Note.—The King of Bavaria placed his statue on the exterior of the Glyptothek at Munich and in the hall of the Walhalla near Ratisbon. There is a fine collection of about 20 casts from his best grouped statues at the Crystal Palace.
GIBSON, John (son of George Gibson of Leith, merchant). b. Leith 15 Jany. 1796; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin.; writer to the Signet 1819; agent for the Buccleuch estates 1821 to death; legal adviser to Sir Walter Scott 1821–32; deputy keeper of the privy seal 1850; treasurer to Society of writers to the signet; published Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott 1871. d. 29 Greenhill gardens, Edinburgh 14 Sep. 1877. A Mackie’s Review of the conduct of J. Gibson (1823).
GIBSON, John Thomas. Entered Madras army 1800; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; colonel 1 European regiment 27 Feb. 1842 to death. d. Kotagherry, Madras 30 June 1851.
GIBSON, Solomon (younger brother of John Gibson, R.A. 1790–1866). Passed his life in Liverpool; modelled a small figure of Mercury when aged 16 which is his best work; exhibited 2 sculptures at R.A. 1816–22; a Greek, Latin and Welsh scholar; wrote many papers on ancient Welsh literature; lived chiefly on the bounty of his brother; fell down dead entering his hotel in Paris 29 Jany. 1866.
GIBSON, Thomas Milner (son of Thomas Milner Gibson, major 37 foot, d. 1807). b. Port of Spain, Trinidad 3 Sep. 1806; educ. Charterhouse 1819 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830; M.P. Ipswich 1837–39; M.P. Manchester 1841–57; M.P. Ashton-under-Lyne 1857–68; a free trader 1837 and a prominent orator of Anti-corn law league; V.P. of board of trade 1846–48; P.C. 8 July 1846; moved vote of censure on Palmerston for his law of conspiracy bill which caused resignation of ministry 19 Feb. 1858; president of poor law board 1859; president of board of trade 1859–66; assumed additional surname of Milner 7 Feb. 1839; president of Assoc. for repeal of taxes on knowledge 1850, on repeal received testimonial 1 Oct. 1861; amateur yachtsman, navigating his own vessel, the last person who cruised in the Mediterranean with a pass from the dey of Algiers 1830. (m. 23 Feb. 1832 Susanna Arethusa only child of Rev. Sir T. G. Cullum, she was a leader in society and an advocate of mesmerism and spiritualism, d. Paris 23 Feb. 1885 aged 71). d. on board his yacht Resolute at Algiers 25 Feb. 1884. bur. Theberton churchyard 13 March. G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 294–300; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 101–5; I.L.N. 31 Dec. 1842 p. 541, portrait, 8 March 1884 pp. 217, 227, portrait.
GIBSON, Rev. William (son of James Gibson of Ballymena, co. Antrim, merchant). b. Ballymena 8 May 1808; Presbyterian minister of First Ballybay, co. Monaghan 1834; colleague of Rev. S. Hannay in Rosemary st. ch. Belfast 1840; professor of christian ethics in the assembly’s coll. Belfast 1847; moderator of the general assembly 1859; author of The position of the church of Ireland and the duty of presbyterians in reference to it 1835; The year of grace, a history of the Ulster revival of 1859, Edin. 1860; chief founder of the Banner of Ulster newspaper 1842. d. Dublin 8 June 1867.
GIBSON, William Sidney. b. Parson’s Green, Fulham, Middlesex 1814; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1845; registrar of Newcastle upon Tyne district court of bankruptcy 1843 to 1870 when granted sum of £1000 on abolition of the court; M.A. Durham 1857; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1842; F.G.S.; author of The history of the monastery founded at Tynemouth 2 vols. 1846–7; Lord Lyndhurst In memoriam 1865, new ed. 1869 and 11 other books. d. Grosvenor hotel, London 3 Jany. 1871. bur. in disused burial ground of the Old Priory, Tynemouth. Colburn’s New monthly mag. April 1871 p. 244.
