Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
GIRLING, Mary Anne (dau. of Mr. Clouting, farmer). b. Little Glemham, Suffolk 27 April 1827; a wesleyan methodist; believed that she was called to be a new incarnation of the Deity 1864; commenced preaching at 107 Bridge road, Battersea 1870, community named themselves The Children of God, but generally called Shakers; removed to New Forest lodge, Hampshire 2 Jany. 1872; ejected for non-payment of rent 1873 and 1878 and suffered much hardship; rented Tiptoe farm, Hordle, Lymington 1879; members expected to live for ever and that Mrs. Girling would rule over the world. (m. George Stanton Girling a general dealer at Ipswich). d. Tiptoe farm 18 Sep. 1886. Irish Monthly, Oct. 1878 pp. 555–64; Lymington Chronicle 23 and 30 Sept. 1886.
GISBORNE, John (2 son of John Gisborne of Yoxall, Staffs.) b. St. Helen’s, Derby 26 Aug. 1770; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1792; author of The Vales of Wever 1797; Reflections 1833 and other poems. d. Pentrich, Derbyshire 17 June 1851. A brief memoir of the life of John Gisborne with extracts from his diary (1852).
GISBORNE, Lionel. b. St. Petersburgh 1823; civil engineer; worked for the government in Ireland 1842–52; practised in London 1852 to death; brought forward a scheme for embankment of river Thames 1852; projected several of the long submarine telegraphs 1851 to death; partner with Henry C. Forde; A.I.C.E. 1852; author of The Isthmus of Darien 1853. d. Dartmouth st. Westminster 9 March 1861. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 586–92 (1862).
GISBORNE, Thomas (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Gisborne 1758–1846). b. 1794; M.P. for Stafford 1830–32, for North Derbyshire 1832–37, for Carlow 1839–41, for Nottingham 1843–47; contested Totnes 1840, Newport and South Leics. 1841, Ipswich 1842, Nottingham 1847 and Kidderminster 1849; author of Essays on Agriculture 1854, and of speeches and pamphlets. d. Yoxall lodge, Staffs. 20 July 1852.
GIUGLINI, Antonio. b. Fano, Italy 1827; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre, London 1857–58; sang with much success in the provinces and abroad; had a sweet and high tenor voice, the best since Tamberlik; became insane 1862. d. in an asylum at Pesaro, Italy 12 Oct. 1865. Illust. sporting news iv, 553 (1865), portrait.
GLADSTONE, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Gladstones of Leith, corn merchant 1732–1809). b. Leith 11 Dec. 1764; corn merchant at Liverpool 1788–1843 when he retired; M.P. for Lancaster 1818, for Woodstock 1820, for Berwick 1826–27 when unseated on petition; dropped the final s in his name by r.l. 10 Feb. 1835; created baronet 18 July 1846; author of Plain facts connected with the Corn laws 1846 and other pamphlets. d. Fasque, Kincardineshire 7 Dec. 1851. Fortunes made in business ii, 111–36 (1884); H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 290–306 (1886).
GLADSTONE, John Neilson. b. 18 Jany. 1807; M.P. for Walsall 1841, for Ipswich 1842–7, for Devizes 1852–7 and 1859 to death; sheriff of Wilts. 1859. d. Bowden park, Wilts. 7 Feb. 1863. I.L.N, xxii, 197, 198 (1853), portrait.
GLADSTONE, Murray (6 son of Robert Gladstone of Liverpool 1773–1835). b. Liverpool 14 Feb. 1816; employed in making surveys for railways; a merchant at Calcutta 1844–50; established firm of Gladstone, Latham & Co. in Manchester 1850; erected an observatory at Penmaenmawr, North Wales; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1860. d. suddenly while walking along the shore at Penmaenmawr 23 Aug. 1875. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxvi, 142 (1876).
GLADSTONE, Sir Thomas, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir John Gladstone 1764–1851). b. Annfield near Liverpool 25 July 1804; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; M.P. for Queenborough, Kent 1830–32, for Portarlington 1832–35, for Leicester 1835–37, for Ipswich 1842 but unseated on petition; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire; founded at Fasque, Kincardineshire a herd of pure-bred polled cattle. d. Fasque house 20 March 1889. Fortunes made in business ii, 137–40 (1884).
