GILLIES, Robert Pierce (son of Dr. Thomas Gillies. d. 1808). b. at or near Arbroath 1788; educ. Edin. univ.; admitted advocate 1813; in pecuniary difficulties from 1813 to his decease; imprisoned for debt 1847–9; friend of Scott and Wordsworth; an early contributor to Blackwood’s Mag.; called Kempferhausen in the Noctes Ambrosianæ; founder and editor of Foreign Quarterly Review, July 1827; resided in London 1827 and at Boulogne 1840–47; author of Childe Alarique, a poet’s reverie, by R. P. G. 1814; The confessions of Sir H. Longueville, by R. P. G. 2 vols. 1814; German stories 3 vols. 1826; Tales of a voyager to the Arctic Ocean 6 vols. 1826–29; Memoirs of a literary veteran 3 vols. 1851. d. Kensington 28 Nov. 1858.
GILLIS, Most Rev. James (only child of Alexander Gillis of Fochabers, Elgin, who d. Nov. 1833). b. Montreal 7 April 1802; founded St. Margaret’s convent, Edinburgh for nuns of the Ursuline order 16 June 1835; coadjutor bishop of Eastern district of Scotland 28 July 1837; consecrated bishop of Limyra in partibus 22 July 1838; vicar apostolic of East of Scotland 24 May 1852 to death; introduced the Jesuits into his district 1859; author of Facts relating to admission into catholic church of viscount and viscountess Feilding 1850 and many letters and discourses. d. Greenhill near Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1864. Gordon’s Catholic mission in Scotland (18 ) 480, portrait; History of St. Margaret’s convent, Edinburgh (1886), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 151–3.
GILLKREST, James. Hospital assistant in the army 1800; surgeon 43 foot 1804; inspector general 1845–46 when placed on retired list; author of Cholera Gleanings, a family handbook 1849; Notes worth noticing relative to the Cholera 1852, of a work on yellow fever which he presented to French Academy of Medicine, and of a monograph on yellow fever published in General Board of Health’s second report on quarantine. d. St. Alban’s place, Haymarket London 25 Dec. 1853.
GILLMAN, Joseph. b. Little Over near Derby 1759; fought under Rodney and Hood off Port Royal, Jamaica, April 1782, believed to have been last survivor of that battle; one of the foremost mutineers at the Nore, May-June 1797; one of forlorn hope at storming of Seringapatam 4 May 1799; received a compound fracture of both legs at Copenhagen 2 April 1801. d. Manchester 25 June 1855 in 96 year.
GILLOTT, Joseph. b. Sheffield 11 Oct. 1799; working cutler; removed to Birmingham 1821; adapted the press to the making of steel pens 1830, invented side slits and cross grinding of the points, sold the pens at 1s. each; established works at Graham st. Newhall hill 1859 where he employed 450 persons and sold his pens at 4d. the gross; formed a collection of paintings chiefly Turner’s and Etty’s, collection sold in 1873 for £170,000; collected violins which realised £4000; had a residence at Stanmore near London. d. Westbourne road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 5 Jany. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000. Practical Mag. (1873) i, 322–5, portrait; Mayhew’s Shops of London (1865) 98–100; Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 89–100.
GILLOW, Rev. John (youngest son of John Gillow of Elswick Grange). b. 27 Feb. 1814; ed. at Ushaw college, Durham, professor of mathematics there 1837–42, of natural philosophy 1842–50, of dogmatic theology 1850–59 and 1863 to death, of moral theology 1859–60; canon theologian of cathedral chapter of Hexham 1857; created D.D. by Pius ix, 1859; vice pres. of Ushaw college 1859 to death. d. Ushaw college 9 Aug. 1877. J. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 476–81 (1885).
GILLY, Rev. William Stephen (son of Rev. Wm. Gilly, R. of Wanstead, Essex, who d. 23 Nov. 1837 aged 75). b. 28 Jany. 1789; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Caius and St. Catharine’s hall, Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, D.D. 1833; R. of North Fambridge, Essex 1817; canon of Durham 1826; P.C. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1827–51; V. of Norham on the Tweed 1851 to death; canon residentiary of Durham 1853 to death; author of The Spirit of the Gospel 1818; A memoir of Felix Neff 1832, many eds.; Our Protestant Forefathers 1835, many eds., and numerous other books. d. Norham 10 Sep. 1855. G.M. xliv, 437–39 (1855).
GILPIN, Rev. Bernard (4 son of Rev. Wm. Gilpin, R. of Pulverbatch, Salop). b. Cheam, Surrey 26 Jany. 1803; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; R. of St. Andrew, Hertford 15 Jany. 1829 to Oct. 1835 when he resigned and seceded from Church of England; preached for 35 years in a chapel at Port Vale Bengeo, Hertford, built for him by his followers. d. Pulverbatch 10 Jany. 1871. Benson’s Memorials of B. Gilpin (1874), with portrait.
GILPIN, Charles (son of James Gilpin of Bristol). b. Bristol 1815; publisher and bookseller in Bishopsgate st. London to 1853; common councilman London 1848; parliamentary sec. of Poor law board 28 June 1859 to 22 Feb. 1865; contested Perth 1852; M.P. for Northampton, April 1857 to death; chairman of National freehold land society. d. 10 Bedford sq. Holborn, London 8 Sep. 1874. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 3rd series (1860), portrait; The statesmen of England (1862) No. 45, portrait; I.L.N. xxxiii, 92, 94 (1858), portrait, lxv, 260, 273, 379 (1874), portrait.
GILPIN, Henry Dilwood (son of Joshua Gilpin of Philadelphia 1765–1840). b. Lancaster 14 April 1801; ed. in England 1811–16; graduated at Univ. of Pennsylvania 1819; attorney in Philadelphia 1822 to death; attorney general of the U.S. 1840–1; edited Atlantic Souvenir 7 vols. 1826–32; published Opinions of the attorney generals of the United States 2 vols., Washington 1841 and other books. d. Philadelphia 29 Jany. 1860. Memorials of H. D. Gilpin, Privately printed Philadelphia (1860); Appleton’s American biography ii, 659 (1887), portrait.