GOYDER, Rev. David George. b. Angel’s court, Westminster 1 March 1796; educ. Westminster sch. 1805; apprenticed to a brush maker 1810 and to a printer 1814; schoolmaster to the Swedenborgians’ soc. at Bristol 1821 and a minister 3 Nov. 1822; school organiser, inspector and missionary for the Swedenborgians 1825 etc.; lecturer on phrenology; author of Swedenborg and his mission 1853; Lectures on Freemasonry 1864; The book of family worship 1871 and 15 other books, d. Bradford, Yorkshire 2 July 1878 aged 82. My battle for life, The autobiography of a phrenologist, by D. G. Goyder (1857).

GRABHAM, John. Entered British Museum 4 March 1833, second superintendent of Reading-room there 1850 to death; compiled Index to Encyclopedia Metropolitana 1842 and to Townsend and Cattley’s ed. of Foxe’s “Acts and Monuments” 1849; edited and made additions to Bishop E. Maltby’s Greek Gradus 3rd ed. 1850. d. 15 Noel st., Islington, London 9 Aug. 1858 aged 57.

GRACE, George Frederick (youngest son of the succeeding). b. Downend near Bristol 13 Dec. 1850; played many cricket matches as one of the Gloucestershire eleven; played in South v. North at Canterbury 1866; a good batsman and bowler, and one of the finest fieldsmen ever known at long-leg and cover-point. d. of pneumonia at Red Lion hotel, Basingstoke 22 Sep. 1880. bur. Downend ch. 27 Sep. Sporting Mirror i, 157–8 (1881), portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, i, 568, 570 (1874), portrait, xiv, 53 (1880), portrait; Hants. and Berks. gazette 25 Sept. 1880, p. 5.

GRACE, Henry Mills. b. Long Ashton, Somerset; L.S.A. 1829, M.R.C.S. 1830; surgeon to Royal Gloucs. hussars 1841 to death; father of the 5 Messrs. Grace; kept up West Gloucs. cricket club many years; founder & treasurer of Gloucestershire county cricket club; a right hand batsman but fielded and threw left. d. Downend 23 Dec. 1871 aged 63. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores v, 93 (1876).

GRACE, Oliver Dowell John. b. Mantua house, Elphin 19 Oct. 1791; sheriff of Roscommon 1830; M.P. for co. Roscommon 1847–59. d. Mantua house 25 Jany. 1871.

GRAFTON, Henry Fitzroy, 5 Duke of. b. 10 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1814; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 1818–30, for Thetford 1834–44; col. East Suffolk militia 1823–30, col. West Suffolk militia 1830–45; succeeded 28 Sep. 1844. d. Wakefield lodge, Northamptonshire 26 March 1863.

GRAFTON, William Henry Fitzroy, 6 Duke of. b. Grosvenor place, London 4 Aug. 1819; M.P. for Thetford 1847–63; succeeded 26 March 1863. d. 4 Grosvenor place, London 21 May 1882. Baily’s Mag. xxxiv, 311 (1879), portrait.

GRAFTON, Frederick William. b. 1816; head of firm of F. W. Grafton & Co., calico printers of Broad Oak, Accrington and Manchester; owner of Heysham hall, Lancs.; M.P. for North-East Lancs. 1880–85. d. 7 Kensington palace gardens, London 27 Jany. 1890.

GRAHAM, Clementina Stirling (eldest dau. of Patrick Stirling of Pittendriech, who in 1802 took the surname of Graham). b. Dundee, May 1782; an intimate friend of Francis Lord Jeffrey and Henry T. Lord Cockburn; lived partly in Edinburgh and partly at Duntrune, Forfarshire; her house was a meeting place for all literary persons; had great powers of personation and of disguising herself; author of The Bee preserver, By Jonas de Gelieu, a translation 1829, another ed. 1876; Mystification, with poems and sketches, privately printed 1859, published 1865, 4 ed. 1869. d. Duntrune 22 Aug. 1877. Mystification, 4 ed. (1869) p. i, etc., with portrait; W. Chambers’s Stories of remarkable persons (1878) 289–302; John Leech and other papers, By John Brown, 2 ed. (1882) 169–75.

GRAHAM, David. b. London 8 Feb. 1808; admitted to New York bar; professor of law of pleading and practice in New York university 1838; author of Practice of the supreme court of state of New York 1832, 2 ed. 1836; An essay on New Trials 1834; A treatise on the Courts of law and equity in state of New York 1839; edited Smith’s Chancery practice 1842. d. Nice 27 May 1852.

GRAHAM, Sir Fortescue (son of Richard Graham, lieut. col. R.M.) b. Tintinhull near Yeovil 1794; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Nov. 1808; A.D.C. to the Queen 10 July 1854 to 27 Feb. 1857; commanded Portsmouth division of R.M. 22 June 1855 to 20 Feb. 1857 and Plymouth division 1 June 1863 to 23 Aug. 1866; col. royal marine artillery 23 Aug. 1866 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on full pay; general 10 Nov. 1866; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 69 Durnford st. Stonehouse, Plymouth 9 Oct. 1880.

GRAHAM, George (4 son of Sir James Graham, 1 baronet 1761–1824). b. 1801; military sec. at Bombay 1828–30; private sec. to his brother Sir James Graham 1831–34 and 1841–42; registrar general of births, deaths, and marriages 1838–79. d. 31 Chapel st., Belgrave sq., London 20 May 1888.

GRAHAM, George Farquhar (eld. son of lieut. col. Humphrey Graham). b. Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1789; a self taught musician and violinist; sec. of first Edin. musical festival with G. Hogarth 1815; studied music in Italy; composed three well known songs, County Guy 1823, You never longed nor loved, and The mariner’s song; wrote for the Encyclopædia Britannica the articles on music and the organ; author of An account of the first Edinburgh musical festival 1816; An essay on the theory and practice of musical composition 1838; Ancient Scottish melodies a selection from the Skene M.S., By G. F. Graham and Finlay Dun 1839; The songs of Scotland, The biographical notices by G. F. Graham 1848, New ed. 1884. d. Gilmore place, Edinburgh 12 March 1867.

GRAHAM, Henry Hope. b. 16 Sep. 1808; ensign 57 foot 1829; lieut. col. 59 foot 29 April 1853; superintending officer of recruiting 1860–67; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. of 77 foot 1875 to death; C.B. 1858. d. Somerset st. Portman sq., London 9 July 1886.

GRAHAM, James Gillespie (son of a poor man called Gillespie). b. 1777; a working joiner. (m. Margaret Anne Græme, dau. of William Graham of Orchill, on whose death in 1825 he took the surname of Graham, she d. 1826); architect Edinburgh; laid out part of lower new town Edinburgh 1815; built, enlarged, and restored many residences for the Scotch nobility 1810, etc.; erected many churches and chapels 1813, etc.; introduced a purer gothic style into Scotland; great friend of A. W. Pugin from 1830, with him erected Victoria hall, Castle hill, Edinburgh for the meetings of the general assembly 1842–3; F.S.A. Scotland as James Gillespie 24 March 1817. d. York place, Edinburgh 21 March 1855. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), 141–43, portrait.

GRAHAM, Sir James Robert George, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir James Graham, 1 Baronet 1761–1824). b. Naworth, Cumberland 1 June 1792; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; private sec. to Lord Montgomerie, British minister in Sicily; M.P. for Hull 1818, for St. Ives 1820–21, for Carlisle 1826–9, 1852–61, for Cumberland 1829–32, for East Cumberland 1832–7, for Pembroke 1838–41, for Dorchester 1841–7, for Ripon 1847–52; first lord of the Admiralty 25 Nov. 1830 to 11 June 1834, and 30 Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; sec. of state for home department 6 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; lord rector of Glasgow Univ.; ecclesiastical comr. Sep. 1846; K.C.B. 15 April 1854; F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1831; author of Corn and currency, an address 1826 and other pamphlets. d. Netherby near Carlisle 25 Oct. 1861. bur. north side of Arthuret church. Life by T. M. Torrens 2 vols. (1863), portrait; H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland ii, 1 et seq. (1868); G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847), 183–205; D. O. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties ii, 242–56 (1859); Saddle and Sirloin By the Druid, Part North (1870), 33–9.

