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GUNDRY, Thomas. A miner in Cornwall; champion wrestler of Cornwall 25 years; beat the Devonshire champion twice; a carrier; was married 4 times. d. Stennack, Camborne 23 Oct. 1888 aged 70. The Cornishman 1 Nov. 1888 p. 3.

GUNN, Robert Campbell. b. Cape of Good Hope 4 April 1808; assist. superintendent of convict prisons, Tasmania 1829; superintendent, police magistrate and coroner; sent collections of plants to Sir W. Hooker and W. Lindley, and mammals, birds, etc. to Dr. J. E. Gray; clerk to executive and legislative councils of Tasmania and private sec. to Sir John Franklin 1837–43; F.L.S. Jany. 1850; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; a commissioner to select site for capital of New Zealand, when Wellington was chosen 1864. d. Hobart Town 12 March 1881. Proc. Royal Soc. xxxiv, pp. xiii-xv (1883).

GUNNER, Thomas (2 son of Wm. Gunner of Bishop’s Waltham, Hants.) b. 23 Nov. 1815; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1842; recorder of Southampton, Oct. 1870 to death. d. Heathfield, Winchester 3 March 1883.

GUNNING, Henry (1 son of Rev. Francis Gunning, V. of Newton near Cambridge, d. 1788). b. Newton 13 Feb. 1768; ed. at Christ’s coll. Cam., 5 wr. 1788, B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; one of esquires bedells of the univ. 13 Oct. 1789, senior esquire bedell 1827 to death; mem. of town council of Cambridge 1835–41; author of Poll books of Cambridge 7 vols. 1822–47; The ceremonies in the senate house, Cambridge 1836. d. Brighton 4 Jany. 1854. Reminiscences of Cambridge, by H. Gunning 2 vols. 1854, portrait; G.M. xli, 207–208 (1854).

GUNNING, John. b. 1774; hospital assistant in the army Oct. 1793; surgeon to commander in chief through Peninsular war; surgeon in chief at Waterloo; inspector general 1 Feb. 1816, placed on h.p. 1 Oct. 1816; lived at Paris 1815 to death; C.B. 17 Aug. 1849. d. 52 Rue du Colisée, Paris 11 Jany. 1863. Proc. of Med. and Chir. society, iv, 207 (1864).

GUNNING, Ven. William. Ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., LL.B. 1828; V. of Stowey near Bath 1839–51; preb. of Wells 24 Aug. 1840 to death; V. of Buckland Newton, Dorset 1851 to death; archdeacon of Bath, Aug. 1852 to death. d. Manila crescent, Weston-super-Mare 11 Oct. 1860 aged 64.

GUNSON, Rev. William Mandell. Ed. at Bolton-Gate sch. near Mealsgate and Christ’s coll. Cam., 28 wrangler and 1 class cl. trip. 1847, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, fellow of his coll. 1847, tutor 1851–70; drowned himself near the Knowe, Baggrew, Aspatria, Cumberland 30 Sep. 1881.

GUNTER, Robert. Confectioner at Berkeley sq. London 1819–44. d. Earl’s court, Old Brompton 16 Oct. 1852 aged 69.

GUPPY, Thomas Richard (2 son of Samuel Guppy of Bristol, merchant). b. Bristol 1797; a sugar refiner at Bristol about 1826–30; started with I. K. Brunel a company for constructing a railway from Bristol to London 1830 for which they got an act 1832; constructed with Brunel the ‘Great Western’ steamship which was launched 19 July 1837, ran from Bristol to New York 1838–46, became property of Royal mail steam packet company 1846 and was broken up 1857; invented the cellular system of ship building; constructed the Great Britain, launched 19 July 1843; assisted in the introduction of the screw propeller; manager of Cwmavon, Glamorgan, copper works 1844; practised at Naples 1849, a mechanical engineer there 1854; A.I.C.E. 3 May 1842, M.I.C.E. 19 Feb. 1878. d. Portici near Naples 28 June 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxix, 411–15 (1882).

GURDON, Brampton. b. London 25 Sep. 1797; sheriff of Norfolk 1855; M.P. for West Norfolk 1857–65. d. 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 28 April 1881.

