DELAVAL, JOHN HUSSEY, BARON DELAVAL, brother of Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv); b. 17 Mar 1728; adm. Oct 1737; left 1745; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, adm. 1746, but sent down Dec 1746; managed family’s Northumberland estates from 1755; assumed additional surname of Hussey before Delaval on inheriting Hussey family’s estate at Doddington, Lincs., from his mother in 1759; MP Berwick-upon-Tweed 1754-61, 18 Jan 1765-74, 1780-21 Aug 1786, also contesting Northumberland 1774; created baronet 1 Jul 1761; inherited Seaton Delaval estate on death of his elder brother Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv) in 1771; created Baron Delaval (I) 17 Oct 1783, as supporter of Fox-North coalition; changed sides and created Baron Delaval (GB) 21 Aug 1786, as supporter of Pitt administration; the subject of The Delavaliad (see The Rolliad, 1812 edn., 406-9); m. 1st, 2 Apr 1750 his cousin Susanna, widow of John Potter, Under Secretary for Ireland, and dau. of Ralph Robinson, Gateshead, co. Durham; m. 2nd, 5 Jan 1803 Susanna Elizabeth Knight; d. 17 May 1808. Buried St. Paul’s chapel, Westminster Abbey.
DERING, SIR EDWARD, BART., son of Sir Cholmeley Dering, Bart., MP, and Mary, only dau. of Edward Fisher, Fulham, Middlesex; bapt 8 Dec 1705; succ. father as 5th baronet 9 May 1711; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1719; in under school list 1720; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 31 Jan 1721/2; MA 1725; DCL 3 Jul 1759; MP Kent 2 Apr 1733-54; m. 1st, 24 Feb 1727/8 Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Henshaw, Well Hall, Eltham, Kent; m. 2nd, 11 Sep 1737 Mary, widow of Henry Mompesson, and eldest dau. of Capt. Charles Fotherby, Royal Navy, Barham Court, Kent; d. 15 Apr 1762.
GOOCH, SIR EDWARD SHERLOCK, BART., eldest son of Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch, Bart. (qv); b. 6 Jun 1802; adm. 10 Jan 1815 (Packharness'); left Bartholomewtide 1817; Cornet, 14th Light Dragoons 27 May 1819; Lieut., 12 Oct 1820; Capt., 30 Dec 1824; retd. 19 Apr 1827; MP (Cons) East Suffolk from Feb. 1846; Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons from 1851; succ. father as 6th baronet 18 Dec 1851; m. 1st, 23 Jan 1828 Louisa Anna Maria, second dau. of Sir George Beeston Prescott, Bart.; m. 2nd, 1 Mar 1839 Harriet, third dau. of James Hope-Vere, Craigie Hall, Linlithgowshire; d. 9 Nov 1856.
GORDON-LENNOX, CHARLES HENRY, 6th DUKE OF RICHMOND AND LENNOX, and 1st DUKE OF GORDON, eldest son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 27 Feb 1818 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); styled Earl of March 1819-60; adm. 6 May 1830; Ch. Ch. Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1836; BA 1839; DCL 1870; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 24 May 1839; Lieut., 27 Sep 1842; Capt. on half-pay 27 Sep 1844; MP (Cons) West Sussex 1841 – 21 Oct 1860; President, Poor Law Board Mar – Jun 1859; Privy Councillor 3 Mar 1859; succ. father as 6th Duke of Richmond and Lennox 21 Oct 1860; KG 6 Feb 1867; President, Board of Trade 8 Mar 1867 – Dec 1868; Leader of Conservative Peers in House of Lords 1870-6; Lord President of the Council 21 Feb 1874 – Apr 1880; created Duke of Gordon 13 Jan 1876; President, Board of Trade 24 Jun – Aug 1885; Secretary of State for Scotland 17 Aug 1885 – Feb 1886; a recoognised authority on agricultural affairs, serving as Chairman, Royal Commission on Agriculture 1879; DL Banffshire 1846, Lord Lieut. from 25 Aug 1879; DL Aberdeenshire 1864; LLD Cambridge 1894; LLD Aberdeen 1895; Busby Trustee from 21 May 1867; m. 28 Nov 1843 Frances Harriet, eldest dau. of Algernon Frederick Greville, Bath King of Arms and private secretary to Duke of Wellington; d. 27 Sep 1903. DNB.
GORDON-LENNOX, LORD HENRY CHARLES GEORGE, third son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 2 Nov 1821; adm. 1 Jun 1836 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1840; BA 1843; MA 1847; precis writer, Foreign Office Feb 1845 – Feb 1846; MP (Cons) Chichester Feb 1846 – 85; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Mar – Dec 1852, Mar 1858 – Mar 1859; Secretary to the Admiralty Jul 1866 – Dec 1868; First Commissioner of Works Feb 1874 – Jul 1876, when he was compelled to resign owing to involvement in a financial scandal; Privy Councillor 7 Jul 1874; m. 25 Jan 1883 Amelia Susannah, widow of Richard Archibald Brooman, Neville House, Twickenham, Middlesex, and subsequently of John White, Arddarroch, Dumbartonshire, chemical manufacturer, and dau. of --- Smith; d. 28 Aug 1886. DNB.