GRAHAM, Right Rev. John (only son of John Graham, managing clerk to Thos. Griffith of The Bailey, city of Durham). b. Claypath, city of Durham 23 Feb. 1794; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam., 4th wrangler 1816, Chancellor’s medallist 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll. 1816; deacon 1818; preb. of Sanctæ Crucis in Linc. cath. 1828 and of Leighton Ecclesia 1834; master of Christ’s coll. Cam. 1830–49, vice chancellor of the Univ. 1834 and 1840; chap. in ord. to Prince Albert 26 Jany. 1841; R. of Willingham, Cambs. 1843–8; bishop of Chester 11 March 1848 to death, consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall 18 May 1848; clerk of the Closet to the Queen 25 Sep. 1849 to death; published Sermons on the Commandments 1826. d. the Palace, Chester 15 June 1865. G.M. xix, 240–42 (1865).

GRAHAM, John Murray (eld. son of Andrew Murray 1782–1847). b. Aberdeenshire 15 Oct. 1809; educ. Edin. univ., M.A. 1828; advocate 1831; succeeded to part of estate of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch 1859 and took his name of Graham; author of A month’s tour in Spain 1867; Memoir of General Lord Lynedoch 1868, 2 ed. 1877; An historical view of literature and art from accession of House of Hanover to Victoria 1871, 2 ed. 1872; Annals of the Viscount and the first and second Earls of Stair 2 vols. 1875. d. Murray’s hall, Perthshire 18 Jany. 1881. Antiquary iii, 136 (1881); Academy 29 Jany. 1881 p. 81.

GRAHAM, Montagu William (younger son of 3 Duke of Montrose 1755–1836). b. 25 Grosvenor sq. London 2 Feb. 1807; M.P. for Grantham 1852–57, for Herefordshire 1858–65. d. Wilton st. Belgrave sq. London 21 June 1878.

GRAHAM, Thomas (eld. son of James Graham, merchant). b. Glasgow 20 Dec. 1805; educ. Glasgow gram. sch. and univ., M.A. 1826; professor of chemistry, Andersonian Instit. Glasgow 1830–37; professor at London univ. now Univ. coll. 1837–55; non-resident assayer of Royal Mint and master April 1855 to death; F.R.S. 25 Dec. 1836; F.G.S.; D.C.L. Oxf. 20 June 1855; discovered law of diffusion of gases, Keith medal R.S. Edin. 1834; discovered polybasic character of phosphoric acid, gold medal R.S. 1840; investigated transpirability of gases, gold medal 1850; speculated on constitution of phosphates and discovered diffusion of liquids, Copley medal 1862; a founder and first president Chemical Soc. 1840; a founder and first president Cavendish Soc. 1846; author of Outlines of botany 1841; Elements of chemistry 1842, 2 ed. 1847 and other books. d. 4 Gordon sq. London 16 Sep. 1869. Walford’s Portraits of living celebrities (1859), No. 8, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xviii, pp. xvii-xxvi (1870); Proc. of Royal Soc. Edin. vii, 15 (1872); S. Muspratt’s Chemistry, i, (1853), portrait.

GRAHAM, William. Gretna Green post-boy; known by the sobriquet of “Carwinley;” important witness in celebrated Wakefield marriage case 24 March 1827. d. Carlisle 18 Dec. 1864 aged 79.

GRAHAM, William. b. Dufton Wood near Appleby 1808; a successful wrestler; member of a large London firm; chiefly raced under pseudonyms, his 3 Oaks winners are registered as Regalia 1865 belonging to Mr. Harlock, and Formosa 1868 and Gamos 1870 to Mr. G. Jones; Sabinus was said to belong to Mr. Hessey, other names he used were Brown, Keswick, Fischer & Winchester; made £18,965 in 1868. d. 8 Holloway road, Highbury, London 19 Jany. 1876. Baily’s Mag. xxviii, 126–30 (1876); Bell’s Life 22 Jany. 1876 p. 6.

GRAHAM, Rev. William. b. Clough farm, co. Antrim 1810; presbyterian minister at Dundonald near Belfast 1836; missionary to the Jews at Damascus 1842, at Hamburg, at Bonn to 1883; D.D., M.R.I.A.; author of The spirit of love, a commentary 1857; Fifty songs of Zion 1857; A practical commentary on the epistle to Titus 1860; Lectures on St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians 1870. d. Belfast 11 Dec. 1883.

GRAHAM, William. b. 1816; M.P. for Glasgow 14 July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874. d. Oakdene near Guildford 16 July 1885. I.L.N. xlviii, 144 (1866), portrait.

GRAHAM, Rev. William. Educ. Glasgow univ. D.D.; licentiate of United Presbyterian ch.; pastor of Mount Pleasant ch. Liverpool 1846–80; moderator of English Presbyterian synod 1877; professor of church history, Presbyterian coll., Guildford st., London 1880; author of Memoirs of John Macfarlane 1876. d. Acton West 26 Nov. 1887 aged 64. bur. Birkenhead 1 Dec. Christian World 1 Dec. 1887 p. 917.

GRAHAM-GILBERT, John. b. Glasgow 1794; educ. R. Acad. sch. London 1818–21; portrait painter; in Italy 1823, 1826; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1820–64; settled in Edinburgh 1827, Glasgow 1834; R.S.A. 1829; painted Portrait of Walter Scott 1829, The pear tree wall 1844, Females at a fountain 1846. (m. 1834 Miss Gilbert of Yorkhill near Glasgow, and assumed the surname of Gilbert. She was also an artist, and on her death in 1877 left pictures to Corporation galleries at Glasgow). d. Yorkhill 4 June 1866.

GRAHAME, Robert. b. Stockwell st., Glasgow 1759; the leading democrat of the West of Scotland 1793; the first Lord Provost of Glasgow after enactment of Burgh Reform; leading partner of firm of Grahame and Mitchell of Glasgow, writers. d. Hatton hall, Northamptonshire 28 Dec. 1851.

GRAINGER, Richard. b. Newcastle upon Tyne 1796; ed. at St. Andrew’s charity sch. there; apprenticed to a carpenter; erected Eldon square, Leazes terrace and crescent, the Arcade, Grey st., Grainger St., Market st., Clayton st. and Clayton st. west, all in Newcastle upon Tyne 1826–31; purchased the Elswick estate on the Tyne for £200,000. d. West Clayton st. Newcastle upon Tyne 4 July 1861. Once a week, v, 401–406 (1861).

GRAINGER, Richard Dugard (son of Edward Grainger of Birmingham, surgeon). b. Birmingham 1801, ed. at gr. school there and Woolwich, at St. Thomas’ and Webb st. sch.; M.R.C.S. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843; kept a private anatomical school in Webb st. Borough, London 1822–42 when it was amalgamated with St. Thomas’s hospital; professor of anatomy and physiology at St. Thomas’s 1842–60; F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846; delivered Hunterian oration 1848; a cholera inspector 1849; an inspector under the Burials Act 1853 to death; one of Children’s employment comrs. 13 Feb. 1862; author of Elements of general anatomy 1829; Observations on the spinal cord 1837; Observations on the cultivation of organic science 1848; Sanitary report on cholera 1848–9. d. 6 Hornsey lane, Highgate 1 Feb. 1865. bur. Eltham 7 Feb. Medical times and gazette, i, 157–58 (1865).

GRAINGER, Thomas, b. Gogar green, Ratho near Edinburgh 12 Nov. 1794; civil engineer and surveyor in Edin. 1816; executed the Monkland and Kirkintilloch railway 1824, the first in Scotland on which ‘edge rails’ were used; partner with Mr. Miller 1825–45; executed Paisley and Renfrew railway 1834, Arbroath and Forfar line 1835, Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven line 183 , Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee lines 1847; pres. of royal Scottish society of arts 2 years; M.I.C.E. 1829; F.R.S. Edin.; F.S.A. Edin. d. Stockton on Tees 25 July 1852 from injuries received in a collision of trains near Stockton on Tees 21 July. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 159 (1853).

GRANARD, George Arthur Hastings Forbes, 7 Earl of. b. Chilton hall, Suffolk 5 Aug. 1833; succeeded 9 June 1837; attaché to legation at Dresden 1852–54; lord lieut. of Leitrim, Nov. 1856 to July 1872; K.P. 30 Jany. 1857. d. Castle Forbes, co. Longford 25 Aug. 1889. I.L.N. xlii, 181 (1862), portrait.

GRANGER, Thomas Colpitts (eld. son of Joseph Granger of Durham). Barrister I.T. 14 May 1830, bencher 1850; recorder of Hull 1847 to death; Q.C. 1850; contested city of Durham Jany. 1835 and July 1837; M.P. for city of Durham June 1841 to death; author of A supplement to the statutes by Sir W. D. Evans 1836; author with R. P. Tyrwhitt of Reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber 1835–37, 1 vol. 1837; author with James Manning of Reports of cases in the Court of Common Pleas 1840–45, 7 vols. 1841–46. d. York 13 Aug. 1852 aged 50. bur. in vaults of Temple church, London.

