12 Serjeant’s inn, Fleet st. London 15 Aug. 1802; ed. at
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; C. of Lutterworth, Leics.
1827–44; R. of St. Mary’s, Bryanston sq. London 6 Dec. 1847 to
death; preb. of St. Pancras, St. Paul’s cath. 1857 to death;
author of _Historical sketches_ 1400–1546, 1852; _St. Louis and
Henry iv_, 1855; _God’s heroes and the world’s heroes_ 1858. _d._
63 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 8 March 1862. _Church of
England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859) _p._ 40, _portrait_.

GURNEY, JOHN HENRY (_only son of Joseph John Gurney the
philanthropist 1788–1847_). _b._ 1819; of firm of Gurneys,
Birkbecks, Barclay and Buxton, bankers in the eastern counties;
M.P. Lynn Regis 1854–65; an active partner in Overend, Gurney &
Co. bill discounters, London 1865, the firm suspended payment 10
May 1866 liabilities £11,000,000; presented his collections of
birds to Norfolk and Norwich museum; author of _A sketch of the
raptorial birds in the Norwich museum_ 1872. _d._ Northrepps,
Norfolk 21 April 1890. _I.L.N. xxvi_, 181 (1855), _portrait_;
_Pictorial World 8 May 1890 p._ 598, _portrait_.

GURNEY, REV. JOHN PHILLIPS. ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1823,
M.A. 1834; chaplain of Black chapel, Great Waltham, Essex; V. of
Great Canfield, Essex 22 Dec. 1822 to death; author of _The woman
and the dragon, an exposition of twelfth chapter of Apocalypse_
1851; _The approaching fall of Rome_ 1857. _d._ Great Canfield
vicarage 9 March 1872.

GURNEY, JOSEPH (_eld. son of W. B. Gurney 1777–1855_). _b._ London
15 Oct. 1804; shorthand writer to houses of parliament 1849–72;
treasurer of Religious Tract soc. and of Baptist coll. in Regent’s
park; author of _The annotated paragraph Bible, By J. G._ _2
vols._ 1850–60; _The revised English Bible, Preface, By J. G._
1877. _d._ Tynedale lodge, Wimbledon common, Surrey 12 Aug. 1879.

GURNEY, RUSSELL (_brother of Rev. J. H. Gurney 1802–62_). _b._
Norwood, Surrey 2 Sep. 1804; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826;
barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1828, bencher 1845; Q.C 1845; judge of
sheriff’s court and small debts court, city of London 1850; common
serjeant of city of London, Jany. 1856; recorder of city of London
16 Dec. 1856, resigned Feb. 1878; M.P. Southampton, July 1865 to
death; a comr. to inquire into disturbances in Jamaica Jany. 1866;
P.C. 11 June 1866; F.R.S. 22 April 1875; prime warder of
Fishmongers’ co. 1876. _d._ 8 Kensington palace gardens 31 May
1878. _Times 1 June 1878 p._ 13, _6 June p._ 7; _I.L.N. lxxii_,
589–90 (1878), _portrait_.

GURNEY, SAMUEL (_2 son of John Gurney, banker_, _d._ 1809). _b._
Earlham hall near Norwich 18 Oct. 1786; partner with Richardson
and Overend, bill and money lenders, 14 Birchin lane, London 1807;
firm became Overend, Gurney & Co. 1824; known as the bankers’
banker; in 1856 the firm had deposits of eight millions, insolvent
1866; a patron of the colony of Liberia, his name given to a town
in Gallenas 1851. _d._ Paris 5 June 1856. _bur._ Friends’ cemet.
Barking 19 June. _H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii_, 347–64
(1866); _I.L.N. xxix_, 16 (1856), _portrait_.

GURNEY, SAMUEL (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ Upton, Essex 1816;
partner in Overend, Guerney & Co. London; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth
1857–65; sheriff of Surrey 1861; director of several telegraph
companies; F.L.S. F.R.G.S. _d._ The Spa, Tunbridge Wells 4 April
1882 aged 66. _I.L.N. 24 July 1859 pp._ 92 94, _portrait_.

