Personalities, Surname G

Gardner, Lieutenant Colonel Alan, MP, JP

Born November 19, 1846; is son of Alan Legge, Lord Gardner, was in the 11th and 14th Hussars, and passed Staff College (1872). He served in the Zulu Campaign in 1879, being present at the battles of Isandhlwana, Z'lobanc Mountain (horse killed), and Kambula, where he was severely wounded. He was twice mentioned in despatches and received the medal with clasp and promotion to a brevet majority. In 1880 he was ADC to the Viceroy of Ireland. He served in the Boer War of 1881, and contested E Marylebone as Liberal candidate in 1895, and in 1906 was elected for the Ross Division of Herefordshire. Colonel Gardner has shot big game in nearly every quarter, accompanied by Mrs Gardner. He married, in 1885, Nora Beatrice, eldest daughter of Sir James Blyth, Bart., of Blythswood, Stansted, and 33, Portland Place, W.

Gaughren, Right Reverend Matthew, Bishop of Tentyra, Vicar Apostolic of Kimberley, and Administrator Apostolic of the Transvaal

Born in Dublin, April 7, 1843; commenced his education at a couple of Dublin schools, and received his theological training chiefly in France. He received orders to a Deaconship from the Bishop of Autun, was ordained priest by Cardinal Cullen on April 29, 1867, and was employed thereafter for many years in parochial work in Liverpool and in the East End of London. He spent a few years in missionary work in S America, and afterwards in Australia For six years he was stationed in Leith, Scotland, where, on March 16, 1902, he was consecrated Bishop to succeed his brother, who died during Boer War, as Vicar Apostolic of Kimberley, with spiritual charge of the ORC. To that was added the ecclesiastical administration of the Transvaal.

Gawne, Lieutenant Colonel J M, R Lancs Regiment

Entered 1874; Colonel, February 1900.  Staff service: DAAG, Egypt, 1895-97.  War service: South African War, 1879 (medal with clasp); Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884-85; South African War; died of wounds received in action, December 1900.

Gerard, Colonel Lord W C, Honourary Colonel Lancs Hussars Yeomanry Cavalry

War service: Boer War, 1899-1900; ADC to GOC Natal.

Gibbons, Major Alfred St Hill

He was born November 9, 1858. He was educated privately and at Christ's College, Cambridge, and took a commission as Lieutenant, in the 3rd East Kent Regiment in 1882. he served in the BBP from 1890 to 1893, being present at Rhodes' Drift at the time of the threatened Boer trek into Mashonaland. In 1894 he originated a movement in favour of the preservation of big game, which has since had far-reaching effects in the desired direction. He explored a large district in the Upper Zambesi basin in 1895-96, and from 1898 to 1900 led an important expedition into the interior of Africa in the interests of Imperial advancement and geography. He compiled a map of Barotseland as far as the Congo-Zambesi watershed in the north and the Kwito River in the west. He was the first to navigate the Middle Zambesi from the Kebrabasa Rapids to the Gwaai confluence, in the pioneer steamer Constance. He discovered the source of the Zambesi in 1899, and has followed the whole course of that river. The combined routes of his various expeditions represent a mileage of upwards of 20,000, and included the journey from Cape Town to Cairo, and from the mouth of the Zambesi to Benguela. Major Gibbons commanded a squadron of Younghusband's Horse during Boer War, and he was afterwards (1905) sent to examine the territory offered by the British Govt, in Uganda for the establishment of a Zionist Colony. He is the author of Exploration and Hunting in Central Africa, and has since completed Ajricajrom South to North through Barotseland (1904). He married, in 1898, Constance, daughter of the Reverend Henry Wood.

Gibbs, George A, MP

He was educated at Eton and Oxford; is a son-in-law of the Right Hon Walter Long, and served with the Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer War, receiving the QSA with four clasps. He was first returned to the House of Commons at the general election in Jan, 1906, as Unionist member for West Bristol, defeating the Liberal candidate, Mr T J Lennard, by 365 votes.

Gifford, Hon Maurice Raymond, CMG

Born in 1859, and is younger brother of Lord Gifford, VC . He was educated at Worcester, and served in the mercantile marine from 1876 to 1882, and has since seen considerable fighting in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882; with French's Scouts in the Riel rebellion in Canada in 1885 (medal and clasp); in the Matabele War of 1893 as scout with the Salisbury column (medal), and in the Matabele Rebellion of 1896, when he commanded Gifford's Horse, and lost an arm (clasp and CMG). He commanded the Rhodesian contingent in the Jubilee procession in 1897 (medal), and in the Boer War served with the Kimberley Horse at the relief of Mafeking (medal and three clasps). He is a director of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company, British Empire Trust, Selukwe GM Company, and the Rhodesia Copper Company He married, in 1897, Marguerite, daughter of Captain Cecil Thorold.