GLASGOW, James Carr-Boyle, 5 Earl of (2 son of 4 Earl of Glasgow 1766–1843). b. London 10 April 1792; served in the navy 1807–18, retired commander 5 Oct. 1867; assumed name of Carr before Boyle 2 Aug. 1823; contested Ayrshire 1837, M.P. for Ayrshire 1839–43; lord lieut. and sheriff principal of Renfrewshire 21 Oct. 1844; kept many racehorses 1819 to death, most of which were unnamed; won the Two thousand guineas and Doncaster Cup with General Peel 1864; master of Renfrewshire fox hounds. d. Hawkhead, Renfrewshire 11 March 1869. Rice’s British Turf (1879) ii, 242–55; Saddle and Sirloin, By the Druid. Part North (1870) 26–32; Baily’s Mag. i, 257–60 (1860), portrait.
GLASGOW, George Frederick Boyle, 6 Earl of (half-brother of the preceding). b. 9 Oct. 1825; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1852; M.P. for Buteshire, Feb. to July 1865, contested Buteshire, July 1865; lord clerk register of Scotland 1879 to death; principal keeper of the Signet. d. 32 Palmerston place, Edinburgh 23 April 1890.
GLASS, Joseph. b. 1792; invented the chimney-sweeping machine now in use for which he received a silver medal and prize of £200 about 1828; author of Chimney-sweeping described 1834. d. Brixton, London 29 Dec. 1867.
GLASS, Sir Richard Atwood (eld. son of Francis Glass of Bradford, Wilts.) b. Bradford 3 July 1820; established with Kuper a wire-rope manufactory; introduced use of twisted iron wires in Dover and Calais cable as a protecting medium for submarine telegraphs 1852; made a length of 1250 miles of the Atlantic cable of 1858 which failed; partner in firm of Glass, Elliot and Co., Greenwich, firm was eventually absorbed in the Telegraph construction and maintenance co., managing director; knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1866; chairman of Anglo-American Telegraph company; M.P. for Bewdley 1868–69 when unseated on petition; A.I.C.E. 4 May 1858. d. Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Dec. 1873. I.L.N. xlix, 545, 558 (1866), portrait.
GLASSE, Frederick Henry Hastings. Entered navy 20 Nov. 1818; captain 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 16 Sep. 1864, retired 1 April 1870; admiral 1 Aug. 1877; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Billacombe villa, Plymstock, South Devon 25 May 1884.
GLAZEBROOK, Thomas Kirkland (son of Rev. James Glazebrook 1744–1803). b. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics. 4 June 1780; glass manufacturer at Warrington; lived at Southport 1835 to death; F.L.S.; printed many songs and poems; author of The first eclogue of Virgil translated into English verse 1807; A guide to Southport 1809, 2 ed. 1826 and other books. d. Southport 17 Jany. 1855. J. Kendrick’s Warrington Worthies, 2 ed. (1854) p. 6, portrait.
GLEIG, Rev. George Robert (son of Right Rev. George Gleig 1753–1840, primate of Scotch episcopalian church). b. Stirling 20 April 1796; ed. at Glasgow univ. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; ensign 3 garrison battalion 1812; lieut. 85 foot 1813–16 when placed on h.p., sold out 1826; served in Peninsula 1813–14 and in American war; R. of Ivychurch, Kent 1822–80; chaplain of Chelsea hospital 1834–40; principal chaplain to the forces 1844–46, chaplain general 1846–75 when placed on h.p.; inspector general of military schools 1846–57; preb. of St. Paul’s 29 Dec. 1848 to death; author of The Subaltern 1826; The Chelsea pensioners 1829; The history of the British Empire in India 4 vols. 1830–5; Memoirs of the life of Warren Hastings 3 vols. 1841 and 35 other books; the survivor of original contributors to Blackwood’s Mag. and Fraser’s Mag. d. Stratfield Turgis near Winchfield 9 July 1888. Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 267–70, portrait; Colburn’s New Monthly xlix, 220–23 (1837), portrait.
