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GOLDNEY, Philip (2 son of Thomas Goldney of Clifton). b. London 21 Nov. 1802; cadet H.E.I.C.S. 1821, capt. 11 June 1836; learned the native languages and Persian; collector and magistrate in Sind 1844; commissioner in charge of Fyzabad to 1857; lieut. col. 53 Bengal N.I. 1853–56, 22 Bengal N.I. 1856–57, 38 Bengal N.I. 1857 to death; shot by the mutineers on an island in the Gograh 9 June 1857.
GOLDSBROUGH, Richard. b. Shipley near Bradford, Yorks. 1821; wool merchant Bradford 1842; went to Adelaide, Australia, settled in Melbourne 1847 and became a dealer in wool, etc. 1848; in partnership with Edward Rowe and George Kirk 1853 as dealers in stations, stock and wool; amalgamated with Australian agency and banking corporation 1881 when the consolidated concern became a limited co. and himself chairman, capital 3 millions; steward of Victoria racing club from its foundation. d. Melbourne 8 April 1886.
GOLDSMID, Anna Maria (sister of the succeeding). Pupil of Thomas Campbell the poet, who gave her some of his manuscripts which she bequeathed to British Museum; gave large sums to charity, often anonymously; published many original pamphlets on education; translated L. Philippsohn’s The development of the religious idea in Judaism 1855 and J. Cohen’s The Deicides, Analysis of the life of Jesus 1872 and other books. d. 26 Cambridge sq. Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1889 aged 84.
GOLDSMID, Sir Francis Henry, 2 Baronet (2 son of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1 baronet 1778–1859). b. Spital sq. London 1 May 1808; barrister L.I. 31 Jany. 1833, bencher 11 Jany. 1858; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1858, the first Jew called to the English bar and the first Jewish Q.C. and bencher; pres. of senate of Univ. coll. London, where is portrait of him by R. Lehmann; M.P. for Reading 11 Jany. 1860 to death; founded Jews’ infant sch. 1841, now largest infant sch. in England; founded Anglo-Jewish Association 1871; author of many pamphlets. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 2 May 1878 from effects of an accident at Waterloo station same day. Memoir of Sir F. H. Goldsmid, by D. W. Marks and Albert Löwy, 2 ed. (1882), portrait.
GOLDSMID, Frederick David. b. London 1812; M.P. for Honiton 12 July 1865 to death. d. 20 Portman sq. London 18 March 1866, personalty sworn under £400,000 23 June 1866.
GOLDSMID, Henry Edward (son of Edward Goldsmid of Upper Harley st. London). b. 9 May 1812; educ. Haileybury coll. where he learnt Persian and Hindustani; went to Bombay 1832; assistant revenue commissioner Tauna 1835 when he devised the revenue survey and assessment system which was applied to the whole of the lands in Bombay 1865–68 with great success; sec. to Bombay government in revenue department 1848 and chief sec. 1854. d. Cairo 3 Jany. 1855.
GOLDSMID, Sir Isaac Lyon, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Asher Goldsmid of Finsbury sq. London who d. 1 Nov. 1822). b. Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 13 Jany. 1778; member of firm of Mocatta and Goldsmid, bullion brokers; treasurer of Univ. coll. hospital 1839–57; created baronet 15 Oct. 1841, being the first Jew so created; created Baron de Goldsmid and Da Palmeira of Portugal 1846; endowed chair of geology in Univ. coll. London, where is portrait of him by B. R. Faulkner; F.R.S. 13 March 1828. d. St. John’s lodge, Regent’s park, London 27 April 1859. J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 249–56; N. H. Nixon’s History of North London hospital (1882), 16–18; Banker’s Mag. June 1859, pp. 375–82, July 1859, pp. 449–57, April 1860, pp. 220–4.
GOLDSMITH, George (son of John Goldsmith, paymaster R.N.) Entered navy 20 June 1821; captain 16 Sep. 1842; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1856–61; admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; granted Greenwich hospital pension 1866. d. 35 Victoria road, Old Charlton, Kent 2 July 1888 in 82 year.