GIBSONE, John Charles Hope (son of general D. A. Gibsone). b. 21 May 1810; cornet 7 dragoon guards 1830, lieut. col. 1847–49; lieut. col. 17 light dragoons 1860–62; col. of 8 hussars 10 Dec. 1868, of 17 lancers 22 Sep. 1875 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Redcross lodge, Leamington 18 July 1884.
GIFFARD, Sir George Markham (4 son of the succeeding). b. Portsmouth dockyard 4 Nov. 1813; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1832; B.C.L. 1841; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1840; practised in court of chancery; Q.C. Jany. 1859, bencher of his inn 1859; vice chancellor March 1868; knighted at Windsor Castle 14 May 1868; a lord justice of appeal 1 Jany. 1869 to death; P.C. 4 Feb. 1869. d. 4 Princes gardens, Hyde park, London 13 July 1870. Foss’s Biographia Juridica (1870) 299, 792; I.L.N. lii, 320 (1868), portrait, lvii, 107, 259 (1870).
GIFFARD, John. b. 1766; entered navy 25 April 1780; captain 19 Oct. 1796; lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 23 March 1807 to 12 Aug. 1819; admiral 23 Nov. 1841. d. Southampton 25 Sep. 1855.
GIFFARD, John Walter de Longueville (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1817; ed. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. and M.A. 1843; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1843; reported in V.C. Stuart’s court 1852–70; judge of county courts, circuit 12 (West Riding of Yorkshire), 15 March 1875, of circuit 58 (Devonshire) March 1883 to death; author of Reports of cases adjudged in court of chancery by Sir John Stuart 1858–1865, 5 vols. 1860–71; author with John Smale of Reports of cases adjudged in court of chancery by Sir John Stuart 1852–1857, 3 vols. 1855–58. d. North Huish near Ivybridge, Devon 20 Oct. 1888.
GIFFARD, Stanley Lees (youngest son of John Giffard of Dromartin, co. Dublin 1747–1819). b. Dublin 4 Aug. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1811; barrister M.T. 24 May 1811; edited St. James’s Chronicle some years; edited Standard newspaper 1827 to death; contributed articles to Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Mag. d. Folkestone 6 Nov. 1858.
GIFFORD, Adam (eld. son of James Gifford, treasurer of the Merchant Co.) b. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1820; educ. Edinburgh institution 1832; apprenticed to a solicitor 1835, managing clerk; called to the Scotch bar 1849; advocate depute 1861; conducted the prosecution of Jessie M’Lauchlan in the Sandyford murder case 1863; sheriff of Orkney and Zetland 1865; a judge of court of session, with the title of Lord Gifford 28 Jany. 1870, resigned 25 Jany. 1881. d. Granton house, Edinburgh 20 Jany. 1887, left £80,000 to found lectureships on natural theology at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and St. Andrews.
GIFFORD, James (eld. son of James Gifford, unitarian writer 1740–1813). b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 20 Nov. 1768; midshipman R.N. 1 Oct. 1783; captain 12 Aug. 1812 when he left the sea, rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846; spent his income in works of benevolence and in furthering cause of unitarianism; author of The remonstrance of a unitarian addressed to the Bishop of St. Davids’ 1818, 2 ed. 1820; Letter of a unitarian to the minister of St. James’s church, Jersey 1845. d. Mount Orgueil cottage near St. Helier, Jersey 20 Aug. 1853.
GILBART, James William. b. London 21 March 1794; clerk in a London bank 1813; cashier in a Birmingham office 1825–7; manager of branches of Provincial Bank of Ireland at Kilkenny and Waterford 1829–33; general manager of London and Westminster bank 1833–59 when he retired on pension of £1600, bank opened 10 March 1834; F.R.S. 18 June 1846; author of A practical treatise on banking 1827, 6 ed. 1856; The history and principles of banking 1834 and 14 other books republished in 6 vols. 1865. d. Brompton crescent, London 8 Aug. 1863. J. W. Gilbart’s Practical treatise on banking, vol. i (1856), portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 3rd series (1860), portrait.