GLENELG, Charles Grant, 1 Baron (eld son of Charles Grant 1746–1823, M.P. for Invernesshire). b. Kidderpore, Bengal 26 Oct. 1778; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam., fellow 1802, 4th wrangler and chancellor’s medallist 1801; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, L.L.D. 1819; barrister L.I. 13 June 1807; M.P. for Fortrose burghs 1811–18, for Invernesshire 1818–35; a lord of the treasury 1813–19; chief sec. for Ireland 1818–1821; P.C. Ireland 1819; P.C. 28 May 1819; vice pres. of board of trade 1823, pres. 1827–28; treasurer of navy 1827–28; pres. of board of control 1830–34; sec. of state the colonies 1835–39; created Baron Glenelg of Glenelg, Inverness 11 May 1835; F.R.S. 27 May 1828. d. Cannes 23 April 1866.
GLENGALL, Richard Butler, 2 Earl of (eld. child of 1 Earl of Glengall 1775–1819). b. 29 May 1794; succeeded his father 30 Jany. 1819; colonel of South Tipperary artillery 21 Nov. 1826 to death; Irish representative peer 1 Sep. 1829 to death; wrote The Irish tutor 1823; The follies of fashion, a comedy in 5 acts 1830 and other dramatic works. d. Cowes, Isle of Wight 22 June 1858.
GLENNIE, George. Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf club of St. Andrews; made celebrated score of 88 for King Wm. Fourth’s medal at St. Andrews 1855 which was unbeaten until 1884; the George Glennie medal was instituted 1881, and presented by Royal Blackheath golf club to the St. Andrew’s club. d. 3 St. Germain’s place, Blackheath 26 March 1886 aged 68. H. G. Hutchinson’s Golf (1890) 388–90, portrait.
GLENNY, George. b. 1 Nov. 1793; gained many prizes at flower shows; wrote a series of letters in The British Luminary 1820 of which he became editor; edited Royal ladies’ magazine and St. James’s Archives; started Horticultural Journal 1832; edited Gardener’s Gazette, Garden Journal, Practical Florist, Glenny’s Journal, &c.; started the Metropolitan Society of Florists and Amateurs 1832; author of Cottage gardening 1847; The handy-book of gardening 1858; The properties of Flowers and plants 1864 and other books. d. Gipsy Hill, Norwood, Surrey 17 May 1874. Gardener’s Mag. 23 May 1874 p. 269, portrait.
GLEW, Edward Lees (son of Thomas Faulkner Glew of Dublin, solicitor). b. Dublin 3 March 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; became a portrait painter; settled at Walsall; published History of the borough and foreign of Walsall, Walsall 1856; started a newspaper in Birmingham; resided at 53 Beaver st. New York as a painter; removed to Philadelphia, then to Trenton, New Jersey. d. Newark, New Jersey 9 Oct. 1870. Morning Advertiser 11 Oct. 1870 p. 3, col. 5.
GLIDDON, George Robins. b. Devonshire 1809; resided in Egypt nearly 23 years; U.S. vice consul at Alexandria about 20 years; lectured in Boston, New York and Philadelphia on Egyptian antiquities; agent for Honduras interoceanic railway at time of his death; author of A memoir on the cotton of Egypt 1841; Discourses on Egyptian archæology 1841 and other books; author with J. C. Nott of Types of Mankind 1854, and edited L. F. A. Maury’s Indigenous races of the earth 1857. d. Panama 16 Nov. 1857.
GLOUCESTER and EDINBURGH, Mary, Duchess of (4 dau. of King George the Third 1738–1820). b. 25 April 1776. (m. at Buckingham palace 22 July 1816 her cousin Prince William Frederick, 2 Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, b. 15 Jany. 1776, d. 30 Nov. 1834); ranger and keeper of Richmond new park 30 Oct. 1850 to death. d. Gloucester house, Park lane, London 30 April 1857. H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 21–9; I.L.N. xxx, 434, 465, 466 (1857), portrait.
GLOVER, Charles William. b. London, Feb. 1806; violinist in orchestras of Drury Lane and Covent Garden; musical director Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. 1832 etc.; composed Jeannette and Jeannot 1845, Cosin Harry a semi-comic song 1855, Tis hard to give the hand where the heart can never be 1853, and a very large number of pieces for the piano, ballads and songs. d. Caversham road, Kentish town, London 23 March 1863.
