GREATHED, Sir Edward Harris (eld. son of Edward Harris Greathed of Uddens near Wimborne, Dorset, d. 1 Dec. 1840 aged 63). b. South Audley st. London 8 June 1812; ed. at Westminster 1825–9; ensign 8 foot 22 June 1832, lieut. col. 26 June 1858 to 28 Oct. 1859 when placed on h.p.; served in India 1846–59, commanded eastern district of England 1872–7; col. 108 foot 28 Jany. 1880 to death; general 1 July 1880; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Uddens 19 Nov. 1881. Robertson’s Memorial of Sir E. H. Greathed (1885), portrait.

GREATHED, William Wilberforce Harris (brother of the preceding). b. Paris 21 Dec. 1826; 2 lieut. Bengal Engineers 9 Dec. 1844, lieut. col. 1 July 1867; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8; assistant military sec. Horse Guards 1861–65; chief engineer 2 class D.P. works 7 Oct. 1870; constructed Agra canal from the Jumna, and Lower Ganges canal 1873; general 7 July 1868; C.B. 1860. d. London 29 Dec. 1878. bur. Hampreston ch. Dorset 4 Jany. 1879. Memorial of life of W. W. H. Greathed (1879), portrait.

GREATHEED, Rev. Samuel Stephenson. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, fellow 1837; 4th wrangler 1835; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; C. of West Drayton, Middlesex 1840; R. of Corringham, Essex 1862 to death; composer of The sequential book of church music 1849; Enoch’s Prophecy 1854 an oratorio; The English Gradual 1871 and several other works in sacred music. d. Corringham 19 Jany. 1887 in 74 year.

GREATOREX, Henry Wellington (son of Thomas Greatorex 1758–1831, organist of Westminster Abbey). b. Burton-on-Trent 1816; ed. by his father; went to New York 1839, teacher of music there and organist of Calvary church; organist at St. Paul’s chapel, New York; did much to advance the standard of sacred music; published A collection of psalms and hymn tunes, chants, anthems, and sentences, Boston 1851. d. Charleston, South Carolina, Sep. 1858.

GREAVES, Charles (eld. son of Charles Greaves d. 1829). b. Amwell, Herts. 19 Oct. 1816; articled to J. M. Rendel, civil engineer, Plymouth 1831–7; was in India 1842–7 when he made a survey for the Great Western railway of Bengal; engineer of East London waterworks 1851–75, in Oct. 1872 was presented with £1000 for his services in carrying out improved filter beds, pumping engines, etc. at cost of one million; engineer at Westminster chambers, Victoria st. London 1875–78; M.I.C.E. 2 May 1848; F.G.S.; F.R. Meteorol. soc. 1851, president 1879; had a meteorological observatory Surrey st. London 1878–83. d. Sunhill, Clevedon 4 Nov. 1883. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxvi, 355–59 (1884).

GREAVES, Charles Sprengel (eld. son of Will. Greaves of Mayfield, Staffs. M.D. 1771–1848). b. 18 July 1801; ed. at Rugby and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1827, bencher 15 April 1850; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; one of secs. to criminal law commission 1878; author of The proper time for the publication of Banns 1867; A review of the statutes, rubrics and canons relating to vestments 1867; edited Sir W. O. Russell’s Treatise on crimes and misdemeanours 2 vols., 3 ed. 1843, 3 vols. 4 ed. 1865. d. 11 Blandford sq. London 3 June 1881.

GREAVES, Edward. b. 21 Sep. 1803; a banker at Warwick; mayor of Warwick 1840; M.P. for Warwick 1852–65 and 1868–74. d. Avonside, Barford, Warwickshire 6 July 1879.

GREAVES, Henley George (son of Geo. Greaves d. 1860). b. 9 Oct. 1818; master of the Cottesmore hounds 1847–52, of the Essex 1853–58, of the Warwickshire 1858–61, of the Vale of White Horse 1861–63, of the old Berkshire 1863. d. Winslow, Bucks. 14 Aug. 1872.

GREAVES, Richard. Lieut. 7 foot 16 July 1812; major 34 foot 1828 to 21 Jany. 1837 when placed on h.p.; col. of 40 foot 15 Dec. 1851 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871. d. 69 Chester sq. London 22 May 1872 aged 79.

GREEN, Rev. Aaron Levy (youngest son of Levy Green). b. Middlesex st. Aldgate, London, Aug. 1821; ed. at Talmud Torah sch.; minister of the Bristol congregation May 1838 to 1851; second reader of Greek synagogue, Duke st. Aldgate, March 1851; minister of old Portland st. branch synagogue 1855; hon. sec. to Jews’ coll. Finsbury sq. 1852; a founder of Jewish assoc. for diffusion of religious knowledge 1860; a founder of Anglo Jewish assoc. 1871; a scholar in many languages; author of pamphlets; a writer in The Jewish Chronicle under name of Nemo 1853–83; seized with apoplexy in Cornhill, and on being taken to St. Bartholomew’s hospital was found to be dead 11 March 1883. Jewish Chronicle 16 March 1883 pp. 9–13.

GREEN, Sir Andrew Pellatt. Entered navy 14 April 1793; in the Harrier sloop at capture of Coxhaven 1813, and as a volunteer at Gluckstadt 1814; captain 12 April 1814, placed on h.p. 1820; naval A.D.C. to William iv. 1837 and to Victoria 1841; V.A. on h.p. 31 Jany. 1856; K.H. 1818, K.C.H. 24 Aug. 1832. d. 9 James st. Buckingham gate, London 26 Dec. 1858 aged 81.

GREEN, Benjamin Richard (son of James Green, portrait painter 1771–1834). b. London 1808; studied in R. Academy sch. and painted figures and landscapes; memb. Instit. of painters in water colours 1834; teacher of drawing and a lecturer; exhibited 40 works at R.A. and 38 at Suffolk st. 1832–62; sec. of Artists’ Annuity Fund; author of A numismatic atlas of ancient history 1829; A series of heads after the Antique 1836; A guide to pictorial perspective 1851. d. London 5 Oct. 1876.

GREEN, Bevis Ellerby. Apprenticed to Mr. Hurst of Longman’s 1807, a partner 1824 to June 1865 when he retired; was only remaining partner of the old firm of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, publishers Paternoster row. d. 5 Kensington palace gardens 24 Jany. 1869 aged 75, will proved March 1869 personalty under £200,000.

GREEN, Charles (son of Thomas Green, fruiterer d. 1850). b. 92 Goswell road, London 31 Jany. 1785; fruiterer with his father; made first balloon ascent from Green park, London 19 July 1821 using carburetted hydrogen gas; went up on the back of a pony 16 Aug. 1828; constructed Great Nassau balloon for Vauxhall gardens 1836; went in the Nassau from London to Nassau, Germany 7–8 Nov. 1836; ascended with Robert Cocking 24 July 1837 when Cocking in coming down in a parachute was killed; ascended to height of 5–1/4 miles 10 Sep. 1838; farewell and last of 527 voyages, at Vauxhall 13 Sep. 1852; invented the guide rope to regulate ascent and descent of balloon. d. Ariel villa, 51 Tufnell park road, Holloway, London 26 March 1870. Mason’s Aeronautica (1838) 1–98, portrait; Turnor’s Astra Castra (1865) 129 etc., 2 portraits; I.L.N. 16 April 1870 p. 401, portrait.

GREEN, Christopher. b. near Wisbeach 1820; rode for Mr. Willoughby, Ben Land and Earl Poulett 1850; a trainer at Littleport, Isle of Ely, removed to Newmarket 1859; won the Grand National on Abd-el-Kader 1850 and on Half Caste 1859. d. Wisbeach 26 Feb. 1874. Illust. sporting and dramatic news, i, 61–2 (1874), portrait.

GREEN, Eliza S. Craven (dau. of Mr. Craven). b. Leeds 1803; lived for sometime in Isle of Man and in Manchester, then returned to Leeds; a contributor of poetry and prose sketches to the Phœnix 1828, Falcon 1831, both Manchester magazines, to the Odd-fellows’ Magazine 1841, Leeds Intelligencer 1816, La Follet 1846, Hogg’s Instructor and Chambers’s Journal; had a grant from queen’s privy purse; author of A legend of Mona, Douglas 1825; Sea weeds and heath flowers, Douglas 1858, 2 ed.; edited Flowers from the glen, By J. Waddington 1862. d. Meanwood st., Little London, Leeds 11 March 1866. Biographia Leodiensis (1867), Suppl. 610; W. Grainge’s Poets of Yorkshire, ii, 505.