GOLDSTUECKER, Theodor. b. Königsberg, Prussia 18 Jany. 1821; Ph.D. Königsberg 1840; came to England 1850; contributed to Chambers’ Encyclopædia 1862–68 and to Westminster Review; professor of Sanskrit in Univ. coll. London May 1852 to death; chief founder of Sanskrit Text Society 1866; pres. of Philological Soc. to death; author of On the Mahâbhârata 1868 and other books. d. 14 St. George’s sq. Primrose hill, London 6 March 1872. Goldstuecker’s Literary Remains 2 vols. (1879); Trubner’s Record vii, 109, 145 (1872).
GOLIGHTLY, Rev. Charles Pourtales (2 son of William Golightly of Ham, Surrey). b. 23 May 1807; educ. Eton and at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; C. of Penshurst, Kent 1828; C. of Littlemore, Oxford 1836; C. of Godalming, Surrey 1839–41; C. of Headington Quarry, Oxford 1849–58; C. of Marston, Ox. 1858–68; a prominent opponent of the ritualistic movement 1840; author of Look at home or a short and easy method with the Roman Catholics 1837; Brief remarks upon No. 90 of the Tracts for the Times 1841, and many other works against Ritualism. d. 6 Holywell st. Oxford 25 Dec. 1885. E. M. Goulburn’s Reminiscenses of C. P. Golightly (1886); Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 108–13 (1882).
GOLLOP, George Tilly (elder son of Thomas Gollop of Sherborne 1745–93). b. 11 Oct. 1791; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.; student of I.T. 1811; made a tour on the continent, riding from Holland to Vienna and on to Naples 1814; held the estate of Strode, Dorset 1793 to death 96 years; published a vol. of translations of several poems of Schiller, and translations of Eichhorn’s Introduction to the New Testament and Introduction to the Old Testament. d. Strode manor, Dorset 22 Feb. 1889.
GOMERSAL, Edward Alexander (son of a military officer). b. Gomersal near Leeds; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 16 Sep. 1811; spoke the first words upon boards of new T.R. Windsor; played Napoleon in The Battle of Waterloo at Astley’s about 1817, acted same character in every amphitheatre in Great Britain; proprietor with B. O. Conquest of Garrick theatre, Whitechapel to 4 Nov. 1846 when it was burned down; is referred to in the Bon Gaultier Ballads and The Newcomes. d. Leeds 19 Oct. 1862 aged 74. Era 26 Oct. 1862 p. 10, col. 4.
GOMM, Sir William Maynard (1 son of lieut. col. William Gomme, killed 1794). b. Barbadoes 10 Nov. 1784; gazetted ensign 9 regt. 24 May 1794; served in Holland 1799, Spain 1800, Hanover 1805, Baltic 1807, Peninsula 1808–9, 1810–14, at Quatre Bras and Waterloo 1815; lieut. col. of Coldstream guards 1836; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; commander in Jamaica 1839–41; governor of Mauritius 1842–49; col. of 13 foot 10 March 1846, of Coldstream guards 15 Aug. 1863 to death; commander in chief in India, Jany. 1851 to Dec. 1855, general 1854, field marshal 1 Jany. 1868; constable of Tower of London 31 Oct. 1872 to death; knight of St. Anne of Russia 1815, of St. Vladimir 1874; author of The story of Newcastle, Jamaica, etc. 1864; five Field-marshal Gomm scholarships founded at Keble coll. Ox. by the will of his widow who d. 30 Nov. 1877 leaving £15,000 for the purpose. He d. Brighton 15 March 1875. bur. Ch. Ch. Rotherhithe. I.L.N. lxi, 412, 414 (1872), portrait; Graphic xi, 315 (1875), portrait; Letters and Journals of Sir W. M. Gomm (1881), portrait.
Note.—The public house Sir William Gomm, 44 Abbeyfield road, Rotherhithe, London, is named after him.
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin (son of Mr. Gompertz, diamond merchant). b. Bury st. London 5 March 1779; a stock broker; president of Old Mathematical soc. of Crispin st. Spitalfields which became Astronomical soc. 1820, member of council 1821–31; F.R.S. 29 June 1819; F.R.A.S., member of council 1832, contributed to the complete catalogue of stars; actuary of Alliance British and Foreign assurance Co. 1824–48; propounded the law of human mortality 1825; author of The principles and application of imaginary quantities 2 vols. 1817–18; Hints on Porisms 1850. d. 1 Kennington terrace, Vauxhall, London 14 July 1865. Assurance Mag. April 1866, pp. 1–20; Walford’s Insurance Cyclop. v, 437–54 (1878).
