GUTHRIE, George James (only son of Andrew Guthrie of Lower James st. Golden sq. London, chiropodist). b. London 1 May 1785; M.R.C.S. 5 Feb. 1801, member of council 1824, president 1833, 41, 54; assist. surgeon to 29 regt. 1801; served in Canada 1803–8, the Peninsula 1808–14 and at Waterloo 1815; surgeon on half pay Sep. 1814; lectured on surgery in London 1816–45; the first in England who used a lithotrite for crushing a stone in the bladder 1816; founded infirmary for diseases of the eye 1816 which became R. Westminster ophthalmic hospital; assist. surgeon to Westminster hospital 1823, surgeon 1827–43; professor of anatomy and surgery 1828–31; F.R.S. 1827; author of Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye 1827; On diseases and injuries of arteries, with their cure 1830; On the operation for extraction of a cataract from the eye 1834; Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, &c. 6 ed. 1853. d. 4 Berkeley st. Berkeley sq. London 1 May 1856. Lancet 15 June 1850 pp. 726–36, portrait; Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery, iv, (1840), portrait; Medical Circular, iv, 13–15, 33–34, (1854).
GUTHRIE, James Alexander (1 son of David Charles Guthrie of Craigie, Dundee). b. 8 Sep. 1823; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1852; merchant and banker 9 Idol lane, London as Chalmers and Guthrie; director of bank of England 1858–60, 1861–66, 1867–69 and 1870 to death. d. 78 Portland place, London 17 Jany. 1873.
GUTHRIE, Rev. John. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar; 10 wrangler and B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; R. of Thorpe, Notts. 1827; V. of Helmarton, Wilts. 1833; R. of Calstone-Willington 1833; V. of Calne, Wilts. 7 Feb. 1835 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. 1852–8; canon residentiary Bristol cath. 1858 to death; author of On the neglect of christian ordinances 1855 and other pamphlets. d. Dorset house, Clifton 6 July 1865.
GUTHRIE, Rev. Thomas (6 son of David Guthrie of Brechin, merchant, d. March 1824). b. Brechin 12 July 1803; ed. at univ. of Edin. 1815–26, D.D. 1849; manager of his father’s bank, Brechin 1827–9; minister of Arbirlot, Forfarshire 1830–37; a minister of Old Greyfriar’s church, Edin. 1837 and of St. John’s parish 1840–3; minister of Free St. John’s ch. 1843–64; moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1862; presented with £5000, 20 Feb. 1865; F.R.S. Edin. 1869; ed. the Sunday Mag. 1864 to death; author of The gospel in Ezekiel 1856, circulated 50,000 copies; The city, its sins and sorrows 1857; Studies of character from the Old Testament, 2 series 1867–70 and about 30 lectures, sermons and tracts. d. Eversfield place, St. Leonard’s on Sea 24 Feb. 1873. bur. Grange cemet. Edin. 28 Feb. Autobiography of T. Guthrie 2 vols. (1874–5), 3 portraits; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 83–7, portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); Illust. news of the world, viii, (1861), portrait.
Note.—He did more than any other man from 1847 onwards, to popularise ragged schools. Samuel Smiles in his Self-Help calls him The Apostle of the ragged school movement.
GUTTERIDGE, Thomas (son of Mr. Gutteridge, a wharfinger, London, then landlord of White Lion tavern, Birmingham). L.S.A. 1826; M.R.C.S. 1827; surgeon Birmingham; professor of anatomy Soc. of Arts 1832, presented with 100 guineas 1842; G. F. Muntz found guilty of assaulting him in an anti-church rate riot at the Old Church, Birmingham 1837; opposed confirmation of Dr. James Prince Lee as bp. of Manchester in St. James’ ch. Piccadilly, London 10 Jany. 1848; found guilty of libels on Dr. Lee at Warwick 6 April 1848; author of Church rates 1842 and of 4 works on the corruptions and abuses in the Birmingham hospital 1844–51. d. Birmingham 3 May 1880. Edgbastoniana, iii, 34–6 (1883), portrait; Langford’s Modern Birmingham, i, 13, 519 (1868).
GUTTERIDGE, William. b. Chelmsford, Essex 1798; leader of band in the park theatre, Brussels 1815; leader at Birmingham theatre 1818; member of George iv. band and of William iv. band; resided in Brighton 1823 to death; organist of St. Peter’s ch. 1828; conductor of Old Sacred Harmonic soc. 1828; had a music warehouse in Castle sq.; much patronised by Geo. iv. and Victoria. d. 55 London road, Brighton 23 Sept. 1872.
GUY, Joseph (2 son of Joseph Guy of Bristol, schoolmaster). b. 4 May 1784; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf.; private tutor and schoolmaster; author of Guy’s New exercises in orthography 1818; Guy’s Geographia Antiqua 1830; Royal Victoria spelling book 1850; Guy’s New Speaker 1852 and about 12 other school books all of which were often reprinted. d. 5 Eden place, Kentish Town, London 16 Jany. 1867. Bookseller 31 Jany. 1867 p. 11.
GUY, Joseph. b. Nottingham 30 July 1814; a baker; kept Carpenters’ Arms inn, Mansfield road, Nottingham 1856 to death; first played at Lord’s 25–26 June 1838 the Coronation match; after Pilch and Wenman the best batsman in England; had a benefit on Trent Bridge ground 4 Aug. 1856 when he cleared £165 9s. 6d. d. Nottingham 15 April 1873. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 449 (1862), v, page xv (1876).
GUY, Sir Philip Melmoth Nelson (only son of Melmoth Guy of Kenton hall, Devon). b. Sidmouth, Devon 1804; ensign 5 foot 23 Sep. 1824, lieut. colonel 21 May 1850 to 1 Sep. 1861; commanded third infantry brigade at siege and capture of Lucknow 5–28 March 1858; governor of Jersey 1 Oct. 1868 to 1 Oct. 1873; colonel of 55 foot 14 Dec. 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Wiesbaden 10 March 1878.