GREEN, Frank William. Author of Cherry and fair star, burlesque at Surrey theatre 1874; Jack and the beanstalk, pantomime at Garrison theatre, Woolwich 1874; Jack the giant killer, pantomime Surrey theatre 1875; Cinderella, pantomime at Prince of Wales’ theatre, Birmingham 1877; also wrote Gulliver and the fair Persian, Lothair for Theatre royal, Liverpool, and Hop o’ my Thumb for T.R. Brighton. d. 5 Staple inn, Holborn, London 16 April 1884 aged 42.

GREEN, Rev. Henry (son of a paper maker). b. Penshurst, Kent 23 June 1801; educ. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1825; minister Presbyterian ch. Knutsford, Cheshire, Jany. 1827, resigned June 1872, also kept a school; one of founders of Holbein soc. 1868, member of council; a student of the early emblem writers; author of Sir I. Newton’s Views on Trinitarian doctrine 1856; The cat in chancery, Manchester 1858, anon.; Knutsford and its traditions 1859; edited 6 works for Holbein soc., and about 15 other books. d. Knutsford 9 Aug. 1873. Unitarian Herald 22 Aug. 1873.

GREEN, John (son of Mr. Green, agricultural implement maker). b. Newton Fell house, Nafferton, Northumberland 20 June 1787; partner with his father, when they removed to Corbridge; removed to Newcastle, architect there 1821; designed and executed the chain bridge over the Tyne at Scotswood 1831; built bridges over the Tees and the Ouse, the theatre and Grey column at Newcastle, the Durham monument on Pensher hill, and churches at Stockton and Middlesbrough; M.I.C.E. 1840. d. Newcastle 30 Sep. 1852. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii, 138–40 (1854).

GREEN, John. Actor at old English opera house, London, and at Covent Garden; manager of the Cider Cellars in Maiden lane, Strand, London, and singer there; chairman and conductor of music at Evans’ hall 43 King st. Covent Garden 1842–4; manager and proprietor in succession to W. C. Evans (who d. 1855) of Evans’s hotel and music hall 1844 to 1865 when he sold it for £30,000 to a joint stock company which took possession 24 June 1865; gave evidence before committee on theatrical licences 1866; his theatrical portraits were sold at Christie’s 22 July 1871; always known as Paddy Green; author of Odds and Ends about Covent Garden 1866. d. 6 Farm st. May Fair, London 12 Dec. 1874 aged 73. House of Commons Papers, xvi, 200–204 (1866).

GREEN, Sir John. Vice consul at Nauplia 1 May 1835; agent and consul general for united principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia 12 Jany. 1867 to 16 Feb. 1874 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; knighted at Windsor Castle 7 July 1874. d. Marienbad 18 Sep. 1877 aged 69.

GREEN, John (son of John Green of Greenville, co. Kilkenny). b. 1815; lieut. 5 light dragoons; lieut. 4 dragoon guards; M.P. co. Kilkenny 1847–65. d. London 16 June 1883.

GREEN, John George. b. Buckden, Hunts.; gentleman usher to William iv. and Victoria 1832 to death; probably last surviving military officer who was on duty at Nelson’s funeral in St. Paul’s cathedral 9 Jany. 1806. d. in same room in which he was born at Buckden 5 Jany. 1882 aged 94.

GREEN, John Philip (only son of Rev. Henry Green). b. 1830; ed. at Univ. college, London, B.A. London 1849, LL.B. 1853; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1856; went to Bombay 1862; judge of high court of judicature Bombay 22 Feb. 1873 to 1881; lived at or near Naples 1881 to death; edited Bombay High Court Reports 1862–65, 1870. Killed by an earthquake at Casamicciola in the island of Ischia 28 July 1883.

GREEN, Rev. John Richard (elder son of Richard Green of St. Aldates, Oxford, parish clerk of St. Mary the Virgin, d. 1849). b. Oxford 12 Dec. 1837; educ. Magdalen coll. sch.; scholar of Jesus coll. 1853–60, B.A. 1860, M.A. 1862, hon. fellow 1877–83; LLD. Edin. 1878; C. of St. Barnabas, King’s sq. London 1860–3; C. of Holy Trinity, Hoxton 1863–6; P.C. of St. Philip, Stepney 1866–9; hon. librarian Lambeth palace 1869 to death; author of A Short history of the English people 1874, numerous editions; History of the English people 4 vols. 1877–80; The making of England 1881 and other books; edited History primers 6 vols. 1875–84; Literature primers 6 vols. 1875–9; Classical writers 7 vols. 1879–82. d. Mentone 7 March 1883. The conquest of England, finished by Mrs. Green (1883), portrait; Contemporary Review xliii, 732–46 (1883); Fortnightly Review xxxiii, 734–47 (1883); Macmillan’s Mag. May 1883 pp. 59–74.

GREEN, Jonathan. b. 1788; M.R.C.S. Eng. 7 Dec. 1810; M.D. Heidelberg 1834; F.R. Med. Chir. soc. 1835; surgeon R.N.; introduced and established fumigating baths 5 Bury st. St. James’, London 1823, removed to 40 Great Marlborough st. 1825, but the baths were not successful; author of The utility of fumigating baths 1823; A practical compendium of diseases of the skin 1835 and other books. d. in the Charterhouse, London 23 Feb. 1864.

GREEN, Joseph Henry (only son of Joseph Green, merchant d. 1833). b. London 1 Nov. 1791; M.R.C.S. 1815, member of council 1835, president 1849, 1858, delivered Hunterian orations 1840 and 1847; in practice at 22, then at 46 Lincoln’s inn fields 1815–36; surgeon St. Thomas’ hospital 1820–53, consulting surgeon 1853; gave sir Astley Cooper £1000 for half of his anatomical preparations 3 Aug. 1820; professor of anatomy R.C. Surgeons 1824, and Royal academy 1825–52; F.R.S. 1825; a great lithotomist, in 1827 he operated on 40 cases, with only one death; professor of surgery King’s coll. London 1830–6; resided Hadley, Middlesex 1836 to death; D.C.L. Oxf. 9 June 1853; the companion and friend of Coleridge; author of The dissector’s manual 1820; A manual of modern surgery 1828; Spiritual philosophy 2 vols. 1865 and other works. d. The Mount, Hadley 13 Dec. 1863. bur. Highgate cemetery. Spiritual Philosophy by J. H. Green, Memoir by J. Simon in i, pp. i-lx (1865), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of Art ii, 458–61 (1854).

GREEN, Richard (son of George Green, partner in firm of Green, Wigram and Green, owners of a line of East India ships). b. Blackwall Dec. 1803; partner in his father’s business, which on G. Green’s death was dissolved; partner with his brother Henry Green, commenced a line of Australian ships 1850, and a line to China 1862; established a sailors’ home 1830 and instituted a course of navigation for his officers and men; chairman of committee of Thames marine officers training ship ‘Worcester.’ d. at his sister’s residence 7 Hanover ter. Regent’s park, London 17 Jany. 1863; left the site and a perpetual endowment for Sailors’ Home at Poplar; personalty sworn under £350,000 14 March 1863. I.L.N. Jany. 1863 pp. 120, 126, portrait; Times 20, 27 Jany. 11 Feb. 1863.

GREEN, Richard. b. Islington, March 1783; bookseller at Framlingham about 1824 to death; postmaster 1853 to death; author of The history of Framlingham 1834; The strangers’ guide to Framlingham 1853, 3 ed. 1878. d. Framlingham 8 June 1873.

GREEN, Robert. A baritone vocalist at Canterbury and Oxford music halls London, where he appeared in selections from Offenbach and other composers 1865 etc.; sang at the Alhambra. d. Clayton hospital, Wakefield 14 March 1882 from hydrophobia.

GREEN, Roger. b. Youghal, co. Cork 4 Nov. 1798; M.D. Edin., Aug. 1826; founded Youghal literary and scientific institution 1833. d. Youghal 4 Oct. 1851. Medical Directory 1852 pp. 661–2.

GREEN, Thomas Hiden. Kept cows and a milk shop in Cato st. Edgware road, London; betrayed Arthur Thistlewood and the 4 other conspirators to the government, they were arrested 23 Feb. 1820 and executed 1 May; changed his name from Hiden to Green; rewarded with a place in the stamping department Somerset house, and a retiring pension; murdered his landlord Louis Keyzor at Whitton near Hounslow 11 Oct. 1869, shot himself through the heart at 13 Keyzor place, Whitton same day aged 81. Times 14 Oct. 1869 p. 7.