GOMPERTZ, Lewis (younger brother of the preceding). Spent his life in enforcing kindness to animals; a strict vegetarian and would never ride in a coach; hon. sec. of soc. for prevention of cruelty to animals 1826–32; founded the Animals’ Friend soc. 1832; edited The Animals’ Friend or the Progress of Humanity 1846; invented shot proof ships, fortifications for reflecting the balls to the place fired from, a mechanical cure for apoplexy, and the expanding chuck which is now found attached to lathes in workshops; author of Mechanical inventions and suggestions on locomotion 1850; Fragments in defence of animals 1852. d. 5 Kennington oval, London. 2 Dec. 1861. Fragments in defence of animals by L. Gompertz (1852), portrait.
GOOCH, Sir Daniel, 1 Baronet. (3 son of John Gooch of Bedlington, Northumberland 1783–1833). b. Bedlington 24 Aug. 1816; chief locomotive engineer to Great Western Railway Company 1837–1864, chairman Nov. 1866 to death; M.P. for Cricklade 1865–85; comr. on Trades Union; Chairman of Great Eastern Steamship Co.; Chairman of Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company; one of purchasers of Great Eastern Steamship, with a view to her being employed in laying Atlantic cable, and this having been effected in 1866, created baronet 15 Nov. 1866, being first engineer made a baronet. d. Clewer park, Windsor 15 Oct. 1889. Biograph, March to April 1882 pp. 329–32; Touchstone 29 March 1879 pp. 1–2, portrait; Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxvi, 1390 (1879), portrait.
GOOCH, Sir Edward Sherlock, 6 Baronet. b. Holbecks, Suffolk 1802; M.P. for East Suffolk 19 Feb. 1846 to death; provincial grand master of freemasons 1851 to death; succeeded 18 Dec. 1851. d. Benacre hall, Suffolk 9 Nov. 1856.
GOOCH, Rev. John Henry. b. Suffolk; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, 14 wrangler 1834, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; assist. master Wakefield proprietory sch. 1838–40; master of Heath gr. sch. Halifax 1840–61; Inc. of Stainland near Halifax 1841–60; author of Church catechism expanded 1851. d. 22 July 1861 aged 60. T. Cox’s History of Heath gr. sch. (1879) 45, 77, portrait.
GOOCH, Thomas Longridge (eld. son of John Gooch). b. London 1 Nov. 1808; pupil of George Stephenson 1823–29; made working drawings for Liverpool and Manchester railway 1827–8, resident engineer on it at Liverpool 1829–30, had charge of the Dart locomotive on opening of the line 1830; resident engineer on London and Birmingham line 1833; with G. Stephenson joint principal engineer of Manchester and Leeds line 1839–41 and alone 1841–44; with G. Stephenson and G. P. Bidder engineer of Trent valley line 1845; retired from business 1851; as an engineer second only to the Stephensons and Brunel; M.I.C.E. 3 June 1845. d. Team lodge, Gateshead 23 Nov. 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxii, 300–8 (1883).
GOOCH, Sir Thomas Sherlock, 5 Baronet. b. 2 Nov. 1767; M.P. for Suffolk 1806–30; succeeded his father 7 April 1826; chairman of Suffolk quarter sessions to 1843. d. Benacre hall, Suffolk 18 Dec. 1851.
GOOD, Joseph Henry. b. Sambrook, Shropshire 18 Nov. 1775; articled to Sir John Sloane 1795–99; built Apps’ Court park, Surrey and Horndean, Hampshire; surveyor to Thavies estate, Holborn, and parish of St. Andrew’s, Holborn; surveyor to Armourers’ co. 1819, built new hall Coleman st. 1840; architect to Royal Pavilion, Brighton 1822, to the commissioners for building new churches 1826; clerk of works to the Tower, Royal Mint, Fleet and King’s bench prisons, etc. 1830 and Kensington palace 1831; F.R.I.B.A. 1834. d. Palace Green, Kensington 20 Nov. 1857.