GILBERT, Ann (eld. child of Rev. Isaac Taylor of Ongar 1759–1829). b. opposite Islington ch. London 30 Jany. 1782; engraved small plates for Darton and Harvey’s juvenile works; co-author with her sister Jane of Original poems for infant minds 2 vols. 1804–5; Hymns for infant minds 1810 and other books. (m. 24 Dec. 1813 Rev. Joseph Gilbert 1779–1852). d. College st. Nottingham 20 Dec. 1866. Josiah Gilbert’s Autobiography of Mrs. Gilbert 2 vols. (1874), 2 portraits.
GILBERT, Right Rev. Ashurst Turner (son of Thomas Gilbert, captain R.M., who d. 14 Dec. 1844 aged 86). b. near Burnham Beeches, Bucks. 14 May 1786; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox.; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1819, D.D. 1822; fellow of Brasenose 1811, principal 2 Feb. 1822 to Feb. 1842; vice chancellor of Ox. 1836–40; bishop of Chichester 24 Jany. 1842 to death, consecrated at Lambeth palace 27 Feb. 1842; inhibited Rev. John Purchas from carrying on ritualistic services at St. James’s chapel, Brighton 14 Oct. 1868; author of 14 letters, sermons and charges. d. Episcopal palace, Chichester 21 Feb. 1870. Manchester school register ii, 221–4 (1868).
GILBERT, Elizabeth Margaretta Maria (2 dau. of the preceding). b. Oxford 7 Aug. 1826; became entirely blind April 1829; established work rooms for blind people at New Turnstile, Holborn, London, May 1854 which developed into Association for promoting the general welfare of the blind 1855; writer of fugitive verses. d. 5 Stanhope place, Hyde park, London 7 Feb. 1885. F. Martin’s Elizabeth Gilbert and her works for the blind (1887), portrait.
GILBERT, Rev. Joseph. b. Wrangle, Lincs. 20 March 1779; Independent minister at Southend, Essex; classical tutor at Rotherham college; pastor of Nether chapel, Sheffield 1818; pastor of James st. chapel, Nottingham 1825, of Friar lane chapel, Nottingham 1828 to 1851; chairman of Congregational Union 1833; author of The Christian Atonement, its basis, nature and bearings 1836, 2 ed. 1852. d. Nottingham 12 Dec. 1852. A biographical sketch of J. Gilbert, by his widow 1853 pp. 1–150.
GILBERT, Joseph Francis. Resided at Portsmouth 1813; resided at Chichester many years; painted many views in Sussex; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 12 at Suffolk st. gallery 1813–53. d. London 25 Sep. 1855 in 64 year.
GILBERT, Miss. b. Hants.; pupil of J. S. Rarey the horse tamer 1859; kept a riding school in London; the best performer with the Queen’s hounds; the chief subject of Landseer’s picture called “The pretty horsebreaker.” d. Dec. 1863. I.L.N. xxxii, 593, 594 (1858), portrait; Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1864 p. 321.
GILBERT, Richard (son of Robert Gilbert of St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell, printer, who d. 10 Jany. 1815 aged 51). b. St. John’s sq. 1794; a printer with his brother in London 1815; head of firm of Gilbert and Rivington, printers 1830 to death; projected and edited Clergyman’s Almanack 1818, Gilbert’s Clergyman’s Almanack 1835; author of Liber Scholasticus 1829, 2nd ed. entitled The parents school and college guide 1843; The Clerical guide, or ecclesiastical directory 1817 anon., 2 ed. 1821 anon., 3 ed. 1829, 4 ed. 1836. d. 70 Euston sq. London 26 Feb. 1852.
GILBERT, Sir Walter Raleigh, 1 Baronet (3 son of Rev. Edmund Gilbert, R. of Helland, Cornwall, who d. 1816). b. Bodmin 18 March 1785; entered Bengal army 1800; lieut. col. 39 Bengal N.I. 1824; col. 35 Bengal N.I. 1832; commanded divisions in first and second Sikh wars 1845–6 and 1849; col. 1 European regiment 1845 to death; member of council of India 3 April 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 3 April 1846, G.C.B. 9 June 1849; created baronet 31 Dec. 1850. d. Stevens’ hotel, Bond st. London 10 May 1853, memorial obelisk erected on the Beacon, Bodmin 1856–7. G.M. xxxix, 652–3 (1853); I.L.N. vii, 269 (1845), portrait, viii, 269 (1846), portrait, xxii, 404, 483 (1853); Bentley’s Miscellany xxxiii, 627–32 (1853).