GURDON, William (4 son of lieut. col. Theophilus Thornhagh Gurdon of Letton, Norfolk 1764–1849). b. 1804; ed. at Eton and Downing coll. Cam., fellow 1838, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 3 July 1829: recorder of Bury St. Edmunds 185-to 1860; judge of county courts, circuit 38 (Essex), March 1847 to March 1871; author of Our highways: what they are and what they might be; Bankruptcy for the million 1862. d. Brantham court, Manningtree, Suffolk 12 Oct. 1884.

GURDON-REBOW, John. b. London 1799; assumed additional name of Rebow 1835; sheriff of Essex 1853; M.P. for Colchester 1857–59 and 1865 to death. d. Wivenhoe park near Colchester 12 Oct. 1870.

GURNEY, Anna (youngest child of Richard Gurney of Keswick near Norwich, d. 16 July 1811). b. 31 Dec. 1795; paralysed at 10 months old and deprived for ever of the use of her lower limbs; translated the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, By A Lady in the country 1819; lived at Northrepps cottage near Cromer 1825 to death; travelled in Italy and Greece. d. Keswick near Norwich 6 June 1857. bur. in Overstrand church. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xiv, 187–9 (1858).

GURNEY, Rev. Archer Thompson (son of Richard Gurney 1790–1843, vice-warden of stannaries of Devon). b. Tregony, Cornwall 15 July 1820; barrister of M.T. 8 May 1846; ordained C. of Holy Trinity, Exeter 1849; chaplain to Court chapel, Paris 1858–71; C. of Llangunider, Brecon 1882–3; author of Turandot, Princess of China, a drama 1836; Songs of early summer 1856; Words of faith and cheer 1874 and other books, besides songs and hymns. d. Castle hotel, 4 Northgate st. Bath 21 March 1887.

GURNEY, Daniel (youngest son of John Gurney d. 1809). b. Earlham hall near Norwich 9 March 1791; partner in firm of Gurney & Co. bankers, Norwich 1820–80; F.S.A. 12 March 1818; sheriff of Norfolk 1853; author of The record of the house of Gournay 1848–58. d. North Runcton, Norfolk 14 June 1880.

GURNEY, Edmund (3 son of John Hampden Gurney 1802–62). b. Hersham near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey 23 March 1847; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1871, fellow 1872; resided at Harrow 1872–5; studied music 1872–5, medicine 1877–81 and law 1881–3; a founder of Soc. for Psychical research 1882 and a writer of numerous articles on the subject; a student of hypnotism 1887; author of The power of sound 1880; Tertium Quid, chapters on disputed questions 2 vols. 1887; principal author of Phantasms of the living 1886. d. from taking an overdose of narcotic at the Royal Albion hotel, Brighton 23 June 1888. Brighton Gazette 28 June 1888 p. 6.

GURNEY, Sir Goldsworthy (son of John Gurney of Trevorgus, Cornwall, d. 1823). b. Treator near Padstow 14 Feb. 1793; surgeon at Wadebridge 1814, in London 1820; invented the steam jet 1820 and the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe 1823; discovered Drummond light 1826; invented an instrument of musical glasses played as a piano; applied high pressure steam to a locomotive on the road from London to Bath 28 July 1829; invented Bude light 1839; introduced new mode of lighting house of commons 1839, superintendent of lighting and ventilation there 1854–63; knighted by patent 10 Aug. 1863. d. The Reeds near Bude 28 Feb. 1875.

GURNEY, Hudson (brother of Anna Gurney 1775–1857). b. Norwich 19 Jany. 1775; M.P. Shaftesbury 1812, unseated on petition; M.P. Newton, Isle of Wight 1816–31; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1812, V.P. 1822–46; F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1818; sheriff of Norfolk 1835; purchased from Mrs. Woodward all S. Woodward’s manuscripts, and printed the Norfolk Topographer’s Manual 1842 and the The history of Norwich castle 1847; wrote Cupid and Psyche: a mythological tale from the Golden Ass of Apuleius 1799, 3 ed. 1801; printed privately a translation of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso 1843. d. Keswick hall near Norwich 9 Nov. 1864. bur. Intwood ch. yard, personalty sworn under £1,100,000, 24 Dec. 1864. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections, i, 242–45 (1883).