GURNEY, WILLIAM BRODIE (_son of Joseph Gurney, shorthand writer, d.
1815_). _b._ Stamford hill, London 24 Dec. 1777; a public
shorthand writer, reported many state trials 1806–20; shorthand
writer to houses of parliament 1813; founded Sunday school union
1803, sec., treasurer, pres. 1803 to death; a founder and editor
of _The Youth’s magazine_ 1805; lay preacher at London female
penitentiary 1807; author of _A lecture to children and youth_
1848; edited _Brachygraphy by T. Gurney, 15 ed._ 1824, _16 ed._
1835. _d._ Denmark hill, Camberwell 25 March 1855. _W. H. Watson’s
First fifty years of the Sunday school_ (1873) 69–75.

GÜTZLAFF, CARL FRIEDRICH AUGUST. _b._ Pyritz, Pomerania 8 July 1803;
D.D.; sent to the East by Netherland missionary soc. 1827; went to
Macao, China 1831; interpreter to British superintendency 1834;
travelled in Japan 1837; Chinese sec. to British consulate, Canton
1844 to death; founded Christian union of Chinese to propagate the
gospel 1840; visited England 1850; author of _The Journal of three
voyages along the coast of China_ 1834, _3 ed._ 1840; _A sketch of
Chinese history 2 vols._ 1834; _China opened 2 vols._ 1838 and
many other works in Dutch, German, Latin, Siamese, Chinese and
Japanese. _d._ Victoria, Hong Kong 9 Aug. 1851. _Allgemeine
Deutsche Biographie, x_, 236–7 (1879).

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

GUTCH, JOHN WHEELEY GOUGH (_only child of the preceding_). _b._
Bristol 1809; M.R.C.S. 1830; practised in Florence; a queen’s
messenger 1850–61; contributed to _Felix Farley’s Journal_; edited
_The literary and scientific register_ 1842–56. _d._ 38 Bloomsbury
sq. London 30 April 1862. _F. O. List_ (1862) _p._ 161.

GUTHRIE, CHARLES SETON (_1 son of George Dempster Guthrie of Scots
Calder_). _b._ 1808; ed. at H.E.I.C. coll. Addiscombe; lieut. col.
Bengal engineers 1855–57 when he retired; made a collection of
18,440 eastern coins, the largest ever brought together, which was
offered to German government for £5,000; member of Numismatic soc.
to death. _d._ 26 Dec. 1874. _Numismatic Chronicle Proceedings,
xv_, 12 (_Dec. 1875_).

GUTHRIE, FREDERICK (_son of Alexander Guthrie of 54 New Bond st.
London, tailor_). _b._ Bayswater, London 15 Oct. 1833; ed. at
Univ. sch. and coll. London; B.A. London 1855, M.A.?; Ph.D. of
Marburg univ. Prussia 1854; F.R.S. Edin. 1860; assist. prof. of
chemistry Owen’s coll. Manchester 1856–9 and at Edin. 1859–61;
prof. of chemistry and physics R. coll. Mauritius 1861–7; lecturer
and prof. Sch. of science, South Kensington 1869 to death;
discovered the Approach caused by vibration 1870; F.R.S. 8 June
1871; founder of Physical soc. of London 1873, president 1884;
author of _The Jew, a poem_ 1863, _Logrono, a metric drama_ 1877,
both under name of Frederick Cerny; _Elements of heat_ 1868; _The
first book of knowledge_ 1881, _new ed._ 1883. _d._ of cancer of
the throat 24 St. James’ sq. Notting hill, London 21 Oct. 1886.
_Nature 4 Nov. 1886 pp._ 8–10.