GLOVER, Edmund (eld. son of Samuel Glover and Julia Glover, actress, who d. 16 July 1850). b. England 1813; acted at Haymarket theatre, London, at Edinburgh 1841 where he played Richelieu, Rob Roy, etc.; engaged Jenny Lind in 1847 to sing in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth, cleared £3000; lessee of Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 1848; manager of Paisley and Dunfermline theatres and of Greenock theatre in 1849; last appeared as Triplet in Edinburgh 25 May 1859; a good actor, dancer, fencer and pantomimist. d. 3 Gayfield place, Edinburgh 23 Oct. 1860. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh stage (1888) 380 et seq.
GLOVER, Edward Auchmuty (eld. son of James Glover of Mount Glover, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837; called to bar in Ireland 1840; insolvent in Ireland 1849; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1852; contested Canterbury 18 Aug. 1854; contested Beverley 7 July 1852, M.P. for Beverley 28 March 1857 to 3 Aug. 1857 when unseated on petition; sentenced at Central Criminal Court 13 April 1858 to 3 months’ imprisonment in Newgate for having made false declaration as to his property, this was the last prosecution of the kind, the property qualification of M.P’s. was abolished by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26, 28 June 1858. d. 65 Denbigh st. Pimlico, London 17 March 1862 aged 45. Annual Register (1858) 69–71; Wolferstan and Dew’s Reports i, 214–24 (1859).
GLOVER, Sarah Ann (eld. dau. of Rev. Edward Glover, R. of St. Lawrence, Norwich). Governess in family of Sir T. Fowell Buxton; taught children at Norwich music on the Sol-faing mode 1815; founded the Tonic Sol-fa method 1840 which Rev. John Curwen modified and made popular 1844; entertained at a soirée in Jewin st. schoolroom, London 20 April 1855; author of A manual of the Norwich Sol-fa system 1845; Manual of Tetrachordal system 1850; resided 11 St. Owen st. Hereford; portrait in Tonic Sol-fa coll. Forest Gate, Essex. d. Great Malvern 20 Oct. 1867 aged 82. Memorials of J. Curwen (1882) pp. viii, 49, 173.
GLOVER, Ven. George (son of George Glover of Wigan). b. 1778; ed. at Manchester sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1811; R. of South Repps, Norfolk 1804 to death; archdeacon of Sudbury 21 July 1823 to death; V. of Gayton, Norfolk 1831 to death; author of A course of sermons 2 vols. 1859. d. South Repps 4 May 1862, memorial brass on chancel floor of South Repps church. Manchester School Register ii, 196–8 (1868).
GLOVER, Sir John Hawley (son of rev. John Glover, English chaplain at Cologne). Entered R.N. 1841; in expedition to the Niger under Dr. Baikie 1857–61; acting consul at Lagos 22 May to 21 Nov. 1863, colonial secretary 9 May 1864 and administrator of the settlement 19 Oct. 1866 to 1872; commissioner to friendly natives near the Gold coast 18 Aug. 1873; commanded 800 houssas in the march to Coomassie 1874, received thanks of both houses of parliament; G.C.M.G. 8 May 1874; governor of Newfoundland Jany. 1876 to June 1881, and 17 Dec. 1883 to death; retired captain 24 Nov. 1877; governor of the Leeward islands Dec. 1881 to 17 Dec. 1883. d. 35 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 30 Sept. 1885. I.L.N. lxiv. 384, 386 (1874), portrait.
GLOVER, Percy Clabon (2 son of Rev. Richard Glover, vicar of St. Luke’s, West Holloway). b. Holy Trinity parsonage, Maidstone 14 May 1856; educ. Highgate and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; founded the De Quincy soc. at his coll. 1878; served as tutor with various families in England and abroad; his collar bone fractured playing Lacrosse at Dulwich 5 March 1888. d. of rheumatic fever at Addiscombe vicarage 1 April 1888. Self Discipline, a memoir of P. C. Glover by Rev. Richard Glover (1889), with portrait.
GLOVER, Stephen. Author of The Peak guide, Derby 1830; The history and gazetteer of county of Derby, ed. by Thomas Noble, vol. i, pt. i, 1831, vol. ii, pt. i, 1833, never finished; assisted Thomas Bateman in his Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire 1848. d. 26 Dec. 1869. bur. Moreton, Cheshire.
