GLYN, Henry Carr. b. 17 April 1829; entered navy 4 March 1844; captain 20 Aug. 1861; V.A. 9 June 1882; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 32 Eaton place, London 16 Feb. 1884. bur. family vault, Stanbridge church 21 Feb. Illust. sp. and dr. news xx, 661 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 205 (1884), portrait.
GLYN, Isabella Dallas (dau. of Mr. Gearns, architect). b. Edinburgh 22 May 1823; appeared at Manchester under her mother’s maiden name Glyn 8 Nov. 1847 as Constance in King John; at Olympic, London as Lady Macbeth 26 Jany. 1848; played at Sadler’s Wells 1848–51; gave her first Shakespearian reading Sep. 1851; appeared at Drury Lane as Bianca in Fazio 26 Dec. 1851, at St. James’ 1854, at Standard 1855, at Sadler’s Wells 1859, at Princess’s 1867; gave recitals at Boston, U.S.A. 1870; gave Shakespeare readings at Steinway hall and St. James’ hall 1878, 1879; a theatrical instructor; the latest adherent of the Kemble sch. of acting. m. (1) Edward Wills; m. (2) in Glasgow, Dec. 1853 and in London 12 July 1855 Eneas Sweetland Dallas d. 1879, divorced on her petition 10 May 1874, she was imprisoned at Holloway for contempt of court in declining to give up documents relating to her divorce case, released 28 June 1876. d. of cancer 13 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 18 May 1889. The Duchess of Malfi, with a memoir of Miss Glyn (1851) pp. 1–6, portrait; Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. (1850) 37–40, 2 portraits; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 1–2, portrait, and parts 7, 10, 12, 17, 21, 5 portraits; The Players iii, 391, 408 (1861), portrait.
GLYNN, Henry Richard (youngest son of John Glynn 1722–79, serjeant at law, M.P. for Middlesex). b. 2 Sep. 1768; entered navy 19 May 1780; captain 10 April 1797; admiral 9 Nov. 1846, placed on half pay June 1851; mayor of Plymouth 1838. d. Bideford 20 July 1856.
GLYNN, Joseph (son of James Glynn of Ouseburn iron foundry, Newcastle). b. Hanover sq. Newcastle 6 Feb. 1799; designed and executed gas works for Berwick upon Tweed 1821; engineer to Butterley iron co. Derbyshire; employed the water wheel or scoop wheel for draining marshes and fens by steam power; chairman of Eastern counties railway 2 years; M.I.C.E. 22 April 1828; member of Society of Arts 16 Nov. 1836; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1838; author of Rudimentary treatise on the construction of cranes 1849, 4 ed. 1865. d. 28 Westbourne park villas, London 6 Feb. 1863.
GLYNNE, Sir Stephen Richard, 9 Baronet. b. Hawarden castle, Flintshire 22 Sep. 1807; succeeded 5 March 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; M.P. for Flint district 1832–5, for Flintshire 1837–41 and 1842–47; lord lieut. of Flintshire 30 June 1845 to death; taken ill in street and d. Dr. Flack’s surgery 56 High st. Shoreditch, London 17 June 1874. Times 18, 19, 20 June 1874.
GOAD, John. b. Plymouth 20 Feb. 1825; known universally as the quarrier and worker of Devonshire marble having 4 large quarries near Plymouth, supplied all the polished marble for interior of the Oratory at Brompton, London 1854; found dead in his bed at his residence, Buckingham place, Stonehouse, Plymouth 25 Jany. 1886.
GOBAT, Right Rev. Samuel. b. Cremuse, canton Berne, Switzerland 26 Jany. 1799; studied at Bale, Paris and London; entered service of Church Missionary Soc., laboured in Abyssinia 1830–32; principal of Missionary college, Malta 1839; nominated bishop of Jerusalem by King of Prussia 1846; consecrated at Lambeth 5 July 1846; naturalised in England by act of parliament 9 & 10 Vict. c. 49, 13 Aug. 1846; author of Journal of a three years residence in Abyssinia 1847. d. Jerusalem 11 May 1879.
GODBY, Christopher. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 55 Bengal N.I. 1853 to death; L.G. 22 Nov. 1862; C.B. 21 May 1846. d. South bank, Batheaston 8 Dec. 1867 aged 77.
GODDARD, George Bouverie. b. Salisbury 25 Dec. 1832; self taught artist; spent 2 years in zoological gardens, London, studying animal life 1849–51; drew sporting subjects on wood for Punch; settled in London 1857; exhibited 19 paintings at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1856–79; chiefly an animal painter; his principle works were Lord Wolverton’s blood hounds 1875, The struggle for existence 1879 now in Walker gallery, Liverpool, Love and War in the Abbotsbury swannery 1883. d. 37 Brook green, Hammersmith, London 6 March 1886.
GODFREY, Adolphus Frederick (son of the succeeding). b. 1837; bandmaster of the Coldstream Guards Dec. 1863 to death; wrote many lancers, polkas, galops and quadrilles; confined in Peckham lunatic asylum, Surrey 1 June 1881. d. there 28 Aug. 1882.