GUILLEMARD, Rev. William Henry (son of Daniel Guillemard, silk merchant, Spitalfields). b. Hackney 23 Nov. 1815; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1870; fellow of his coll. 1839; head master of Royal coll. Armagh 1848–69; V. of St. Mary the Less, Camb. 1869, resigned 1887; author of The Greek Testament, Hebraistic edition 1875; Hebraisms in the Greek Testament, Camb. 1879 an unfinished work. d. Waterbeach near Cambridge 2 Sep. 1887.
GUINNESS, Sir Benjamin Lee, 1 Baronet (3 son of Arthur Guinness b. 12 March 1768, head of firm of Guinness & Co. brewers, Dublin, d. Beaumont house near Dublin 9 June 1855). b. Dublin 1 Nov. 1798; lord mayor of Dublin 1851; sole proprietor of firm of Arthur Guinness & Co. 1857, developed the business which became largest in the world, it was made a limited liability co. 1886 with capital of £6,000,000; restored St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin at cost of £150,000, 1860–67; LLD. of univ. of Dublin 1863; M.P. for city of Dublin 17 July 1865 to death; cr. baronet 15 April 1867. d. 27 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 19 May 1868. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 27 May, personalty sworn under £1,100,000, 8 Aug. 1868; bronze statue erected in St. Patrick’s ch. yard Sep. 1875. I.L.N. xlvi, 207, 209 (1865), portrait, lii, 547 (1868); Graphic xii, 278, 293 (1875).
GUINNESS, Richard Samuel. b. Dublin 17 June 1797; head of firm of Guinness & Co. Dublin 1855 to death; M.P. for Kinsale 1847–48, for Barnstaple 1855–57. d. Deepwell, Blackrock, co. Dublin 28 Aug. 1857.
GUION, Stephen Barker. b. U.S. of America 1820; went to Liverpool 1851; naturalised 18 Oct. 1858; started the Guion line of Atlantic steamers 1866; pres. of Liverpool Liberal association many years; represented Exchange Ward in the Liverpool city council 1869 to Nov. 1885. d. Devonshire road, Prince’s park, Liverpool 19 Dec. 1885.
GUISE, Sir John Wright, 3 Baronet (2 son of Sir John Guise, 1 Bart. 1733–94). b. Highnam court, Gloucs. 20 July 1777; ensign 70 foot 1794; ensign 3 foot guards 1795, first major 1814–21; served in Spain 1800, Egypt 1801 and in Peninsula 1812–14; K.C.B. 13 Sept. 1831, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; succeeded his brother 23 July 1834; col. 85 foot 1 June 1847 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. Elmore court near Gloucester 1 April 1865.
GULL, Sir William Withey, 1 Baronet (youngest son of John Gull, barge owner, d. 1827). b. Colchester 31 Dec. 1815; M.B. London univ. 1841, M.D. 1846; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1848, censor 1859–61 and 1872–3, Gulstonian lecturer 1849, Harveian orator 1870; medical tutor Guy’s hospital 1841, lecturer 1843–56, physician and lecturer 1856–65; Fullerian prof, of physiology, Royal Instit. 1847–9; D.C.L. Oxf. 1868, LLD. Camb. 1880, and Edinb. 1884; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; attended Prince of Wales when ill from typhoid fever Nov. to Dec. 1871; cr. baronet 20 Jany. 1872; phys. in ordinary to P. of Wales 24 Feb. 1872; phys. in ordinary to the queen 1887; pres. of Clinical soc. of Lond. 1872; pre-eminent as a clinical physician, the first to describe disease known as myxoedema 1873. d. 74 Brook st. London 29 Jany. 1890. bur. Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, left personalty £344,023 besides landed estates. Midland Medical miscell. iii, 97–8 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lix, 612 (1871), portrait, and 1 Feb. 1890 p. 131, portrait.
GULLIVER, George. b. Banbury 4 June 1804; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1843; Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy 1861, Hunterian orator 1863; hospital assistant in army 17 May 1827; surgeon to R. horse guards 1843–53 when placed on h.p.; present at duel 1 July 1843 between Col. Fawcett and Lieut. Munro, tried for murder but acquitted; F.R.S. 7 March 1839; The Amicus of Dr. John Davy’s two books The Angler and his friends 1855 and The Angler in the Lake district 1857; made researches on the blood, chyle, lymph, etc.; edited for the Sydenham soc. The works of William Hewson, F.R.S. 1846; Notes of researches in anatomy, etc. 1870, another ed. 1880. d. 3 Clovis ter. Canterbury 17 Nov. 1882. Biograph May-June 1882 pp. 388–92.
GULLY, James Manby. b. Kingston, Jamaica 14 March 1808; came to England 1814; M.D. of Edin. univ. 1829, M.R.C.S. Edin. 1829; physician in London 1830–42; edited Liverpool Medical Journal 1834; at Malvern as a practiser of hydropathy 1842 to 31 Dec. 1871; became very intimate with Mrs. C. D. T. Bravo and was one of the witnesses in the Bravo poison case July-Aug. 1876; his name removed from medical societies and Medical Register 1876; author of The water cure in chronic disease 1846, 13 ed. 1877; The lady of Belleisle, a drama produced at Drury lane 4 Dec. 1839; appears as Dr. Gullson in Chas. Reade’s novel It is never too late to mend 1857. d. Orwell lodge, Bedford hill road, Balham, Surrey 27 March 1883. Palatine Note-book, iii, 215–6 (1883); The Balham Mystery (1876), 33 portrait.
GULLY, John. b. Crown inn, Wick and Abson, Gloucs. 21 Aug. 1783; a butcher at Bath; fought Henry Pearce the ‘Game Chicken’ 8 Oct. 1805 when he was beaten; beat Bob Gregson the Lancashire giant 14 Oct. 1807, again 10 May 1808; declined title of champion of England 1808; landlord of the Plough inn 23 Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1808–10; bookmaker and owner of race horses from 1812; bought Mameluke from Lord Jersey in 1827 for £4200; won the St. Leger with Margrave 1832, the 2000 guineas with Ugly Buck 1844 and with Hermit 1854; the Derby with Pyrrhus the First 1846 and with Andover 1854; the Oaks with Mendicant 1846; M.P. for Pontefract 1832–7, contested Pontefract 1841; proprietor of Wingate colliery, Durham 1862. d. the North Bailey, city of Durham 9 March 1863. bur. Ackworth near Pontefract 14 March. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, i, 182–91 (1880), portrait; W. Day’s Reminiscences (1886) 53–70; Famous racing men (1882) 72–82; The Fancy, ii, 365–72 (1826), portrait; Rice’s British Turf, i, 288–93 (1879).
GUNDRY, Thomas. A miner in Cornwall; champion wrestler of Cornwall 25 years; beat the Devonshire champion twice; a carrier; was married 4 times. d. Stennack, Camborne 23 Oct. 1888 aged 70. The Cornishman 1 Nov. 1888 p. 3.