GRANT, Sir Alexander, 8 Baronet (elder son of Sir Robert Innes Grant, 7 baronet 1794–1856). b. New York 13 Sep. 1826; ed. at Harrow and Balliol coll. Ox., scholar 1844–9, fellow 1849–60, hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852, D.C.L. 1860; examiner for Indian civil service 1855; inspector of schools in Madras 1859; professor of history and political economy in Elphinstone coll., Madras 1860, principal 1862; vice chancellor of Univ. of Bombay 1863–5 and 1865–8; director of public instruction in Bombay 1865; member of legislative council of Bombay 1868; vice chancellor and principal of Univ. of Edin. 6 July 1868 to death, installed 3 Nov. 1868; devised and carried out tercentenary festival 1884; F.R.S. Edin. 1869; author of The story of the University of Edinburgh during its first three hundred years 1884 and other books. d. 21 Landowne crescent, Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1884. W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 6, 7–17; Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin. (1885).

GRANT, Sir Alexander Cray, 6 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Alexander Grant, 5 baronet, who d. 25 July 1825). b. Bowring’s Leigh, Devon 30 Nov. 1782; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; member of colonial assembly of Jamaica 1810–11; M.P. for Tregony 1812–18, for Lostwithiel 1818–26, for Aldborough 1826–30, for Westbury 1830–32, for town of Cambridge 1840–43; contested Great Grimsby 1835 and Honiton 1837; chairman of committees of house of commons 1826–32; a member of board of control for India 20 Dec. 1834 to 29 April 1835; a comr. for auditing public accounts 1843 to death. d. Somerset house,? London 29 Nov. 1854.

GRANT, Ven. Anthony (youngest son of Thomas Grant of Portsea). b. 31 Jany. 1806; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1825–39; B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1842; select preacher 1852 and 1861; C. of Chelmsford 1836; V. of Romford, Essex 1838–62; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1862–77; archdeacon of St. Albans 1846 to death; archdeacon of Rochester 1863–82; canon of Rochester 1860 to death; author of The past and prospective extension of the gospel to the heathen 1844, a Bampton lecture which marked an epoch in mission work. An historical sketch of the Crimea 1855 and other books. d. 11 Royal crescent, Ramsgate 25 Nov. 1883.

GRANT, Charles. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 22 April 1819, col. 16 Feb. 1861, col. commandant 11 Jany. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. 3 Suffolk sq., Cheltenham 13 Jany. 1882.

GRANT, Colesworthy. b. London 25 Oct. 1813; went to Calcutta 1832; well known as an artist; professor of drawing Howrah engineering coll. 1849 and at Presidency engineering coll. Calcutta 185-; founded Calcutta soc. for prevention of cruelty to animals, and became hon. sec. 4 Oct. 1861; contributed 167 portrait sketches to the India Review and other papers 1838–50; made 78 sketches of Oriental heads; author of Rough pencillings of a rough trip to Rangoon in 1846, Calcutta 1853; Anglo-Indian domestic life 185-, anon.; Rural life in Bengal, Letters from an Artist in India to his sisters in England 1860; To the children of Calcutta, On cruelty, Calcutta 1872. d. Calcutta 31 May 1880. P. C. Mittra’s Life of C. Grant (1881), portrait.

GRANT, David. b. Upper Banchory, Kincardineshire 1823; educ. Aberdeen univ.; schoolmaster Elgin; French master Oundle gram. sch. Northamptonshire 1861; assist. master Eccleshall coll. near Sheffield 1865; kept a day sch. at Sheffield by which he was ruined 1880; private tutor Edinburgh 1880 to death; author of Metrical tales, Sheffield 1880; Lays and legends of the North, Edin. 1884; A book of ten songs with music 1887. d. Edinburgh 1886. D. H. Edwards’ Modern Scotch poets, Brechin (1880).

GRANT, Sir Francis (4 son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston, Perthshire, who d. 1819). b. Edinburgh 18 Jany. 1803; ed. at Harrow; exhibited 253 portraits at R.A. 1834–79; the fashionable portrait painter of the day from 1840; A.R.A. 1842, R.A. 11 Feb. 1851, pres. 1866; member of Belgian academy 1855; knighted at Buckingham Palace 24 March 1866; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1870. d. The Lodge, Melton Mowbray 5 Oct. 1878. Illustrated Review, v, 449–55, portrait; J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, ii, 1–3; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 295–7 (1862); I.L.N. vi, 293 (1845), portrait, xviii, 219 (1851), portrait, xlviii, 232 (1866), portrait.

GRANT, Gertrude Elizabeth. Author under pseudonym of Gerald Grant of 3 novels Coming home to roost 3 vols. 1872, The old ✠ quarry 3 vols. 1873, The great gulf fixed 3 vols. 1877. d. Göritz, Austria 29 Dec. 1882.

GRANT, James. b. Elgin, Morayshire 1802; a founder and editor of Elgin Courier 1827; went to London 1833; conducted London Saturday Journal 1839, Grant’s London Journal 1840; editor of Morning Advertiser 1850–71, of Christian Standard 1872; author of The great metropolis 1836, 1837; Random recollections of House of Commons and House of Lords 2 vols. 1836, second ser. called The British senate 1838; The metropolitan pulpit 1839; The newspaper press, its origin, progress and present position 3 vols. 1871–72; The Plymouth Brethren 1875 and upwards of 30 other works. d. 35 Cornwall road, Bayswater, London 23 May 1879. Bookseller, June 1879 p. 510; Licensed Victuallers Almanac (1862), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv, 561 (1879), portrait.

GRANT, James. b. Glen Urquhart, Invernessshire 1840; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; studied law in Edinburgh; assistant to professor Cosmo Innes, whom he helped in his books; worked under John Hill Burton and professor Masson in publication of Scottish privy council records; F.S.A.; author of History of the burgh and parish schools of Scotland, vol. 1, 1876, vol. 2 though completed not printed; History of the university of Edinburgh, unprinted. d. at his brother’s residence 114 Bell terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne 9 Aug. 1885.

GRANT, James (eld. son of John Grant, capt. 92 highlanders). b. Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1822; resident in Newfoundland 1833–39; ensign 62 foot 1840, resigned 1843; with David Rhind architect, Edin. 1843; founder and sec. of National association for Vindication of Scottish rights 1852 which was ridiculed in Punch; an early volunteer; joined Roman Catholic ch. 1875; author of The Romance of war 4 vols. 1846–47; Memorials of the castle of Edinburgh 1850; The adventures of an aide-de-camp 3 vols. 1848; Old and new Edinburgh 3 vols. 1880; Love’s labour won 3 vols. 1888 and about 60 other works. d. 25 Tavistock road, Westbourne park, London 5 May 1887.

GRANT, James Gregor. Lecturer for Northern Union of Mechanics’ institutes; resided in Sunderland; wrote a series of stories on local legends for Newcastle Weekly Chronicle; author of Madonna Pia and other poems 2 vols. 1848. d. London 25 Dec. 1875.

GRANT, Sir James Hope (youngest son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston, Perthshire). b. 22 July 1808; cornet 9 lancers 29 Aug. 1826, lieut. col. 29 April 1850 to 26 Feb. 1858; colonel 4 hussars 18 Jany. 1861 to 6 Feb. 1865; col. 9 lancers 9 Feb. 1865 to death; general 23 April 1872, took an important part in suppression of Indian mutiny 1857–8; commanded British forces during Chinese war 1860; commander in chief at Madras 1861–5; quartermaster general at head quarters 1865–70; commanded division at Aldershot 1 Nov. 1870 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, G.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860. d. at house of Baroness Gray, 42 Grosvenor gardens, London 7 March 1875. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age, ii, 252–307 (1880); Golden Hours (1869) 818–32, portrait; D. C. Boulger’s History of China, iii, 483 et seq. (1884); I.L.N. lxvi, 258, 273, 277, 278, 470 (1875), portrait.

GRANT, James Macpherson. b. Alvie, Invernessshire 1822; went with his parents to New South Wales 1836; articled to Chambers and Thurlow, solicitors, Sydney 1841–47; solicitor 1847, partner with Mr. Thurlow; solicitor Melbourne 1854; member for Bendigo to legislative council Victoria, Nov. 1855, member for Sandhurst boroughs 1856, for Avoca 1859 to decease; V.P. of Board of lands and works 1861, president 1864–68, 1868–69, 1871–72; minister of justice 1875, 1877–80; chief sec. 1881–83; did much in settling the people on the public lands. d. Melbourne? 1 April 1885. Men of the time in Australia, Victoria (1878) 73.