GOOD, Thomas Sword. b. Berwick-upon-Tweed 4 Dec. 1789; a house painter, produced cheap portraits; a genre painter of domestic subjects; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 43 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1820–34; his chief paintings are Coast scene with a fisherman 1833, The Newspaper, No News, and Study of a boy, all in the National gallery; J. W. Barnes of Durham has a large collection of his works. d. in a house on the Quay walls, Berwick 15 April 1872.
GOODALL, Edward. b. Leeds 17 Sept. 1795; self-taught, from 1811 practised engraving and painting; commenced engraving Turner’s pictures 1823 and produced a long series; engraved Stanfield’s The Castle of Ischia and F. Goodall’s The Piper, for the Art Union of London; etched Maclise’s Shakspeare’s Seven Ages 1850; exhibited 2 engravings at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1822–41. d. 143 Hampstead road, London 11 April 1870.
GOODALL, Frederick Trevelyan (son of Frederick Goodall, R.A.) Student at R.A., gold medal for his picture The return of Ulysses 1869; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A. 1868–71. d. Capri, Italy from an accident 11 April 1871 aged 23.
GOODALL, Howard (brother of the preceding). Exhibited at R.A., Nydia in the house of Glaucus 1870 and Capri girls winnowing 1873. d. Cairo 17 Jany. 1874 aged 24.
GOODALL, Isabella. b. Liverpool 10 Aug. 1851; appeared at Royal amphitheatre, Liverpool 1865 in The Middy ashore; appeared in London at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April 1866 as Coralie in A winning hazard; burlesque actress at Strand theatre London several years. d. 124 Pentonville road, London 3 Feb. 1884. bur. Norwood cemetery 9 Feb. beside her mother, her sister Annie (actress d. 1 March 1877 aged 30), and her brother.
GOODALL, Walter (youngest son of Edward Goodall 1795–1870). b. 6 Nov. 1830; studied at Somerset house and Royal academy; Assoc. of Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1853, mem. 1862; exhibited 3 drawings at R.A. 1852 and works at Royal Manchester Institution; his Lottery Ticket shown at Philadelphia Centennial exhib. 1876; made drawings from pictures in Vernon gallery for Art Union; published Walter Goodall’s Rustic Sketches. d. Clapham near Bedford 14 May 1889.
GOODALL, William. Whip of the Belvoir fox hounds 1837–42, huntsman 1842 to death. d. The Kennels near Belvoir 17 May 1859. Scott and Sebright, By the Druid (1862) 408–11; Silk and Scarlet, By the Druid (1859) 372, portrait; Sporting Review xli, 398–400 (1859).
GOODE, John. Ensign 3 West India foot 5 Sep. 1811; lieut. 10 foot 10 Aug. 1826 to 20 Feb. 1835, captain on h.p. 20 Feb. 1835 to death; arrested at 218 Regent street, London 4 Nov. 1837 for making use of threatening gestures and language to Queen Victoria in the Birdcage walk same day, declared before the authorities that he was John the Second king of England, son of George iv. and Queen Caroline, and was born in Montague place, Blackheath; tried in Court of Queen’s Bench for using seditious language to the Queen and sent to Bethlehem hospital as insane 18 Nov. 1837, moved to Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum March 1864 where he d. from natural decay 10 Feb. 1883. Times 6, 7, 20 Nov. 1837.
GOODE, Very Rev. William (son of Rev. Wm. Goode 1762–1816, R. of St. Andrew’s and St. Ann’s, Blackfriars, London). b. 10 Nov. 1801; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, D.D. 1860; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1825–35; R. of St. Antholin’s, Watling st. 1835–49; R. of Allhallows, Thames st. 1849–56; Warburtonian lecturer 1853–57; R. of St. Margaret, Lothbury 1856–60; dean of Ripon 10 May 1860 to death; edited Christian Observer; author of A memoir of the Rev. W. Goode, 2 ed. 1828; A brief history of church rates, 2 ed. 1838; The divine rule of faith and practice 2 vols. 1842, new ed. 3 vols. 1853, and 6 other books; found dead in his bed at the Deanery, Ripon 13 Aug. 1868. I.L.N. liii, 187 (1868).
