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GOULBURN, Henry (brother of Edward Goulburn 1787–1868). b. Marylebone, London 19 March 1784; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; contested Horsham 1807, Univ. of Cam. 1826; M.P. for Horsham 1808–12, for St. Germans 1812–18, for West Looe 1818–26, for Armagh 1826–31, for Univ. of Cam. 1831 to death; under sec. of state for home department 1810–12, for the Colonies 1812–21; chief sec. for Ireland 1821–27; P.C. 10 Dec. 1821; chancellor of exchequer 1828–30 and 1841–46; sec. of state for home department 1834–35; conservative candidate for speakership of House of Commons 27 May 1839 when defeated by C. S. Lefevre by 18 votes; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1845. d. Betchworth house near Dorking 12 Jany. 1856. Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series (1846), portrait; G.M. xlv, 183–4 (1856).

GOULD, Rev. George (eld. son of George Gould of Bristol, tradesman). b. Castle green, Bristol 20 Sep. 1818; clerk to a wine merchant 1832; articled to an accountant 1836; student of Bristol Baptist coll. Sep. 1838; pastor Lower Abbey st. Dublin 1841, at South st. chapel, Exeter 1846, at St. Mary’s chapel, Norwich 1849 to decease; president of Baptist Union 1879; one of the founders of Anti-state church association 1844; author of India, its history, religion and government 1858; Open communion and the baptists of Norwich 1860 and 10 other works; edited Church Examiner 1852. d. Norwich 13 Feb. 1882. Sermons and addresses with a memoir by G. P. Gould (1884), with portrait.

GOULD, Gerald Francis. Attaché at Hanover 1 Jany. 1854; minister resident at Belgrade 3 March 1879; minister resident at Stuttgardt 16 April 1881 to death; C.B. 20 April 1880. d. Stuttgardt 5 Sep. 1883 aged 48.

GOULD, Most Rev. James Alpius. b. Cork 4 Nov. 1812; entered Augustinian order, educ. at Grantstown; ordained priest at Perugia 1835; arrived in Sydney, Feb. 1838; R.C. priest at Campbeltown near Sydney 1838–48; elected 9 July 1847 and consecrated the first bishop of the Port Philip settlement 8 Aug. 1848 which became the colony of Victoria 1 July 1851; archbishop of Melbourne 4 May 1874 to death. d. Brighton near Melbourne 11 June 1886.

GOULD, John. b. Lyme Regis 14 Sep. 1804; gardener Ripley castle, Yorkshire; taxidermist Zoological gardens, London 1827; travelled in Australia and adjoining islands 1838–40; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1843; exhibited his collection of 5000 humming birds in Zoological gardens 1851, sold to British Museum for £3000 in 1881; produced 41 folio volumes illustrated by 2999 plates; his chief works were A Century of birds from the Himalayan mountains 1832; The birds of Europe 5 vols. 1832–7; The birds of Australia 8 vols. 1848–69; Monograph of the Trochilidæ 1849–61; The birds of Asia 7 vols. 1850–83; The birds of Great Britain 5 vols. 1862–73; The birds of New Guinea 1875–80. (m. 1829 Elizabeth Coxen who assisted him in his writings and executed all his drawings, she d. Egham 15 Aug. 1841). d. 26 Charlotte St. Bedford sq. London 3 Feb. 1881. I.L.N. xx, 457 (1852), portrait, lxxviii, 220 (1881), portrait; Zoologist v, 109–15 (1881); Nature xxiii, 364–5, 491 (1881).

GOULDING, William (eld. son of Joshua Goulding of Birr, King’s co.) b. 1817; a merchant at Cork and Dublin; contested Cork city, Feb. 1874; M.P. for Cork city 25 May 1876 to 24 March 1880. d. Summerhill house, Sidney place, Cork 8 Dec. 1884.

GOULSTON, James. An aeronaut known as Giuseppe Lunardini; fell from his balloon during an ascent from Belle Vue gardens, Manchester, and was killed at Stone breaks hill near Saddleworth, Yorkshire 3 June 1852.