GURNEY, Rev. John Hampden (1 son of Sir John Gurney 1768–1845). b. 12 Serjeant’s inn, Fleet st. London 15 Aug. 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; C. of Lutterworth, Leics. 1827–44; R. of St. Mary’s, Bryanston sq. London 6 Dec. 1847 to death; preb. of St. Pancras, St. Paul’s cath. 1857 to death; author of Historical sketches 1400–1546, 1852; St. Louis and Henry iv, 1855; God’s heroes and the world’s heroes 1858. d. 63 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 8 March 1862. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) p. 40, portrait.

GURNEY, John Henry (only son of Joseph John Gurney the philanthropist 1788–1847). b. 1819; of firm of Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay and Buxton, bankers in the eastern counties; M.P. Lynn Regis 1854–65; an active partner in Overend, Gurney & Co. bill discounters, London 1865, the firm suspended payment 10 May 1866 liabilities £11,000,000; presented his collections of birds to Norfolk and Norwich museum; author of A sketch of the raptorial birds in the Norwich museum 1872. d. Northrepps, Norfolk 21 April 1890. I.L.N. xxvi, 181 (1855), portrait; Pictorial World 8 May 1890 p. 598, portrait.

GURNEY, Rev. John Phillips. ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1834; chaplain of Black chapel, Great Waltham, Essex; V. of Great Canfield, Essex 22 Dec. 1822 to death; author of The woman and the dragon, an exposition of twelfth chapter of Apocalypse 1851; The approaching fall of Rome 1857. d. Great Canfield vicarage 9 March 1872.

GURNEY, Joseph (eld. son of W. B. Gurney 1777–1855). b. London 15 Oct. 1804; shorthand writer to houses of parliament 1849–72; treasurer of Religious Tract soc. and of Baptist coll. in Regent’s park; author of The annotated paragraph Bible, By J. G. 2 vols. 1850–60; The revised English Bible, Preface, By J. G. 1877. d. Tynedale lodge, Wimbledon common, Surrey 12 Aug. 1879.

GURNEY, Russell (brother of Rev. J. H. Gurney 1802–62). b. Norwood, Surrey 2 Sep. 1804; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1828, bencher 1845; Q.C 1845; judge of sheriff’s court and small debts court, city of London 1850; common serjeant of city of London, Jany. 1856; recorder of city of London 16 Dec. 1856, resigned Feb. 1878; M.P. Southampton, July 1865 to death; a comr. to inquire into disturbances in Jamaica Jany. 1866; P.C. 11 June 1866; F.R.S. 22 April 1875; prime warder of Fishmongers’ co. 1876. d. 8 Kensington palace gardens 31 May 1878. Times 1 June 1878 p. 13, 6 June p. 7; I.L.N. lxxii, 589–90 (1878), portrait.

GURNEY, Samuel (2 son of John Gurney, banker, d. 1809). b. Earlham hall near Norwich 18 Oct. 1786; partner with Richardson and Overend, bill and money lenders, 14 Birchin lane, London 1807; firm became Overend, Gurney & Co. 1824; known as the bankers’ banker; in 1856 the firm had deposits of eight millions, insolvent 1866; a patron of the colony of Liberia, his name given to a town in Gallenas 1851. d. Paris 5 June 1856. bur. Friends’ cemet. Barking 19 June. H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 347–64 (1866); I.L.N. xxix, 16 (1856), portrait.

GURNEY, Samuel (2 son of the preceding). b. Upton, Essex 1816; partner in Overend, Guerney & Co. London; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1857–65; sheriff of Surrey 1861; director of several telegraph companies; F.L.S. F.R.G.S. d. The Spa, Tunbridge Wells 4 April 1882 aged 66. I.L.N. 24 July 1859 pp. 92 94, portrait.

GURNEY, William Brodie (son of Joseph Gurney, shorthand writer, d. 1815). b. Stamford hill, London 24 Dec. 1777; a public shorthand writer, reported many state trials 1806–20; shorthand writer to houses of parliament 1813; founded Sunday school union 1803, sec., treasurer, pres. 1803 to death; a founder and editor of The Youth’s magazine 1805; lay preacher at London female penitentiary 1807; author of A lecture to children and youth 1848; edited Brachygraphy by T. Gurney, 15 ed. 1824, 16 ed. 1835. d. Denmark hill, Camberwell 25 March 1855. W. H. Watson’s First fifty years of the Sunday school (1873) 69–75.