Gifford, Major, Lord, Elric Frederick, VC

Born July 5, 1849. Edric Frederick Gifford is son of the 2nd Baron Gifford, whom he succeeded in the title in 1872. He was educated at Harrow. In 1869 he entered the Army, and in 1873-4 Lieutenant Gifford saw his first active service in the Ashanti War, taking part in the repulse of the Ashantis at Abrakampa, Amoaful, and Becquah (where he was wounded). He was with the advance guard before the Prah, and, after crossing it, commanded the scouting party up to Coomassic, and was present at the capture of that town. As a result of this campaign he was mentioned in despatches, received the VC, medal and clasp, and was promoted Captain In the Zulu War Lord Gifford joined in the pursuit of Cetewayo, and at the end of the operations carried home the despatches (mentioned in despatches, QSA and clasp, and brevet of Major). He retired from the service in July, 1880, and from that year until 1883 acted as Colonial Secretary, for West Australia, and sat in the Legislative Council. From 1883 to 1888 he was Colonial Secretary of Gibraltar. He has been a director of the BSA Company since its inception, and is chairman of the Bechuanaland Exploration Company, Charterland Goldfields, Northern Copper (BSA) Company, Rhodesia Copper Company, and is a director of some other 5 African companies. Lord Gifford married, April 22, 1880, Sophie Catherine , daughter of General J A Street, CB.

Gifford, Lady (Sophie Catherine)

Daughter of General J A Street, CB During the Boer War (1900-2) she served as an Army nursing sister, receiving the Queen's SA medal. She is an Hon Serving Sister of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England, and married, in 1880, Lord Gifford .

Gill, Sir David, KCB (1900)

Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, June 12, 1843. He is the eldest son of David Gill, of Blairythan, Aberdeenshire; was educated at Marisehall Coll, and University, Aberdeen, erected a private observatory in that city, and applied himself to the study of astronomy and its allied sciences. He undertook the direction of Lord Lindsay's private observatory at Dunecht, near Aberdeen (1872-76); organised Lord Lindsay's Transit of Venus Expedition to Mauritius; made a series of heliometer observations there of the opposition of the minor planet Juno (a new and original method of determining the Solar Parallax), connected the longitudes of Berlin, Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Aden, Seychelles, Mauritius, and Rodriguez, and measured a baseline for the Geodetic Survey of Egypt. In 1877 he organised an expedition to Ascension for determining the Solar Parallax by heliometer observations of the planet Mars. In 1879 he was appointed HM Astronomer at the Cape, and was identified with the well-known work of that institution and the Geodetic Survey of Natal and Cape Colony, the latter work alone, begun in 1883, taking eleven years to accomplish. The accurately determined longitudes on the East and West Coasts of Africa, as well as the longitudes of Mauritius, Reunion, and Seychelles, were established on the initiative and authority of Sir David Gill. In 1885 he commenced the work of photographing all the stars to the 10th magnitude from 18 deg. S to the S Pole, and, with the cooperation of Prof. J C Kapteyn, of Groningen, published three large volumes of Annals of the Cape Observatory showing the places and magnitudes of 454,875 stars. In 1887, in conjunction with Admiral Mouchez, he carried through, an international scheme for photographing the whole sky and cataloguing all stars to the 11th order of magnitude, and Sir David became senior member of the permanent committee, whose reunions he attended at Paris in 1887, 1891, 1896, and 1900. In 1881-83 he conducted a series of determinations of Stellar Parallax, and later another series with the same object—these together form the only determinations of Stellar Parallax in the Southern Hemisphere. In 1888-90 he organised a series of observations of the Minor Planets Iris, Victoria, and Sappho for the determination of the Solar Parallax, all the principal observatories of the world cooperating, and the conclusions as derived by Sir David in his final discussion of the whole series were adopted for use in the nautical almanacs and astronomical ephemerides of all nations at the Paris International Congress in 1896. In that year Sir David Gill was entrusted by the British and German Govts, with the direction of the operations to determine the boundary between British Bechuanaland and German SW Africa, and the necessary survey operations, begun in 1897, are now completed and the results published in a separate volume. He took the initiative in interesting Earl Grey and Mr Rhodes in a Geodetic Survey of Rhodesia, and the project of carrying the work along the 30th meridian from the south to the Mediterranean is already being extended towards Tanganyika under his direction. The execution of the Great African Are of Meridian is perhaps the pet scheme of Sir David's life. Meanwhile, owing to the munificence of Mr Frank McClean, the Cape Observatory has been fitted with a complete equipment for astrophysical research, and Sir David has been able to greatly extend the scope of his operations and the volume of his work, and under his direction the observatory has become by far the most important one in the Southern Hemisphere.