GOODENOUGH, James Graham (son of Rev. Edmund Goodenough 1785–1845, dean of Wells). b. Stoke hill near Guildford 3 Dec. 1830; ed. at Westminster; naval cadet 7 May 1844, captain 9 May 1863; captain of the Minotaur 1867–70; worked for the Daily News French peasant relief fund 1870; naval attaché to all maritime courts of Europe 1871–73; commodore of the Australian station 22 May 1873 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1875; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. on board the Pearl about 500 miles from Sydney 20 Aug. 1875 from arrow wounds received at Carlyon bay, island of Santa Cruz 12 Aug. bur. St. Leonard’s cemetery, north shore of Sydney harbour 24 Aug., bust by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe in painted hall Greenwich hospital; the ‘Goodenough royal naval home’ in Sydney was founded in his honour. Journal of Commodore Goodenough, edited with a memoir by his widow (1876), portrait; H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1880) 140–78; Graphic xi, 269 (1875), portrait.
GOODENOUGH, Ven. William (son of Rev. Edmund Goodenough, V. of Swindon, Wilts., who d. 8 Nov. 1807 aged 62). Ed. at Westminster; matric. at Ch. Ch. Ox. 9 June 1790 aged 17; kept a school at Ealing, Middlesex; V. of Warkworth, Northumberland 1811, of Mareham le Fen, Lincs. 1818 to death; archdeacon of Carlisle 20 June 1827 to death; V. of Great Salkeld, Cumberland 1827 to death. d. Mareham le Fen 13 Dec. 1854.
GOODEVE, Joseph (3 son of John Goodeve of Bury hall, Hants.) b. Gosport, Hants. 1801; barrister I.T. 28 Nov. 1829; wrote for Westminster Review and Monthly Mag.; professor of English law at Presidency coll. Calcutta 1860; master in equity of supreme court of Calcutta 1861; author of The law of evidence as administered in England and applied to India 1862. d. Cook’s Folly near Bristol 29 Jany. 1865. bur. Norwood cemetery, Surrey.
GOODEVE, Louis Arthur (son of the preceding). b. 11 Jany. 1841; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., junior student 1859–66; B.A. 1862; barrister M.T. 9 June 1865; practised at Calcutta; editor and sec. of Bengal Law Reports 1868–70 and 1873; superintendent of law and jurisprudence Presidency coll. Calcutta 1871; law lecturer Bristol Univ. coll. 1878–80; author of Railway passengers and railway companies 1877; Modern law of real property 1883, 2 ed. 1885; Modern law of personal property 1887 and other books. d. Clayton villa, Clifton park, Clifton 13 March 1888.
GOODFELLOW, Samuel. Second lieut. Bombay engineers 1795, col. 29 July 1825 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. 19 Fitzroy sq. London 14 June 1860.
GOODFORD, Rev. Charles Old (2 son of Rev. John Goodford of Chilton Cantelo, Somerset 1784–1835). b. Chilton Cantelo 15 July 1812; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., fellow to 1844; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1853; assistant master at Eton 1835, head master 1853–62, provost 27 Jany. 1862 to death; R. of Chilton Cantelo 1856 to death; edited P. Terentii Afri Comœdiæ 1854. d. The lodge, Eton 9 May 1884. Lyte’s Eton College (1875) 475–8, 517, 519; I.L.N. 17 May 1884 pp. 465, 475, portrait; Graphic 7 June 1884 pp. 546, 549, portrait.
GOODLAKE, Francis. Printer and publisher of The Times 1858–1882 when he retired on pension. d. Brixton 12 April 1890 in 68 year.
GOODLAKE, Gerald Littlehales (youngest son of T. M. Goodlake of Letcombe, Berkshire 1807–77). b. Wadley, Berkshire 14 May 1832; ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 21 foot 14 June 1850; ensign Coldstream guards 27 June 1851, major 14 Aug. 1872 to 7 Aug. 1875 when placed on h.p.; D.A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1855–1856; A.D.C. to the Queen 1869–1879; M.G. 11 Aug. 1879; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; one of the best all-round sportsmen of his time. d. Denham fishery, Uxbridge 5 April 1890. Baily’s Mag. xxxii, 373 (1878), portrait; Sporting Mirror ii, 197–8 (1881), portrait; Graphic 26 April 1890 p. 533, portrait.