GUTHRIE, GEORGE JAMES (_only son of Andrew Guthrie of Lower James
st. Golden sq. London, chiropodist_). _b._ London 1 May 1785;
M.R.C.S. 5 Feb. 1801, member of council 1824, president 1833, 41,
54; assist. surgeon to 29 regt. 1801; served in Canada 1803–8, the
Peninsula 1808–14 and at Waterloo 1815; surgeon on half pay Sep.
1814; lectured on surgery in London 1816–45; the first in England
who used a lithotrite for crushing a stone in the bladder 1816;
founded infirmary for diseases of the eye 1816 which became R.
Westminster ophthalmic hospital; assist. surgeon to Westminster
hospital 1823, surgeon 1827–43; professor of anatomy and surgery
1828–31; F.R.S. 1827; author of _Lectures on the operative surgery
of the eye_ 1827; _On diseases and injuries of arteries, with
their cure_ 1830; _On the operation for extraction of a cataract
from the eye_ 1834; _Commentaries on the surgery of the war in
Portugal, &c._ _6 ed._ 1853. _d._ 4 Berkeley st. Berkeley sq.
London 1 May 1856. _Lancet 15 June 1850 pp._ 726–36, _portrait_;
_Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery, iv_, (1840), _portrait_;
_Medical Circular, iv_, 13–15, 33–34, (1854).

GUTHRIE, JAMES ALEXANDER (_1 son of David Charles Guthrie of
Craigie, Dundee_). _b._ 8 Sep. 1823; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.
and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1852; merchant and banker 9
Idol lane, London as Chalmers and Guthrie; director of bank of
England 1858–60, 1861–66, 1867–69 and 1870 to death. _d._ 78
Portland place, London 17 Jany. 1873.

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

GUTHRIE, REV. THOMAS (_6 son of David Guthrie of Brechin, merchant,
d. March 1824_). _b._ Brechin 12 July 1803; ed. at univ. of Edin.
1815–26, D.D. 1849; manager of his father’s bank, Brechin 1827–9;
minister of Arbirlot, Forfarshire 1830–37; a minister of Old
Greyfriar’s church, Edin. 1837 and of St. John’s parish 1840–3;
minister of Free St. John’s ch. 1843–64; moderator of Free ch.
general assembly 1862; presented with £5000, 20 Feb. 1865; F.R.S.
Edin. 1869; ed. the _Sunday Mag._ 1864 to death; author of _The
gospel in Ezekiel_ 1856, circulated 50,000 copies; _The city, its
sins and sorrows_ 1857; _Studies of character from the Old
Testament, 2 series_ 1867–70 and about 30 lectures, sermons and
tracts. _d._ Eversfield place, St. Leonard’s on Sea 24 Feb. 1873.
_bur._ Grange cemet. Edin. 28 Feb. _Autobiography of T. Guthrie 2
vols._ (1874–5), _3 portraits_; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_
(1882) 83–7, _portrait_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881);
_Illust. news of the world, viii_, (1861), _portrait_.

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

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

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

GUY, JOSEPH (_2 son of Joseph Guy of Bristol, schoolmaster_). _b._ 4
May 1784; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf.; private tutor and schoolmaster;
author of _Guy’s New exercises in orthography_ 1818; _Guy’s
Geographia Antiqua_ 1830; _Royal Victoria spelling book_ 1850;
_Guy’s New Speaker_ 1852 and about 12 other school books all of
which were often reprinted. _d._ 5 Eden place, Kentish Town,
London 16 Jany. 1867. _Bookseller 31 Jany. 1867 p._ 11.

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

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

GUY, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. _b._ Chichester 1810; ed. Pemb. coll. Cam.,
M.B. 1837, M.L. 1838; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1844, Croonian lecturer 1861,
Lumleian 1868 and Harveian 1875; professor of forensic medicine
King’s coll. Lond. 1838, dean of the medical faculty 1846, 1849,
permanent dean 1850–58; edited _Journal Statistical soc._ 1852–6,
hon. sec. 1843–68, president 1873–5; F.R.S. 7 June 1866, V.P.
1876–7; author of _Principles of Forensic medicine_ 1844, _4 ed._
1857; _Public Health 2 parts_ 1870–74. _d._ 12 Gordon st. Gordon
sq. London 10 Sept. 1885 in 76 year. _Barker’s Photographs of
medical men_ (1865) 59–64, _portrait_.