GREEN, Thomas Hill (youngest son of Valentine Green, R. of Birkin, Yorkshire). b. Birkin 7 April 1836; educ. Rugby 1850–5 and Ball. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862, fellow 1860–82, senior dean 1865, ethical lecturer and tutor 1869, dean 1871–72, classical tutor 1875, Whyte professor of moral philosophy 21 Dec. 1877 to death; assist. commissioner on middle class schools 1864–6; set up a coffee tavern in St. Clement’s, Oxford 1875; his character is described in Mrs. Ward’s Robert Elsmere 1888 under the name of Mr. Gray; edited The philosophical works of David Hume 1874. d. at house of H. P. Symonds, F.R.C.S., 35 Beaumont st. Oxford 26 March 1882. The works of T. H. Green (1888), memoir in iii, pp. xi-clxi, portrait; Macmillan’s Mag., May 1882 p. 87.

GREEN, Rev. Thomas Louis (5 son of John Green of Solihull, Warws.) b. Stourbridge, Worcs. 1799; ed. at Sedgley Park sch. and Oscott coll.; R.C. priest at Tixall, Staffs. 1830–46; chaplain at St. Mary’s priory, Princethorpe near Coventry 1848–58; chaplain to Lord Acton at Aldenham park near Bridgnorth 1860–82; created D.D. in Shrewsbury cath. 20 Oct. 1866; author of The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, The Catholic Church vindicated 2 vols. 1838–40 and 6 other books. d. Salter’s hall, Newport, Salop 27 Feb. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 27–32 (1887).

GREENALL, Ven. Richard (4 son of Edward Greenall of Wilderspool near Warrington, Lancs. brewer and banker d. 20 Nov. 1835). b. 11 May 1806; educ. Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; P.C. of Stretton, Cheshire 1831 to death; rural dean 1839 to death; hon. canon of Chester 1865 to death; archdeacon of Chester 26 Sep. 1866 to death; author of sermons. d. Wilton house, Northwick, Cheshire 27 Nov. 1867.

GREENE, John Baker Stafford (eld. son of John Alfred Greene, barrister of King’s inns, Dublin). b. 1833; B.A. and M.B. Trin. coll. Dublin 1853; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1853; assist. surgeon 1 foot 1854–56, served in Crimean campaign, present at Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol; barrister of M.T. 7 June 1858; LL.B. London univ. 1859; a writer for periodicals; was with Sir Rich. M’Cormack’s ambulance during siege of Paris 1870; author of The Hebrew migration from Egypt 1879, 2 ed. 1883; Notes on Ireland 1886. d. suddenly 13 Clements’ inn, Strand, London 22 June 1888. Times 26 June 1888 p. 10.

GREENE, John Stock Turner (eld. son of Thomas Green of Bedford, Lancs.) b. 12 Dec. 1803; ed. at Pemb. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1829; judge of county courts circuit No. 10 (Lancashire) March 1847 to March 1872. d. Southworth house near Wigan 16 June 1874.

GREENE, Richard Wilson (son of Sir Jonas Greene, recorder of Dublin d. 1828). b. Dublin 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1814; K.C. 13 July 1830; bencher of King’s Inns 1834; first sergeant 23 May 1835; solicitor general for Ireland Nov. 1842 to Dec. 1845; attorney general Jany. to July 1846; received a patent of precedence 1851; a baron of court of exchequer in Ireland 1852–61; P.C. Ireland 1846; author of A report of the King against W. O’Grady respecting office of clerk of the pleas 1816; A report of the trial of D. Waring for perjury 1817. d. 49 Stephens green, Dublin 23 March 1861.

GREENE, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Greene of Slyne, Lancs. 1737–1810). b. 19 Jany. 1794; educ. Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; barrister G.I. 12 May 1819, but never practised, bencher 1838 to death; M.P. for Lancaster 1824–52 and 1853–7; chairman of committees of house of commons 17 Sep. 1841 to 1847; sheriff of Lancashire 1823. d. Whittington hall, Westmoreland 8 Aug. 1872.

GREENE, Thomas Webb (2 son of Thomas Webb Green of Lichfield d. 10 Jany. 1842). b. 1804; ed. at Repton gr. sch. and Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1833, LL.M. 1859; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832, bencher 1858; Q.C. Jany. 1858; leader in V.C. Stuart’s court 1868–75; member of council on law reporting 22 Feb. 1865, chairman to death. d. 9 Upper Wimpole st. London 14 Nov. 1875.

GREENHOW, Edward Headlam. b. North Shields 1814; practised with his father in North Shields and Tynemouth 1834–52; M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1852; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1859, censor 1880–81, Croonian lecturer 1875; settled in London 1853; lecturer on public health at St. Thomas’ hospital 1855, the first appointment of the kind in England; physician Middlesex hospital 1870; a founder of Clinical soc. 1867, treasurer 1867–79, president 1879; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; retired to Reigate 1881; author of On diphtheria 1860; On Addison’s disease 1866; On bronchitis 1878 and other works. d. of syncope at Charing Cross railway station 22 Nov. 1888. Lancet 1 Dec. 1888 pp. 1104–6.

GREENING, Henry. b. Bromsgrove, Worcestershire 1809; articled to E. W. Oldaker of Pershore, solicitor; a special pleader about 1834; retired from practice 1880; author of A collection of forms of declarations 1837, 2 ed. 1852; edited Chitty’s Treatise on pleading, 7 ed. 3 vols. 1844. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 31 July 1881 in 72 year. bur. Highgate cemetery.

GREENOUGH, George Bellas (son of George Bellas, proctor Doctors’ Commons, d. 12 July 1784). b. 18 Jany. 1778; ed. at Eton; took name of Greenough after his grandfather 179-; entered Pemb. coll. Cam. 1795, resided 9 terms; active member of Royal Institution 1801–7, sec. several years; M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 1807–12; chief founder of Geological society 1807, president 1811–18, 1833–35; F.L.S. 1811; president R. Geog. soc. 1839, 1840; author of A critical examination of the first principles of geology 1819; Memoirs of a geological map of England 1820; Addresses at meetings of Geological soc. 1834, 1835, 1840; published Geological map of England and Wales 1819; General sketch of physical and geological features of India, 9 sheets 1854; A physical and geological map of England and Wales 1865. d. Naples 2 Aug. 1855, bust in Geol. soc. apartments, bequeathed his books and maps to Geological and R. Geographical societies. Quarterly journal of Geological soc. xii, 26–34 (1856); Journ. R. Geogr. soc. xxv, p. lxxxviii.

GREENSTREET, John. Entered Bengal army 1795; colonel 60 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Frenchay near Bristol 9 April 1856 aged 74.

GREENWELL, Dorothy (only dau. of William Thomas Greenwell of Greenwell Ford, Durham 1777–1854). b. Greenwell Ford 6 Dec. 1821; known as Dora Greenwell; lived with her mother at Durham 1847–65, resided 12 Great College st. Westminster 1874; author of Poems 1848; Stories that might be true 1850; The patience of hope 1860, another ed. 1863; Songs of Salvation 1873; Lacordaire, a memoir 1867; Camera Obscura 1876 and 12 other works. d. 8 Alma road, Clifton 29 March 1882. W. Dorling’s Memoirs of D. Greenwell (1885).

GREENWOOD, George (2 son of Wm. Greenwood of Brookwood park, Hants., d. 1844 aged 80). b. 10 June 1799; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 life guards 1817, lieut. col. 1837 to 1840 when he retired; reduced weight of helmet from 8 lb. to 3 lb. 1840; the best breaker in of horses of his day; published Hints on horsemanship 1839, new ed. 1861, the best book on the subject ever done; The tree lifter 1844, 3 ed. 1876; Rain and rivers, or Hutton and Playfair against Lyell and all comers 1857, 2 ed. 1866. d. Brookwood park 3 Nov. 1875. River terraces (1877), with memoir, pp. ix-xv.

GREENWOOD, John (brother of the preceding). b. 24 July 1800; ed. at Eton and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. and M.T. 8 Feb. 1828; Q.C. Dec. 1848; bencher of M.T. 1848; recorder of Portsmouth 1847–8, of Devonport Dec. 1848–51; assist. solicitor to the Treasury 1851 to June 1866, solicitor June 1866 to death; author of The Law Journal, a digest of cases in the Law Journal and Reports 1823; The law of loan societies 1846. d. 53 Chester sq. London 12 Feb. 1871. I.L.N. lviii, 163, 315 (1871).

GREENWOOD, John (eld. son of Frederick Greenwood of Norton Conyers, Ripon). b. Ryshworth hall, Yorkshire 20 Feb. 1830; educ. Eton and Christ Church, Ox., B.A. 1851; M.P. for Ripon 1857–65. d. 7 Chandos st. Cavendish sq. London 21 Feb. 1874.