GÜTZLAFF, Carl Friedrich August. b. Pyritz, Pomerania 8 July 1803; D.D.; sent to the East by Netherland missionary soc. 1827; went to Macao, China 1831; interpreter to British superintendency 1834; travelled in Japan 1837; Chinese sec. to British consulate, Canton 1844 to death; founded Christian union of Chinese to propagate the gospel 1840; visited England 1850; author of The Journal of three voyages along the coast of China 1834, 3 ed. 1840; A sketch of Chinese history 2 vols. 1834; China opened 2 vols. 1838 and many other works in Dutch, German, Latin, Siamese, Chinese and Japanese. d. Victoria, Hong Kong 9 Aug. 1851. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, x, 236–7 (1879).

GUTCH, John Mathew (eld. son of Rev. John Gutch 1746–1831, chaplain of All Souls’ coll. Ox.) b. Oxford 1776; ed. at Christ’s hospital; law stationer in Southampton buildings, Chancery lane to 1803; proprietor and printer of Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal 1804–44; second-hand bookseller at Bristol; partner in Lavender’s bank, Worcester 1823–48 when the bank failed; F.S.A. 1839; started with Robert Alexander the Morning Journal, London 6 Oct. 1828, last number 30 May 1830; wrote or edited The Country Constitutional Guardian, Bristol 1822–24 a monthly serial; edited Poems of Geo. Withers 3 vols. 1820 and works about Robin Hood 1847–66. d. Barbourne near Worcester 20 Sep. 1861.

GUTCH, John Wheeley Gough (only child of the preceding). b. Bristol 1809; M.R.C.S. 1830; practised in Florence; a queen’s messenger 1850–61; contributed to Felix Farley’s Journal; edited The literary and scientific register 1842–56. d. 38 Bloomsbury sq. London 30 April 1862. F. O. List (1862) p. 161.

GUTHRIE, Charles Seton (1 son of George Dempster Guthrie of Scots Calder). b. 1808; ed. at H.E.I.C. coll. Addiscombe; lieut. col. Bengal engineers 1855–57 when he retired; made a collection of 18,440 eastern coins, the largest ever brought together, which was offered to German government for £5,000; member of Numismatic soc. to death. d. 26 Dec. 1874. Numismatic Chronicle Proceedings, xv, 12 (Dec. 1875).

GUTHRIE, Frederick (son of Alexander Guthrie of 54 New Bond st. London, tailor). b. Bayswater, London 15 Oct. 1833; ed. at Univ. sch. and coll. London; B.A. London 1855, M.A.?; Ph.D. of Marburg univ. Prussia 1854; F.R.S. Edin. 1860; assist. prof. of chemistry Owen’s coll. Manchester 1856–9 and at Edin. 1859–61; prof. of chemistry and physics R. coll. Mauritius 1861–7; lecturer and prof. Sch. of science, South Kensington 1869 to death; discovered the Approach caused by vibration 1870; F.R.S. 8 June 1871; founder of Physical soc. of London 1873, president 1884; author of The Jew, a poem 1863, Logrono, a metric drama 1877, both under name of Frederick Cerny; Elements of heat 1868; The first book of knowledge 1881, new ed. 1883. d. of cancer of the throat 24 St. James’ sq. Notting hill, London 21 Oct. 1886. Nature 4 Nov. 1886 pp. 8–10.

GUTHRIE, George James (only son of Andrew Guthrie of Lower James st. Golden sq. London, chiropodist). b. London 1 May 1785; M.R.C.S. 5 Feb. 1801, member of council 1824, president 1833, 41, 54; assist. surgeon to 29 regt. 1801; served in Canada 1803–8, the Peninsula 1808–14 and at Waterloo 1815; surgeon on half pay Sep. 1814; lectured on surgery in London 1816–45; the first in England who used a lithotrite for crushing a stone in the bladder 1816; founded infirmary for diseases of the eye 1816 which became R. Westminster ophthalmic hospital; assist. surgeon to Westminster hospital 1823, surgeon 1827–43; professor of anatomy and surgery 1828–31; F.R.S. 1827; author of Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye 1827; On diseases and injuries of arteries, with their cure 1830; On the operation for extraction of a cataract from the eye 1834; Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, &c. 6 ed. 1853. d. 4 Berkeley st. Berkeley sq. London 1 May 1856. Lancet 15 June 1850 pp. 726–36, portrait; Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery, iv, (1840), portrait; Medical Circular, iv, 13–15, 33–34, (1854).

