GOWAN, George Edward. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 1 April 1806; col. commandant 3 July 1845 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 19 June 1846 to 20 June 1854; commanded Ferozepore district 1849–52, Lahore division 1853–58; L.G. 27 Sep. 1859; C.B. 22 May 1843. d. Pen hill near Bath 19 Dec. 1865 aged 77.
GOWAN, Ogle Robert. b. co. Wexford, Ireland 1796; edited the Antidote 1822–25 and the Sentinel 1825–29, Dublin weekly papers; went to Canada 1829; commanded 2nd regiment of Leeds militia; during Mc Kenzie-Papineau rebellion of 1837–9, he was designated “the right arm of British power in America”; founder of Orange lodges of North America, grand master 20 years; a member of Canadian parliament 1834–41; edited the Brockville Statesman weekly paper 1829–51 and the Patriot and the British Empire 1851–55; author of Orangeism, its origin and history 3 vols. 1859. d. Toronto 21 Aug. 1876.
GOWANS, Sir James. b. 1821; a railway contractor; constructed Bathgate railway, various sections of North British railway, 35 miles of Highland railway and other lines; laid down first tramway in Scotland sanctioned by Parliament; member of Edinburgh town council many years; chairman of executive committee of Edinburgh Exhibition 1886; knighted by the Queen at Holyrood palace 19 Aug. 1886; Lord Dean of Guild of Edinburgh 1886 to death; author of Model dwelling-houses 1886; Edinburgh and its neighbourhood in the days of our grandfathers 1886. d. 1 Blantyre terrace, Edinburgh 25 June 1890.
GOWANS, William. b. Lismahagow, Scotland 29 March 1803; went to U.S.A. 1821; a gardener in New York 1825, afterwards a stonecutter, a stevedore and a vendor of newspapers; bookseller in New York 1828–37 and 1840 to death; book auctioneer 1837, issued 28 book catalogues 1842–70, his stock of books at his death numbered nearly 300,000 vols.; author of Gowans’ Bibliotheca Americana 5 numbers 1845–69; A catalogue of books on Freemasonry 1858. d. New York 27 Nov. 1870. Appleton’s American Biography (1887) ii, 698, portrait.
GOYDER, Rev. David George. b. Angel’s court, Westminster 1 March 1796; educ. Westminster sch. 1805; apprenticed to a brush maker 1810 and to a printer 1814; schoolmaster to the Swedenborgians’ soc. at Bristol 1821 and a minister 3 Nov. 1822; school organiser, inspector and missionary for the Swedenborgians 1825 etc.; lecturer on phrenology; author of Swedenborg and his mission 1853; Lectures on Freemasonry 1864; The book of family worship 1871 and 15 other books, d. Bradford, Yorkshire 2 July 1878 aged 82. My battle for life, The autobiography of a phrenologist, by D. G. Goyder (1857).
GRABHAM, John. Entered British Museum 4 March 1833, second superintendent of Reading-room there 1850 to death; compiled Index to Encyclopedia Metropolitana 1842 and to Townsend and Cattley’s ed. of Foxe’s “Acts and Monuments” 1849; edited and made additions to Bishop E. Maltby’s Greek Gradus 3rd ed. 1850. d. 15 Noel st., Islington, London 9 Aug. 1858 aged 57.
GRACE, George Frederick (youngest son of the succeeding). b. Downend near Bristol 13 Dec. 1850; played many cricket matches as one of the Gloucestershire eleven; played in South v. North at Canterbury 1866; a good batsman and bowler, and one of the finest fieldsmen ever known at long-leg and cover-point. d. of pneumonia at Red Lion hotel, Basingstoke 22 Sep. 1880. bur. Downend ch. 27 Sep. Sporting Mirror i, 157–8 (1881), portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, i, 568, 570 (1874), portrait, xiv, 53 (1880), portrait; Hants. and Berks. gazette 25 Sept. 1880, p. 5.
GRACE, Henry Mills. b. Long Ashton, Somerset; L.S.A. 1829, M.R.C.S. 1830; surgeon to Royal Gloucs. hussars 1841 to death; father of the 5 Messrs. Grace; kept up West Gloucs. cricket club many years; founder & treasurer of Gloucestershire county cricket club; a right hand batsman but fielded and threw left. d. Downend 23 Dec. 1871 aged 63. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores v, 93 (1876).
GRACE, Oliver Dowell John. b. Mantua house, Elphin 19 Oct. 1791; sheriff of Roscommon 1830; M.P. for co. Roscommon 1847–59. d. Mantua house 25 Jany. 1871.
GRAFTON, Henry Fitzroy, 5 Duke of. b. 10 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1814; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 1818–30, for Thetford 1834–44; col. East Suffolk militia 1823–30, col. West Suffolk militia 1830–45; succeeded 28 Sep. 1844. d. Wakefield lodge, Northamptonshire 26 March 1863.