GREENWOOD, John Beswicke (eld. son of Abram Greenwood). b. 1796; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; police magistrate at Clerkenwell court, London 1837 to May 1847; chairman of West Riding quarter sessions; author of The early ecclesiastical history of Dewsbury 1859. d. Moor house, Dewsbury 9 Oct. 1879. I.L.N. x, 332 (1847), portrait.

GREENWOOD, Thomas. b. 1790; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1831; barrister G.I. 24 June 1817, bencher 1837 to death, treasurer 1841–2; fellow of Univ. of Durham, reader in history and polite literature there; author of Cathedra Petri, a survey of the papal supremacy 1843, another ed. 1856; Position and prospects of the churches of Great Britain and Ireland with reference to the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy 1851. d. 14 Westbourne ter. Hyde Park, London 1 Nov. 1871.

GREENWOOD, Thomas. b. Gildersome near Leeds; a machine and tool maker Leeds 1833; manager for Sir Peter Fairbairn at Leeds to 1856; constructed machinery for manufacture of the Enfield rifle and other war stores 1854; partner with John Batley at Leeds 1856; established a small arms manufactory in Russia 1871; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1860. d. Gipsy hill near the Crystal palace 9 Feb. 1873. bur. Woodhouse cemetery, Leeds. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii, 311–13 (1874); Leeds Times 15 Feb. 1873 p. 5.

GREENWOOD, Thomas Longdon (son of Thomas Greenwood who painted scenery for Tom and Jerry at Olympic theatre). b. 1806; druggist Clerkenwell; partner with Robert Plunkett Honner as managers of Sadler’s wells 1839, acting manager May 1841, lessee 1842–44, partner there with Samuel Phelps 1844–60 when many Shakspeare’s dramas were produced; director of Astleys; acting manager of Princesses; as the elder of the Brothers Grinn supplied pantomimes to metropolitan theatres; writer of Jack Shepherd, an adaptation; Paul the Pilot; Is it the king?; the pantomime Harlequin Robin Hood at Sadler’s Wells 1844. d. Trinity sq. Brixton 10 May 1879. Michael Williams’ Some London theatres (1883) 17–29; Era 18 May 1879 p. 5.

GREER, Samuel Macurdy (eld. son of Rev. Thos. Greer, presbyterian minister at Dunboe). b. Springvale, co. Derry 1810; educ. Belfast acad. and Glasgow univ.; called to the Irish bar 1833; an originator of the tenant league 1850, which demanded the three F’s, fixity of tenure, fair rents and free sale; contested co. Derry 1852, 1859, and Londonderry city 1860, 1865; M.P. for Londonderry 1857–59; recorder of Londonderry 1870–8; county court judge of Cavan and Leitrim 1878. d. 3 Gardiner’s place, Dublin 3 Nov. 1880.

GREEY, Edward. b. Sandwich, Kent 1 Dec. 1835; capt. of R. Marines at storming of Pekin; in British legation in Japan; spent 6 years in the country and learnt the language; went to U.S. America 1868, was naturalized, manager of Brooklyn theatre; had a store in New York for sale of Japanese works of art; writer of 5 dramas Mirah, Vendome, The third state, The College belles, and Uncle Abner; author of 7 works in Japanese history, Blue Jackets 1871, The Loyal Ronins 1880, Young Americans in Japan 1882, The wonderful city of Tokio 1883, The Golden lotus 1883, Bear Worshippers of Yezo 1884, A captive of love 1886; shot himself New York city 1 Oct. 1888. bur. Woodland cemetery.

GREG, Percy (son of William Rathbone Greg 1809–81). b. Bury 1836; contributed to the Manchester Guardian, Standard and Saturday Review; a secularist and a spiritualist; author of Shadows of the past 1856 and The spirit of enquiry 1857, both by Lionel H. Holdreth; Interleaves 1875; The Devil’s Advocate 1878; Across the Zodiac 2 vols. 1880; Errant 3 vols. 1880; Ivey cousin and bride 3 vols. 1881; Sanguelac 3 vols. 1883; Without God, negative science and natural ethics 1883; The Verge of Night 3 vols. 1885; History of the United States to the reconstruction of the Union 2 vols. 1887. d. 16 Tedworth sq. London 24 Dec. 1889 in 54 years. Manchester Guardian 30 Dec. 1889 p. 8.

GREG, Robert Hyde (son of Samuel Greg, mill owner, Wilmslow, Cheshire). b. King st. Manchester 24 Sept. 1795; educ. Edin. univ.; joined his father in business; an advocate of parliamentary reform and repeal of the corn laws; contested Macclesfield 1837; M.P. Manchester 1835–41; a practical and experimental farmer at Norcliffe, Cheshire and Coles park, Herts.; author of pamphlets on politics and farming. d. Norcliffe hall 21 Feb. 1875. bur. unitarian chapel, Wilmslow.

GREG, Samuel (brother of the preceding). b. King st. Manchester 6 Sept. 1804; educ. at unitarian schools; studied and practised mesmerism 1831; mill owner at Lower House mill, Bollington near Macclesfield 1832–47; instituted the order of the silver cross as a reward for good conduct in young women 1836; entertained Kossuth at Mount Bollington 22 March 1857; author of Scenes from the life of Jesus 1854, 2 ed. 1869; Letters on religious belief 1856. d. Bollington 14 May 1876. H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1880) 264–77; Good Words xviii, 588–91 (1877); A Layman’s Legacy by S. Greg, with memoir (1877) pp. 3–63.

GREG, William Rathbone (brother of the preceding). b. Manchester 1809; educ. Edin. univ. 1826–8; manager of one of his father’s mills at Bury 1828; mill owner at Bury 1832–50; a commissioner of board of customs 1856–64; comptroller of the stationary office 1864–77; author of Sketches in Greece and Turkey 1833; The Creed of Christendom 1851, 8 ed. 1883; Political problems for our age and country 1870; Enigmas of life 1872, 15 ed. 1883; Mistaken aims and attainable ideals of the artizan classes 1876 and 16 other books; in 1852 he wrote 12 articles for the four leading quarterlies. d. Park lodge, Park side, Wimbledon 15 Nov. 1881. Macmillan’s Mag., June 1883 pp. 109–26.

GREGAN, John Edgar. b. Dumfries 18 Dec. 1813; studied architecture under Walter Newall and W. Thomas Atkinson; architect Manchester 1840 where he erected churches of St. John, Longsight, and St. John, Miles Platting, and bank for Sir B. Heywood & Co.; hon. sec. Royal Instit. Manchester; F.R.I.B.A. d. York place, Manchester 29 April 1855. bur. St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries. Builder, May 1855 p. 222.

GREGER, Max. b. Budapest 1821; original importer of Hungarian wines into England 1861; carried on business at 7 Mincing lane, London; resided in London 1863–80; introduced the wine flagon system 1872; dissolved partnership with C. W. Wilson 1 June 1881, business converted into limited liability co. capital £200,000 in 1881; given order of Gold Crown & Cross 1874; knight of order of Franz Joseph 1875; created Count de Budavolgy by the Emperor of Austria 1878. d. Villa Budavolgy; Budapest 19 April 1886 aged 66. London Figaro 1 May 1886 p. 7, portrait; Wine Trade Review 15 May 1886 p. 278.

GREGG, Right Rev. John (6 son of Richard Gregg of Cappa near Ennis, co. Clare). b. Cappa 4 Aug. 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1822, B.A. 1825, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1860; C. of French church, Portarlington 1826–8; V. of Kilsallaghan, Dublin 1828–36; chaplain of Bethesda chapel, Dublin 1836–9; minister of Trinity ch. Dublin 1839–62; archdeacon of Kildare 1857–62; bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 13 Feb. 1862 to death; new cathedral of St. Finbarre, Cork built cost £100,000, 1870; one of the most earnest evangelical leaders of Irish ch.; author of A missionary visit to Achill and Erris 1850; The life of faith, sermons and lectures 2 series 1883–5 and 30 other addresses, charges, sermons and children’s books. d. the Palace, Cork 26 May 1878. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin. Memorials of life of J. Gregg, D.D. (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxii, 519, 533 (1878), portrait.

GREGG, Rev. Tresham Dames. Educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. and D.D. 1853; chaplain of St. Nicholas within, Dublin; committed to Dublin bridewell for refusing to give bail in a convent case 3 May 1841, committal found to be illegal 8 May; author of Free thoughts on protestant matters 1846; A methodization of the Hebrew verbs 1852, 3 ed. 1861; The life and death of Edward VI, a drama 1857; Mary Tudor, a drama 1858; The time of the restoration of all things 1868 and 20 other books. d. Sandymount, Dublin 28 Oct. 1881 aged 82. Authentic Report of case of Rev. T. D. Gregg 1841.