GRANT, Sir James Robert (son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in Strathspey). b. Forres co. Moray Feb. 1773; assistant surgeon 22 Jany. 1792; inspector general of army hospitals 14 July 1814; chief of medical department at Waterloo; received order of St. Anne of Russia from Emperor Alexander at Paris 1815; K.H. 1816; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 18 March 1819; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850. d. Basford vicarage, Notts 10 Jany. 1864. bur. St. Mary’s churchyard, Carlisle 18 Jany.

GRANT, James William (son of Robert Grant). b. Wester Elchies, Morayshire 12 Aug. 1788; writer H.E.I.C.S. 22 July 1805 in Bengal; retired 1849; detected the companion of Antares 23 July 1844 two years before Mitchel perceived the duplicity of the star; erected an observatory at Elchies 1849, where he placed the Trophy telescope purchased from great exhibition of 1851, this was sold to Mr. Aytoun in 1864; F. R. Astronom. Soc. 13 Jany. 1854. d. Wester Elchies 17 Sept. 1865.

GRANT, John (brother of Sir Francis Grant 1803–78). b. 13 June 1798; master of Perthshire hounds 1836–41; chairman of Tay district board of salmon fishing; his residence Kilgraston house, Perthshire burnt 1872. d. London 20 Jany. 1873. Babington’s Fife foxhounds (1883) 66, portrait; Perthshire Constitutional 22 Jany. 1873 p. 2.

GRANT, John (eld. son of Ewen Grant). b. Glasgow 22 May 1819; assisted in Tithe commutation commission survey in Devon 1838; employed on Exeter and Yeovil railway 1845; assist, surveyor metropolitan commission of sewers April 1849, engineer 1852; assist. engineer metropolitan board of works 1856; superintended construction of numerous streets, sewers, pumping stations and the outfall works at Crossness; connected with construction of portions of Chelsea and Albert embankments; made successful experiments on use of portland cement 1858 etc.; M.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1861, Telford medal 1880; reported on Artizans’ dwellings, Glasgow 1877, Fish supply of London 1881, and on Sludge filter presses 1885. d. 48 Blessington road, Lee, Kent 24 March 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcii, 389–92 (1888).

GRANT, Sir John Thornton (eld. son of Wm. Charles Grant, captain 92 foot, killed at Waterloo 18 June 1815). b. Ireland 26 Dec. 1810; ensign 49 foot 28 April 1828, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1854 to 3 Aug. 1860; lieut. col. 18 foot 3 Aug. 1860 to 28 May 1866 when placed on h.p.; brig. gen. Madras 1863–68, M.G. Bombay 1869–74; col. 94 foot 25 June 1879 to death; general 21 May 1880; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Upton park, Slough 16 Jany. 1886.

GRANT, Sir Lewis (younger son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in Strathspey). Ensign 95 foot 15 Feb. 1794; lieut. col. 70 foot 1804–24; governor of Bahama islands May 1820 to 1829; governor of Trinidad 5 Dec. 1831 to 9 June 1833; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831; K.C.H. 13 Sep. 1831; colonel 96 regt. 9 April 1839 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. suddenly in an omnibus in Regent st. London 26 Jany. 1852 aged 70.

GRANT, Philip. Power loom weaver; very active in trying to further the cause of the Ten Hours’ Bill 1825 etc.; edited the Ten Hours’ Advocate, a periodical; Ten Hours’ Bill passed 1874; author of History of factory legislation. d. Granville st. Upper Brook st. Chorlton-on-Medlock 4 April 1880. Manchester Courier 7 April 1880 p. 6.

GRANT, Sir Richard (son of Richard Grant, H.M.’s proctor at Jamaica). b. Kingston, Jamaica 1783; entered navy July 1798; captain 17 May 1828; R.A. on half pay 7 Feb. 1855; knighted by Earl Talbot, lord lieut. of Ireland 1820. d. Shawefield, Havant, Hants. 3 March 1859 aged 75.

GRANT, Rev. Robert (son of Thomas Grant of Sheerness, Kent). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 15 Nov. 1815 aged 18, fellow 1815–28; B.C.L. 1823; V. of Bradford Abbas, Dorset 1828–86; preb. of Salisbury 1845 to death; author of Lectures on the parable of the prodigal son 1830; Kapiolani and other poems 1848; Reminiscences of a clergyman during a ministry of forty years in a country parish 1873. d. 11 Clarendon row, Southsea 15 Sep. 1887 in 91 year.

GRANT, Robert Edmond (7 son of Alexander Grant of Edinburgh, writer to the signet, d. 1808). b. Argyle sq. Edin. 11 Nov. 1793; ed. at high school and univ. Edin., M.D. Edin. 1814; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1814; F.R.S. Edin. 1824; professor of comparative anatomy and zoology in univ. of London, June 1827 to death, lectured 5 times a week, never omitted a single lecture; Fullerian professor of physiology in royal institution 1837–40; Swiney lecturer on geology at British Museum 5 years; F.R.S. 4 Feb. 1836; styled the Cuvier of England; author of An essay on the study of the animal kingdom 1828, 2 ed. 1829; Outlines of comparative anatomy 1835–41, and papers in Lancet. d. 2 Euston grove, Euston sq. London 23 Aug. 1874, left all his property to Univ. coll. London. Proc. of Royal society, xxiii, pp. vi-x (1875); Quarterly Journal of Geological society, xxxi, 49–52.

GRANT, Most Rev. Thomas (2 son of Bernard Grant of Ackerson’s Mill near Newry, quartermaster 82 foot, who d. May 1856 aged 69). b. Ligny-les-Aires, France 5 Nov. 1816; entered St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham 1 Jany. 1829; entered English college, Rome 1 Dec. 1836; created D.D. 27 Aug. 1841; priest 28 Nov. 1841; sec. to Cardinal Acton 1841–47 when he died; prorector of English college, Rome 13 April 1844, rector 13 Oct. 1844 to 27 June 1851; bishop of Southwark 27 June 1851 to death, consecrated in church of English college, Rome by Cardinal Fransoni 4 July 1851; author of Meditations of the Sisters of Mercy before renewal of vows 1874. d. the English college, Rome 1 June 1870. bur. in cemetery of orphanage at Norwood, Surrey. Thomas Grant, bishop of Southwark, by Grace Ramsay 1874, with 2 portraits; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 5–11 (1887).

GRANT, Sir Thomas Tassell (eld. son of Thomas Grant of Soberton, Hants.) b. Portsea, Hants. 1795; entered naval service 1812; storekeeper Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1828; controller of victualling and transport service Dec. 1850 to 1858; invented steam machinery for making biscuits 1829 for which he had parliamentary grant of £2000; invented a life buoy, a feathering paddle wheel, and Grant’s patent fuel 1839 which is used in the navy; distilled fresh water from the sea 1849, the Wye with his apparatus sent to the Crimea produced 10,000 gallons daily 1855; K.C.B. 6 Sep. 1858; F.R.S. d. 20 Chester ter. Regent’s park, London 15 Oct. 1859 aged 64. Times 19 Oct. 1859 p. 7; G.M. Nov. 1859 p. 534.

GRANT, William (brother of Most Rev. Thomas Grant 1816–70). Professor at St. Peter’s college, Agra 18—to death; started the Agra Weekly Register. d. Agra 20 May 1863.

GRANT, William Augustine Ignatius. b. 1838; a Presbyterian; a member of Church of England; a Roman Catholic 1857–68; an Irvingite 1868–73; an extreme Ritualist 1873–80; a Roman Catholic again 1880 to death; a landscape painter, exhibited 1 picture at R.A. and 4 at B.I. 1862–64; lived at Peckham many years; one of the ablest controversialists of his day; author of The Communion of Saints in the Church of God 1867; Apostolic Lordship and the interior life: a narrative of five years’ communion with Catholic Apostolic Angels, privately printed 1873, published under title of Apostolic Lordship, or five years with the Irvingites: and why I left them 1874; The peoples’ mass book, By a Layman of the Church of England 1874 and other books. d. Clifton 21 May 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 11–14 (1887).

GRANT, William James. b. Hackney, London 1829; student at R.A. 1844; exhibited 39 works at R.A. and 5 at B.I. 1847–66; some of his pictures were, Edward the Black Prince entertaining French King 1848, Samson and Delilah 1852, The morning of the duel 1860, The lady and the wasp 1866. d. London? 2 June 1866.

