GLOVER, Edmund (eld. son of Samuel Glover and Julia Glover, actress, who d. 16 July 1850). b. England 1813; acted at Haymarket theatre, London, at Edinburgh 1841 where he played Richelieu, Rob Roy, etc.; engaged Jenny Lind in 1847 to sing in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth, cleared £3000; lessee of Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 1848; manager of Paisley and Dunfermline theatres and of Greenock theatre in 1849; last appeared as Triplet in Edinburgh 25 May 1859; a good actor, dancer, fencer and pantomimist. d. 3 Gayfield place, Edinburgh 23 Oct. 1860. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh stage (1888) 380 et seq.
GLOVER, Edward Auchmuty (eld. son of James Glover of Mount Glover, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837; called to bar in Ireland 1840; insolvent in Ireland 1849; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1852; contested Canterbury 18 Aug. 1854; contested Beverley 7 July 1852, M.P. for Beverley 28 March 1857 to 3 Aug. 1857 when unseated on petition; sentenced at Central Criminal Court 13 April 1858 to 3 months’ imprisonment in Newgate for having made false declaration as to his property, this was the last prosecution of the kind, the property qualification of M.P’s. was abolished by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26, 28 June 1858. d. 65 Denbigh st. Pimlico, London 17 March 1862 aged 45. Annual Register (1858) 69–71; Wolferstan and Dew’s Reports i, 214–24 (1859).
GLOVER, Sarah Ann (eld. dau. of Rev. Edward Glover, R. of St. Lawrence, Norwich). Governess in family of Sir T. Fowell Buxton; taught children at Norwich music on the Sol-faing mode 1815; founded the Tonic Sol-fa method 1840 which Rev. John Curwen modified and made popular 1844; entertained at a soirée in Jewin st. schoolroom, London 20 April 1855; author of A manual of the Norwich Sol-fa system 1845; Manual of Tetrachordal system 1850; resided 11 St. Owen st. Hereford; portrait in Tonic Sol-fa coll. Forest Gate, Essex. d. Great Malvern 20 Oct. 1867 aged 82. Memorials of J. Curwen (1882) pp. viii, 49, 173.
GLOVER, Ven. George (son of George Glover of Wigan). b. 1778; ed. at Manchester sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1811; R. of South Repps, Norfolk 1804 to death; archdeacon of Sudbury 21 July 1823 to death; V. of Gayton, Norfolk 1831 to death; author of A course of sermons 2 vols. 1859. d. South Repps 4 May 1862, memorial brass on chancel floor of South Repps church. Manchester School Register ii, 196–8 (1868).
GLOVER, Sir John Hawley (son of rev. John Glover, English chaplain at Cologne). Entered R.N. 1841; in expedition to the Niger under Dr. Baikie 1857–61; acting consul at Lagos 22 May to 21 Nov. 1863, colonial secretary 9 May 1864 and administrator of the settlement 19 Oct. 1866 to 1872; commissioner to friendly natives near the Gold coast 18 Aug. 1873; commanded 800 houssas in the march to Coomassie 1874, received thanks of both houses of parliament; G.C.M.G. 8 May 1874; governor of Newfoundland Jany. 1876 to June 1881, and 17 Dec. 1883 to death; retired captain 24 Nov. 1877; governor of the Leeward islands Dec. 1881 to 17 Dec. 1883. d. 35 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 30 Sept. 1885. I.L.N. lxiv. 384, 386 (1874), portrait.
GLOVER, Percy Clabon (2 son of Rev. Richard Glover, vicar of St. Luke’s, West Holloway). b. Holy Trinity parsonage, Maidstone 14 May 1856; educ. Highgate and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; founded the De Quincy soc. at his coll. 1878; served as tutor with various families in England and abroad; his collar bone fractured playing Lacrosse at Dulwich 5 March 1888. d. of rheumatic fever at Addiscombe vicarage 1 April 1888. Self Discipline, a memoir of P. C. Glover by Rev. Richard Glover (1889), with portrait.
GLOVER, Stephen. Author of The Peak guide, Derby 1830; The history and gazetteer of county of Derby, ed. by Thomas Noble, vol. i, pt. i, 1831, vol. ii, pt. i, 1833, never finished; assisted Thomas Bateman in his Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire 1848. d. 26 Dec. 1869. bur. Moreton, Cheshire.
GLOVER, Stephen (brother of Charles W. Glover 1806–63). b. London 1812; teacher of music, London; composer of Merry is the Greenwood, a cavatina 1847; Beauty and the beast, chamber opera 1868; The dream is past 1837, What are the wild waves saying 1850, Stars of the summer night 1855, There is a sweet wild rose 1863, duets; Annie on the Banks o’ Dee 1857, Emigrants’ Farewell 1850, songs; and upwards of 1200 other works all of which commanded a sale. d. 71 Talbot road, Bayswater, London 7 Dec. 1870. Grove’s Music and Musicians (1889) iv, 648–9.
GLOVER, William. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; serjeant at law 19 June 1840; purchased Morning Chronicle from Duke of Newcastle, W. E. Gladstone and Sidney Herbert for £7500 in 1854, receiving from them £3000 a year for 3 years; engaged with Napoleon III. to edit the paper in his interest 1855, brought actions against French government for breach of contract; sold the paper to George Stiff 1860, it ceased 1862; author of A practical treatise on the law of municipal corporations 1836. d. 3 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 21 Dec. 1870. Grant’s Newspaper Press (1871) i, 310–12.
GLOVER, William Howard (brother of Edmund Glover 1813–60). b. Kilburn, London 6 June 1819; a violinist in Lyceum orchestra under Wagstaff 1834; with his mother founded Music and dramatic agency Soho sq. London; gave a season of opera in Manchester with his own pupils; gave annual monster concerts at St. James’s hall and Drury Lane; initiated performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony with pictorial and choregraphic illustrations 1863, and of Israel in Egypt 1865; his cantata Tam o’Shanter produced at Philharmonic 4 July 1855; his opera Ruy Blas brought out at Covent Garden 24 Oct. 1861; musical critic on Morning Post 1849–65; conductor of Niblo’s orchestra, New York 1868; Palomita operetta produced at Niblo’s 1875. d. New York 28 Oct. 1875.