GUTHRIE, James Alexander (1 son of David Charles Guthrie of Craigie, Dundee). b. 8 Sep. 1823; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1852; merchant and banker 9 Idol lane, London as Chalmers and Guthrie; director of bank of England 1858–60, 1861–66, 1867–69 and 1870 to death. d. 78 Portland place, London 17 Jany. 1873.

GUTHRIE, Rev. John. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar; 10 wrangler and B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; R. of Thorpe, Notts. 1827; V. of Helmarton, Wilts. 1833; R. of Calstone-Willington 1833; V. of Calne, Wilts. 7 Feb. 1835 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. 1852–8; canon residentiary Bristol cath. 1858 to death; author of On the neglect of christian ordinances 1855 and other pamphlets. d. Dorset house, Clifton 6 July 1865.

GUTHRIE, Rev. Thomas (6 son of David Guthrie of Brechin, merchant, d. March 1824). b. Brechin 12 July 1803; ed. at univ. of Edin. 1815–26, D.D. 1849; manager of his father’s bank, Brechin 1827–9; minister of Arbirlot, Forfarshire 1830–37; a minister of Old Greyfriar’s church, Edin. 1837 and of St. John’s parish 1840–3; minister of Free St. John’s ch. 1843–64; moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1862; presented with £5000, 20 Feb. 1865; F.R.S. Edin. 1869; ed. the Sunday Mag. 1864 to death; author of The gospel in Ezekiel 1856, circulated 50,000 copies; The city, its sins and sorrows 1857; Studies of character from the Old Testament, 2 series 1867–70 and about 30 lectures, sermons and tracts. d. Eversfield place, St. Leonard’s on Sea 24 Feb. 1873. bur. Grange cemet. Edin. 28 Feb. Autobiography of T. Guthrie 2 vols. (1874–5), 3 portraits; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 83–7, portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); Illust. news of the world, viii, (1861), portrait.

Note.—He did more than any other man from 1847 onwards, to popularise ragged schools. Samuel Smiles in his Self-Help calls him The Apostle of the ragged school movement.

GUTTERIDGE, Thomas (son of Mr. Gutteridge, a wharfinger, London, then landlord of White Lion tavern, Birmingham). L.S.A. 1826; M.R.C.S. 1827; surgeon Birmingham; professor of anatomy Soc. of Arts 1832, presented with 100 guineas 1842; G. F. Muntz found guilty of assaulting him in an anti-church rate riot at the Old Church, Birmingham 1837; opposed confirmation of Dr. James Prince Lee as bp. of Manchester in St. James’ ch. Piccadilly, London 10 Jany. 1848; found guilty of libels on Dr. Lee at Warwick 6 April 1848; author of Church rates 1842 and of 4 works on the corruptions and abuses in the Birmingham hospital 1844–51. d. Birmingham 3 May 1880. Edgbastoniana, iii, 34–6 (1883), portrait; Langford’s Modern Birmingham, i, 13, 519 (1868).

GUTTERIDGE, William. b. Chelmsford, Essex 1798; leader of band in the park theatre, Brussels 1815; leader at Birmingham theatre 1818; member of George iv. band and of William iv. band; resided in Brighton 1823 to death; organist of St. Peter’s ch. 1828; conductor of Old Sacred Harmonic soc. 1828; had a music warehouse in Castle sq.; much patronised by Geo. iv. and Victoria. d. 55 London road, Brighton 23 Sept. 1872.

GUY, Joseph (2 son of Joseph Guy of Bristol, schoolmaster). b. 4 May 1784; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf.; private tutor and schoolmaster; author of Guy’s New exercises in orthography 1818; Guy’s Geographia Antiqua 1830; Royal Victoria spelling book 1850; Guy’s New Speaker 1852 and about 12 other school books all of which were often reprinted. d. 5 Eden place, Kentish Town, London 16 Jany. 1867. Bookseller 31 Jany. 1867 p. 11.