GILBERT, William. Entered Bombay army 1795; col. 21 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to 17 Feb. 1852; col. 3 Bombay N.I. 17 Feb. 1852 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Tweed near Lymington, Hants. 5 Nov. 1866 aged 85.
GILBERT, William. Author of On present system of rating for the poor in the metropolis 1857; De Profundis 2 vols. 1864; Sir Thomas Bramston 3 vols. 1869; King George’s Middy 1869; Doctor Austin’s Guests 2 vols. 1866; The City, an enquiry into the corporation, its livery companies 1877 and 20 other books; some of his books are illustrated by his son W. S. Gilbert. d. The Close, Salisbury 3 Jany. 1889 in 86 year. Contemporary Review xii, 437–40 (1869).
GILBEY, Alfred. b. Bishop Stortford, Herts. 23 Oct. 1833; with his elder brother Henry P. Gilbey, wine merchant, London 1847; in government civil service in the Crimea 1855; firm of William and A. Gilbey, wine merchants 357 Oxford st. London, established Feb. 1857; firm admitted 6 other partners all relatives; removed business to the Pantheon, Oxford st. 1867, wine and spirit business became largest in Great Britain; author with W. Gilbey of Treatise on wines and spirits of the producing countries 1869. d. Wooburn house, Wooburn, Bucks. 28 Nov. 1879, personalty sworn under £350,000, 23 Feb. 1880. Wine Trade Review 15 Dec. 1879 p. 599 and 15 March 1880 p. 107.
GILCHRIST, Alexander (son of James Gilchrist of Newington Green, London 1783–1835). b. Newington Green 25 April 1828; ed. at Univ. college school; barrister M.T. 3 May 1850; author of Life of William Etty, R.A. 2 vols. 1855; Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus 2 vols. 1863; contributed to Eclectic Review, Literary Review and Critic. d. 6 Cheyne row, Chelsea 30 Nov. 1861. A. Gilchrist’s Life of W. Blake, (2 ed. 1880) ii, 359–76.
GILCHRIST, Anne (dau. of John Parker Burrows, solicitor, d. 1839). b. 7 Gower st. London 25 Feb. 1828; educ. under the Misses Cahusac at Highgate 1833; resided at Guildford and Chelsea 1828 etc.; in U.S. America 1876–79; friend of W. M. Rossetti 1862. (m. 4 Feb. 1851 the preceding); author of Lost in the woods 1864; Secular ethics of a national education 1872; Mary Lamb 1883; contributed to Household Words and Blackwood’s Mag. d. Keat’s corner, Well road, Hampstead 29 Nov. 1885. Life and writings of Anne Gilchrist (1887), with portraits.
GILDEA, Very Rev. George Robert. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; C. of Westport, Tuam 1826–28; C. of Kilmaine 1828–34; R. of Newport, Ireland 1834–44; R. of Kilmaine 1844–67; R. of Moylough 1867–73; provost of Tuam cathedral 1872 to death; author of Reproductive relief spinning in the West of Ireland 1849. d. 17 Alfred place, Thurloe sq. London 2 June 1887 in 84 year.
GILDERDALE, Rev. John. b. 1802; educ. Howden gram. sch. Essex and St. Catharine’s hall, Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. 1853, ad eundem Oxford 1847; C. of Huddersfield 1840–42; lecturer Halifax parish ch. Yorkshire 1842–47; principal of the Forest sch. Walthamstow 1848 to 1863; P.C. of Caundle Stourton, Dorset 1863; author of An essay on natural religion and revelation 1837; A course of family prayer for one month 1838; A letter to Lord Brougham on national education 1838. d. Caundle Stourton 25 Sep. 1864 aged 62.
GILES, Rev. Henry. b. Cranford, Wexford 1 Nov. 1809; Unitarian minister at Greenock 2 years, at Liverpool 3 years; went to America 1840 where he became a brilliant lecturer; author of Lectures and essays 2 vols. 1850; Christian thought on life 1850; Human life in Shakespeare 1868, all at Boston, U.S.A., and other books. d. Hyde park near Boston 10 July 1882.