GRANT, Sir William Keir (son of Archibald Keir of H.E.I.C.S.) b. 1771; cornet 15 dragoons 30 May 1792; one of 8 officers who saved Francis II. Emperor of Germany from being taken prisoner by the French in the plains of Catau Cambresis 24 April 1794, received gold medal and was made knight of Maria Theresa; lieut. col. 22 light dragoons 3 Dec. 1800; served in India as adjutant general 1806–14; commander in chief and second member of council in Java 1815–16; served in India 1819–21; col. 8 dragoons 1 Feb. 1833 to 24 Aug. 1839, and of 2 dragoons 24 Aug. 1839 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.H. 1821, G.C.H. 1835; K.C.B. 3 Dec. 1822; G.C. of Lion and Sun, Persia. d. 20 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 7 May 1852. G.M. June 1852 pp. 619–20; Dod’s Peerage 1852 p. 258.

GRANTHAM, George. Entered Madras army 1823; col. 5 Madras N.I. 4 Nov. 1856–61; col. 39 Madras N.I. 1861–69; L.G. 6 March 1868; drowned in collision between steamers Mary and Normandy about 20 miles from the Needles, Isle of Wight 17 March 1870 aged 67. Times 18–26 March 1870.

GRANTHAM, Rev. George Peirce (son of George Grantham of firm of Gosling and Sharp, bankers, London). b. Finsbury, London 11 Jany. 1833; educ. King’s coll. Lond. and Univ. of Lond.; C. of Allhallows East, Exeter 1859–61; C. of Rame, Cornwall 1861–65; C. of Hotham 1865–67; senior C. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1867–76; precentor and senior curate of St. Michael’s, Swanmore, Ryde 1876–79; V. of Llanbadoc near Usk 1879–81; C. of Holy Cross mission ch. Bedminster 1881–83; C. of St. Augustine, Kensington 1883; V. of Ston Easton with Farrington Gurney 1885; author of Holy Songs 1866; The mysteries of holy church and other verses 1871; History of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1872; Carols for yule tide, with original music 1877; editor of Ecclesiastical Art Rev. 1878. d. The Elms, Farrington Gurney 13 Oct. 1885. bur. Arnos vale cemetery, Bristol. International Mag., Oct. 1885 pp. 110–11.

GRANTHAM, John. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; L.S.A. 1823; M.R.C.S. 21 Feb. 1823, hon. fellow 26 Aug. 1844; author of Facts and observations on medicine and surgery 1844. d. Crayford, Kent 14 Nov. 1873 in 73 year.

GRANTHAM, John (2 son of John Grantham, surveyor). b. Croydon 1809; managing partner of firm of Mather, Dickson & Co.; one of founders of Polytechnic society, Liverpool; a naval architect and consulting engineer at Liverpool; planned and executed several of the largest iron sailing and steam ships; took out patents for screw propellers, and invented a system of sheathing iron built ships with copper; practised in London 1859 to death; constructed the first tramway in Copenhagen 1863; patented a steam tramway car; one of founders of Institution of naval architects Jany. 1860, member of council Jany. 1860 to death; A.I.C.E. 11 Feb. 1840, M.I.C.E. 29 Nov. 1864; author of Iron as a material for ship building 1842; Iron ship building 1858, 5 ed. 1868. d. Croydon 10 July 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 266–68 (1875).

GRANVILLE, Augustus Bozzi (3 son of Carlo Bozzi, postmaster general Milan). b. Milan 7 Oct. 1783; studied at Univ. of Pavia 1799–1802, M.D. 28 Aug. 1802; assistant surgeon in British navy March 1807, retired as surgeon on half pay 1813; assumed maternal name of Granville; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1813; L.R.C.P. 1817; studied at La Maternité, Paris, and qualified as an accoucher 1816–17; settled at 8 Saville row, London 1818; F.R.S. 1817; physician accoucher Westminster general dispensary 1819; introduced use of prussic acid for chest affections; established a West-end infirmary for young children; pres. of Westminster medical soc. 1829; visited Kissingen 1840–68 and set the fashion of drinking its waters; confidential friend of ex-king Joseph Bonaparte 1832–44; author of St. Petersburg, a journal of travels 2 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1829; The spas of Germany 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1838; The spas of England and sea-bathing places 3 vols. 1841 and 31 other works. d. 20 Folkestone ter. Dover 3 March 1872. Autobiography of A. B. Granville (1874), portrait; Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii, 174–7 (1878); Physic and physicians, ii, 269–71 (1839).

GRATTAN, Sir Edmund Arnout (son of Thomas C. Grattan 1792–1864). b. 1818; British consul at Boston for state of Massachusetts 4 Aug. 1848 to 1858; consul at Antwerp 11 Jany. 1858 to 1883; consul general for Belgium 28 Nov. 1883 to 1888; British commissioner Antwerp exhibition 1885; V.P. Royal Geog. soc. Antwerp; F.R.G.S.; knighted by patent 18 Nov. 1889. d. Ostend Aug. 1890 aged 72.

GRATTAN, Henry Plunkett, stage name of Henry Willoughby Grattan Plunkett. b. Dublin 1808; made his début at Milton st. theatre London in The Rake’s Progress; author of The Minerali, or the dying gift, a drama by H. Plunkett, produced at Cobourg theatre; The Dumb Conscript produced at Astley’s 1835; Faust or the Demon of the Drachenfels produced at Sadler’s Wells 15 Sep. 1842; wrote the first few numbers of Punch with Henry Mayhew and 4 others 17 July 1841 et seq.; edited The Squib June to Dec. 1842 30 numbers; played Hamlet at Park theatre New York 11 May 1843; built the first theatre at Memphis; editor and owner of The Age newspaper; author of The Bottle, a poem, New York 1848; sometimes used name of Harry Plunkett as a stage name; founded the Actors’ Fund; produced many plays; spent 23 years in America; author of The Fairy Circle, The Sisters, Glory, Orson and other pieces all produced in England. d. 25 Dec. 1889. bur. Fulham cemetery 30 Dec.

GRATTAN, Mrs. Henry Plunkett (dau. of Mr. M’Phain). b. London 1811; acted in the provinces and then at Garrick theatre, London; made first appearance in America at St. Charles theatre, New Orleans, as lady Anne in Richard iii, 1836; at the new Chatham theatre, America, was the original Madelon in the Carpenter of Rouen 16 Nov. 1840. m. (1) H. P. Grattan; sang in the role of Pollio in Norma at Adelphi, London Oct. 1842; m. (2) Mr. Barker; m. (3) Mr. Madison; returned to America, at Chatham theatre 8 July 1850, retook name of Mrs. Grattan when appearing as Amelia in Wild Oats; travelled throughout the United States and the West Indies playing chief roles in standard dramas; final engagement at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 18 Sept. 1876 in Led Astray. d. 101 West Twenty-ninth st. New York 14 Dec. 1876. Era 7 Jany. 1877 p. 5; The Squib 22 Oct. 1842 p. 92.

GRATTAN, James (eld. son of right hon. Henry Grattan 1746–1820). b. 7 April 1787; cornet 20 light dragoons 9 Aug. 1810; lieut. 9 light dragoons 4 July 1811 to 18 Aug. 1814 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for co. Wicklow 1821–41; P.C. Ireland 1841. d. Tinnehinch, co. Carlow 21 Oct. 1854.

GRATTAN, John. Ensign 18 foot 8 July 1813, lieut. col. 25 May 1853 to 31 July 1854 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 1 May 1868 to death; L.G. 15 Sep. 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Brussels 29 April 1871 aged 75.

GRATTAN, Thomas Colley (son of Colley Grattan, solicitor). b. Dublin 1792; settled at Bordeaux 1818, Paris 1820?; proprietor and editor of The Paris monthly review Jany. 1822 to April 1823, 15 numbers; produced Ben Nazir the Saracen, a tragedy at Drury lane 21 May 1827; removed to Brussels 1828; British consul to state of Massachusetts 1839–46; assisted Lord Ashburton in treaty of Washington 1842; author of Highways and byways or Tales of the roadside 2 vols. 1823, second ser. 3 vols. 1825, third ser. 3 vols. 1827; The history of the Netherlands 1830; Legends of the Rhine 3 vols. 1832; Civilised America 2 vols. 1859, and about 15 other works. d. Jermyn st. London 4 July 1864. Dublin Univ. Mag. Dec. 1853, pp. 658–65, portrait; Colburn’s New Monthly xxxii, 77–80 (1831), portrait.

