GRAFTON, William Henry Fitzroy, 6 Duke of. b. Grosvenor place, London 4 Aug. 1819; M.P. for Thetford 1847–63; succeeded 26 March 1863. d. 4 Grosvenor place, London 21 May 1882. Baily’s Mag. xxxiv, 311 (1879), portrait.
GRAFTON, Frederick William. b. 1816; head of firm of F. W. Grafton & Co., calico printers of Broad Oak, Accrington and Manchester; owner of Heysham hall, Lancs.; M.P. for North-East Lancs. 1880–85. d. 7 Kensington palace gardens, London 27 Jany. 1890.
GRAHAM, Clementina Stirling (eldest dau. of Patrick Stirling of Pittendriech, who in 1802 took the surname of Graham). b. Dundee, May 1782; an intimate friend of Francis Lord Jeffrey and Henry T. Lord Cockburn; lived partly in Edinburgh and partly at Duntrune, Forfarshire; her house was a meeting place for all literary persons; had great powers of personation and of disguising herself; author of The Bee preserver, By Jonas de Gelieu, a translation 1829, another ed. 1876; Mystification, with poems and sketches, privately printed 1859, published 1865, 4 ed. 1869. d. Duntrune 22 Aug. 1877. Mystification, 4 ed. (1869) p. i, etc., with portrait; W. Chambers’s Stories of remarkable persons (1878) 289–302; John Leech and other papers, By John Brown, 2 ed. (1882) 169–75.
GRAHAM, David. b. London 8 Feb. 1808; admitted to New York bar; professor of law of pleading and practice in New York university 1838; author of Practice of the supreme court of state of New York 1832, 2 ed. 1836; An essay on New Trials 1834; A treatise on the Courts of law and equity in state of New York 1839; edited Smith’s Chancery practice 1842. d. Nice 27 May 1852.
GRAHAM, Sir Fortescue (son of Richard Graham, lieut. col. R.M.) b. Tintinhull near Yeovil 1794; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Nov. 1808; A.D.C. to the Queen 10 July 1854 to 27 Feb. 1857; commanded Portsmouth division of R.M. 22 June 1855 to 20 Feb. 1857 and Plymouth division 1 June 1863 to 23 Aug. 1866; col. royal marine artillery 23 Aug. 1866 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on full pay; general 10 Nov. 1866; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 69 Durnford st. Stonehouse, Plymouth 9 Oct. 1880.
GRAHAM, George (4 son of Sir James Graham, 1 baronet 1761–1824). b. 1801; military sec. at Bombay 1828–30; private sec. to his brother Sir James Graham 1831–34 and 1841–42; registrar general of births, deaths, and marriages 1838–79. d. 31 Chapel st., Belgrave sq., London 20 May 1888.
GRAHAM, George Farquhar (eld. son of lieut. col. Humphrey Graham). b. Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1789; a self taught musician and violinist; sec. of first Edin. musical festival with G. Hogarth 1815; studied music in Italy; composed three well known songs, County Guy 1823, You never longed nor loved, and The mariner’s song; wrote for the Encyclopædia Britannica the articles on music and the organ; author of An account of the first Edinburgh musical festival 1816; An essay on the theory and practice of musical composition 1838; Ancient Scottish melodies a selection from the Skene M.S., By G. F. Graham and Finlay Dun 1839; The songs of Scotland, The biographical notices by G. F. Graham 1848, New ed. 1884. d. Gilmore place, Edinburgh 12 March 1867.
GRAHAM, Henry Hope. b. 16 Sep. 1808; ensign 57 foot 1829; lieut. col. 59 foot 29 April 1853; superintending officer of recruiting 1860–67; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. of 77 foot 1875 to death; C.B. 1858. d. Somerset st. Portman sq., London 9 July 1886.
GRAHAM, James Gillespie (son of a poor man called Gillespie). b. 1777; a working joiner. (m. Margaret Anne Græme, dau. of William Graham of Orchill, on whose death in 1825 he took the surname of Graham, she d. 1826); architect Edinburgh; laid out part of lower new town Edinburgh 1815; built, enlarged, and restored many residences for the Scotch nobility 1810, etc.; erected many churches and chapels 1813, etc.; introduced a purer gothic style into Scotland; great friend of A. W. Pugin from 1830, with him erected Victoria hall, Castle hill, Edinburgh for the meetings of the general assembly 1842–3; F.S.A. Scotland as James Gillespie 24 March 1817. d. York place, Edinburgh 21 March 1855. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), 141–43, portrait.
GRAHAM, Sir James Robert George, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir James Graham, 1 Baronet 1761–1824). b. Naworth, Cumberland 1 June 1792; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; private sec. to Lord Montgomerie, British minister in Sicily; M.P. for Hull 1818, for St. Ives 1820–21, for Carlisle 1826–9, 1852–61, for Cumberland 1829–32, for East Cumberland 1832–7, for Pembroke 1838–41, for Dorchester 1841–7, for Ripon 1847–52; first lord of the Admiralty 25 Nov. 1830 to 11 June 1834, and 30 Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; sec. of state for home department 6 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; lord rector of Glasgow Univ.; ecclesiastical comr. Sep. 1846; K.C.B. 15 April 1854; F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1831; author of Corn and currency, an address 1826 and other pamphlets. d. Netherby near Carlisle 25 Oct. 1861. bur. north side of Arthuret church. Life by T. M. Torrens 2 vols. (1863), portrait; H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland ii, 1 et seq. (1868); G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847), 183–205; D. O. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties ii, 242–56 (1859); Saddle and Sirloin By the Druid, Part North (1870), 33–9.