GILES, James William. b. Glasgow 4 Jany. 1801; at age of 13 maintained his mother and sister by painting; taught classes in Aberdeen 1821; visited Italy; portrait and landscape painter; A.R.S.A. 1829; exhibited 2 works at R.A., 80 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1830–68, and many at R. Scottish Academy; his picture ‘The Weird Wife’ is in the National gallery of Scotland. d. Bon Accord st. Aberdeen 6 Oct. 1870.
GILES, Rev. John Allen (eld. son of Wm. Giles of Mark, Somerset). b. Southwick house, Mark 26 Oct. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and C.C. coll. Ox., scholar 1824, fellow 1832–33; double first class 1828; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.C.L. 1838; Vinerian scholar 1831; head master of Camberwell coll. sch. 1834–6; head master of City of London sch. 1836–40; C. of Bampton, Oxon. 1845–54; sentenced at Oxford assizes 6 March 1855 to a year’s imprisonment in Oxford Castle for making a false entry in marriage register book of Bampton parish church, but released by royal warrant 4 June 1855; C. of Perivale, Mid. 1857–61; R. of Sutton, Surrey 1867 to death; published Patres Ecclesiae Anglicanæ 34 vols. 1837–43; Life and letters of Thomas Becket 2 vols. 1846; History of Bampton 1847, 2 ed. 1848; Christian records on the age, authorship and authenticity of the New Testament 1854 which he suppressed, and 80 other books. d. Sutton rectory 24 Sep. 1884.
GILES, Ven. John Douglas (eld. son of Robert Giles of Wedmore, Somerset). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 28 Nov. 1828 aged 16, exhibitioner 1828–32; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836; V. of Swinstead, Lincs. 1840–50; R. of Belleau with Aby, Lincs. 1850–61; R. of Willoughby, Lincs. 1861 to death; archdeacon of Stow 1863 to death; precentor of Lincoln cath. April 1866 to death; author of Village sermons 1861. d. Willoughby rectory 5 Feb. 1867.
GILES-PULLER, Christopher William (only son of Sir Christopher Puller 1773–1824, chief justice of supreme court of Calcutta). b. London 16 June 1807; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., double first class 1828; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1832; practised in court of chancery 1832–41; with his mother founded and endowed church of St. Giles at High Cross near Standon, Herts., consecrated 6 Aug. 1847; contested Herts. 1852 and 1854; M.P. for Herts. 31 March 1857 to death; assumed additional name of Giles 1857. d. Youngsbury near Ware, Herts. 16 Feb. 1864.
GILFILLAN, Rev. George (11 child of Rev. Samuel Gilfillan 1762–1826). b. Comrie, Perthshire 30 Jany. 1813; ed. at Glasgow coll.; licensed as a United Presbyterian minister 1835: minister of the School-Wynd ch. Dundee, March 1836 to death; a successful public lecturer; took an important part in political and religious meetings; author of Hades or the Unseen, a sermon 1843, three editions; A gallery of literary portraits 1845, Second ser. 1850, Third ser. 1854; Life of Robert Burns 1856; History of a Man: By B. E. ed. by G. G., a semi-autobiographical romance 1856; British Poets 6 vols. 1853–60; Night, a poem 1867 and about 100 other books. d. Arnhalt, Brechin 13 Aug. 1878. bur. Balgay cemetery, Dundee, the funeral procession being 2 miles long. The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 242–68; Our Scottish clergy 2 series (1849) 368–78; P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire (1879) 160–70.
GILFILLAN, James (brother of the preceding). b. Comrie, Perthshire 11 May 1797; educ. Glasgow coll. 1808, and at the divinity hall of antiburgher synod, Edin.; United Secession ch. minister Stirling 24 Dec. 1822, resigned 1869; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1866; author of The Sabbath viewed in the light of reason, revelation and history 1861. d. Portobello near Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1874.