GRATWICKE, William Gratwicke Kindlesides (son of rev. William Kindlesides, R. of Angmering, Sussex, who took name of Gratwicke, d. 1820). b. Angmering 1794; began racing 1825; won the Derby with Frederick 1825, with Merry Monarch 1845; won One thousand guineas and Oaks with Governess 1858. d. Ham near Arundel 5 Dec. 1862. Baily’s Mag. iv, 55–9 (1862), portrait; Sporting Review xlix, 179–80 (1863); Sporting Times 11 July 1885, p. 2.

GRAVATT, William (son of Wm. Gravatt lieut. col. R.E. who d. 13 June 1851 aged 80). b. Gravesend 14 July 1806; apprenticed to Bryan Donkin C.E. 1822; placed under I. K. Brunel; F.R.S. 1832, F.R.A.S. 1832; worked on the Thames tunnel 1826–32 when works stopped; engineer to Calder and Hebble navigation 1832; examined the county for original scheme of London and Dover railway 183-; invented a level which generally bears his name but which he called the ‘dumpy,’ also the level staff universally employed, and a pocket instrument called a nadir; traced the line for the Bristol and Exeter railway 75 miles in about a month 184-; printed “Companion to the mountain barometer,” which was translated into Chinese; A.I.C.E. 1826, M.I.C.E. 1828. d. 15 Park st. Westminster 30 May 1866, having been poisoned by an overdose of morphia given inadvertently by his nurse. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 565–75 (1867).

GRAVES, Francis (son of Robert Graves d. 1825 and grandson of Robert Graves of Catherine st. Strand, both of them printsellers). b. 25 Dec. 1802; with A. Molteno of Pall Mall at age of 13, removed to M. Colnaghi’s in Cockspur st. 1826; printseller with his brother, Henry Graves 1838 to death. d. 6 Pall Mall, London 15 Oct. 1859.

GRAVES, James (eld. son of rev. Richard Graves, R. of Coolcullen). b. Kilkenny 11 Oct. 1815; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1839; C. of Skeirke, Queen’s county 1840–46; C. of St. Patrick’s, Kilkenny 1846–54; R. of Maine 1854–60; V. of Kilsheelan, Clonmel 1860–66; R. of Inisnag near Kilkenny 1863 to decease; with J. G. A. Prim established Kilkenny archæological soc. 1849, which became R. Hist, and Archæol. assoc. of Ireland 1869; awarded civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1878; had finest collection of ferns in Ireland; edited A Roll of the proceedings of the King’s council in Ireland 1392–3, (Rolls Series 1877); author of A brief memoir of the Lady E. Fitzgerald, The Fair Geraldine 1874; with G. A. Prim issued History of cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny 1857. d. Inisnag 20 March 1886. Journal R. Historical Assoc. of Ireland vii, 465–69 (1887); Academy 25 Dec. 1886, p. 427.

GRAVES, Rev. John. Scholar of Christ’s coll. Cam. 1852; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858; lecturer in history Trinity coll. Battersea 1857–59; assist. master Kensington gram. sch. 1859–61; classical master Cheltenham coll. 1861–74; chaplain to H.M. at Kensington palace 1884 to death. d. Kensington palace 4 March 1888 aged 56.

GRAVES, John Crosbie. b. 19 Sep. 1820; cornet 3 Bombay cavalry 3 May 1837; lieut. col. Bombay cavalry 1866, col. 1878 to death; L.G. 7 May 1882; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Poonah 27 Nov. 1882.

GRAVES, John Thomas (eld. son of John Crosbie Graves of Dublin, barrister). b. Dublin 4 Dec. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1823, classical gold medallist and B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; incorporated in Oriel coll. Ox. 1830, M.A. 1831; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1830 and of Inner Temple 10 June 1831; professor of jurisprudence in Univ. coll. London 1839; examiner in laws in Univ. of London; F.R.S. 1839, member of council; assist. poor law commissioner 7 April 1846; poor law inspector 1847 to Feb. 1871; elucidated the subject of the logarithms of negative and imaginary quantities 1826, and sent contributions to Philos. Trans., British Association Reports and Philos. Mag.; bequeathed his mathematical library of 10,000 volumes and 5,000 pamphlets to Univ. coll. London. d. Cheltenham 29 March 1870. Proc. of royal society, xix, 27–28 (1871); University coll. Gazette, vol. i, No. 12, pp. 189–90.

GRAVES, John Woodcock (son of Joseph Graves, plumber). b. Wigton, Cumberland 9 Feb. 1795; worked with his uncle Geo. Graves a sign painter at Cockermouth; connected with woollen mills at Caldbeck; landed at Hobart Town, Tasmania, June 1833; invented a machine for preparing New Zealand flax; author of the hunting song D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray 1824 and other poems. d. Liverpool st. Hobart Town 17 Aug. 1886. Sidney Gilpin’s Songs of Cumberland (1866) 408–15; I.S. and D. News 30 Oct. 1886 pp. 182 190.

Note.—John Peel, hunter died 1854. Graves wrote on hearing of the death of his friend 2 poems “Monody on John Peel” and “At the grave of John Peel.”

GRAVES, Rev. Richard Hastings (son of Richard Graves, D.D., dean of Armagh 1763–1829). b. 1791; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1828; R. of Brigown, Cloyne 1812; preb. of Cloyne 30 July 1832; edited The whole works of Richard Graves, D.D., Dublin 4 vols. 1840; author of Daniel’s Great period of 2300 days discovered and determined 1854; Terminal synchronism of Daniel’s two principal periods 1858 and 10 other books. d. 118 Upper Leeson st. Dublin 26 Dec. 1877. Cotton’s Fasti Hibernici (1878) pp. xii, 27.

GRAVES, Robert (brother of Francis Graves 1802–59). b. Tottenham court road, London 7 May 1798; pupil of John Romney, line engraver 1812; studied in the life school, Ship yard, Temple Bar; exhibited 25 engravings at R.A. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1824–73; member of Soc. of British Artists, Suffolk st.; assoc. engraver of R.A. 1836; engraved Lord Byron after T. Phillips 1836, The Whiskey Still after Landseer 1842, the Hon. Mrs. Graham after Gainsborough 1866, the Blue Boy after Gainsborough 1868, and many other subjects besides engravings for books. d. 20 Grove ter. Highgate road, London 28 Feb. 1873. I.L.N. 8 March 1873 p. 235, 15 March pp. 247, 249, portrait; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii. 222–3 (1862).

GRAVES, Robert James (younger brother of Richard Hastings Graves 1791–1877). b. Dublin 27 March 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.B. 1818, M.D. 1841; spent 3 years visiting chief continental schools 1818–21; settled in Dublin 1821; one of founders of Park st. school of medicine 1821; one of physicians of Meath hospital 1821; professor of institutes of medicine to King and Queen’s college of physicians in Ireland 1827, president 1843 and 1844; started with Robert Kane Dublin Journal of medical science 1832 and was one of the editors to his death; F.R.S. 1849; substituted adequate nourishment and stimulants for the old lowering treatment in fevers; author of Clinical lectures 1834–35, 1836–7; A system of clinical medicine 1843; Clinical lectures 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1884, much praised by Trousseau the great French physician. d. 4 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 20 March 1853. Studies in physiology and medicine, ed. by W. Stokes (1863) pp. ix-lxxiii, portrait; Medical Times and Gazette, viii, 1–5 (1854); Dublin Univ. Mag. xix, 260–73 (1842), portrait.

GRAVES, Samuel Robert (2 son of William Graves of New Ross). b. Blackwell lodge, co. Kilkenny 1818; merchant and shipowner at Liverpool; chairman of Liverpool shipowners’ association 1856 and local marine board 1856; mayor of Liverpool 1860–61; M.P. for Liverpool 15 July 1865 to death, on 19 Nov. 1868 polled 16,766 votes, largest number polled by any borough member; commodore of Royal Mersey yacht club; author of A letter on National dangers 1860; A yachting cruise on the Baltic 1863. d. Euston hotel, Euston sq. London 18 Jany. 1873, personalty sworn under £180,000. I.L.N. l, 165, 166 (1867), portrait, lxii, 91, 113, 114 (1873), portrait.

GRAVES, Thomas. Entered R.N. 9 March 1816; in the Adventure surveying vessel 1827; surveying in the Mediterranean 1832–50; captain 3 Aug. 1846; F.R.A.S., F.G.S.; port officer Malta; stabbed by a boatman in the street at Malta 29 Aug. 1856. United Service Gazette 6 Sept. 1856 pp. 5, 6, 8.

GRAVES-SAWLE, Sir Joseph Sawle, 1 Baronet (son of admiral John Graves d. 6 May 1811 aged 68). b. Exeter 10 Dec. 1793; took surname of Sawle by royal license 7 April 1815, took additional name of Graves by r.l. 30 Nov. 1827; cr. baronet 22 March 1836. d. Ashfield house, Honiton, Devon 13 Jany. 1865.