GLOVER, Stephen (brother of Charles W. Glover 1806–63). b. London 1812; teacher of music, London; composer of Merry is the Greenwood, a cavatina 1847; Beauty and the beast, chamber opera 1868; The dream is past 1837, What are the wild waves saying 1850, Stars of the summer night 1855, There is a sweet wild rose 1863, duets; Annie on the Banks o’ Dee 1857, Emigrants’ Farewell 1850, songs; and upwards of 1200 other works all of which commanded a sale. d. 71 Talbot road, Bayswater, London 7 Dec. 1870. Grove’s Music and Musicians (1889) iv, 648–9.
GLOVER, William. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; serjeant at law 19 June 1840; purchased Morning Chronicle from Duke of Newcastle, W. E. Gladstone and Sidney Herbert for £7500 in 1854, receiving from them £3000 a year for 3 years; engaged with Napoleon III. to edit the paper in his interest 1855, brought actions against French government for breach of contract; sold the paper to George Stiff 1860, it ceased 1862; author of A practical treatise on the law of municipal corporations 1836. d. 3 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 21 Dec. 1870. Grant’s Newspaper Press (1871) i, 310–12.
GLOVER, William Howard (brother of Edmund Glover 1813–60). b. Kilburn, London 6 June 1819; a violinist in Lyceum orchestra under Wagstaff 1834; with his mother founded Music and dramatic agency Soho sq. London; gave a season of opera in Manchester with his own pupils; gave annual monster concerts at St. James’s hall and Drury Lane; initiated performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony with pictorial and choregraphic illustrations 1863, and of Israel in Egypt 1865; his cantata Tam o’Shanter produced at Philharmonic 4 July 1855; his opera Ruy Blas brought out at Covent Garden 24 Oct. 1861; musical critic on Morning Post 1849–65; conductor of Niblo’s orchestra, New York 1868; Palomita operetta produced at Niblo’s 1875. d. New York 28 Oct. 1875.
GLYN, Henry Carr. b. 17 April 1829; entered navy 4 March 1844; captain 20 Aug. 1861; V.A. 9 June 1882; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 32 Eaton place, London 16 Feb. 1884. bur. family vault, Stanbridge church 21 Feb. Illust. sp. and dr. news xx, 661 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 205 (1884), portrait.
GLYN, Isabella Dallas (dau. of Mr. Gearns, architect). b. Edinburgh 22 May 1823; appeared at Manchester under her mother’s maiden name Glyn 8 Nov. 1847 as Constance in King John; at Olympic, London as Lady Macbeth 26 Jany. 1848; played at Sadler’s Wells 1848–51; gave her first Shakespearian reading Sep. 1851; appeared at Drury Lane as Bianca in Fazio 26 Dec. 1851, at St. James’ 1854, at Standard 1855, at Sadler’s Wells 1859, at Princess’s 1867; gave recitals at Boston, U.S.A. 1870; gave Shakespeare readings at Steinway hall and St. James’ hall 1878, 1879; a theatrical instructor; the latest adherent of the Kemble sch. of acting. m. (1) Edward Wills; m. (2) in Glasgow, Dec. 1853 and in London 12 July 1855 Eneas Sweetland Dallas d. 1879, divorced on her petition 10 May 1874, she was imprisoned at Holloway for contempt of court in declining to give up documents relating to her divorce case, released 28 June 1876. d. of cancer 13 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 18 May 1889. The Duchess of Malfi, with a memoir of Miss Glyn (1851) pp. 1–6, portrait; Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. (1850) 37–40, 2 portraits; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 1–2, portrait, and parts 7, 10, 12, 17, 21, 5 portraits; The Players iii, 391, 408 (1861), portrait.
GLYNN, Henry Richard (youngest son of John Glynn 1722–79, serjeant at law, M.P. for Middlesex). b. 2 Sep. 1768; entered navy 19 May 1780; captain 10 April 1797; admiral 9 Nov. 1846, placed on half pay June 1851; mayor of Plymouth 1838. d. Bideford 20 July 1856.