GREGORY, Barnard. b. 1796; editor of The Satirist, or The Censor of the Times, first number 10 April 1831, in connection with which paper he libelled and black mailed many persons, especially Charles, duke of Brunswick and Luneburg; imprisoned in 1839 and 1850 for libels; The Satirist suppressed 15 Dec. 1849 being No. 924; played Hamlet at Covent Garden 13 Feb. 1843 when there was a riot headed by the Duke of Brunswick; acted at the Haymarket, Victoria and Strand theatres in 1846; author of four dramas; edited The Penny Satirist 10 vols. 1837–46. d. The Priory, 22 Aberdeen place, St. John’s Wood, London 24 Nov. 1852. The Theatre, Sep. 1878 pp. 117–21; The Town, ii, 515, 531 (1839).

GREGORY, Francis Thomas (son of Capt. Joshua Gregory of 78 highlanders). Went to Western Australia 1829; assistant surveyor of W.A., explored the Murchison, Lyons and Gascoyne rivers 1857; sent by imperial government to north west coast in search of lands fit for growing cotton, when he discovered the Nicol bay pearl fisheries and the De Grey, Ashburton and Fortescue rivers 1861; surveyor general W.A.; noticed the existence of payable coal fields in Western Australia and made a geological map of the colony; assessing commissioner Queensland, then crown lands commissioner and postmaster general 188-, member legislative council 1879; F.R. Geog. Soc., gold medallist 1863; author with A. C. Gregory of Journals of Australian explorations, Brisbane 1884. d. Harlaxton estate, Queensland 24 Oct. 1888. Times 12 Nov. 1888 p. 7; J. E. T. Wood’s Hist. of discovery of Australia, ii, 409–32 (1865).

GREGORY, George (2 son of Rev. Wm. Gregory, R. of St. Andrews, Canterbury, who d. 13 Jany. 1803). b. the Precincts, Canterbury 16 Aug. 1790; ed. at King’s sch. Canterbury and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 12 Sep. 1811; M.R.C.S. Eng. 2 July 1812; assist. surgeon to the forces in Mediterranean 1813–16 when placed on h.p.; L.R.C.P. 1816, F.R.C.P. 1839; practised in London 1816 to death; physician to small pox and vaccination hospital 1824 to death; author of The Elements of the theory and practice of physic 2 vols. 1820, 6 ed. 1846; Lectures on the eruptive fevers 1843. d. 6 Camden sq. Camden town, London 25 Jany. 1853. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 152 (1878).

GREGORY, Richard Lemmon. Librarian first at Choat’s and then at Loder’s at Brighton for many years; was a cricketer and a runner when aged 80; well known as Dick Gregory. d. his son’s residence 8 Bond st. Brighton 13 May 1851 aged 84. J. G. Bishop’s A peep into the past, Brighton (1880) 126–27.

GREGORY, William (4 son of James Gregory, professor of medicine 1753–1821). b. Edinburgh 25 Dec. 1803; educ. Edin. univ.; pupil of Liebig at Giessen; professor of medicine and chemistry King’s coll. Aberdeen 1839; professor of chemistry Edin. univ. 1844 to death; edited many of Liebig’s works 1839–51; introduced a process for making muriate of morphia which came into general use; author of Outlines of chemistry 1845, 2 ed. 1847, divided into 2 volumes 1853; Letters to a candid enquirer on animal magnetism 1851 and 8 other books. d. Princes st. Edinburgh 24 April 1858. Proc. R. Soc. of Edin. iv, 121–2 (1862); S. Muspratt’s Chemistry vol. i (1853), portrait.

GREGSON, Samuel. b. Lancaster 1795; contested Lymington 1837; M.P. for Lancaster 1847, unseated on petition 1848; M.P. again 1852 to death; chairman of East India and China association; author of Indian fibres 1854. d. 32 Upper Harley st. London 8 Feb. 1865.

GREGSON, William. b. Liverpool 1790; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; barrister L.I. 12 June 1815; private sec. to Sir Robert Peel; drafted bills for home office from 1820; under sec. of state for home dept. 3 Jany. 1834 to 18 April 1835; one of founders of Marlborough college 1843 and of Training college at Highbury 1850; one of earliest promoters of ragged school movement 1844. d. 12 Duke st. south, Edge hill, Liverpool, Feb. 1863.

GREIG, Sir Hector. b. 1789; superintendent of quarantine at Malta; chief sec. at Malta to 1854; C.M.G. 9 Feb. 1833, K.C.M.G. 26 Jany. 1839; d. 8 Ovington ter. Brompton, London 5 Oct. 1873.

GREIG, Irwin Montgomery. b. 24 June 1834; educ. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bombay engineers 9 Dec. 1852, col. 1882–86; superintending engineer of southern division 1879, of northern division 1879, and of central division 1880–6; employed on irrigation works, and on construction of roads and bridges; was in the expedition into Arabia 1858; field engineer in Abyssinian campaign 1868; M.G. 6 Nov. 1886; A.I.C.E. Dec. 1873. d. 6 Hyde park mansions, London 4 July 1887. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xc, 449–50 (1887).

GREIG, John. b. Moffat, Dumfriesshire 6 Aug. 1779; went to western New York 1800 and studied law with Nathaniel W. Howell, admitted to the bar 1804 and was a partner with Howell till 1820; entertained all strangers of distinction at his residence; bore a striking resemblance to Sir W. Scott; regent of the state university 1825 and chancellor 1845 to death; representative to Congress 1841. d. Canandaigua, state of New York 1 April 1858.

GREIG, John James. Ensign 24 foot 15 May 1828, lieut. 1834 to 4 Aug. 1843 when placed on h.p.; head constable of Liverpool 1852, resigned 22 July 1881; C.B. 14 Oct. 1867. d. Bournemouth 2 or 4 Dec. 1882 aged 76.

GREIG, Woronzow. Barrister I.T. 14 May 1830, went Northern circuit; one of secretaries of statistical soc.; F.R.S. d. Surrey lodge, Lambeth 20 Oct. 1865 aged 60.

GRELLIER, James. Veterinary surgeon royal waggon train 16 May 1805 to 29 Dec. 1807 when placed on h.p.; proprietor and editor of the Manx Sun for many years from 1821. d. Hills house, Douglas, Isle of Man 9 May 1860 aged 83.

GRENFELL, John Pascoe (son of John Granville Grenfell of city of London). b. Battersea 20 Sept. 1800; entered naval service of H.E.I.C. 1811; joined naval service of Chilian republic as a lieut. and took part in war of independence 1819–23; served in Brazilian war against Portugal 1823 and lost his right arm in action off Buenos Ayres 29 July 1826; commanded fleet on lakes of province of Rio Grande del Sol, defeated the rebels 1835–36 and was made a rear admiral 1844; consul general for Brazil in England, at Liverpool 1846–51 and 1852 to death; in command of Brazilian fleet in the war with Argentine republic, forced the passage of the Parana 1851; vice admiral 1852, admiral; had a pension for the loss of his arm. d. Prince’s park, Liverpool 20 March 1869. Register and Mag. of Biography, May 1869, pp. 391–92; I.L.N. xxi, 492–93 (1852), portrait.

GRENFELL, Sidney. b. 1807; entered navy 25 June 1822; captain 15 Jany. 1850; R.A. 6 April 1860; retired admiral 21 March 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Castlepark, Exmouth 5 March 1884.

GRENVILLE, Very Rev. George Neville (3 son of 2 Baron Braybrook 1750–1825). b. Stanlake, Berkshire 17 Aug. 1789; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1810; master of Magdalen coll. Cam. 1813–53; R. of Hawarden, Flintshire 1814–34; vice chancellor of Cam. 1818; took surname of Grenville by r.l. 7 July 1825; chaplain in ord. to George iv. and Victoria; dean of Windsor 1846 to death. d. Butleigh court near Glastonbury 10 June 1854. G.M. xlii, 72–3 (1854).

GRENVILLE, Ralph Neville (eld. son of the preceding). b. 27 Feb. 1817; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Camb., M.A. 1837; M.P. Windsor 1841–7 as Ralph Neville; M.P. East Somerset 1865–8; M.P. Mid Somerset 1868–78; a lord of the treasury 1846–7; took additional name of Grenville on death of his father 1854; sheriff of Somerset 1862; author of Cathedrals 1871. d. Butleigh court near Glastonbury 20 Aug. 1886.