GUY, Joseph. b. Nottingham 30 July 1814; a baker; kept Carpenters’ Arms inn, Mansfield road, Nottingham 1856 to death; first played at Lord’s 25–26 June 1838 the Coronation match; after Pilch and Wenman the best batsman in England; had a benefit on Trent Bridge ground 4 Aug. 1856 when he cleared £165 9s. 6d. d. Nottingham 15 April 1873. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 449 (1862), v, page xv (1876).

GUY, Sir Philip Melmoth Nelson (only son of Melmoth Guy of Kenton hall, Devon). b. Sidmouth, Devon 1804; ensign 5 foot 23 Sep. 1824, lieut. colonel 21 May 1850 to 1 Sep. 1861; commanded third infantry brigade at siege and capture of Lucknow 5–28 March 1858; governor of Jersey 1 Oct. 1868 to 1 Oct. 1873; colonel of 55 foot 14 Dec. 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Wiesbaden 10 March 1878.

GUY, William Augustus. b. Chichester 1810; ed. Pemb. coll. Cam., M.B. 1837, M.L. 1838; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1844, Croonian lecturer 1861, Lumleian 1868 and Harveian 1875; professor of forensic medicine King’s coll. Lond. 1838, dean of the medical faculty 1846, 1849, permanent dean 1850–58; edited Journal Statistical soc. 1852–6, hon. sec. 1843–68, president 1873–5; F.R.S. 7 June 1866, V.P. 1876–7; author of Principles of Forensic medicine 1844, 4 ed. 1857; Public Health 2 parts 1870–74. d. 12 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 10 Sept. 1885 in 76 year. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865) 59–64, portrait.

GUYON, Richard Debaufre (3 son of John Guyon, commander R.N. d. 1844). b. Walcot, Bath 31 March 1803; received a commission in Austrian army 1823, capt. 1827; became country gentleman in Hungary 1839; opposed Jellachich at the head of a section of the revolutionists of 1848, defeated him at Pakozd 29 Sept.; fled to Turkey, Aug. 1849; the first Christian who obtained rank of pacha and a Turkish military command without betraying his religion, known as Khourschid Pacha (the Sun); defeated by the Russians at battle of Kurekdere 5 or 6 Aug. 1854. d. of cholera at Scutari 13 Oct. 1856. R. A. Kinglake’s The patriot general Guyon (1856), portrait; E. H. Nolan’s History of Russian war, i, 294 (1855), portrait.

GWATKIN, Edward (eld. son of Robert Lovell Gwatkin of Killiow, Cornwall 1757–1843). Entered Bengal army 1804 and was in India to 1855; col. 31 Bengal N.I. 17 Nov. 1853 to death. d. at sea on board the ‘Hotspur’ near England 13 April 1855. Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 307–8.

GWILT, John Sebastian (son of the succeeding). b. 1811; ed. at Westminster sch.; architect; assisted his father in A project for a New National gallery 1838 and with drawings for An Encyclopædia of architecture 1851. d. Hambledon, Henley on Thames 4 March 1890.

GWILT, Joseph (younger son of George Gwilt, surveyor to county of Surrey, d. 9 Dec. 1807). b. parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark 11 Jany. 1784; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; surveyor to county of Surrey 1807–46; built Lee ch. Lewisham 1814, Markree Castle near Sligo 1843 and Ch. of St. Thomas, Charlton, Woolwich 1846; F.S.A. 1815, F.R.A.S. 1833; author of A treatise on the equilibrium of arches 1811, 3 ed. 1839; Notitia architectonica Italiana 1818; Sciography or examples of shadows 1822, 2 ed. 1824, the first English treatise on the subject; An encyclopædia of architecture 1842, 3 ed. 1859; translated The Architecture of Vitruvius 1826. d. South Hill, Henley-on-Thames 14 Sep. 1863. Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xx, 178–81 (1864).

GWYN, Howel (1 son of William Gwyn of Abercrane, Brecon, d. 1830). b. 24 June 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; contested Penryn 1841 and 1859, M.P. 1847–57; contested Barnstaple 1865; M.P. Brecknock 1866–8 when unseated; contested Brecon county 1875; sheriff of co. Glamorgan 1837, of co. Carmarthen 1838 and of co. Brecon 1842. d. Duffryn, Neath 25 Jany. 1888.