GILBERT, Sir Walter Raleigh, 1 Baronet (3 son of Rev. Edmund Gilbert, R. of Helland, Cornwall, who d. 1816). b. Bodmin 18 March 1785; entered Bengal army 1800; lieut. col. 39 Bengal N.I. 1824; col. 35 Bengal N.I. 1832; commanded divisions in first and second Sikh wars 1845–6 and 1849; col. 1 European regiment 1845 to death; member of council of India 3 April 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 3 April 1846, G.C.B. 9 June 1849; created baronet 31 Dec. 1850. d. Stevens’ hotel, Bond st. London 10 May 1853, memorial obelisk erected on the Beacon, Bodmin 1856–7. G.M. xxxix, 652–3 (1853); I.L.N. vii, 269 (1845), portrait, viii, 269 (1846), portrait, xxii, 404, 483 (1853); Bentley’s Miscellany xxxiii, 627–32 (1853).
GILBERT, William. Entered Bombay army 1795; col. 21 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to 17 Feb. 1852; col. 3 Bombay N.I. 17 Feb. 1852 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Tweed near Lymington, Hants. 5 Nov. 1866 aged 85.
GILBERT, William. Author of On present system of rating for the poor in the metropolis 1857; De Profundis 2 vols. 1864; Sir Thomas Bramston 3 vols. 1869; King George’s Middy 1869; Doctor Austin’s Guests 2 vols. 1866; The City, an enquiry into the corporation, its livery companies 1877 and 20 other books; some of his books are illustrated by his son W. S. Gilbert. d. The Close, Salisbury 3 Jany. 1889 in 86 year. Contemporary Review xii, 437–40 (1869).
GILBEY, Alfred. b. Bishop Stortford, Herts. 23 Oct. 1833; with his elder brother Henry P. Gilbey, wine merchant, London 1847; in government civil service in the Crimea 1855; firm of William and A. Gilbey, wine merchants 357 Oxford st. London, established Feb. 1857; firm admitted 6 other partners all relatives; removed business to the Pantheon, Oxford st. 1867, wine and spirit business became largest in Great Britain; author with W. Gilbey of Treatise on wines and spirits of the producing countries 1869. d. Wooburn house, Wooburn, Bucks. 28 Nov. 1879, personalty sworn under £350,000, 23 Feb. 1880. Wine Trade Review 15 Dec. 1879 p. 599 and 15 March 1880 p. 107.
GILCHRIST, Alexander (son of James Gilchrist of Newington Green, London 1783–1835). b. Newington Green 25 April 1828; ed. at Univ. college school; barrister M.T. 3 May 1850; author of Life of William Etty, R.A. 2 vols. 1855; Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus 2 vols. 1863; contributed to Eclectic Review, Literary Review and Critic. d. 6 Cheyne row, Chelsea 30 Nov. 1861. A. Gilchrist’s Life of W. Blake, (2 ed. 1880) ii, 359–76.
GILCHRIST, Anne (dau. of John Parker Burrows, solicitor, d. 1839). b. 7 Gower st. London 25 Feb. 1828; educ. under the Misses Cahusac at Highgate 1833; resided at Guildford and Chelsea 1828 etc.; in U.S. America 1876–79; friend of W. M. Rossetti 1862. (m. 4 Feb. 1851 the preceding); author of Lost in the woods 1864; Secular ethics of a national education 1872; Mary Lamb 1883; contributed to Household Words and Blackwood’s Mag. d. Keat’s corner, Well road, Hampstead 29 Nov. 1885. Life and writings of Anne Gilchrist (1887), with portraits.
GILDEA, Very Rev. George Robert. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; C. of Westport, Tuam 1826–28; C. of Kilmaine 1828–34; R. of Newport, Ireland 1834–44; R. of Kilmaine 1844–67; R. of Moylough 1867–73; provost of Tuam cathedral 1872 to death; author of Reproductive relief spinning in the West of Ireland 1849. d. 17 Alfred place, Thurloe sq. London 2 June 1887 in 84 year.
GILDERDALE, Rev. John. b. 1802; educ. Howden gram. sch. Essex and St. Catharine’s hall, Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. 1853, ad eundem Oxford 1847; C. of Huddersfield 1840–42; lecturer Halifax parish ch. Yorkshire 1842–47; principal of the Forest sch. Walthamstow 1848 to 1863; P.C. of Caundle Stourton, Dorset 1863; author of An essay on natural religion and revelation 1837; A course of family prayer for one month 1838; A letter to Lord Brougham on national education 1838. d. Caundle Stourton 25 Sep. 1864 aged 62.
GILES, Rev. Henry. b. Cranford, Wexford 1 Nov. 1809; Unitarian minister at Greenock 2 years, at Liverpool 3 years; went to America 1840 where he became a brilliant lecturer; author of Lectures and essays 2 vols. 1850; Christian thought on life 1850; Human life in Shakespeare 1868, all at Boston, U.S.A., and other books. d. Hyde park near Boston 10 July 1882.
GILES, James William. b. Glasgow 4 Jany. 1801; at age of 13 maintained his mother and sister by painting; taught classes in Aberdeen 1821; visited Italy; portrait and landscape painter; A.R.S.A. 1829; exhibited 2 works at R.A., 80 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1830–68, and many at R. Scottish Academy; his picture ‘The Weird Wife’ is in the National gallery of Scotland. d. Bon Accord st. Aberdeen 6 Oct. 1870.