GRESLEY, Rev. John Morewood (son of Rev. Wm. Gresley 1760–1829, R. of Seale, Leics.) b. 6 July 1816; ed. at St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1845; C. of Seale 1841–7, R. of Seale 1847 to death; master of Etwall hospital, Derby; edited publications of Anastatic soc. from its foundation 1854 to 1859 when it was incorporated with the Ilam Anastatic drawing soc.; author of Plain sermons on present events 1850–1. d. Overseale, Leics. 15 May 1866.

GRESLEY, Sir Thomas, 10 Baronet (1 son of Rev. Sir William Nigel Gresley, 9 bart. d. 1847). b. Nether Seal hall, Leics. 17 Jany. 1832; educ. Rugby; cornet 1 dragoon guards 18 Jany. 1850, captain 1853–58 when he sold out; aide-de-camp to lord lieut. of Ireland; lieut. col. 1 bat. Derbyshire rifle volunteers 1860; M.P. South Derbyshire 21 Nov. 1868. d. Shipley hall, Derbyshire 18 Dec. 1868. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 150, 356 (1869).

GRESLEY, Rev. William (1 son of Richard Gresley of Stowe house, Staffs., barrister 1776–1850). b. Kenilworth 16 March 1801; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1819, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; C. of Drayton-Bassett near Tamworth 1828–30; C. of St. Chad’s, Lichfield 1830–7; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1840 to death; P.C. of All Saints, Boyne Hill, Berks. 1857 to death; an extreme high churchman; author of Ecclesiastes Anglicanus, a treatise on the art of preaching 1835; Portrait of an English churchman 1838, 8 ed. 1839; The siege of Lichfield 1840; Bernard Leslie, a tale 2 parts 1842–59; The ordinance of confession 1851; Thoughts on religion and philosophy 1875 and 60 other books. d. Boyne hill 19 Nov. 1876. Ch. of E. photographic portrait gallery 1859, portrait 38; Scepticism of the Nineteenth century (1879), memoir pp. v-xiii, portrait.

GRESSWELL, Dan. b. Kelsey hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire 13 May 1819; M.R.C. veterinary surgeons 1840 and fellow 1877; fellow of Veterinary Med. Assoc. 1840; settled at Louth, Lincolnshire, mayor 1871; a writer on Lactiferous glands, Paralysis in the horse, Arsenical poisoning, etc. d. Kelsey house, Louth 13 March 1883.

GRESWELL, Edward (3 son of Rev. W. Parr Greswell 1765–1854). b. Denton near Manchester 3 Aug. 1797; educ. Manchester gram. sch. 1811–15; scholar of Brasen. coll. Oxf. 1815; Lancash. scholar Corpus Christi 1816, took a double first 1819, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1830, tutor of his coll. 1822–34, fellow 1823 to death, vice president 1840–69; author of Harmonia Evangelica 1830, 5 ed. 1855; Fasti temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariæ 4 vols. 1852; Origines Kalendariæ Italicæ 4 vols. 1854; Origines Kalendariæ Hellenicæ 6 vols. 1862 and 8 other books, d. Corpus Christi coll. 29 June 1869. Smith’s Manchester School register, iii, 79–82 (1874); Register and Mag. of Biog. ii, 92–93 (1869).

GRESWELL, Rev. Richard (brother of the preceding). b. Denton 22 July 1800; educ. Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar 1818–24, took a double first 1822, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. 1836, tutor of his coll. 1822–53, fellow 1824–37, dean 1825, hon. fellow 1878; raised £250,000 for the National soc. 1843, etc.; a founder of the Ashmolean soc. 1828; chairman of W. E. Gladstone’s election committees 1847–56; F.R.S. 10 June 1830. d. 39 St. Giles’, Oxford, on anniversary of his birth 22 July 1881. Burgon’s Lives of Twelve good men, ii, 93–122 (1888).

GRESWELL, Rev. William (2 son of the succeeding). b. Denton about 1795; educ. Manchester sch. and Brasen. coll. Oxf., scholar 1815–17, B.A. 1818, fellow of Balliol 1818–38, M.A. 1820; C. of Disley, Cheshire; R. of Kilve near Bridgewater 1837 to death; author of A popular view of correspondency between Mosaic ritual and the Christian religion 1834; A commentary on the order of the burial of the dead 1836. d. Kilve rectory 6 Nov. 1876 aged 80. Manchester School register, iii, 78 (1874).

GRESWELL, Rev. William Parr (son of John Greswell of Chester). b. Tarvin, Cheshire 23 June 1765; C. of Blackley near Manchester 1789–91; inc. of Denton and Haughton near Manchester 1791, resigned 1853; kept a school at Denton; author of Annals of Parisian typography 1818; The monastery of St. Werburgh, a poem 1823; A view of the early Parisian Greek press 2 vols. 1833. d. Denton 12 Jany. 1854, his library sold at Sotheby’s Feb. 1855. Manchester School Register, iii, 77–78 (1874); Booker’s Denton (Chetham Soc. Miscell. vol. ii, 1851) 109.

GRETTON, Rev. Frederick Edward (youngest son of Rev. George Gretton, prebendary of Hereford). b. 1803 or 1804; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1829, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1836; C. of Tickencote, Rutland and head master Stamford gram. sch. 1834–72; R. of St. Mary, Stamford 1847–64; select preacher at Cambridge 1861–2; author of Elmsleiana Critica 1833; Parochial sermons 1843; Passages from English poetry with a Latin verse translation 1873 and 15 other books. d. Oddington, Gloucs. 27 March 1890.

GREVILLE, Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1 Baron (2 son of Algernon Greville of North Lodge, Herts. 1791–1857). b. 17 Feb. 1821; col. of Westmeath militia 22 Aug. 1850 to death; M.P. for co. Longford 1852–69; assumed additional surname of Nugent by r.l. 8 Aug. 1866; cr. Baron Greville of Clonyn, co. Westmeath, in peerage of the U.K. 15 Dec. 1869; lord lieutenant of Westmeath 27 March 1871 to death. d. Clonyn castle, Delvin 25 Jany. 1883.

GREVILLE, Algernon Frederick (2 son of Charles Greville 1762–1832). b. 29 Dec. 1798; ensign 1 foot guards 1814, present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; aide-de-camp to general Sir John Lambert and then to the Duke of Wellington until 1818; aide-de-camp to the Duke in the ordnance office 1819; private sec. to the Duke 1827–30, 1834–35, 1842; Bath and Gloucester king of arms 1830 to death, d. Hillingdon, Middlesex 15 Dec. 1864.

GREVILLE, Charles Cavendish Fulke (brother of the preceding). b. 2 April 1794, educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1810–14; page to George iii; private sec. to earl of Bathurst 1814; sec. of Jamaica, performed the duties by a deputy; clerk of privy council 1821, resigned May 1859; member of jockey club, managed racing establishment of Duke of York 1821–26; won the St. Leger with Mango 1837; kept a political diary 1818–60 which was published in 3 vols. 1874, 3 vols. 1885 and 2 vols. 1887, the first series was suppressed and reprinted in an expurgated edition; author of many pamphlets, d. 16 Bruton st. London the residence of Earl Granville 18 Jany. 1865. The Greville Memoirs, i, pp. x-xi (1874); Baily’s Mag. vii, 217–21 (1864), portrait; Sporting Rev. xli, 138–43 (1859), liii, 75–80 (1865).

GREVILLE, Henry William (younger brother of the preceding). b. 28 Oct. 1801; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823; present at Duchess of Richmond’s ball at Brussels 15 June 1815; private sec. to Lord Francis Egerton chief sec. for Ireland 1828–30; precis writer to Viscount Palmerston 1834; first paid attaché to British embassy in Paris 1835–44; kept a diary which was edited by Viscountess Enfield as Leaves from the diary of H. Greville 2 vols. 1883–4. d. 19 Queen st. Mayfair, London 12 Dec. 1872. Leaves from the diary, second series (1884) v-viii, portrait.

GREVILLE, Robert Kaye (1 son of Rev. Robert Greville 1760–1830, R. of Edlaston, Derby). b. Bishop Auckland, Durham 13 Dec. 1794; educ. in medicine in London and Edin.; member of Wernerian soc. 1816; F.R.S. Edin. 1821, LLD. Glasgow 1824; lecturer on zoology and botany in Edin.; made large collections of plants, insects, crustacea and mollusks; collected 15,000 botanical specimens for Botanical soc. of Edin. 1837; his algæ went to the British museum, his insects to the univ. of Edin., his flowering plants to univ. of Glasgow, and his cryptogamic plants to Edin. botanic gardens; fell into poverty and painted landscapes for a living; author of Scottish Cryptogamic flora 6 vols. 1823–8; Flora Edinensis 1824; Algæ Britannicæ 1830 and 6 other books; with W. J. Hooker he published Icones filicum 2 vols. 1829–31. d. Ormelie villa, Murrayfield near Edinburgh 4 June 1866. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edin. vi, 25–7 (1869); Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. viii, 464.