Glossop, Captain Bertram Robert Mitford

Born Sep 30, 1870, and entered the Dragoon Guards in 1891. He served in West Africa in 1897-8, including the operations on the Niger and in Borgu (despatches, medal with clasp), and in the Boer War in 1899-1900 as Special Service Officer and as Adjutant of the Imperial Light Horse (QSA with four clasps). Captain Glossop has had considerable big game shooting in Africa and India, and has recorded his experiences in Sporting Trips of a Subaltern.

Glynn, Henry Thomas, JP

He was born at Cape Town, November 30, 1857. He is son of Henry Glynn, a well-known SA hunter, traveller, and rifle shot, who won the first gold medal shot for in SA, and who was one of the first few to start the Cape Town Royal Volunteer Rifles, and finally died, in 1894, of fever while on a hunting expedition. Mr H T Glynn was educated at the SA College; spent his early days on the River Diggings; then, after some success on the Kimberley fields, settled down in the Cape for two years. In 1875 he went north and staved in the Transvaal up to a year before the great Boer War, with the exception of occasional hunting trips through the low-lying country extending up to the Zambesi. He returned to Lydenburg in Aug, 1902, and is a Director of Glynn's Lydenburg, Ltd Mr Glynn married, in Oct, 1896, Miss G G Wales.

Goch, George

He was in Kimberley in the early seventies, and came prominently before the public in connection with the Black Flag incident. In 1878, when the new municipality of Kimberley came into existence, he was invited to become one of its representatives. Shortly afterwards the much-debated question of the annexation of Griqualand West to the Cape Colony arose. Mr Goch was a strenuous supporter of the annexation, which was only accomplished in 1S83. In 1884 the General Election resulted in his return as second member for Kimberley. Retiring from the Municipal Council in 1885, he assisted in the formulation of a railway construction and extension policy, for which the support of the Government and the eventual sanction of Parliament were obtained, with the result that Kimberley was connected by rail with Cape Town. His next effort was directed to securing some understanding with the Transvaal and Orange Free State Governments with regard to Inter-Colonial Free Trade. His object was to establish common ground with the Boers on railway matters and to simplify the vexed railway question. Unfortunately the Cape Parliament of the day did not share Mr Goch's views. The Lands and Stands question was another problem which Mr Goch took in hand, and he succeeded in getting the law reconstructed for the benefit of shareholders in such undertakings. When the gold discoveries on the Rand were first made, Mr Goch decided to make that neighbourhood the scene of his future operations, and established himself there, and acquired interests in such properties as the Bantjcs and Wcmmer. His interest in the first named was afterwards joined to those of Messrs. J B Robinson and H Eckstein, but he himself floated the Wemmer and the George Goch Companies. He resigned his seat in the Cape Parliament and became a member of the newly formed Chamber of Mines. He was a reformer from the beginning; and when in a few years political questions began to arouse apprehension, he advocated the franchise being extended to all who could prove a £100 wage-earning or property qualification and a residence of two years in the country. Mr Goch was a member of the first Johannesburg Municipality, and, after acting as Deputy Mayor, was elected Mayor at the latter end of 1904, in succession to Mr St John Carr.

Godlonton, Burt Glanville

He was educated at Totteridge Park, Herts. He took part in the Boer War in 1899-1901, with Brabant's Horse (QSA and five clasps); subsequently acting as Clerk to the Editor of the ORC Government Gazette, of which he became Editor in July, 1904.

Goldsworthy, Captain Charles Leycester Johnson

Served in the FAM Police from 1876-8; acted as Lieutenant in Pulleine's Rangers from Jan to Aug, 1878, when he rejoined the FAM Police. He took part in the Kaffir War in 1877-9, including the attack on Moirosi's Mountain and the capture of the stronghold (medal with clasp); the operations in the Transkei and in Basutoland in 1880-1 (medal with two clasps), and the Boer War in 1899-1900, being present at the operations in the Orange Free State, including the defence of Wepener and the operations in the Cape Colony south of Orange River (QSA with two clasps and KSA with two clasps). For some months in 1902 he was in command of district Colonial troops at Dordrecht and King William's Town.