GILL, Thomas. b. 19 Feb. 1782; entered navy 15 Jany. 1794; captain 10 Jany. 1837, retired R.A. 8 April 1868; on 14 June 1803 in action with Lodi off St. Domingo severely wounded, voted a sword of 50 guineas by Patriotic Soc. d. Grove lodge, Pulteney road, Bath 27 Jany. 1874. Athenæum 21 June 1862 pp. 823–4.
GILL, William John (son of Robert Gill, major Madras army). b. Bangalore 10 Sep. 1843; ed. at Brighton college and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 11 Nov. 1864, captain 21 Dec. 1877 to death; travelled in Persia with col. Valentine Baker 1873; contested Hackney 1874, Nottingham 1880; travelled in China and Tibet 1876–78; gold medallist of R.G.S. 26 May 1879; gold medallist of Paris geographical society 1880; author of The river of golden sand 2 vols. 1880; started from Suez for the desert 8 Aug. 1882, murdered by Bedouins at Wady Sudr 11 Aug. 1882. bur. in the crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 6 April 1883, stained glass memorial window in Rochester cathedral. W. J. Gill’s River of golden sand, new ed. (1883) pp. 19–66, portrait; Graphic xxvi, 469 (1882), portrait.
GILLAN, Rev. Robert (son of Robert Gillan, minister at Hawick, Roxburgh, d. 7 May 1824). b. Hawick 1800; educ. Edin. univ.; Presbyterian minister at Stamfordham, Northumberland 1830, at South Shields 1833, at Holytown, Lanarkshire 1837, at Wishaw 1842, at Abbotshall, Fifeshire 1843, at St. John’s, Glasgow 1847 and at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire 1861 to death; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1853; lecturer on pastoral theology at the Scottish universities; publicly entertained at Glasgow and presented with his portrait 11 Oct. 1870; moderator of general assembly 1873; author of The Decalogue, a series of discourses 1856. d. Inchinnan manse 1 Nov. 1879. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 182–8; H. Scott’s Fasti ii, pt. 1, p. 269.
GILLIES, Margaret (2 dau. of William Gillies, merchant). b. Throgmorton st. London 7 Aug. 1803; educ. Edinburgh; had lessons in painting from F. Cruikshank in London, and from Hendrik and Ary Scheffer in Paris; Assoc. of Old Soc. of painters in water-colours 1852 and a constant contributor to its gallery; exhibited 101 subjects at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; some of her best known works are Past and present 1855, The heavens are telling 1856, Cercando Pace 1875; resided Church row, Hampstead, but d. The Warren, Crockham hill, Kent 20 July 1887. Clayton’s English Female artists (1876) ii, 87–94; Hays’s Women of the Day (1885) 77–78.
GILLIES, Mary (sister of the preceding). Author of The voyage of the Constance 1860; The Carewes 1861; Great fun for our little friends 1862; More fun for little friends, by Harriet Myrtle 1864. d. 1870.
GILLIES, Robert Pierce (son of Dr. Thomas Gillies. d. 1808). b. at or near Arbroath 1788; educ. Edin. univ.; admitted advocate 1813; in pecuniary difficulties from 1813 to his decease; imprisoned for debt 1847–9; friend of Scott and Wordsworth; an early contributor to Blackwood’s Mag.; called Kempferhausen in the Noctes Ambrosianæ; founder and editor of Foreign Quarterly Review, July 1827; resided in London 1827 and at Boulogne 1840–47; author of Childe Alarique, a poet’s reverie, by R. P. G. 1814; The confessions of Sir H. Longueville, by R. P. G. 2 vols. 1814; German stories 3 vols. 1826; Tales of a voyager to the Arctic Ocean 6 vols. 1826–29; Memoirs of a literary veteran 3 vols. 1851. d. Kensington 28 Nov. 1858.
GILLIS, Most Rev. James (only child of Alexander Gillis of Fochabers, Elgin, who d. Nov. 1833). b. Montreal 7 April 1802; founded St. Margaret’s convent, Edinburgh for nuns of the Ursuline order 16 June 1835; coadjutor bishop of Eastern district of Scotland 28 July 1837; consecrated bishop of Limyra in partibus 22 July 1838; vicar apostolic of East of Scotland 24 May 1852 to death; introduced the Jesuits into his district 1859; author of Facts relating to admission into catholic church of viscount and viscountess Feilding 1850 and many letters and discourses. d. Greenhill near Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1864. Gordon’s Catholic mission in Scotland (18 ) 480, portrait; History of St. Margaret’s convent, Edinburgh (1886), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 151–3.