GLYNN, Joseph (son of James Glynn of Ouseburn iron foundry, Newcastle). b. Hanover sq. Newcastle 6 Feb. 1799; designed and executed gas works for Berwick upon Tweed 1821; engineer to Butterley iron co. Derbyshire; employed the water wheel or scoop wheel for draining marshes and fens by steam power; chairman of Eastern counties railway 2 years; M.I.C.E. 22 April 1828; member of Society of Arts 16 Nov. 1836; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1838; author of Rudimentary treatise on the construction of cranes 1849, 4 ed. 1865. d. 28 Westbourne park villas, London 6 Feb. 1863.
GLYNNE, Sir Stephen Richard, 9 Baronet. b. Hawarden castle, Flintshire 22 Sep. 1807; succeeded 5 March 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; M.P. for Flint district 1832–5, for Flintshire 1837–41 and 1842–47; lord lieut. of Flintshire 30 June 1845 to death; taken ill in street and d. Dr. Flack’s surgery 56 High st. Shoreditch, London 17 June 1874. Times 18, 19, 20 June 1874.
GOAD, John. b. Plymouth 20 Feb. 1825; known universally as the quarrier and worker of Devonshire marble having 4 large quarries near Plymouth, supplied all the polished marble for interior of the Oratory at Brompton, London 1854; found dead in his bed at his residence, Buckingham place, Stonehouse, Plymouth 25 Jany. 1886.
GOBAT, Right Rev. Samuel. b. Cremuse, canton Berne, Switzerland 26 Jany. 1799; studied at Bale, Paris and London; entered service of Church Missionary Soc., laboured in Abyssinia 1830–32; principal of Missionary college, Malta 1839; nominated bishop of Jerusalem by King of Prussia 1846; consecrated at Lambeth 5 July 1846; naturalised in England by act of parliament 9 & 10 Vict. c. 49, 13 Aug. 1846; author of Journal of a three years residence in Abyssinia 1847. d. Jerusalem 11 May 1879.
GODBY, Christopher. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 55 Bengal N.I. 1853 to death; L.G. 22 Nov. 1862; C.B. 21 May 1846. d. South bank, Batheaston 8 Dec. 1867 aged 77.
GODDARD, George Bouverie. b. Salisbury 25 Dec. 1832; self taught artist; spent 2 years in zoological gardens, London, studying animal life 1849–51; drew sporting subjects on wood for Punch; settled in London 1857; exhibited 19 paintings at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1856–79; chiefly an animal painter; his principle works were Lord Wolverton’s blood hounds 1875, The struggle for existence 1879 now in Walker gallery, Liverpool, Love and War in the Abbotsbury swannery 1883. d. 37 Brook green, Hammersmith, London 6 March 1886.
GODFREY, Adolphus Frederick (son of the succeeding). b. 1837; bandmaster of the Coldstream Guards Dec. 1863 to death; wrote many lancers, polkas, galops and quadrilles; confined in Peckham lunatic asylum, Surrey 1 June 1881. d. there 28 Aug. 1882.
GODFREY, Charles. b. Kingston, Surrey 22 Nov. 1790; bandmaster of Coldstream guards nearly 50 years; musician in ordinary to Wm. IV. 1831; editor and arranger of Jullien’s Military Band Journal 1847. d. London 12 Dec. 1863.
GODKIN, James. b. Gorey, co. Wexford 1806; pastor of dissenting ch. at Armagh 1834; missionary to Roman Catholics to 1845; went to London as a journalist 1847; established in Belfast The Christian Patriot 1849; editor of Derry Standard; editor of Daily Express, Dublin; member of Irish tenant league 1850; special commissioner of Irish Times to ascertain feeling of the farmers on land question 1869; granted civil list pension of £90, 5 April 1869; author of A guide from the church of Rome to the church of Christ 1836, 3 ed. 1845; Ireland and her churches 1867; The land war in Ireland 1870 and other books. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 2 May 1879.
GODLEY, Denis (son of John Godley of Killigar, co. Leitrim). b. 1823; ensign 74 highlanders 1839; sec. to governor general of Canada 1861–68; sec. to commission on Irish church temporalities 1869–81; sec. to Irish land commission 1881–88; C.B. 1881. d. Guardswell, Ascot 24 Jany. 1890.