GRAY, John Gray, 16 Baron. b. Aberdeen 12 May 1798; succeeded 20 Aug. 1842; a representative peer for Scotland, March 1847 to death. d. 18 Champs Elysees, Paris 31 Jany. 1867.

GRAY, Rev. Andrew (eld. son of William Gray, stocking-maker). b. Aberdeen 2 Nov. 1805; educ. Marischal coll. 1820, M.A. 1824; presbyterian minister at Woodside near Aberdeen 1 Sept. 1831; minister of West church, Perth 14 July 1836; minister of the Free church, Perth 1843 to death; convenor of Glasgow evangelisation committee 1855; author of The present conflict between civil and ecclesiastical courts examined 1839; A catechism of the principles of the Free church 1845; Gospel contrasts and parallels 1862, and some pamphlets. d. Perth 10 March 1861. A. Candlish’s Memoir of A. Gray (1862), pp. ix-civ, portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3 ser. (1851), 281–8.

GRAY, Charles. b. Anstruther, Fifeshire 10 March 1782; second lieut. R.M. 10 Oct. 1804; capt. 9 April 1829 to 13 Nov. 1840, when he retired on full pay; a founder of Musomanik soc. at Anstruther which existed 1813–17; Memb. of Soc. of Antiquaries of Scotland; author of Poems and songs, Cupar 1811, 2 ed. Edin. 1814; Lays and Lyrics 1841; A familiar epistle to P. M’Leod Edin. 1845; contributed to J. F. Wood’s Songs of Scotland 3 vols. 1848–9. d. Archibald place, Edinburgh 13 April 1851. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland ii, 41–3 (1877); Conolloy’s Eminent Men of Fife (1866) p. 207; Whistle Binkie (1878) pp. 28–32.

GRAY, David. b. Kirkaldy, Fifeshire; professor of natural philosophy Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1845 to death. d. Aberdeen 10 Feb. 1856 aged 45.

GRAY, David (eld. son of a hand-loom weaver). b. Merkland, Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire 29 Jany. 1838; educ. Glasgow univ.; private tutor; sent verses to the Glasgow Citizen; went to London 5 May 1860 and spent his first night in Hyde park, then lived in a garret with R. W. Buchanan; befriended by Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) and Sydney Dobell; returned to Merkland, Jany. 1861; in Sudbrook park hydropathic establishment, Richmond 1861; author of The Luggie and other poems 1862; Poems, with memoirs by Lord Houghton and others 1863, another ed. Glasgow 1874. d. of consumption and in poverty at Merkland 3 Dec. 1861. David Gray and other essays by Robert W. Buchanan (1868) pp. 63–174, with portrait; J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland (1877) ii, 485–88; Cornhill Mag. ix, 164–77 (1864).

GRAY, Edmund Dwyer (2 son of Sir John Gray, M.P. 1816–75). b. Dublin 29 Dec. 1845; stockbroker; connected with the Freeman’s Journal, became manager on his father’s death 1875, converted it into a limited co. 1887; proprietor of Belfast Morning News; contested Kilkenny 1875, M.P. Tipperary 1877–80, M.P. county Carlow 1880–85, M.P. St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 1885 to death, supported Mr. Parnell; lord mayor of Dublin 1880, organised a famine relief fund amounting to £180,000; high sheriff of Dublin 1882, sent to prison for 3 months for comments in Freeman’s Journal on trial of Francis Hynes. d. Pembroke house, Upper Mount st. Dublin 27 March 1888. Freeman’s Journal 28, 29 March and 2 April 1888; Pall Mall Gazette 28 March 1888 p. 10, portrait.

GRAY, Edward William. b. 1787; cheese factor and mealman, Bartholomew st. Newbury, Berks. 1823; mayor of Newbury 1839–40; edited The history of Newbury, including 28 parishes in Berks., also a Catalogue of Plants, Speenhamland 1839. d. Woodspeen, Berks. 19 June 1860 aged 73. N. and Q. 4 ser. iii, 554, 607 (1869); Money’s Newbury (1887) pp. 410, 552.

GRAY, George Robert (youngest son of Samuel Frederick Gray, chemist d. 1836). b. Chelsea 8 July 1809; educ. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.; assistant zoological department British Museum 1831, assistant keeper 1869; F.R.S. 1866; author of Entomology of Australia 1833; A list of the genera of birds 1840, 2 ed. 1841, 3 ed. 1855; Genera of birds 3 vols. 1844–49; Hand-list of the genera and species of birds 1869–72 and 13 other books. d. London 5 May 1872. Annals of Natural History 4 ser. ix, 480 (1872).

GRAY, Henry. F.R.C.S.; lecturer on anatomy St. George’s hospital; took triennial prize of R. coll. surgeons 1849 for essay on anatomy of the eye; took triennial Astley Cooper prize of £300 for researches on the spleen 1853; resident Fellow Med. Chir. Soc. 1850; F.R.S. 1852; author of Anatomy descriptive and surgical 1858 11 ed. 1887; The pocket Gray or anatomist’s vade mecum 1879, 6 ed. 1886 and other books. d. of small pox 8 Wilton st., Belgrave sq., London 8 June 1861 aged 36. Proc. Royal Soc. xii, p. xi (1863); Proc. R. Med. Chir. Soc. iv, 78–79 (1862).

GRAY, John. b. Aberdeen 1805; educ. Gordon’s hospital; with White and Whitmore, solicitors, London; barrister Middle Temple 26 Jany. 1838, bencher 1863; Q.C. 4 Nov. 1863; solicitor to the Treasury March 1871, conducted prosecution of Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant 1873; author of Gray’s Country Attorney’s practice 1836; The Country Solicitor’s practice 1837; Gray’s Law of costs 1853. d. 16 Gloucester road, Regent’s Park, London 22 Jany. 1875 in his 68 year. I.L.N. lxvi, 109, 110 (1875), portrait.

GRAY, Sir John (3 son of John Gray). b. Claremorris, co. Mayo 1816; M.D. practised in Dublin 1839; editor and part proprietor of Freeman’s Journal 1841, sole proprietor 1850; indicted with D. O’Connell for conspiracy against the queen and imprisoned in Richmond bridewell Feb. to Sept. 1843; contested Monaghan 1852, M.P. Kilkenny city 1865 to death; knighted by the earl of Carlisle 30 June 1863 for his services in procuring water for Dublin from the Vartry river; declined to serve as lord mayor of Dublin 1868; originated movement which led to Gladstone’s disestablishment of Irish church, and was presented with £3,500 Aug. 1863; author of The Irish church establishment 1866. d. Bath 9 April 1875. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, marble statue erected in Sackville st. Dublin 1879. I.L.N. xliii, 248 (1863) lxvi, 379 (1875); Medical Times 17 April 1875, p. 431.

GRAY, John Edward (elder bro. of George Robert Gray 1809–72). b. Walsall, Staffs. 12 Feb. 1800; educ. St. Bartholomew’s and Middlesex hospitals; blackballed at Linnean soc. 1822, elected Fellow 1857; F. Entom. soc. 1824; assistant British Museum 1824, keeper of zoological department 31 March 1840, resigned Dec. 1874, edited many catalogues of the contents of his department; on natural history, zoology, social, educational and sanitary questions, wrote 1162 books, papers and memoirs 1824 to death; F.R.S. 1832, vice president; Dr. Philos. of Munich univ. 1852; author of A hand catalogue of postage stamps 1862, 2 ed. 1863; Handbook of British waterweeds 1864; Lizards of Australia and New Zealand 1867; Synopsis of star fishes in British Museum 1866 and other books. d. British Museum 7 March 1875. Athenæum 13 March 1875, p. 363; Portraits of Men of Eminence (1863), portrait.

GRAY, Rev. John Hamilton (only son of Robert Gray of Carntyre, Lanarks., who d. 1833). b. Glasgow 29 Dec. 1800; ed. at Glasgow, Magd. coll., Ox. and Gottingen; B.A. Ox. 1824, M.A. Ox. 1826; member of Scottish bar 1824–28; a constant visitor to the continent and Italy; V. of Bolsover and Scarcliff, co. Derby 1833–66; rural dean of Chesterfield 1847; R. of Walton-le-Wald, co. Leicester 1866; author of On the ordaining influence of the Holy Ghost 1837; Sermons in Rome during Lent 1838, 1842; Bolsover Castle 1838 and other books. (m. 23 June 1829 Elizabeth Caroline eld. dau. of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, co. Clackmannan, she was author of Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria 1841, 3 ed. 1843 and 3 other books, and d. 21 Feb. 1887 aged 87), he d. 91 Sloane st. London 20 April 1867. bur. crypt of Glasgow cath. Autobiography of Rev. J. H. Gray (1868), portrait.