GOURLAY, William Cameron. b. Edinburgh 1817; first appeared on stage at T.R. Edinburgh 18 May 1836 as Norval in Home’s Douglas; the best actor of Bailie Nicol Jarvie in Rob Roy except Charles Mackay; manager of Victoria Temple, Edinburgh, changed the name to Royal Victoria theatre 4 Sep. 1848. d. 80 Great Western road, Glasgow 3 Feb. 1883.

GOURLIE, William. b. Glasgow, March 1815; educ. Glasgow univ.; partner with his father as a merchant; studied botany under Sir W. J. Hooker and Dr. J. H. Balfour; collected mosses, shells and fossil plants; member Edin. Botanical soc. 1836 and of Glasgow Philosophical soc. 1841; F.L.S. 1855. d. of cancer at his brother’s house, Pollokshields, Glasgow 24 June 1856. Proc. Linnæan soc. (1857) p. xxvii.

GOVER, Charles E. (son of Thomas Gover of Poplar, Middlesex). Principal and sec. of Madras military male orphan asylum Egmore, Madras 1864; member R. Asiatic soc. 1868–71; fellow Anthropological soc.; wrote in Journal Asiatic soc. and in Cornhill Mag.; author of Indian weights and measures, Madras 1865; The folk songs of Southern India, Madras 1872. d. Madras 20 Sep. 1872.

GOW, James. b. Soutar’s Close, West Port, Dundee 16 March 1814; a weaver in Dundee; wrote many short poems in the Dundee Chronicle, Tait’s Mag., Chambers’s Journal and Hogg’s Instructor; published a collection of his pieces entitled The lays of the loom; wrote no new poem after 1847 so that he was frequently spoken of as the late James Gow and confused with James Gow the political agitator who d. 4 Oct. 1849. d. 29 Jany. 1872. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 382–90.

GOWAN, George Edward. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 1 April 1806; col. commandant 3 July 1845 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 19 June 1846 to 20 June 1854; commanded Ferozepore district 1849–52, Lahore division 1853–58; L.G. 27 Sep. 1859; C.B. 22 May 1843. d. Pen hill near Bath 19 Dec. 1865 aged 77.

GOWAN, Ogle Robert. b. co. Wexford, Ireland 1796; edited the Antidote 1822–25 and the Sentinel 1825–29, Dublin weekly papers; went to Canada 1829; commanded 2nd regiment of Leeds militia; during Mc Kenzie-Papineau rebellion of 1837–9, he was designated “the right arm of British power in America”; founder of Orange lodges of North America, grand master 20 years; a member of Canadian parliament 1834–41; edited the Brockville Statesman weekly paper 1829–51 and the Patriot and the British Empire 1851–55; author of Orangeism, its origin and history 3 vols. 1859. d. Toronto 21 Aug. 1876.

GOWANS, Sir James. b. 1821; a railway contractor; constructed Bathgate railway, various sections of North British railway, 35 miles of Highland railway and other lines; laid down first tramway in Scotland sanctioned by Parliament; member of Edinburgh town council many years; chairman of executive committee of Edinburgh Exhibition 1886; knighted by the Queen at Holyrood palace 19 Aug. 1886; Lord Dean of Guild of Edinburgh 1886 to death; author of Model dwelling-houses 1886; Edinburgh and its neighbourhood in the days of our grandfathers 1886. d. 1 Blantyre terrace, Edinburgh 25 June 1890.

GOWANS, William. b. Lismahagow, Scotland 29 March 1803; went to U.S.A. 1821; a gardener in New York 1825, afterwards a stonecutter, a stevedore and a vendor of newspapers; bookseller in New York 1828–37 and 1840 to death; book auctioneer 1837, issued 28 book catalogues 1842–70, his stock of books at his death numbered nearly 300,000 vols.; author of Gowans’ Bibliotheca Americana 5 numbers 1845–69; A catalogue of books on Freemasonry 1858. d. New York 27 Nov. 1870. Appleton’s American Biography (1887) ii, 698, portrait.

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.