GUYON, RICHARD DEBAUFRE (_3 son of John Guyon, commander R.N. d.
1844_). _b._ Walcot, Bath 31 March 1803; received a commission in
Austrian army 1823, capt. 1827; became country gentleman in
Hungary 1839; opposed Jellachich at the head of a section of the
revolutionists of 1848, defeated him at Pakozd 29 Sept.; fled to
Turkey, Aug. 1849; the first Christian who obtained rank of pacha
and a Turkish military command without betraying his religion,
known as Khourschid Pacha (the Sun); defeated by the Russians at
battle of Kurekdere 5 or 6 Aug. 1854. _d._ of cholera at Scutari
13 Oct. 1856. _R. A. Kinglake’s The patriot general Guyon_ (1856),
_portrait_; _E. H. Nolan’s History of Russian war, i_, 294 (1855),
_portrait_.

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

GWILT, JOHN SEBASTIAN (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1811; ed. at
Westminster sch.; architect; assisted his father in _A project for
a New National gallery_ 1838 and with drawings for _An
Encyclopædia of architecture_ 1851. _d._ Hambledon, Henley on
Thames 4 March 1890.

GWILT, JOSEPH (_younger son of George Gwilt, surveyor to county of
Surrey, d. 9 Dec. 1807_). _b._ parish of St. George the Martyr,
Southwark 11 Jany. 1784; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; surveyor to
county of Surrey 1807–46; built Lee ch. Lewisham 1814, Markree
Castle near Sligo 1843 and Ch. of St. Thomas, Charlton, Woolwich
1846; F.S.A. 1815, F.R.A.S. 1833; author of _A treatise on the
equilibrium of arches_ 1811, _3 ed._ 1839; _Notitia architectonica
Italiana_ 1818; _Sciography or examples of shadows_ 1822, _2 ed._
1824, the first English treatise on the subject; _An encyclopædia
of architecture_ 1842, _3 ed._ 1859; translated _The Architecture
of Vitruvius_ 1826. _d._ South Hill, Henley-on-Thames 14 Sep.
1863. _Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xx_, 178–81 (1864).

GWYN, HOWEL (_1 son of William Gwyn of Abercrane, Brecon, d. 1830_).
_b._ 24 June 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832;
contested Penryn 1841 and 1859, M.P. 1847–57; contested Barnstaple
1865; M.P. Brecknock 1866–8 when unseated; contested Brecon county
1875; sheriff of co. Glamorgan 1837, of co. Carmarthen 1838 and of
co. Brecon 1842. _d._ Duffryn, Neath 25 Jany. 1888.

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

GYE, FREDERICK (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Finchley, Middlesex
1810; acting manager for Mons. Jullien at Drury Lane 1847;
business manager for E. Delafield at Covent Garden 1848; lessee of
Covent Garden, Sep. 1849, house burnt down 5 March 1856; lessee of
Drury Lane 1852; lessee of Lyceum theatre 1856–7; rebuilt Covent
Garden at cost of £120,000, house reopened 15 April 1858; partner
with J. H. Mapleson at Covent Garden 1869–70, sole proprietor and
manager 1870 to death. _d._ Dytchley park, Charlbury, Oxon. 4 Dec.
1878 from effects of being accidentally shot near there 27 Nov.
_bur._ Norwood cemetery 9 Dec. _I.S. and D. News 24 June 1876 pp._
297, 302, _portrait_; _H. S. Edwards’s Lyrical Drama, i_, 15–30
(1881); _The Mask_ (1868), 97 _portrait_; _The Mapleson Memoirs,
vol. 1 passim_ (1888).

GYLL, SIR ROBERT (_5 son of Wm. Gyll 1774–1806, capt. 2 life
guards_). _b._ London 11 July 1805; lieut. of yeomen of the guard
1830–40; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. _d._
Cumbernauld lodge, Feltham hill, Middlesex 17 Aug. 1880.

H

HAAS, ERNST ANTON MAX. _b._ Coburg 18 April 1835; ed. at Univ. of
Berlin, Ph. D.; assistant department of printed books British
Museum 1866 to death; professor of Sanskrit Univ. coll. London,
April 1876 to death; Alma his widow granted civil list pension of
£80, 29 Jany. 1883; compiler of _Catalogue of Sanskrit and Pali
books in the British museum_ 1876. _d._ 11 Westbourne park road,
London 3 July 1882.