Goggin, Lieutenant Colonel G T, RAMC

Lieutenant Colonel, March 1900.  War service: Boer War, 1899-1900; Senior Medical Officer Infantry Division.

Good, Colonel H N B, Royal Fusiliers

QSA (4) CC OFS TVL SA01 (Colonel H NB Good Rl Fusiliers), 1897 Jubilee Medal 1897 (Colonel H N B  Good 4th Bn Royal Fusiliers).  Burman Sep 05 £765.

Goold-Adams, Major Hamilton John, KCMG, CB (c)

Born in Company Cork, Ireland, on June 27, 1858. He is son of Richard Wallis Goold-Adams, of Jamesbrook, Company Cork, and was educated privately and on the training ship Conway. He joined the Army in Jan, 1878, receiving his Captaincy seven years later, and his Majority in 1895 In Sir Charles Warren's Bechuanaland Expedition in 1884-5 he served under that officer; he commanded the BBP in the Matabele War of 1893, and in the Boer War he served during 1899 and 1900, first as Resident Commissioner in Bechuanaland, afterwards having command of the Kimberley Town Guard during the latter half of the siege (twice mentioned in despatches). Major Goold-Adams retired from his regiment, the Royal Scots, in March, 1901, when he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the ORC, which important position he still occupies, but from which he is expected to shortly retire.

Gordon, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Weston

He was born July 9, 1859, and entered the Army in 1878. He served in the Afghan War in 1880 (medal), and in the Boer War in 1899-1902, present at the Relief of Ladysmith, including the action at Colenso and the operations in the Transvaal east of Pretoria, acting Commandant at Potchefstroom (dispatches Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel, QSA with two clasps, and KSA with two clasps). In 1906 he succeeded Colonel Bird, DSO, in the command of the 1st Dublin Fusiliers.

Gordon, Brigadier General J B P, Commanding 3rd Cavalry Brigade

Entered 1879; Lieutenant Colonel, February 1897.  Staff service: ADC to Major General, Madras, 1887-89; Adjutant, Yeomanry Cavalry, 1889-91; Special Service, Lagos, 1892; Recruiting Staff Officer, 2nd class, Dublin, 1892-94, London, 1894-96 (Special Service, Ashanti, 1895-96).  Brigadier General Cavalry Brigade, South Africa, February 1900.  War service: Afghan War, 1880 (medal); Boer War, 1881; Bechuanaland Expedition 1884-85; Burmese Expedition 1887 (Despatches; medal with clasp); Expedition against the Yebus Lagos, 1892 (Despatches; medal with clasp); Ashanti Expedition 1895-96(honourary mentioned; star); Boer War 1899-1900; on Staff.

Gosung, Major Audley Vaughan

Died on June 7, at St Martin's, Guernsey, formerly belonged to the Rifle Brigade. For several years he was attached to the British South Africa Police, subsequently joining Dr Jameson and taking part in the Jameson Raid, and afterwards standing his trial with his leader and brother officers at Bow Street, and at the High Court of Judicature in June, 1896. Major Gosling also served in the Boer War in 1900-2; present at the operations in the Transvaal and the Orange River and Cape Colonies (QSA)). He married, in 1895, Ella, only daughter of Sir Sidney Shippard, Administrator of Bechuanaland, and granddaughter of Lady Stockenstrom, of Grahamstown, Cape Colony.

Gough, Major H de la P, 16th Lancers

Entered 1889; Captain, 1894.  Staff service: South Africa.  War service: Operations on NW, Frontier of India, 1897-98 (medal with 2 clasps); Boer War, 1899-1900; Special Service Officer.  This excellent Cavalry officer distinguished himself as a leader of the Composite Regiment, Mounted Infantry, during the operations for the relief of Ladysmith.

Gough, Lieutenant Colonel S E, VC

Born in 1874, and has served in the Rifle Brigade since 1892. He first saw active service in British Central Africa in the expeditions against Chikusi and Chilwain 1896-7. In 1898 he took part in the Nile Expedition, and served throughout the Boer War in 1899-1902, being present at the actions at Lombard's Kop, Ladysmith, Laing's Nek, Belfast, and Lydenburg. He also took part in the operations in Somaliland in 1903, for which he was promoted Lieutenant Colonel, and received the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the action at Dartoleh.