GREY, Charles (2 son of 2 Earl Grey 1764–1845). b. Howick house, Bilton, Northumberland 15 March 1804; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 1820; lieut. col. 71 foot 1833–42 when placed on h.p.; col. of 3 foot 1860, of 71 foot 1863 to death; general 29 Aug. 1868; M.P. for Chipping Wycombe 1831–37; treasurer and private sec. to Prince Consort 10 Oct. 1849 to his death 14 Dec. 1861; private sec. to the Queen 3 March 1866 to death; author of Some account of the life of Charles, second Earl Grey 1861; The early years of the Prince Consort 1867. d. St. James’s palace, London 31 March 1870. More leaves from a journal of a life in the Highlands (1884) 67, portrait; I.L.N. lvi, 386, 416 (1870), portrait.

GREY, Sir Charles Edward (younger son of Ralph Wm. Grey of Backworth, Northumberland). b. 1785; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810; fellow of Oriel coll. 1808; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; a bankruptcy commissioner 1817; judge of supreme court of Madras 17 May 1820 to 1825; knighted by George iv. at Carlton house 17 May 1820; chief justice of supreme court of Bengal 2 Feb. 1825 to 1832; a commissioner for affairs of Lower Canada 19 June 1835 to 1836; P.C. 1 July 1835; G.C.H. 1837; contested Tynemouth 1837, M.P. for Tynemouth 1838–41; governor of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Trinidad and St. Lucia 24 Aug. 1841 to 1 Oct. 1846; governor of Jamaica 26 Sep. 1846 to Aug. 1853. d. Tunbridge Wells 1 June 1865.

GREY, Sir Frederick William (3 son of 2 Earl Grey 1764–1845). b. 23 Aug. 1805; entered navy 18 Jany. 1819; captain 19 April 1828; rear admiral superintendent in the Bosphorus, Jany. 1855 to July 1856; a lord of the admiralty, June 1861 to June 1866, admiral 24 April 1865, retired 23 Aug. 1870; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; author of On the organization of the navy 1860. d. Linwood near Staines 2 May 1878.

GREY, Sir George, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir George Grey, 1 bart., d. 3 Oct. 1828). b. Gibraltar 11 May 1799; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 2 May 1826; M.P. Devonport 1832–47; M.P. North Northumberland 1847–52; M.P. Morpeth 1853–74; under sec. of state, colonies 1834–5 and 1835–39; judge advocate general 1839–41; sec. of state home department 1846–52, 1855–8, and 1861–6; sec. of state colonies 1854–5; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 1841 and 1859–61; P.C. 1 March 1839; ecclesiastical commissioner Feb. 1841; G.C.B. 31 March 1849; prevented the chartists under Smith O’Brien invading house of commons with their monster petition 10 April 1848; retired on a pension of £2,000. d. Fallodon, Northumberland 9 Sept. 1882. M. Creighton’s Memoir of Sir G. Grey (1884), portrait; I.L.N. xxii 240 (1853), xxxv 586, 588 (1859), lxxxi 340 (1882), portrait.

GREY, Rev. Henry (son of a medical man). b. Alnwick, Northumberland 11 Feb. 1778; presbyterian minister of Stenton, East Lothian 1801 to 1813, of St. Cuthbert’s chapel of ease, Edin. 1813, of the new North Church 1821, of St. Mary’s 1825, of St. Mary’s Free church 1843; president of Free church general assembly 1844; presented with a testimonial 1863, which was turned into the Grey scholarships in New coll. Edin.; had a conflict with Dr. Andrew Thompson on the Apocrypha 1829; author of A catechism on baptism 4 ed. 1842 and various pamphlets. d. Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1859. C. M. Birrell’s Thoughts in the evening of life (1871), portrait.

GREY, Sir John (younger son of Charles Grey of Morwick, Northumberland). Ensign 75 foot 18 July 1798; major 5 foot 1811–16 when placed on h.p.; served in India 1799 etc., in Peninsula 1806 etc.; held a divisional command in Bengal 1840–45, at head of left wing of army of Gwalior defeated the Mahratta army of 12,000 men at Punniar on 29 Dec. 1843; K.C.B. 2 May 1844; col. 73 foot 1846–9; col. 5 foot 1849 to death; commander in chief Bombay 30 Dec. 1850 to Nov. 1852; general 20 Feb. 1855. d. Morwick hall 19 Feb. 1856. Canon’s Records of 5th Fusiliers (1838) 75 etc.

GREY, John (eld. child of George Grey of West Ord near Berwick, d. 1793). b. Millfield Hill, Glendale, Aug. 1785; took part in agitation for Catholic emancipation and in struggle which preceded Reform bill of 1832; had charge of the Greenwich hospital estates in Northumberland and Cumberland 1833–63; made improvements in farming and in rearing cattle. d. Lipwood house on the Tyne near Haydon bridge 22 Jany. 1868. Memoir of John Grey of Dilston (1874); Saddle and sirloin by the Druid (1878) pp. 121–8, portrait.

GREY, Ralph William (son of R. W. Grey of Backworth house, Northumberland). b. 1819; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840; private sec. to Lord Sydenham governor general of Canada 1839; private sec. to Lord John Russell 1850; M.P. Tynemouth 1847–52; M.P. Liskeard 1854–9; parliamentary sec. poor law board 28 Jany. 1851 to 3 March 1852 and 1856–58; a commissioner of the customs 1859 to death; of Chipchase castle, Northumberland. d. Wimbledon 1 Oct. 1869.

GREY, Sir William (4 son of Rt. Rev. Edward Grey 1782–1837, bp. of Hereford). b. 26 March 1818; matric from Ch. Ch. Ox. 19 May 1836; clerk in war office; at Haileybury coll. 1839–40; private sec. to Sir H. Maddock, dep. governor of Lower Bengal 1845; sec. of Bank of Bengal 1851–4; sec. to government of Bengal 1854–7; sec. to government of India in home department 1859, member of council of governor general 1862–7; lieut. governor of Bengal 1867 to Feb. 1871; governor of Jamaica, March 1874 to March 1877; K.C.S.I. 28 May 1870. d. Parkfield, Marldon near Torquay 15 May 1878.

GRIERSON, Crighton. Second lieut. R.E. 1 June 1810, lieut. col. 1 April 1846 to 1 Sep. 1847 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871. d. 14 Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 7 Nov. 1871 aged 81.

GRIERSON, James. b. 10 Oct. 1827; traffic manager Shrewsbury and Birmingham railway 1851; goods manager Great Western railway 1857 and general manager Oct. 1863 to death, by his management raised the stock from £47 to £135; author of Railway rates, English and Foreign 1886; his residence 4 Holland villas road, Kensington, damaged by fire 1887. d. Bridge house, Marlow 7 Oct. 1887. bur. Barnes cemetery 12 Oct. London Figaro 15 Oct. 1887 p. 6, portrait; Herapath’s Railway Journal 15 Oct. 1887 p. 1064.

GRIESS, John Peter. F.R.S. 4 June 1868; F.C.S.; of Burton on Trent. d. Bournemouth 30 Aug. 1888 aged 60.

GRIEVE, Thomas (son of John Henderson Grieve, scene painter). b. Lambeth, London 11 June 1799; scene painter Covent Garden 1839, Drury Lane 1862; painted diorama of Overland Mail 1850; with W. Telbin and John Absolon painted panorama of Campaigns of Wellington 1852, and panoramas of the Ocean Mail, the Crimean War and the Arctic regions. d. 1 Palace road, Lambeth 16 April 1882.

GRIFFIES-WILLIAMS, Worshipful Sir Erasmus Henry, 2 Baronet (2 son of Sir George Griffies-Williams, d. 28 March 1843). b. Llwyn-y-Wormwood 22 July 1794; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; R. of Rushall, Wilts. 1829 to death; R. of Marlborough 1830 to 1858; chancellor of St. David’s cathedral 1858 to death; author of A letter on the repeal of the corn laws 1846; The supremacy of the sovereign asserted 1850. d. Llandovery 30 Nov. 1870.

GRIFFIES-WILLIAMS, Sir Watkin Lewes, 3 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. 1800; entered Madras army 12 June 1819; col. of 3 Madras light infantry 29 Jany. 1854 to 1869; general 25 July 1870. d. 38 Elgin road, Notting hill, London 23 May 1877.