GODLEY, John Robert (brother of the preceding). b. 1814; ed. at Harrow and Christ church, Ox., B.A. 1836; proposed to emigrate one million Irish to Canada; contested Leitrim county 12 Aug. 1847; Canterbury colony, New Zealand, founded by him and E. G. Wakefield 1850, guided Canterbury 1850–52, agent in England 1854–56; commissioner of income tax Ireland 1853; assistant under secretary at war 1855–61; F.R.G.S.; author of Letters from America 2 vols. 1844; Observations on an Irish poor law 1847. d. 11 Gloucester place, Portman square, London 17 Nov. 1861. Selection from writings and memoir by J. E. Fitzgerald (1863) 1–32, portrait.
GODWIN, Edward William. b. Old Market st. Bristol 26 May 1833; architect Bristol and then in partnership with Henry Crisp; removed to London 1862; built Northampton and Congleton town halls; assisted W. Burgess in his designs for new law courts London, and R. W. Eddis in his designs for parliament houses Berlin; designed theatrical costumes for Hamlet, Claudian, Helena in Troas and the Bachelors 1886; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1862; F.R.I.B.A.; a constant contributor to the British Architect; author of Art furniture by W. Watt, from designs by E. W. Godwin 1877; Temple Bar illustrated 1877; A few notes on the architecture and costumes of Claudian 1883 and other books. d. 6 Great College st. Westminster 6 Oct. 1886. British Architect 15 Oct. 1886 pp. 347–48, portrait.
GODWIN, George. b. Brompton, London 28 Jany. 1815; chief founder of Art Union of London 14 Feb. 1837, hon. sec.; author of The last day, a farce played at Olympic 28 Oct. 1840, and of several dramas; editor of The Builder Dec. 1842 to Oct. 1883; F.R.S. 7 March 1839; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1838; vice pres. of R.I. of British Architects, gold medallist 1881, founded the Godwin bursary 1881; architect of St. Mary’s ch. West Brompton and many other edifices; restored St. Mary’s, Redcliffe, Bristol 1846–75; made a collection of ancient chairs, including Shakespeare’s chair, sold 19 April 1888; author of The churches of London 2 vols. 1839; A history of St. Paul’s cathedral 1837; Facts and fancies 1844; History in Ruins, letters on history of architecture 1853; London Shadows 1854; Another blow for life 1864. d. 6 Cromwell place, South Kensington 27 Jany. 1888. Colburn’s New Monthly Mag., vol. 167 p. 182, portrait.
GODWIN, Henry. Ensign 9 foot 30 Oct. 1799; lieut. col. 41 foot 26 July 1821; lieut. col. 87 foot 5 April 1827 to 25 June 1827, when placed on h.p.; employed in 6 several commands during Burmese war 1824–6; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; recaptured Pegu Nov. 1852; col. 20 foot 25 Oct. 1853; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, gazetted K.C.B. 9 Dec. 1853; author of Burmah, Letters and papers written 1852–53, 1854. d. Simla, Bengal 26 Oct. 1853 aged 69.
GODWIN, John. b. Swansea; pupil of Sir James M’Adam; engineer to Ulster railway 1836–62; the first professor of engineering Queen’s college, Belfast 1849; M.I.C.E. 24 June 1845. d. Tamnagharrie, co. Down 15 Jany. 1869.
GODWIN, Rev. John Hensley. b. Bristol 18 June 1809; educ. Highbury coll. 1833–36 and Edin. univ. 1836–37; congregational minister Old Meeting, Norwich 1837; resident and philosophical tutor Highbury coll. 1839; professor of New Testament exegesis, mental and moral philosophy and English, New coll. 1850–72; author of Christian Baptism 1845; Christian Faith 1852; Translations of The Revelations 1856, St. Matthew 1863, St. Mark 1869, The Epistle to the Galatians 1871 and The Romans 1873; a contributor to the Contemporary Review and the Evangelical Mag. d. 1 Belsize ter. Hampstead 26 Feb. 1889.
GODWIN, Marianne Elizabeth. Caricaturist in London; signed her pictures with the word “Jack.” d. University college hospital London 12 Aug. 1887 from her muslin dress catching fire at the ironing stove at her residence 13 Fitzroy sq. London.