Gower-Poole, Percy

Born at Gravesend, Kent; is son of Reverend Samuel Gower-Poole, Chaplain to Hon Trinity House, London; was educated privately, and was a cadet on HMS Worcester. He spent some years in Canada in the Engineers Department of the GWR; served in the Canadian Militia; afterwards studied in Venice, and went to SA in '73; took part in the Zulu War as Lieutenant, being present at the taking of Morosi's Mountain, November 19, 1879 (medal and clasp). In the Boer War he served with Rimington's Guides and Scouts for 27 months, and with the 16th Brigade as Transport Officer for three months (medal and clasps). He has had experience of the Gold and Diamond Fields in Kimberley, De Kaap, Klerksdorp, Swaziland, Orangia, and the Rand; and practises now as Civil and Mining Engineer at Klerksdorp. He married, May S, 1887, Fanny Burnett, eldest daughter of J F Wood, of Stonehare, Scotland.

Graham (James), Marquis of

He was the eldest son of the 5th Duke of Montrose, KT, ADC, Lord Clerk Registrar of Scotland, his mother being the second daughter of Sir Frederick Graham, Bart, of Netherby Hall, Cumberland. He was born May 1, 1878, and was educated at Eton College The marquis takes a great interest in all Imperial and maritime affairs; served in the Mercantile Marine, and possesses a Board of Trade master's certificate. He saw service in the Boer War as Lieutenant, attached to the Army Service Corps, and also with the Doris Naval Brigade, and was Assist. Press Censor at Cape Town (SA medal, three bars). He visited Cape Town a second time on a wireless telegraphy mission for the Corporation of Lloyds, London, and again in Dec, 1902, to study questions affecting the resettlement of the land. Lord Graham assisted Lord Brassey in the navigation of the Sunbeam to Montreal in 1903, and has travelled all over the world, visiting fourteen countries, and all the British Colonies excepting Canada and New Zealand. He commands the Clyde Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and in 1905 acted, as Assistant Private Secretary, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon Austen Chamberlain, PC, MP Lord Graham unsuccessfully contested the Eye Division of Suffolk at a by-election in 1906 as a Conservative, reducing the Liberal majority to 197. He is fond of all sports, particularly yachting, fishing, and shooting; and married, in June, 1906, Lady Mary Hamilton.

Graham, Hon T L, MLC

Attorney-Gen, in Sir Gordon Sprigg's Ministry; has had a varied experience of political parties, having started under the Bond. At the commencement of the Boer War (1899) he was a bitter and uncompromising opponent of that organisation; but as Attorney-General, he caused great consternation by refusing to place papers relating to alleged treasonable practices by Dr Te Water before the House, while admitting the existence of such documents being in possession of the Govt, and the military authorities. Finally, on the approach of the elections for the Legislative Council, he offered himself as a Progressive candidate for the Western Circle of the Cape Colony, and was elected, November, 1903, second on the poll, with 12,530 votes. He formerly sat as the representative of the same constituency in the Council.

Granard, Earl of, JP

Born in 1874, and is son of the 7th Earl, succeeding his father In 1889. He became a Lieutenant, in the Scots Guards in 1899, serving with them in the Boer War in 1900-2 (QSA and three clasps; KSA and two clasps). He formerly belonged to the Gordon Highlanders, and acted as ADC to Earl Cadogan, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1896-9.

Grant, Brevet Major Alexander George William

Born Aug 13, 1868, and entered the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1890. He served in the Boer War in 1899-1901 as Commandant at Elands River, subsequently being employed with the Rand Rifles; present at the operations in the Orange Free State and at Paardeberg, including the actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain) and Vet River and Zand River (despatches, brevet of Major, QSA with four clasps and KSA with two clasps).

Grant, Captain James Murray

Joined the Cape Mounted Riflemen in 1887, and served with the Pondoland Field Force in 1894, and also saw further service in the Boer War in 1899-1902 (QSA and three clasps, and KSA with two clasps).

Grant, Captain P G, RE

Entered 1888; Captain, 1899.  War service:  Operations in Chitral, 1895 (medal with clasp); South African War, 1899-1900; ADC to GOC Infantry Division.

Green, Henry Edward Owen, JP

Born at Queenstown, Cape Colony, Aug 1, 1860, and is son of the Reverend E P Green, MA Oxon. He was educated privately at the Hartley Institute, Southampton. For five years he was employed at the Standard Bank, and in the Cape Government Service for six and a half years; subsequently serving in the Transvaal Chamber of Mines and the Rhodesia Chamber of Mines for ten and three years respectively. He holds the Basuto War medal with two clasps for 1881; and on the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, he joined Thorneycroft’s Mtd. Infantry. He received his commission in April, 1900, from the ranks; was present at the actions of Colenso, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing's Nek, and the operations in the Transvaal, Orange Free State, and Rhodesia (medal and six clasps). Mr Green is a JP for the Bulawayo District, Matabeleland, and is a Rand pioneer. He holds many golf prizes. He married, Jan 5, 1886, Annie, youngest daughter of Major Scott-Waring, of Crossbeck Hall, Durham.