GOODMAN, Sir George (son of Benjamin Goodman of Leeds, who d. 10 June 1848 aged 85). Woolstapler at Leeds and Bradford; mayor of Leeds 1836, 1847 and 9 Nov. 1850 to 20 March 1852; represented Leeds at Great Exhibition 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 Feb. 1852; M.P. for Leeds 1852–1857. d. Roundhay near Leeds 13 Oct. 1859 aged 67. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 477–80.
GOODSIR, John (eld. son of John Goodsir of Anstruther, Fife, surgeon). b. Anstruther 14 March 1814; ed. at St. Andrews and Univ. of Edin.; L.C.S. Edin. 1836, curator of Museum 1841–43; curator of Museum in Univ. of Edin. 1845–46; professor of anatomy in Univ. of Edin. 1846 to Dec. 1866; author of Anatomical and pathological observations 1845; conducted Annals of anatomy and physiology, Nos. 1–3, 1850–53. d. South Cottage, Wardie near Edinburgh 6 March 1867. J. Goodsir’s Anatomical memoirs, edited by W. Turner i, 1–191 (1868), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 14–16 (1868).
GOODWIN, Charles Wycliffe (eld. son of Charles Goodwin of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, solicitor). b. King’s Lynn 1817; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 14 Nov. 1848; edited the Literary Gazette 1871, The Parthenon 1872; assistant judge of supreme court for China and Japan 31 March 1865, acting judge 1869 and 22 May 1876 to death; wrote essays on Hieratic Papyri in Cambridge Essays 1858, and On the Mosaic Cosmogony in Essays and Reviews 1860. d. Shanghai 17 Jany. 1878.
GOODWIN, Josiah. Journalist in Devonshire; editor of Journal of Bath and West of England Soc. 1859–90, sec. 1866–83; assisted in editing Journal of Royal Agricultural Soc. 1863 etc. d. Bath 3 June 1890 aged 70. I.L.N. 14 June 1890 p. 741, portrait.
GOODWIN, Thomas (brother of William Goodwin, music librarian, d. 1 April 1876). b. London 1799; landed in New York 24 Aug. 1827; music librarian New York. d. New York 28 June 1886. O. Mason’s Sketches and Impressions from after dinner talk of T. Goodwin (1887) p. iii.
GOODWYN, Henry. 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 18 Dec. 1823, lieut. col. 5 Dec. 1848, col. commandant 3 Aug. 1855 to death; general 14 July 1871; author of Memoir on the Taperchain suspension bridge, Calcutta 1844; The last Adam 1868; The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ 1877. d. Bournemouth 8 Nov. 1886.
GOODWYN, Julius Edmund (son of Wildman Goodwyn of Blackheath). b. 21 Feb. 1824; ensign 41 foot 5 Jany. 1844, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to March 1866; brigadier general Bengal 14 March 1866 to 28 Feb. 1870; col. of 1 battalion Gloucestershire regiment 5 Nov. 1880, of 1 battalion Welsh regiment 20 Jany. 1883 to death; general 10 Jany. 1881; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; author of Antitypical parallels, or the kingdom of Israel and of Heaven, By Gershom 1866. d. Bath 4 March 1890.
GOOLD, Wyndham (youngest son of Thomas Goold of Dublin, master in chancery, who d. 16 July 1846). Ed. at Westminster school and Univ. of Dublin; called to Irish bar 1837; M.P. for co. Limerick 14 Dec. 1850 to death. d. London 27 Nov. 1854 in 40 year.
GORDON, Edward Strathearn Gordon, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Gordon, major 2 foot). b. Inverness 10 April 1814; ed. at royal academy, Inverness and Univ. of Edin.; LL.B. Glasgow and Edin.; called to bar in Scotland 1835; Q.C. 12 Nov. 1868; sheriff of Perthshire 26 July 1858 to 12 July 1866; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1866 to 28 Feb. 1867; lord advocate of Scotland 28 Feb. 1867 to Dec. 1868 and 26 Feb. 1874 to Oct. 1876; M.P. for Thetford 3 Dec. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868 when borough was disfranchised; contested Glasgow and Aberdeen univs. 1868, M.P. for these univs. 1869–76; dean of faculty of advocates 1869–74; P.C. 17 March 1874; lord of appeal in ordinary 6 Oct. 1876 to death; created Baron Gordon of Drumearn, co. Stirling 6 Oct. 1876. d. Brussels 21 Aug. 1879. Journal of jurisprudence xxiii, 541–2 (1879).