HAAST, SIR JOHN FRANCIS JULIUS VON (_son of Mathias Haas of Bonn,
Prussia, merchant_). _b._ Bonn 1 May 1824; ed. at Bonn univ. and
Cologne univ.; Ph. D. of Tübingen univ. 1862; D. Sc. Cambridge
1886; explored S.W. part of Nelson, New Zealand 1859; government
geologist of province of Canterbury 1861; discovered the Southern
Alps of N.Z.; founded Canterbury museum at Christchurch 1866,
director 1866 to death; professor of geology Canterbury coll.
Christchurch to death; F.R.G.S., gold medallist 1884; F.R.S. 6
June 1867; C.M.G. 24 May 1883, K.C.M.G. 28 June 1886; author of
_New Zealand scenery_ 1877; _Geology of the provinces of
Canterbury and Westland, Auckland_ 1879. _d._ Wellington, N.Z. 15
Aug. 1887. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. ix_, 687–8 (1887).

HABERFIELD, SIR JOHN KERLE (_son of Andrew Haberfield of
Devonport_). _b._ Devonport 1785; attorney at Bristol 1810 to
death; mayor of Bristol 1838, 39, 46, 49, 50 and 51; knighted at
St. James’s Palace 26 March 1851 for zeal in promoting local
subscriptions for Great Exhibition. _d._ 23 York crescent, Clifton
1 Jany. 1858. _I.L.N. xviii_, 618 (1851), _portrait_.

HABERSHON, MATTHEW. _b._ 1789; designed churches in Yorkshire 1824
&c.; built Derby town hall; went to Jerusalem to arrange for
building the Anglican cath. 1842; received great gold medal for
science and literature from king of Prussia 1844; author of _A
dissertation on the prophetic scriptures_ 1834, _2 ed._ 1840 and
other fanciful works on prophecy; _The ancient half-timbered
houses of England_ 1836 and 6 other books. _d._ Bonnner’s hall,
Victoria park, London 5 July 1852. _Dict. of Architecture, iv_,
1–2.

HABERSHON, SAMUEL OSBORNE. _b._ Rotherham 1825; ed. at Univ. coll.
London; M.B. London 1848, M.D. 1851; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1848;
M.R.C.P. 1851, F.R.C.P. 1856, Lumleian lecturer 1876, Harveian
orator 1883, and V.P. 1887; pres. of Medical soc. of Lond. 1873;
lecturer on materia medica at Guy’s hospital 1856–73, on medicine
1873–7, physician 1866, resigned 1880; did much to elucidate
abdominal diseases; author of _Observations on diseases of
alimentary canal, oesophagus, stomach, caecum and intestines_
1857, _3 ed._ 1878; _On the diseases of the stomach_ 1866, _3 ed._
1879. _d._ 70 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 22 Aug. 1889.
_Lancet, ii_, 445, 880–82, 979 (1889).

HACK, DANIEL PRYOR (_elder son of Daniel Hack, high constable of
Brighton_). _b._ Brighton 1794; apprenticed to a draper at
Chelmsford 1808; imprisoned at Chelmsford for refusing to serve in
militia 1814; a draper at Brighton 1815–26; a minister among The
Friends 1823 to death; gave £500 to Brighton free library. _d._ 99
Trafalgar st. Brighton 7 March 1886. _The Annual Monitor for 1887
pp._ 99–122.

HACKBLOCK, WILLIAM. M.P. for Reigate, Surrey 28 March 1857 to death.
_d._ at his brother’s house, Brockham Warren, Betchworth, Surrey 2
Jany. 1858 aged 52.

HACKETT, JAMES THOMAS. _b._ in south of Ireland 1805; surveyor;
member and sec. of London Astrological soc. 1826, the last
survivor of the society; reporter on _Herapath’s Railway Journal_
nearly 40 years; railway correspondent to _The Times_; author of
_The student’s assistant in astronomy and astrology_ 1836. _d._
Park villa, Alexandra road, Friern Barnet 13 Feb. 1876.
_Herapath’s Railway Journal 6 May 1876 p._ 518; _Athenæum 15 Apl.
1876 pp._ 535–6.

