GRAHAM, Right Rev. John (only son of John Graham, managing clerk to Thos. Griffith of The Bailey, city of Durham). b. Claypath, city of Durham 23 Feb. 1794; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam., 4th wrangler 1816, Chancellor’s medallist 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll. 1816; deacon 1818; preb. of Sanctæ Crucis in Linc. cath. 1828 and of Leighton Ecclesia 1834; master of Christ’s coll. Cam. 1830–49, vice chancellor of the Univ. 1834 and 1840; chap. in ord. to Prince Albert 26 Jany. 1841; R. of Willingham, Cambs. 1843–8; bishop of Chester 11 March 1848 to death, consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall 18 May 1848; clerk of the Closet to the Queen 25 Sep. 1849 to death; published Sermons on the Commandments 1826. d. the Palace, Chester 15 June 1865. G.M. xix, 240–42 (1865).
GRAHAM, John Murray (eld. son of Andrew Murray 1782–1847). b. Aberdeenshire 15 Oct. 1809; educ. Edin. univ., M.A. 1828; advocate 1831; succeeded to part of estate of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch 1859 and took his name of Graham; author of A month’s tour in Spain 1867; Memoir of General Lord Lynedoch 1868, 2 ed. 1877; An historical view of literature and art from accession of House of Hanover to Victoria 1871, 2 ed. 1872; Annals of the Viscount and the first and second Earls of Stair 2 vols. 1875. d. Murray’s hall, Perthshire 18 Jany. 1881. Antiquary iii, 136 (1881); Academy 29 Jany. 1881 p. 81.
GRAHAM, Montagu William (younger son of 3 Duke of Montrose 1755–1836). b. 25 Grosvenor sq. London 2 Feb. 1807; M.P. for Grantham 1852–57, for Herefordshire 1858–65. d. Wilton st. Belgrave sq. London 21 June 1878.
GRAHAM, Thomas (eld. son of James Graham, merchant). b. Glasgow 20 Dec. 1805; educ. Glasgow gram. sch. and univ., M.A. 1826; professor of chemistry, Andersonian Instit. Glasgow 1830–37; professor at London univ. now Univ. coll. 1837–55; non-resident assayer of Royal Mint and master April 1855 to death; F.R.S. 25 Dec. 1836; F.G.S.; D.C.L. Oxf. 20 June 1855; discovered law of diffusion of gases, Keith medal R.S. Edin. 1834; discovered polybasic character of phosphoric acid, gold medal R.S. 1840; investigated transpirability of gases, gold medal 1850; speculated on constitution of phosphates and discovered diffusion of liquids, Copley medal 1862; a founder and first president Chemical Soc. 1840; a founder and first president Cavendish Soc. 1846; author of Outlines of botany 1841; Elements of chemistry 1842, 2 ed. 1847 and other books. d. 4 Gordon sq. London 16 Sep. 1869. Walford’s Portraits of living celebrities (1859), No. 8, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xviii, pp. xvii-xxvi (1870); Proc. of Royal Soc. Edin. vii, 15 (1872); S. Muspratt’s Chemistry, i, (1853), portrait.
GRAHAM, William. Gretna Green post-boy; known by the sobriquet of “Carwinley;” important witness in celebrated Wakefield marriage case 24 March 1827. d. Carlisle 18 Dec. 1864 aged 79.
GRAHAM, William. b. Dufton Wood near Appleby 1808; a successful wrestler; member of a large London firm; chiefly raced under pseudonyms, his 3 Oaks winners are registered as Regalia 1865 belonging to Mr. Harlock, and Formosa 1868 and Gamos 1870 to Mr. G. Jones; Sabinus was said to belong to Mr. Hessey, other names he used were Brown, Keswick, Fischer & Winchester; made £18,965 in 1868. d. 8 Holloway road, Highbury, London 19 Jany. 1876. Baily’s Mag. xxviii, 126–30 (1876); Bell’s Life 22 Jany. 1876 p. 6.
GRAHAM, Rev. William. b. Clough farm, co. Antrim 1810; presbyterian minister at Dundonald near Belfast 1836; missionary to the Jews at Damascus 1842, at Hamburg, at Bonn to 1883; D.D., M.R.I.A.; author of The spirit of love, a commentary 1857; Fifty songs of Zion 1857; A practical commentary on the epistle to Titus 1860; Lectures on St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians 1870. d. Belfast 11 Dec. 1883.
GRAHAM, William. b. 1816; M.P. for Glasgow 14 July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874. d. Oakdene near Guildford 16 July 1885. I.L.N. xlviii, 144 (1866), portrait.
GRAHAM, Rev. William. Educ. Glasgow univ. D.D.; licentiate of United Presbyterian ch.; pastor of Mount Pleasant ch. Liverpool 1846–80; moderator of English Presbyterian synod 1877; professor of church history, Presbyterian coll., Guildford st., London 1880; author of Memoirs of John Macfarlane 1876. d. Acton West 26 Nov. 1887 aged 64. bur. Birkenhead 1 Dec. Christian World 1 Dec. 1887 p. 917.
GRAHAM-GILBERT, John. b. Glasgow 1794; educ. R. Acad. sch. London 1818–21; portrait painter; in Italy 1823, 1826; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1820–64; settled in Edinburgh 1827, Glasgow 1834; R.S.A. 1829; painted Portrait of Walter Scott 1829, The pear tree wall 1844, Females at a fountain 1846. (m. 1834 Miss Gilbert of Yorkhill near Glasgow, and assumed the surname of Gilbert. She was also an artist, and on her death in 1877 left pictures to Corporation galleries at Glasgow). d. Yorkhill 4 June 1866.