GODWIN-AUSTEN, Robert Alfred Cloyne (eld. son of Sir Henry Edmund Austen. 1785–1871). b. Shalford house, Guildford 17 March 1808; ed. at Midhurst, Sussex and Oriel coll. Ox. fellow 1830, B.A. 1830; student of L.I. 1830; F.G.S. 19 March 1830, sec. 1843–4 and 1853–4; Wollaston medallist 1862; member of British Association 1846, pres. of geological section at Norwich 1868, and at Brighton 1872; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; made a splendid collection of palæozoic fossils in Cornwall which he presented to Jermyn st. Museum; took additional name of Godwin by royal license 1854; author of numerous papers on geology in scientific journals. d. Shalford house near Guildford 25 Nov. 1884. Geological Mag. Jany. 1885 pp. 1–10; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxviii, pp. ix-xiii (1885); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xli, 37–9 (1885).
GOLD, Charles Emilius. Ensign 65 foot 20 March 1828; lieut. col. 30 Dec. 1845 to 15 June 1860; L.G. 27 Dec. 1868. d. Dover 29 July 1871 aged 68.
GOLD, William George. Second lieut. royal staff corps 7 April 1825; lieut. col. of 53 foot 26 July 1844, of 4 foot 8 Dec. 1848 to 7 Sep. 1852, when placed on h.p.; col. of 32 foot 28 Aug. 1865, of 53 foot 2 Feb. 1867 to death; L.G. 29 March 1868. d. Garthmyl hall, Montgomeryshire 26 Dec. 1868 aged 68.
GOLDFINCH, Sir Henry (son of Henry Goldfinch of Peckham, Surrey). b. London 1781; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 March 1790, col. 10 Jany. 1837, col. commandant 17 Feb. 1854 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852. d. 11 Upper Wimpole st. London 21 Nov. 1854.
GOLDIE, George. b. Mornay house, Edinburgh 25 Oct. 1784; ed. at Univ. of Edin. M.D. 1808; L.R.C.P. London 1812; practised in London 1812 at Warminster, at York 1815 to about 1849; phys. to York county hospital 1822–33; took charge of cholera hospital at York during epidemic of cholera 1831; took an active part in agitation for Catholic emancipation; contributed to British and Foreign Medical Review and medical journals. d. Sheffield 2 May 1853. J. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 510–13 (1885).
GOLDIE, George (son of the preceding). b. York 1828; ed. at St. Cuthbert’s coll. near Durham; pupil and afterwards partner of Messrs. Hatfield and Weightman of Sheffield, architects; practised in London; designed pro-cathedral at Kensington, cathedral at Sligo and many other Roman Catholic churches, convents, &c. in Great Britain and Ireland; A.R.I.B.A. d. 9 Kensington sq. London 1 March 1887.
GOLDIE, Sir George Leigh. Cornet 6 dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 11 foot 29 May 1835 to 26 Feb. 1841, when placed on h.p.; col. of 77 foot 22 Dec. 1854, of 35 foot 13 Feb. 1861 to death; general 6 Nov. 1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Claremont Southampton 26 March 1863 aged 72.
GOLDING, Benjamin. b. Essex; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ., M.D. 6 Dec. 1823; L.R.C.P. London 4 June 1825; physician to West London infirmary, founded the Charing Cross hospital which was the infirmary rebuilt and renamed 1831, director of it to death; published An historical account of St. Thomas’s hospital, Southwark 1819. d. The Boltons, West Brompton, London 21 June 1863 aged 69.
GOLDING, Richard. b. London 15 Aug. 1785; engraved B. West’s Death of Nelson, book plates for Don Quixote and Gil Blas, Sir T. Lawrence’s Princess Charlotte of Wales 1818, Westall’s Princess Victoria, W. Fowler’s Princess Victoria 1830 and Rubens’ St. Ambrose refusing Theodosius admission into the Church; commenced engraving Maclise’s A Peep into Futurity, for the Art Union 1842 which was still unfinished in 1852. d. in a poor lodging Stebbington st. St. Pancras, London 28 Dec. 1865. bur. Highgate cemetery, body exhumed Sep. 1866 on a suspicion that he had been poisoned by his doctor.