HACKETT, JOHN (_son of John Hackett, vice admiral_). _b._ 2 Oct.
1819; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 70 foot 17 Nov. 1837; deputy
assistant Q.M.G. in Crimea 8 March 1854 to March 1855; major 76
foot 1866, lieut. col. 1872–76; commander of troops in West Indies
11 May 1878 to 1 April 1882; hon. M.G. 1 April 1882. _d._ West
Brighton 1 Nov. 1890. _I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p._ 680, _portrait_.

HACKETT, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Bartholomew Hackett of Cork_). _b._
1824; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845; called
to Irish bar 1845; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1851; Queen’s advocate
Gold Coast 1861, chief justice 1863, lieut. governor 1864;
recorder of Prince of Wales Island 1866–75; knighted at Windsor
Castle 12 Dec. 1866; chief justice of Fiji 1875–76; chief justice
of Ceylon 20 Nov. 1876. _d._ Colombo, Ceylon 17 May 1877.

HACKETT, SIR WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW (_son of Bartholomew Hackett of
Carrigaline, co. Cork_). _b._ Carrigaline 1800; a merchant at
Cork, the largest manufacturer of leather in Ireland; mayor of
Cork 1852; knighted by Earl of Eglinton at opening of Irish
National Exhibition at Cork 10 June 1852. _d._ 28 Jany. 1872.

HACKMAN, REV. ALFRED (_son of Thomas Hackman, vestry clerk of
Fulham, Middlesex_). _b._ Fulham 8 April 1811; servitor at Ch. Ch.
Ox. 25 Oct. 1832, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, chaplain Ch. Ch. 1837–73,
precentor 1841–73; clerk Bodleian Lib. 1837, sub-librarian
1862–73; V. of Cowley, Oxon. 1842–44; V. of St. Paul’s, Oxford
1844–71; author of _A catalogue of the collection of the Tanner
MSS._ 1860. _d._ Thames Ditton, Surrey 18 Sep. 1874.

HADDAN, REV. ARTHUR WEST (_2 son of Thomas Haddan, solicitor, d.
1844 aged 63_). _b._ Woodford, Essex 31 Aug. 1816; ed. at Brasn.
coll. Ox.; scholar of Trin. coll. 1835, fellow 1839, tutor
1842–57, Johnson theol. scholar 1839; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D.
1847; C. of St. Mary the Virgin, Ox. 1841–42; contributed to
_Guardian_ 1846 to death; one of secretaries to W. E. Gladstone’s
committee at Oxford elections 1847–65; R. of Barton on the Heath,
Warws. 1857 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 1870 to death;
author in conjunction with Dr. W. Stubbs of _Councils and
ecclesiastical documents 3 vols._ 1869–71; for the Anglo-Catholic
lib. he edited _The works of John Bramhall, Archbp. of Armagh 5
vols._ 1842–5 and _The Theological works of Herbert Thorndike 6
vols._ 1844–56. _d._ Barton 8 Feb. 1873. _Remains of Rev. A. W.
Haddan, ed. by A. P. Forbes, Bp. of Brechin_ (1876).

HADDAN, THOMAS HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ in city of
London 1814; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.; took a double first 1837,
B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.C.L. 1844; fellow of Ex. coll. 1837–43;
Eldon scholar 1840; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841, equity draftsman
and conveyancer; Vinerian fellow Oxf. univ. 1847; _Guardian_
newspaper projected in his chambers 6 New sq., first number issued
21 Jany. 1846, editor for a short time; lectured on jurisdiction
of court of chancery 1862; author of _Remarks on legal education_
1848. _d._ Vichy, France 5 Sept. 1873, body removed to Highgate
cemet. _Law Times, lv_, 384–5 (1873) _lvi_, 44.