GORDON, Adam Lindsay (son of Capt. Adam D. Gordon). b. Fayal in the Azores 1833; educ. Cheltenham coll. and Woolwich; in the mounted police, South Australia 1853; a horse breaker; member of the house of assembly, Victoria 1865; livery stable keeper Ballarat 1867; a steeple chaser; settled at Brighton near Melbourne 1869; failed in securing reversion to Esselmont estate, Scotland 1869; author of Sea spray and smoke drift 1867; Bush ballads and galloping rhymes 1870; Ashtaroth, a dramatic lyric; shot himself on the beach at Brighton 24 June 1870. J. H. Ross’ Laureate of the Centaurs (1888), portrait; Poems ed. by Marcus Clarke (1887); Temple Bar, Feb. 1884 pp. 208–20.
GORDON, Alexander (2 son of David Gordon, inventor of system of compressing gas, who d. about 1830). b. New York 5 May 1802; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; manager of the portable gas works in London until they were abolished about 1827; constructed many lighthouses, especially in the colonies; designed and erected the original great sea-light in an iron tower at Morant point, Jamaica, the first of many of a similar character 1842; founded with Sir George Cayley and others the Polytechnic Institution, London 1838; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1827, M.I.C.E. 17 Feb. 1835; his widow Sarah Gordon granted civil list pension of £50, 20 Dec. 1872; author of An historical and practical treatise upon elemental locomotion 1832, 3 ed. 1836 and other books. d. Sandown, Isle of Wight 14 May 1868.
GORDON, Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff- 3 Baronet (elder son of Sir Wm. Duff-Gordon, 2 baronet 1772–1823). b. Great Marylebone st. London 3 Feb. 1811; ed. at Eton; a senior clerk in Treasury 1854–56; sec. to chancellor of Exchequer 1854; a comr. of Board of Inland Revenue 1856; asst. gentleman usher of privy chamber to death; translated Von Ense’s Sketches of German life 1847, A. Weill’s Village tales from Alsatia 1847; translated with his wife Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, L. Ranke’s Memoirs of the house of Brandenburg and history of Prussia 3 vols. 1849. d. 4 Upper Eccleston st. Belgrave sq. London 27 Oct. 1872.
GORDON, Sir Alexander Hamilton- (2 son of 4 Earl of Aberdeen 1784–1860). b. 11 Dec. 1817; ed. at Harrow; ensign Grenadier guards 2 May 1834, captain 10 April 1849 to 17 Oct. 1856; D.Q.M.G. at head quarters 1855–60; brigadier general Dublin district 1861–66; commanded Bombay division 1867–70; col. 100 foot 5 July 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; M.P. for East Aberdeenshire 1875–85; author of Remarks on national defences, volunteers and rifles 1853; An enquiry into the organization of the Army 1875. d. 34 Lennox gardens, London 18 May 1890. Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.
GORDON, Archibald. Ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1834; assistant surgeon in army 28 June 1836, surgeon major 1854; principal medical officer of 2nd division in Crimea 1854–55; inspector general 9 March 1867 to 1 July 1870; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; hon. surgeon to Queen 9 Aug. 1871 to death. d. West Hoathly, Sussex 3 Aug. 1886.
GORDON, Charles (son of Francis Grant, captain R.N., who assumed name of Gordon 1768 and d. 1803). Entered navy June 1796; captain 21 Dec. 1807; C.B. 4 July 1840; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 20 Jany. 1858. d. Duke st. Bath 3 Oct. 1860 aged 79.
GORDON, Charles. Entered navy 19 June 1810; captain 17 April 1828; retired admiral 24 April 1865. d. Huntly, Aberdeenshire 19 May 1876.