Green, John Dampier

A descendant of William Dampier, one of the earliest circumnavigators of the world, and was born in London March 23, 1850. He was educated at Chester College, of which he is an old King's Scholar. He commenced his engineering career on the Dee (Chester) Reclamation Works on the Dee Estates, of which he was a part owner; was owner of copper, lead, and coal mines and lime smelting works in North Wales, and left England in 1886 to assist in the construction of the Cape Central Railways. On completion thereof he fitted out an expedition to Malmani Gold fields. While there, in conjunction with others, he organised an expedition for the taking of Matabeleland. Some members of the OF State and Transvaal Boers expressed a desire to join the enterprise, but the Home Govt, sent word that 'Her Majesty would look with grave displeasure upon any armed force leaving Bechuanaland to molest the natives,' and in deference thereto the undertaking was abandoned. Mr Dampier Green is Hon Curator of the Mineralogical and Geological Department of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, and Hon Treas. and Secretary, of the Geological Society of SA, Johannesburg.

Greene, Lieutenant Colonel E M, Commanding Natal Carabineers.

Greene, Sir William Conyngham, CB (1897), KCB (1900)

The son of Richard J Greene, Barrister-at-Law, and the Hon Louisa Plunket, fourth daughter of the third Baron Plunket. He was born Oct 29, 1854, in Ireland, and educated at Harrow and Oxford where he graduated MA (1880). He entered the Foreign Office in 1877, and the Diplomatic Service in 1887; served as Secretary, to HM Legations at Athens, Stuttgart, Darmstadt, The Hague, and Brussels; as Secretary, of Legation and Charge d'Affaires at Teheran 1893-96, but it was when he was appointed Agent at Pretoria in Aug, 1896, with the rank of Charge d'Affaires in HM Diplomatic Service that he first came prominently before public attention. It will be remembered that Mr Steyn roundly accused him of 'decoying' the Transvaal Govt, into making a conditional offer of the five years' franchise. It was Sir Conyngham who told Mr Kruger that, whether he said 'suzerainty' or not, suzerainty there would have to be; but that "if the present were a bonajide endeavour to settle the political rights of our people for good and all, we should neither wish, nor have cause, for interference with the internal affairs of the Transvaal". At 5 p.m. on Oct 11, 1899, Sir W C Greene's official duties at Pretoria came to an end. He received the ultimatum of the Transvaal Government, and having asked for and received his passports left Pretoria on Oct 12 for England. For his services he was made KCB, May 24, 1900, and promoted to be an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in HM Diplomatic service in 1901. He married, in 1884, Lady Lily Stopford, fifth daughter of the Earl of Courtown.

Greenlees, Thomas Duncan

He was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, Sep 29, 1858, and belongs to a Campbeltown (Argyllshire) family. He was educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh University Dr Greenlees was Assistant Med. Officer at Carlisle Asylum from 1884-87, and held a similar appointment at the City of London Asylum from 1887-90. He is now Medical Superintendent of the Grahamstown Asylum, the Chronic Sick Hospital, Grahamstown, and of the Institute for Imbeciles, Grahamstown. He is the author of many papers on medical and psychological subjects, and was Surgeon Captain in the 1st City Volunteers. He married, Oct 17, 1894, Edith, daughter of R White, of Norwich.

Grenfell, Lieutenant Colonel H M

Entered 1st Life Guards 1892; Brevet Major, 1898.  Staff service: Special Extra Regimental Employment, 1895-96; ADC to Major General, Egypt, 1897-98; ADC, and afterwards AMS, to Governor and Commander in Chief, Malta, 1899; Special Service, South Africa, 1899.  War service: Nile Expedition 1898 (Despatches, 1898; Brevet of Major; Egyptian medal with clasp; medal); Boer War, 1899-1900; Commanding Regiment Brabant's Horse.

