GUY, William Augustus. b. Chichester 1810; ed. Pemb. coll. Cam., M.B. 1837, M.L. 1838; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1844, Croonian lecturer 1861, Lumleian 1868 and Harveian 1875; professor of forensic medicine King’s coll. Lond. 1838, dean of the medical faculty 1846, 1849, permanent dean 1850–58; edited Journal Statistical soc. 1852–6, hon. sec. 1843–68, president 1873–5; F.R.S. 7 June 1866, V.P. 1876–7; author of Principles of Forensic medicine 1844, 4 ed. 1857; Public Health 2 parts 1870–74. d. 12 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 10 Sept. 1885 in 76 year. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865) 59–64, portrait.
GUYON, Richard Debaufre (3 son of John Guyon, commander R.N. d. 1844). b. Walcot, Bath 31 March 1803; received a commission in Austrian army 1823, capt. 1827; became country gentleman in Hungary 1839; opposed Jellachich at the head of a section of the revolutionists of 1848, defeated him at Pakozd 29 Sept.; fled to Turkey, Aug. 1849; the first Christian who obtained rank of pacha and a Turkish military command without betraying his religion, known as Khourschid Pacha (the Sun); defeated by the Russians at battle of Kurekdere 5 or 6 Aug. 1854. d. of cholera at Scutari 13 Oct. 1856. R. A. Kinglake’s The patriot general Guyon (1856), portrait; E. H. Nolan’s History of Russian war, i, 294 (1855), portrait.
GWATKIN, Edward (eld. son of Robert Lovell Gwatkin of Killiow, Cornwall 1757–1843). Entered Bengal army 1804 and was in India to 1855; col. 31 Bengal N.I. 17 Nov. 1853 to death. d. at sea on board the ‘Hotspur’ near England 13 April 1855. Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 307–8.
GWILT, John Sebastian (son of the succeeding). b. 1811; ed. at Westminster sch.; architect; assisted his father in A project for a New National gallery 1838 and with drawings for An Encyclopædia of architecture 1851. d. Hambledon, Henley on Thames 4 March 1890.
GWILT, Joseph (younger son of George Gwilt, surveyor to county of Surrey, d. 9 Dec. 1807). b. parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark 11 Jany. 1784; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; surveyor to county of Surrey 1807–46; built Lee ch. Lewisham 1814, Markree Castle near Sligo 1843 and Ch. of St. Thomas, Charlton, Woolwich 1846; F.S.A. 1815, F.R.A.S. 1833; author of A treatise on the equilibrium of arches 1811, 3 ed. 1839; Notitia architectonica Italiana 1818; Sciography or examples of shadows 1822, 2 ed. 1824, the first English treatise on the subject; An encyclopædia of architecture 1842, 3 ed. 1859; translated The Architecture of Vitruvius 1826. d. South Hill, Henley-on-Thames 14 Sep. 1863. Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xx, 178–81 (1864).
GWYN, Howel (1 son of William Gwyn of Abercrane, Brecon, d. 1830). b. 24 June 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; contested Penryn 1841 and 1859, M.P. 1847–57; contested Barnstaple 1865; M.P. Brecknock 1866–8 when unseated; contested Brecon county 1875; sheriff of co. Glamorgan 1837, of co. Carmarthen 1838 and of co. Brecon 1842. d. Duffryn, Neath 25 Jany. 1888.
GYE, Frederick. b. 1781; printer with G. Balne, city of London 1806–36; made £30,000 in a state lottery; proprietor of London wine co. 1817–36 and of London genuine tea co. 1818–36; with William Hughes purchased Vauxhall gardens for £28,000, 1821, conducted them to 1840, had the Great Nassau balloon built for him 1836; M.P. Chippenham, Wilts. 1826–30. d. 2 Lansdowne st. Hove, Brighton 13 Feb. 1869.
GYE, Frederick (son of the preceding). b. Finchley, Middlesex 1810; acting manager for Mons. Jullien at Drury Lane 1847; business manager for E. Delafield at Covent Garden 1848; lessee of Covent Garden, Sep. 1849, house burnt down 5 March 1856; lessee of Drury Lane 1852; lessee of Lyceum theatre 1856–7; rebuilt Covent Garden at cost of £120,000, house reopened 15 April 1858; partner with J. H. Mapleson at Covent Garden 1869–70, sole proprietor and manager 1870 to death. d. Dytchley park, Charlbury, Oxon. 4 Dec. 1878 from effects of being accidentally shot near there 27 Nov. bur. Norwood cemetery 9 Dec. I.S. and D. News 24 June 1876 pp. 297, 302, portrait; H. S. Edwards’s Lyrical Drama, i, 15–30 (1881); The Mask (1868), 97 portrait; The Mapleson Memoirs, vol. 1 passim (1888).
GYLL, Sir Robert (5 son of Wm. Gyll 1774–1806, capt. 2 life guards). b. London 11 July 1805; lieut. of yeomen of the guard 1830–40; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Cumbernauld lodge, Feltham hill, Middlesex 17 Aug. 1880.