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GORDON, George Huntly (son of Pryse Lockhart Gordon). educ. for the Scottish church; licensed to preach; transcribed manuscript of Waverley novels for the press in order that the secret of the authorship might not be betrayed; Sir Walter Scott wrote two sermons for him published under title of Religious discourses, By A Layman 1828, preface signed W.S. which Gordon sold for £250; clerk in the treasury, clerk in government stationery office 30 years; contributed much to Notes and Queries. d. Inverness 27 Dec. 1868 aged 72.

GORDON, George Thomas. (2 son of Samuel Gordon, captain R.N.) b. 1807; entered navy 5 March 1818; captain 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 28 Oct. 1864; retired 1 April 1870; admiral 1 Aug. 1877; K.H. 1837. d. Ingleden, Kent 30 July 1887.

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

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

GORDON, Henry William. Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; col. commandant 22 Feb. 1863 to death; L.G. 19 May 1863. d. Southampton 19 Sep. 1865 aged 79.

GORDON, Sir Henry William (brother of Charles George Gordon 1833–85). b. Blackheath, Kent 18 July 1818; ensign 59 foot Aug. 1835; entered ordnance department 1855; controller general Jany. 1870; commissary general Nov. 1875 to 9 July 1878 when he retired; C.B. 22 Jany. 1857, K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of Events in the life of Charles George Gordon 1886. d. Oat hall, Hayward’s heath, Sussex 22 Oct. 1887. Graphic 26 Nov. 1887 pp. 581–82, portrait.

GORDON, Sir James Alexander. (eld. son of Charles Gordon of Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire). b. Kildrummie castle, Aberdeen 1782; entered navy 25 Nov. 1793; captain 16 May 1805; lost a leg at capture of French frigate “La Pomone” at Pelagosa 29 Nov. 1811; governor of royal naval hospital Plymouth 1827–32; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1832–37; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 1 July 1840, governor 17 Oct. 1853 to death; admiral 21 Jany. 1854; admiral of the Fleet 30 Jany. 1868 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1851, G.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Greenwich hospital 8 Jany. 1869. Macmillan’s Mag. xix, 353–54 (1869); I.L.N. liv, 74, 165, 166 (1869), portrait.

GORDON, James Alexander. b. Middlesex; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 24 June 1814; established The Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and Surgery 1819, edited it; L.R.C.P. 16 April 1821, fellow 9 July 1836, Censor 1838; Assist. physician to London hospital 18 July 1827, physician 18 Nov. 1828 to Dec. 1844; retired from practice and lived at Dorking about 1846 to death; F.R.S. 2 April 1835. d. Dorking 18 April 1872 aged 78. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians (1878) iii, 232.

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

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

GORDON, John (brother of 4 Earl of Aberdeen 1784–1860). b. 1792; captain R.N. 31 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 23 March 1863. d. 28 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 11 Nov. 1869.

GORDON, Sir John (son of Samuel Gordon of Clonmel, co. Tipperary). b. Clonmel 1798; general medical practitioner at Cork 1820 to death; mayor of Cork 1855; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland 1855. d. Cork 29 Jany. 1871.

GORDON, John Shepheard. Publisher of The Record more than 50 years. d. 1 Albert road, Crouch hill near London 31 Oct. 1884 aged 76.

GORDON, Sir John Watson- (eld. son of James Watson, captain R.A.) b. Edinburgh 1788; leading portrait painter in Scotland 1823 to death; exhibited 123 portraits at R.A. London 1827–64; assumed name of Watson-Gordon by which he is always known; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 11 Feb. 1851; pres. of R.S.A. March 1850 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; limner to the Queen for Scotland 1850 to death. d. Catherine bank house, Edinburgh 1 June 1864, the Watson-Gordon professorship of fine art instituted in Univ. of Edin. 1879. Sandby’s Royal Academy ii, 287–9 (1862); Redgrave’s Century of Painters ii, 76–8 (1866); I.L.N. xviii, 219 (1851), portrait.

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

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

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.