GREY, The Right Hon Earl

The only surviving son of General the Hon Chas. Grey, who brought Prince Albert over from Coburg, and was Queen Victoria's Private Secretary, and nephew of the 3rd Earl Grey, KG, PC, who was the eldest son of the youngest of the accusers who impeached Warren Hastings at the Bar of the House in 1788 and the six following years. Albert Henry George Grey, who is now the 4th Earl, was born November 28, 1851, and was educated at Harrow and at Cambridge, where he greatly distinguished himself. He began his political career under curious circumstances. It was in 1878 that at a by-election in South Northumberland the Liberal party selected Mr Albert Grey (as he then was) to contest what was generally regarded as a safe Conservative seat. However, Mr Grey's popularity won him a majority of two at the poll over his rival, Mr E Ridley, QC, but as the extra couple of voting papers were found to be irregular, the High Sheriff decided to reject them, and made a double return, each opponent being returned to the House of Commons without having the right to speak or vote. As the Parliament was nearly at an end, the Liberals resolved not to incur the expense of a scrutiny, and the Conservative member was allowed to keep the scat until the dissolution in 1880, when the present Peer was elected by a large majority. In 1885-6 he represented the Tyneside Division of his native county as a Liberal Unionist, but in the latter year he was defeated by a Gladstonian candidate, and did not subsequently seek parliamentary honours. Earl Grey succeeded to the title in 1894. He was one of the original Directors of the BSA Company, and in 1896 he went to Rhodesia as Administrator, filling this high office with considerable success during a troublous period which saw, amongst other things, the settlement of the peace terms with the Matabele chiefs, which put an end to the rebellion of 1896. Lord Grey for a time took an active part in the field against the Matabele, and it is not generally known that he was very nearly cut off by the rebels at the battle of Sepula's Kraal in the Matopos. He returned to England in 1897, and soon after became Vice-President of the Chartered Company, a post which he filled until 1904. He was also Lieutenant of the county of Northumberland, one of the Trustees for the Debenture Holders of the BSA Company, and Chairman of the Charter Trust and Agency, Ltd He not only devoted himself to the more important affairs of the Chartered Company, but took also a very genuine interest in the personal interests of Rhodesians. Among other popular movements he interested himself in having the remains of four prominent Rhodesians who ware killed in Boer War, viz., Jack Spreckley, Fred Crewe, Claude Grenfell, and C J Knapp, removed to Charterland for reinterment hard by the tomb of Cecil Rhodes in the Matopos. But the great philanthropic movement with which Lord Grey has been identified from the commencement is the formation and organisation at home and abroad of the Central Public House Trust Association, the chief aims of which are to promote the higher temperance by the conversion, wherever possible, of the public house from a drinking bar into a house of refreshment for the supply of wholesome food and nonalcoholic liquors as well as of beer and spirits, and to provide such an organisation as will enable the licensing authorities to secure that all new licenses, with their high monopoly values, shall be administered as a trust in the interests of the public, and not by private individuals for their personal gain. In Dec, 1904, Lord Grey left England to occupy a still more important position as Governor-General of Canada in succession to the Earl of Minto. Here his personal charm and sympathetic interest in all those with whom he came in contact, combined with a farseeing appreciation of the requirements of the British Colonies, made him a popular figure, and even in the United States Lord Grey has acquired a popularity which cannot fail to add to the good understanding which has been growing up of recent years between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race. It is an open secret, however, that Lord Grey, as Governor-General, occasionally finds some difficulty in suppressing his strong private views on various public questions, and on one occasion he animadverted so forcibly on the drink evil that the newspapers were asked to omit his remarks with reference thereto. Lord Grey is possessed of a fine gift of speech, and his phraseology is, on occasion, ornate and picturesque. The following brief reference to an after dinner speech on Paardeberg Day at Government House, Ottawa, goes far to explain the secret of his success with Colonials: He wished to avoid the possibility of the celebration of Paardeberg Day being misunderstood. They met on Paardeberg Day not to celebrate any vulgar triumph of race over race. He had lived in Africa and had many Boer friends. Men who slept under the stars, not by necessity but by choice, and who had continual communion with the elemental forces of nature in the silent places of the earth, were generally more interesting than dwellers in cities, whose finer sensibilities were often smothered, and sometimes destroyed, by the dust, hurry, and worry of the Streets. In 1877 Lord Grey married Alice, youngest daughter of R S Helford, of Western Brit, Gloucestershire. His son and heir, Lord Howick, has acted as ADC to Lord Milner, and in June, 1906, married the daughter of the present High Commissioner for South Africa, while his eldest daughter, Lady Victoria Grenfell, is also well known in South Africa, which she visited with her father during the second Matabele War.