GRAY, Venerable John Henry. Educ. Christ’s coll. Camb.; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, LLD. 1876; D.D. of Lambeth, March 1881; C. of Rothley, Leicester 1850–52; H.M. consular chaplain, Canton 1852–78; archdeacon of Hong Kong 1867–78; R. of Hunsdon, Herts. 1881–84; author of China, a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people 2 vols. 1878; Walks in the city of Canton 1875; A journey round the world 1879; contributed to the London and China Express a series of papers on Chinese customs 1889–90. d. St. Leonard’s, Sussex 16 March 1890 aged 62.

GRAY, Joseph Bowers (eld. son of Joseph Gray of Chelmsford). b. 1820; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 24 Feb. 1848 aged 28; principal of Berwick college, Maine, U.S.; M.A. and D. Med. d. South Berwick 1 Nov. 1856 aged 39. G.M. ii, 247 (1887).

GRAY, Rev. Joshua Taylor (5 son of Rev. J. Gray, pastor of College st. church, Northampton). b. Devonport 9 Feb. 1809; educ. Mill Hill gram. sch. and Bristol coll.; Ph.D.; pastor at Cambridge; kept schools at North Brixton and at South Crescent, Bedford sq. London; pastor Wellington sq. ch. Hastings 1849; tutor in Stepney coll. 1850; author of Exercises in logic 1845; Immortality, its real and alleged evidences 1843, 2 ed. 1847. d. 1 Stuart villa, Sydenham road, Bristol 13 July 1854. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful men of Bristol coll. (1884) pp. 315–17.

GRAY, Louisa M. (dau. of Rev. Thomas Gray of Freech, Inverurie). Author of Ada and Gerty, a story of school life, Edin. 1875, 2 ed. 1878; Mine own people 1884; Dunalton, the story of Jack and his guardians 1886. d. Dec. 1888 or Jany. 1889.

GRAY, Maria Emma (dau. of Henry Smith, lieut. R.N.) b. Greenwich hospital, Kent 1787. (m. (1) 1810 Francis Edward Gray of Oporto and Blackheath, who d. 1814; m. (2) in 1826 John Edward Gray 1800–75, whom she assisted in his works, especially by her drawing); arranged Cuming collection of shells in British Museum; author of Figures of molluscous animals for the use of students 5 vols. 1842–74; arranged sets of algæ for schools to encourage study; bequeathed her collection of algæ to Cambridge univ. museum; the genus Grayemma was called after her 1866; her husband struck a bronze medal with their portraits on it 1863. d. 43 Russell sq. London 9 Dec. 1876. Times 15 Dec. 1876 p. 7.

GRAY, Paul. b. Dublin; came to London 1863 aged 21; etched the large cartoons for new series of Fun 1863; supplied the illustrations to Kingsley’s Hereward the Wake 1866; connected as an artist with London Journal, London Society, etc.; illustrated Ghosts’ wives 1867 and Idyllic pictures 1867. d. Brighton 14 Nov. 1866 aged 24. bur. R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 17 Nov. Daily Telegraph 19 Nov. 1866 p. 5.

GRAY, Peter. b. Aberdeen 1807?; educ. Aberdeen univ.; studied mathematics and life contingencies; hon. mem. Institution of Actuaries; F.R. Astronom. Soc.; F.R. Micros. Soc.; consulting actuary to Railway accident mutual assurance soc. 1874; author of Tables and Formulæ for the computation of life contingencies 1849; Tables for the formation of logarithms and anti-logarithms to 12 places 1865, another ed. 1876; with H. A. Smith and W. Orchard Assurance and annuity table on the Carlisle rate of mortality 1851. d. 20 St. Augustine road, Camden sq. London 17 Jany. 1887. Journ. of Instit. of Actuaries, xxvi, pt. i, 301–2, 406; Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia, v, 540–41 (1878).

GRAY, Right Rev. Robert (7 son of Dr. Robert Gray, bishop of Bristol, d. 28 Sep. 1834 aged 70). b. Bishopwearmouth rectory, Durham 3 Oct. 1809; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, created D.D. 1847; P.C. of Whitworth, Durham 1834; V. of Stockton on Tees, collated 30 Sep. 1845; hon. canon of Durham cath., collated 3 Oct. 1846; the first bishop of Capetown 28 June 1847 to death; consecrated 29 June 1847; resigned his bishopric in order to have the diocese divided into three parts 23 Nov. 1853; bishop of Cape Town and metropolitan of South Africa 6 Dec. 1853; deprived Rev. W. Long of Mowbray of his license for not attending a synod 1861, privy council reversed the sentence 1863; deposed J. W. Colenso, bishop of Natal for heresy 1863, privy council reversed the sentence 1865; author of Journal of a visitation tour in Cape Town 1850; Journal of a visitation of the diocese of Natal 1864; Journal of a visitation of eastern portion of diocese of Capetown 1866 and other books. d. Capetown 1 Sep. 1872. bur. Claremont ch. yard 3 Sep. Life of R. Gray, bishop of Capetown 2 vols. (1876); Graphic, vi, 370, 372 (1872), portrait.

GRAY, Robert (son of Archibald Gray, merchant). b. Dunbar, co. Haddington 15 Aug. 1825; clerk City of Glasgow bank 1845, agent of branch St. Vincent st., Glasgow 1871, inspector of branches to 1874; superintendent of branches, Bank of Scotland 1874, cashier Edinb. 1882 to death; a great student of ornithology; a founder of Nat. Hist. soc. of Glasgow 1851, treasurer 1854–6, sec. 1858–71; F.R.S. Edin. 1875, vice president 1882; sec. Royal Physical soc. Edin. 1877 which he reformed. (m. 8 April 1856 Elizabeth dau. of Thomas Anderson of Girvan, she made extensive geological collections and aided her husband in his ornithological pursuits); author of The Birds of the West of Scotland 1871. d. Bank of Scotland house, Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1887.

GRAY, Venerable Robert. Lindsay scholar of Hatfield hall, Durham, B.A. 1856, M.A. and B.D. 1864, D.D. 1871; C. of Leverbridge, Lancs. 1856–8; head master of gram. schs. at Simonstown and Georgetown, S. Africa 1858–63; head master of high sch. and inspector of schs. of St. Helena 1864–68; archdeacon of Pieter-Maritzburg 1868; dean of Pieter-Maritzburg 1869–70; chaplain of Martley union, Worcs. 1878–84; V. of Toller Porcorum, Dorset 1884 to death. d. Toller Porcorum about 15 Oct. 1887 in 56 year. Times 18 Oct. 1887 p. 6; Guardian 19 Oct. 1887 p. 1568.

GRAY, Rev. Robert Henry (eld. son of Robert Gray of Brompton). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 13 May 1836 aged 18, student 1836–48, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; C. of Knowsley, Lancs. 1846–50; V. of Kirkby, Liverpool 1850–77; hon. canon of Chester cath. 1867; R. of Wolsingham, Durham 1877 to death; author of Inspiration of Holy Scripture 1859; On the difficulties of the first chapter of Genesis 1860 and other books. d. Wolsingham 19 May 1885 aged 67.

GRAY, Thomas (son of a schoolmaster at Westminster). Clerk in marine department of board of trade at 30s. a week 1851, permanent assist. sec. 1867 to death; auditor of Mersey dock estate; especially clever in surveying steamships; author of Rule of the road 1867; Diggles, a legend of the Victoria Docks, By Arthur de Cripp Elgate i.e. T. Gray 1868; Under the red ensign, or going to sea 1878; Fifty years of legislation in relation to the shipping trade and the safety of ships and seamen 1887; C.B. 1885. d. Rokesby house, 23 St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 15 March 1890 aged 58. Times 18 March 1890 p. 5; I.L.N. 29 March 1890 p. 390, portrait.

GREAM, George Thompson (son of Rev. Robert Gream, R. of Rotherfield, Sussex, d. 1856). M.R.C.S. Eng. 1836; M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1850; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859, F.R.C.P. 1867; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; physician accoucheur to Princess of Wales 13 Jany. 1864; on the retirement of Sir C. Locock became the leading west-end practitioner in midwifery; author of Remarks on diet of children 1847; Remarks on the employment of anæsthetic agents in midwifery 1848. d. The Drive, Hove, Brighton 20 July 1888 aged 76. Lancet 28 July 1888 p. 189.