GORDON, Charles George (4 son of lieut. general Henry William Gordon d. 1865). b. Woolwich 28 Jany. 1833; 2 lieut. R.E. 23 June 1852; lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death; served in Crimea 1854–56; went to China June 1860; commander of the ‘Ever Victorious Army’ in China 1863–64 when in 33 engagements he stamped out the Taiping rebellion, received from emperor yellow jacket and peacock’s feather of a mandarin of first class, always known afterwards as Chinese Gordon; hon. C.B. 9 Dec. 1864; governor of equatorial provinces of Central Africa where he suppressed slavery 1874–76; created Pasha by Khedive of Egypt 1877; governor general of the Soudan, Darfour, the Equatorial provinces and the Red Sea littoral 1877–79; taken prisoner by King John of Abyssinia, Nov. 1879; private sec. to marquis of Ripon viceroy of India, May 1880; adviser of Chinese government in their relations with Russia, Sep. 1880; commander of troops in Mauritius 1881–82; M.G. 23 March 1882; commandant of colonial forces Cape of Good Hope 1882; author of Colonel Gordon in Central Africa 1881; Reflections in Palestine 1883; General Gordon’s Letters from Crimea, Danube and Armenia 1884; sent by the English government to the Soudan to withdraw the garrisons and evacuate the country, arrived at Khartoum 18 Feb. 1884, besieged by the Mahdi 12 March; killed in the storming of Khartoum 26 Jany. 1885, monu. by Hamo Thornycroft erected in Trafalgar sq. 15 Oct. 1888, Gordon Boys’ Home for homeless boys founded 1889. A. E. Hake’s Journals at Khartoum of C. G. Gordon (1885); A. Forbes’ Chinese Gordon (1886), portrait; Events in life of C. G. Gordon, By Sir H. W. Gordon (1886); Letters of C. G. Gordon (1888); Chesney’s Essays in modern military biography (1874) 163–213; D. C. Boulger’s China iii, 578–628 (1884), portrait.
GORDON, Charles William. b. 19 March 1817; captain Madras cavalry; contested Berwick-on-Tweed, March 1857; M.P. for Berwick-on-Tweed, April 1859 to death. d. Pall Mall, London 15 June 1863.
GORDON, Cosmo (youngest son of Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville 1739–92). b. 28 Nov. 1777; ensign 71 foot 6 Dec. 1792; major 94 foot 12 Feb. 1807 to 20 July 1809; lieut. col. 63 foot 20 July 1809 to 1810 when placed on h.p.; granted service reward 1 July 1851; general 20 June 1854. d. Exton, Hants. 7 March 1867.
GORDON, Douglas William Cope (3 son of 10 Marquis of Huntley 1792–1863). b. 11 Oct. 1851; lieut. Coldstream Guards 1871–1880; contested Hunts. 1874; M.P. for West Aberdeenshire 1876–80, for Hunts. 1880–85. d. Green Park chambers, 90 Piccadilly, London 4 Aug. 1888.
GORDON, Elizabeth, Duchess of Gordon (dau. of Alexander Brodie, M.P. Elgin 1796–1802. d. 15 Jany. 1812). b. London 20 June 1794; owner of great wealth on father’s death 1812. (m. 11 Dec. 1813 George Gordon, marquis of Huntley, who became 5 duke of Gordon 1827 and d. 28 May 1836); the unblushing vice she found in high quarters led her to make a renunciation of the world 1826; left the episcopal ch. and joined the Free ch. of Scotland and held an important position in the evangelical party 1847; a great patron of open air preaching. d. Huntly lodge, Strathbogie 31 Jany. 1864. A. M. Stuart’s Life of duchess of Gordon (1865), portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 271–78, portrait.
GORDON, Gabriel. Ensign 60 foot 6 Jany. 1781, lieut. col. 9 March 1802 to 4 Jany. 1808 when placed on h.p.; col. 91 foot 19 April 1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846. d. Higher Ardwick lodge near Manchester 7 Aug. 1855 aged 92.
GORDON, George. b. Lucan co. Dublin 25 Feb. 1806; learnt gardening under his father 1820; with J. Colvill, King’s road, Chelsea 1827; on staff of Horticultural Soc. Chiswick 18 Feb. 1828, foreman of the arboretum to his decease; A.L.S. 16 Feb. 1841; author with R. Glendenning of The Pinetum, 1858, supplement 1862, 2 ed. 1875, New ed. 1880. d. Kew 11 Oct. 1879; his herbarium purchased by Sir J. Hooker and given to royal gardens, Kew. Gardener’s Chronicle xii, 569 (1879).