Grey, Major Raleigh, Rhodesian Field Force

Raleigh Grey was born 24 March 1860, the eldest son of Lt Colonel Alfred Grey of Northumberland, who died in 1899 and great grandson of the 1st Earl Grey.  He married in 1901 Mary Isobel, daughter of C H Cadogan of Innskilling Priory, Northumberland and widow of A H Browne, Callaly Castle Northumberland.  He was educated at Durham and at Brasenose College, Oxford.  He entered the army in 1881, was Captain in 1885 and he served in the Zulu War of 1888 (honourably mentioned), Captain 6 Dragoons 1885-1896, (Brevet Major 1901), Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Bechuanaland Border Police 1889-1895.  He served in the Matebele War 1893 and received the medal.  He came to prominence when he accompanied Dr Jameson into Transvaal in 1896, as a Lieutenant Colonel commanding the 122 strong detachment of the Bechuanaland Border Police.  He was subsequently captured with a wound in the foot after a sharp engagement outside Krugersdorp.  Colonel Grey was put aboard the troopship ‘Victoria’ at Durban for the voyage home.  On arrival he was arrested and appeared at Bow Street Court on the 15 June 1896 and committed for trial on the 20 July 1896.  He was sentenced to 5 months’ imprisonment in Holloway jail without hard labour.  Colonel Grey served during the South African War 1899-1901, commanding the 2 brigade, Rhodesian Field Force (Brevet Major, despatches twice, LG 23 April and 10 Sep 1901, Queen’s Medal with 4 clasps, King’s Medal).  He retired in 1904 commanding the South Rhodesian Volunteers.  He was a member of the Legislative Council of Rhodesia and consul for Greece in Salisbury, Rhodesia from 1915.  He died on 10 January 1936.

  Grey and Jameson at Bow Street.

KBE (civil), CMG (b/b cr LG 01 January 1896), CVO (cr 1911), BSACM for Matabeleland (0) (Capt 6th Dragoon), QSA (4) CC Rhod OFS Trans (Major CMG Rhod FF), KSA (2) (Major 6 DG), 1911 Coronation Medal.

 

Grierson, Lieutenant Colonel J M, MVO, RA

Entered 1877; Brevet Colonel, 1900.  Staff Service: DAQMG, Indian Cont.  Expedition Force, Egypt, 1882; Special Service.  Expedition Force, Suakim, 1885; DAA and QMG, Egypt, 1885; Station Staff Officer, Bengal, 1889; DAAG, Headquarters of Army, 1890-94; Brigade Major R A., Aldershot, 1895-96; Military Attache, Berlin, 1896-1900; Special Service, South Africa, 1900; Staff Officer; DAG, China.  War service: Egyptian Expedition, 1882 (Despatches; medal with clasp; bronze star; 5th class Medjidie); Sudan Expedition, 1885 (Despatches; clasp); Hazara Expedition (Despatches; medal with clasp; Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel); Boer War, 1899-1900; on Staff.

Griffiths, Harry Denis

Born at Manchester in 1866. He is second son of John Griffiths, at one time champion of the Nemesis Rowing Club. He was educated at Dieppe College and at the Royal School of Mines, Lond; graduated BSc; was Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medallist of Cardiff Technical Schools, and secured the Ware and Cardiff Scholarships. He is also Associate of the Royal School of Mines, 1st Class in Mining, a Whitworth Scholar and Medalist, and member of various technical and scientific societies. He has occupied the following positions: Mine manager, Kimberley DM Company, 1890; chief engineer Kimberley Exhibition, 1892; consulting engineer to the Geldenhuis East., Simmer and Jack, and East Rand Prop. Companies, and is now consulting engineer to several important Companies on the East Rand, Coronation and Heidelberg sections. In 1897 Mr Griffiths went to New Zealand, spending two years converting dry crushing to wet crushing plants. He was also chief engineer to the Auckland Exhibition. During the Boer War he went to Rhodesia, resuming his practice in Johannesburg on the declaration of peace. He was a member of the Patents Committee of the Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines; has served on the Auckland (NZ) and Rhodesian Chambers of Mines; has written many scientific papers, and has issued a map of the Coronation line of reef. Mr Griffiths formerly played for the London Welsh FC; was vice-capt. of the School of Mines Rowing Club, and captained the winning pair and fours in 1889. He married, in 1895, Florence Maud, second daughter of E Clements, CE, RN.

Guest, Hon Ivor, MP, Imperial Yeomanry

Mr Guest was the eldest son of Lord Wimborne, was born in 1873.  He volunteered with other patriotic politicians in England's “dark hour."

Guiness, Hon Walter

Younger son of the great Irish brewer, Viscount Iveagh, and served with the Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer War . He married, in 1903, a daughter of the Earl of Buchan.