GRIFFIN, Charles (only son of R. Griffin of Glasgow, bookseller, d. Nov. 1832 aged 43). b. London 1819; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; bookseller with John Joseph Griffin in Glasgow 1836–53 and in London 1847–53; bought the Encyclopædia Metropolitana for £5,000 about 1847; bookseller alone in Glasgow 1853–9; left Glasgow and managed London business 1859–61; partner with Henry Bohn in Stationers’ hall court, Jany. 1861 to death. d. Combe lodge, Swanscombe, Kent 5 Aug. 1862. Bookseller 30 Aug. 1862 p. 561, 30 Sept. p. 616.

GRIFFIN, Right Rev. Henry (2 son of John Griffin, deputy registrar of deeds in Ireland). b. Wexford 10 July 1786; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1798; scholar 1802, fellow 1811–29, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1814; R. of Clonfeacle, Armagh to 1854; Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, consecrated 1 Jany. 1854. d. the university club, 17 Stephen’s Greennorth, Dublin 5 April 1866. bur. Benburt, co. Tyrone.

GRIFFIN, John Joseph. b. London 1802; bookseller, publisher and dealer in chemical apparatus at Glasgow to 1852, partly edited Encyclopædia Metropolitana; chemical apparatus dealer as J. J. Griffin & Sons, 22 Garrick st. Covent Garden, London 1852 to death; a founder of Chemical soc. 1840; devised new forms of chemical apparatus; author of Chemical recreations 1834, 10 ed. 1860; Treatise on the blowpipe 18—; The chemical testing of wines and spirits 1866, 2 ed. 1872 and other books. d. 31 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 9 June 1877. Journ. Chemical soc. xxxiii, 229 (1878).

GRIFFITH, Edward (son of William Griffith of Stanwell, Middlesex). b. 1790; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1800–1806; clerk of common pleas office; master of court of common pleas 1837 to death; F.R.S.; F.L.S.; F.S.A.; author of General descriptions of the vertebrated animals, monkeys and lemurs 1821; The Animal kingdom 15 vols. 1832 with other writers, and other books. d. 32 Fitzroy sq. London 8 Jany. 1858.

GRIFFITH, George (son of John Wynne Griffith, M.P. of Garn near Rhyl, co. Denbigh, d. 1834). b. 1790; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1830; recorder of Denbigh 1834 to death. d. Garn, Denbigh 23 April 1877 in 88 year.

GRIFFITH, George. Clerk in a corn merchant’s office in Bewdley; author of The free schools of Worcestershire 1852; Life of George Wilson 1854; The endowed schools of England and Ireland 1864; Going to markets and grammar schools, records in the Midland counties 2 vols. 1870 and other books. d. Bewdley 1883. J. R. Burton’s Bewdley (1883) 61.

GRIFFITH, Henry Darby (youngest son of major general Darby Griffith of Pardworth house, Berks.) b. 22 May 1810; ensign 4 foot 25 Nov. 1828; captain 2 dragoons 1839, lieut. col. 27 Aug. 1852; at battles of Balaklava, Inkerman and Tchernaya and siege and fall of Sebastopol; A.D.C. to the Queen 1855–66; col. 5 lancers 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Bushy Ruff house near Dover 17 Nov. 1887.

GRIFFITH, Rev. John. b. 1789 or 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, Bell’s univ. scholar 1810, 8 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1822, D.D. 1831; fellow of Em. coll. 1814, tutor 1818–27; chaplain to Lord Amherst in China 1816, wrecked in the Alceste on Gaspar island 18 Nov. 1817; canon of Rochester 1827–72; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1830–32; V. of Boxley, Kent 1832–53; prosecuted Strahan, Paul and Bates bankers for having unlawfully disposed of deeds valued at £22,000, defendants sentenced to 14 years’ transportation 26 Oct. 1855. d. 3 Bay’s hill lawn, Cheltenham 29 May 1879.

GRIFFITH, Julius George. First lieut. Bombay artillery 27 May 1810, col. commandant 3 July 1845 to death; general 7 Sep. 1866. d. Boulogne 31 July 1872 in 81 year.

GRIFFITH, Sir Richard John, 1 Baronet (only son of Richard Griffith of Milicent, co. Kildare 1752–1820). b. Hume st. Dublin 20 Sep. 1784; lieut. R. Irish Artill. 1799; inspector general of royal mines in Ireland 1809; mining engineer and professor of geology to Royal Dublin Soc. 1812; sole comr. for general valuation of land in Ireland 1827–68; deputy chairman of board of public works Ireland 1846, chairman 1854–64; F.G.S., Wollaston medallist 1854 for his geological map of Ireland; M.I.C.E. 1839; created baronet 20 April 1858; author of Geological and mining report on the Leinster coal district 1814. d. 2 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 22 Sep. 1878. Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiii, 432–37 (1874), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x, 17–20 (1880); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv, 39–41 (1879).

GRIFFITH, Rev. Thomas. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1832; min. of Ram’s Epis. chap. Homerton 1830–72; prebendary of Sneating in St. Paul’s cath. 1862–80; author of The leading idea of christianity investigated 1833; Our baptismal standing 1850; Studies of the divine master 1875 and 25 other books. d. 8 Clapton sq. Clapton 24 Aug. 1883.

GRIFFITH, Rev. William (son of Rev. William Griffith d. 1860). b. London 1806; Wesleyan M. minister 1828; connected with the issuing of the Fly sheets 1847; expelled by the Wesleyan Methodist conference in company with Rev. James Everett and Rev. Samuel Dunn 25 July 1849; minister of Methodist free churches 1857 to death. d. Derby 12 July 1883. I.L.N. xv, 187–8 (1849), portrait; Christian World 19 July 1883 p. 481.

GRIFFITH, William Darling (son of A. F. Griffith, head of Longman’s old book department). b. 18 Oct. 1805; learnt bookselling with Hamilton, Adams and Co.; publisher St. Paul’s churchyard to 1843; partner with E. C. Grant 1843 to 1856 as Grant and Griffith, booksellers; partner with Robert Farran, June 1856 to death. d. 6 York villa, Campden hill, London 20 Feb. 1877. Bookseller, March 1877 p. 218.

GRIFFITH, William Petit (son of John William Griffith, architect, d. 27 Nov. 1855 aged 65). b. 9 St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell, London 7 July 1815; F.S.A. 12 May 1842; F.R.I.B.A. 14 June 1847; some of his work was the reparation of St. John ch. Clerkenwell 1845, the restoration of St. John’s gate 1845–6, designing Cherrytree tavern, Clerkenwell 1852, the goldsmiths’ and jewellers’ annuity institution asylum 1853, designing the house of detention, Kingston-on-Thames; author of The geometrical proportion of architecture 1843; Ancient Gothic churches 3 parts 1847–52; Suggestions for a more perfect period of gothic architecture 1855. d. 3 Isledon road, Highbury, London 14 Sept. 1884.

GRIFFITHS, Rev. David. b. Glanmeilwch, Llangadoc, Carmarthenshire 20 Dec. 1792; schoolmaster Cwmaman 1811–12; in Madagascar as a missionary 1821–35 and 1838–42; established a church, day and night schools, a printing press and printed the New Testament 1831; condemned to death but sentence commuted to a fine 1839; pastor of congregational ch. Hay, Brecknockshire 1842; spent 5 years revising Madagascar scriptures 1852–7; author of History of Madagascar, in Welsh; The Persecuted Christians of Madagascar 1841 and works in the Malagasy tongue. d. Machynlleth, Montgomerys. 21 March 1863. Rees and Thomas’ Eglwysi Annybynol Cymru, iv, 359–61.

GRIFFITHS, Evan. b. Gellibeblig, Glamorganshire 1795; ed. at a college at Newport, Monmouth; pastor of churches in Gower; went to Swansea and translated Matthew Henry’s commentary into Welsh, acting also as the printer and collecting subscriptions for the work 1828, etc.; author of Welsh English dictionary, Abertawy 1847 and many works in the Welsh language 1839–56. d. Swansea 31 Aug. 1873. Rees and Thomas’ Eglwysi Annybynol Cymru, iv.

GRIFFITHS, Frederick Augustus. Ensign R.A. 13 Dec. 1813; major on retired full pay 28 Nov. 1854; author of The Artillerists’ manual and compendium of infantry exercise, Woolwich 1839, 10 ed. 1868; Notes on military law, Woolwich 1841. d. St. Mary Bourne near Andover 25 March 1869 aged 73.