GILLKREST, James. Hospital assistant in the army 1800; surgeon 43 foot 1804; inspector general 1845–46 when placed on retired list; author of Cholera Gleanings, a family handbook 1849; Notes worth noticing relative to the Cholera 1852, of a work on yellow fever which he presented to French Academy of Medicine, and of a monograph on yellow fever published in General Board of Health’s second report on quarantine. d. St. Alban’s place, Haymarket London 25 Dec. 1853.
GILLMAN, Joseph. b. Little Over near Derby 1759; fought under Rodney and Hood off Port Royal, Jamaica, April 1782, believed to have been last survivor of that battle; one of the foremost mutineers at the Nore, May-June 1797; one of forlorn hope at storming of Seringapatam 4 May 1799; received a compound fracture of both legs at Copenhagen 2 April 1801. d. Manchester 25 June 1855 in 96 year.
GILLOTT, Joseph. b. Sheffield 11 Oct. 1799; working cutler; removed to Birmingham 1821; adapted the press to the making of steel pens 1830, invented side slits and cross grinding of the points, sold the pens at 1s. each; established works at Graham st. Newhall hill 1859 where he employed 450 persons and sold his pens at 4d. the gross; formed a collection of paintings chiefly Turner’s and Etty’s, collection sold in 1873 for £170,000; collected violins which realised £4000; had a residence at Stanmore near London. d. Westbourne road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 5 Jany. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000. Practical Mag. (1873) i, 322–5, portrait; Mayhew’s Shops of London (1865) 98–100; Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 89–100.
GILLOW, Rev. John (youngest son of John Gillow of Elswick Grange). b. 27 Feb. 1814; ed. at Ushaw college, Durham, professor of mathematics there 1837–42, of natural philosophy 1842–50, of dogmatic theology 1850–59 and 1863 to death, of moral theology 1859–60; canon theologian of cathedral chapter of Hexham 1857; created D.D. by Pius ix, 1859; vice pres. of Ushaw college 1859 to death. d. Ushaw college 9 Aug. 1877. J. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 476–81 (1885).
GILLY, Rev. William Stephen (son of Rev. Wm. Gilly, R. of Wanstead, Essex, who d. 23 Nov. 1837 aged 75). b. 28 Jany. 1789; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Caius and St. Catharine’s hall, Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, D.D. 1833; R. of North Fambridge, Essex 1817; canon of Durham 1826; P.C. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1827–51; V. of Norham on the Tweed 1851 to death; canon residentiary of Durham 1853 to death; author of The Spirit of the Gospel 1818; A memoir of Felix Neff 1832, many eds.; Our Protestant Forefathers 1835, many eds., and numerous other books. d. Norham 10 Sep. 1855. G.M. xliv, 437–39 (1855).
GILPIN, Rev. Bernard (4 son of Rev. Wm. Gilpin, R. of Pulverbatch, Salop). b. Cheam, Surrey 26 Jany. 1803; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; R. of St. Andrew, Hertford 15 Jany. 1829 to Oct. 1835 when he resigned and seceded from Church of England; preached for 35 years in a chapel at Port Vale Bengeo, Hertford, built for him by his followers. d. Pulverbatch 10 Jany. 1871. Benson’s Memorials of B. Gilpin (1874), with portrait.
GILPIN, Charles (son of James Gilpin of Bristol). b. Bristol 1815; publisher and bookseller in Bishopsgate st. London to 1853; common councilman London 1848; parliamentary sec. of Poor law board 28 June 1859 to 22 Feb. 1865; contested Perth 1852; M.P. for Northampton, April 1857 to death; chairman of National freehold land society. d. 10 Bedford sq. Holborn, London 8 Sep. 1874. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 3rd series (1860), portrait; The statesmen of England (1862) No. 45, portrait; I.L.N. xxxiii, 92, 94 (1858), portrait, lxv, 260, 273, 379 (1874), portrait.