HADDINGTON, THOMAS HAMILTON, 9 Earl of (_only son of 8 Earl of
Haddington 1753–1828_). _b._ Edinburgh 21 June 1780; ed. at Edin.
univ. and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1815; known as Lord Binning
1780–1826; M.P. St. Germans 1802–6; M.P. Cockermouth Jany. to
April 1807; M.P. Callington May 1807–1812; P.C. 29 July 1814;
commissioner for management of affairs of India 1814–22; M.P.
Michael 1814–18; M.P. for Rochester 1818–26; M.P. Yarmouth, June
to Aug. 1826; cr. Baron Melros of Tynningham 24 July 1827;
succeeded to earldom 17 March 1828; lord lieut. of Ireland 29 Dec.
1834 to 23 April 1835; received £30,674 1s. 8d. for surrender of
office of keeper of Holyrood park 1843; first lord of the
admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 13 Jany. 1846; lord privy seal 21 Jany.
to 6 July 1846; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853. _d._ Tynningham house,
Haddingtonshire 1 Dec. 1858. _Portraits of eminent conservatives
and statesmen 2nd series_ (1836–42), _portrait_.

HADFIELD, CHARLES (_son of Charles Hadfield_). _b._ Glossop,
Derbyshire 14 Oct. 1821; house painter at Manchester; edited
_Weekly Wages_ 1861 five numbers; on staff of _Newcastle
Chronicle_ and lecturer for Northern Reform union 1861; editor of
_Manchester City News_ 1865–7, of _Warrington Examiner_ and of
_Salford Weekly News_ 1880–3; author of two prize essays on
Mechanics’ institutions and The Homes of the working classes 1850,
1857. _d._ 3 Chester road, Stretford, Manchester 4 June 1884.
_Manchester City News 7, 14 June 1884._

HADFIELD, ELIZABETH (_2 dau. of Peter Taylor of Hollingwood near
Manchester_). A Friend; author of _Sprays from the Hedgerows_
1850, with _portrait_; _Poetic weeds by E. H._ 1850. (_m._ George
Hadfield), she _d._ Wetheral near Carlisle 23 March 1861 aged 43.

HADFIELD, GEORGE (_son of Robert Hadfield, merchant_). _b._
Sheffield 28 Dec. 1787; attorney at Manchester 1810–53; contested
Bradford 1835; a founder of Anti-corn-law league 1841; principal
promoter of the litigation as to Lady Hewley’s charities 1833–42;
M.P. for Sheffield 1852–74; helped in passing Common law procedure
act 1854; author of the Qualification for offices abolition act
1866; author of _The expediency of relieving the bishops from
attendance in parliament_ 1870. _d._ Conyngham road, Victoria
park, Manchester 21 April 1879, personalty sworn under £250,000,
28 June 1879. _James Griffin’s Memories of the past_ (1883)
264–311.

HADFIELD, MATTHEW ELLISON (_1 son of Joseph Hadfield of Lees hall,
Glossop, Derbyshire_). _b._ Lees hall 8 Sep. 1812; architect
Sheffield 1838 to death; contributed to revival of mediæval and
Gothic architecture; designed and built many churches etc. in
Leeds and neighbourhood; served 4 Dukes of Norfolk in succession;
F.R.I.B.A. May 1847; pres. of Sheffield sch. of art 1878–80. _d._
Knowle house, Sheffield 9 March 1885. _J. Gillow’s English
Catholics_ (1887) _iii_, 79–82.

HADFIELD, WILLIAM, _b._ 1806; first sec. of Buenos Ayres great
southern railway; sec. South American steam navigation co.;
merchant at Liverpool; bankrupt 6 Nov. 1847; founded in London
_The South American Journal and Brazil and River Plate Mail_ 7
Nov. 1863, editor to death; author of _Brazil, The River Plate and
the Falkland islands_ 1854. _d._ London 14 Aug. 1887.

HADLEY, ROBERT. _b._ England; coach proprietor, and landlord of the
English hotel 10 South st. St. Andrew st. Edinburgh 1844–51; a
well known four-in-hand whip. _d._ Edinburgh 1851. _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 121, _portrait_.