GILPIN, Henry Dilwood (son of Joshua Gilpin of Philadelphia 1765–1840). b. Lancaster 14 April 1801; ed. in England 1811–16; graduated at Univ. of Pennsylvania 1819; attorney in Philadelphia 1822 to death; attorney general of the U.S. 1840–1; edited Atlantic Souvenir 7 vols. 1826–32; published Opinions of the attorney generals of the United States 2 vols., Washington 1841 and other books. d. Philadelphia 29 Jany. 1860. Memorials of H. D. Gilpin, Privately printed Philadelphia (1860); Appleton’s American biography ii, 659 (1887), portrait.
GILPIN, Sir Richard Thomas, 1 Baronet (only son of Richard Gilpin of Hockliffe grange, Leighton Buzzard, Beds., who d. 3 Jany. 1841). b. Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 12 Jany. 1801; ed. at Rugby and Christ’s coll. Cam.; col. Bedfordshire militia 11 Sep. 1848 to death; sheriff of Beds. 1850; M.P. for Beds. 1851–80; created baronet 19 Feb. 1876. d. Hockliffe grange 8 April 1882.
GIOVANELLI, Edward, stage name of Edward Edwards. b. Clerkenwell, London, Aug. 1823; first appeared in London at Cabinet theatre 1839; proprietor of Highbury Barn gardens, Islington 21 May 1861 to 14 Oct. 1870 when he lost his dancing license after spending £35,000 on the property; built Alexandra theatre in the gardens, opened 20 May 1865; manager of Royal Alfred theatre opened 12 Nov. 1870. d. 6 Lady Somerset road, Kentish town, London 14 March 1881.
GIRAUD, Herbert John (2 son of John Thomas Giraud, surgeon 1764–1836). b. Faversham, Kent 14 April 1817; educ. Edin. univ., M.D. 1840; entered service of H.E.I.C. 1842, professor of chemistry and botany 1845 and then principal of Grant Medical coll. Bombay; medical officer of Sir J. Jeejeeboy’s hospital; chemical analyst to Bombay government; deputy inspector general of Bombay army medical service, retired 1868; dean of faculty of medicine, Bombay university 1863; writer of papers on botany and chemistry. d. Shanklin, Isle of Wight 12 Jany. 1888.
GIRAUD, Richard Hervé. b. Canterbury 1801; midshipman R.N. to 1815; solicitor in London 1822 to death; a Freemason 1824 to death, founder and first master of the Huguenot lodge; a director of French hospital, London 1829, sec., treasurer and deputy governor successively; a founder of Huguenot Soc. of London, April 1885. d. 55 Doughty st. London 13 Oct. 1886.
GIRDLESTONE, Rev. Charles (2 son of Samuel Rainbow Girdlestone of London, barrister). b. London 6 March 1797; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; fell. of Balliol coll. 1818–26; C. of Hastings 1822–24; C. of Ferry Hincksey, Berks. 1824–26; select preacher at Ox. 1825 and 1830; V. of Sedgley, Staffs. 1826–37; R. of Alderley, Cheshire 1837–47; R. of Kingswinsford, Staffs. 1847–77; author of The New Testament with a commentary 2 vols. 1832–5; The Holy Bible with a commentary 4 vols. 1842, new ed. 6 vols. 1873; The question of the day, By the Creature of an Hour 1857, and 60 other books. d. Holywell house, Weston-super-Mare 28 April 1881.
GIRDLESTONE, Rev. Edward (brother of the preceding). b. London 6 Sep. 1805; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., scholar 1823–6, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of Deane, Lancs. 1828, V. 1830–55; canon of Bristol 1854; V. of St. Nicholas with St. Leonard’s, Bristol 1855–58; V. of Wapley, Gloucs. 1858–62; V. of Halberton, Devon 1862–72; V. of Olveston, Gloucs. 1872 to death; author of Sermons on Romanism and Tractarianism 1851; Remarks on Essays and Reviews 1861 and 15 other books. d. Canon’s house, Bristol 4 Dec. 1884. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) part 6, portrait; Church Portrait Journal, Aug. 1884 pp. 57–60, portrait.