GRAHAM (or GRAHME), RICHARD, 1ST VISCOUNT PRESTON (S), eldest son of Sir George Graham, Bart., Netherby, Cumberland and Norton Conyers, Yorkshire, and Lady Mary Johnstone, second dau. of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell (S); b. 24 Sep 1648; succ. father as 3rd baronet 19 Mar 1657/8; at school 1660-4 (as Richard Grimes) (Busby’s account book); a boarder; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Jun 1664; MA 4 Feb 1666/7; adm. Inner Temple 1664; MP Cockermouth Jun 1675-81, Cumberland 1685-7; although a Protestant, was a zealous advocate of the right of the Duke of York (James II) to the succession; created Viscount Preston (S) 12 May 1681; Envoy Extraordinary to France 1682-5; he and Lord Middleton managed the House of Commons for James II; Privy Councillor 21 Oct 1685; Master of the Great Wardrobe 11 Dec 1685 – 11 Dec 1688; Lord Lieut., Cumberland and Westmorland 29 Aug 1687 – 8 Apr 1689; Secretary of State Oct - Dec 1688; one of the Council of Five left by James II in London Nov 1688; created an English baron by James II at St. Germain 21 Jan 1689, but his claim was subsequently disallowed by the House of Lords; arrested and sent to the Tower for planning the restoration of James II 1689; rearrested while carrying treasonable papers on board a smack bound for Calais 1 Jan 1691; sentenced to death at the Old Bailey 19 Jan 1691, but pardoned after making confessions implicating William Penn and others; committed to Newgate for refusing to give evidence at a trial Aug 1691, but soon released on bail; retired to his Yorkshire estate and revised his translation of Boethius, published posthumously; m. 2 Aug 1670 Lady Anne Howard, second dau. of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle; d. 22 Dec 1695. DNB.
GRAHAM, SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE, BART., eldest son of Sir James Graham, Bart. MP, Netherby, Cumberland, and Lady Catherine Stewart, sister of George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway (S) (qv); grandson of Robert Graham (qv); b. 1 Jun 1792; adm.; left 1809; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1810; continental tour 1812-5; MP Hull 1818-20, St. Ives 1820 – Mar 1821, Carlisle 1826- Jan 1829, Cumberland 16 Jan 1829-32, East Cumberland 1832-7, Pembroke District 30 Feb 1838-41, Dorchester 1841-7, Ripon 1847-52, Carlisle from 1852; succ. father as 2nd baronet 13 Apr 1824; First Lord of the Admiralty 25 Nov 1830 – Jun 1834, when he resigned owing to his opposition to the Whig government’s policy on the Irish Church; Privy Councillor 22 Nov 1830; Home Secretary 6 Sep 1841 – Jul 1846; First Lord of the Admiralty 30 Dec 1852 – Mar 1855; FRS 22 Dec 1831; LLD Cambridge 1835; Rector, Glasgow University 1838-40; GCB 15 Apr 1854; DL JP Cumberland; as a politician sat as a Whig in House of Commons to 1834; one of the committee of four which prepared the first Reform Bill 1830; after a short period of independence, crossed the floor of the house to join Conservatives Jun 1835; followed Sir Robert Peel in 1846 and his subsequent political career was initially as a Peelite, then as a Liberal; a highly unpopular Home Secretary, and his tampering with the letters of foreign refugees in 1844 caused general indignation; author, Corn and Currency 1826; m. 8 Jul 1819 Fanny, youngest dau. of Col. James Callander (afterwards Campbell), Craigforth, Stirlingshire; d. 25 Oct 1861. DNB.
GARTHSHORE, WILLIAM, third son of Maxwell Garthshore MD LRCP FRS FSA, medical practitioner, London, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Blair McGuffoch, Ruscoe, Kirkcudbrightshire; b. 28 Oct 1764; adm. 13 Jan 1777; KS 1778; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1782, matr. 30 May 1782, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1782 - Feb 1794, Faculty Student 6 Feb - 5 Jun 1794; BA 1786; MA 1789; travelling tutor to Earl of Dalkeith 1790-2; private secretary to Right Hon. Henry Dundas MP, Secretary for War and the Colonies, Jul 1794 - Jul 1797; MP Launceston 9 Jan 1795-6, Weymouth from 1796; a Lord of the Admiralty 1801-4; FRS 23 Mar 1775 [check, date obviously wrong]; m. 24 May 1794 Sarah Jane, second dau. of John Chalié, Bedford Street, London, wine merchant; d. 5 Apr 1806. DNB (s. v. father).
Glyn, Sir Alan Jack, son of John Paul Glyn, barrister-at-law, Middle Temple, and Margaret, d. of William Johnston of Edinburgh; b. 26 Sept. 1918; adm. Jan. 1931 (G); left Dec. 1934; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1935, BA 1939; served WW2 1939-45, North Sussex Yeomanry 1940, 23 Hussars 1941 (Trooper), Far East 1942-6; psc 1945; Bde Maj. India Command 1946; Capt. (hon. Maj.) Roy. Horse Guards to 1967, ERD; called to the Bar (Middle Temple) Feb. 1955; MP (C) Wandsworth Clapham 1959-64, Windsor 1970-4, Windsor and Maidenhead 1974-; Chelsea BC 1959-62; Freeman City of London 1961; war correspondent Vietnam 1967; Board of Governors Nat. Heart and Chest Hosps 1982-; Kt Jan. 1990; author of Witness to Vietnam 1968; m. 4 Jan. 1962 Lady Rosula Caroline Windsor-Clive OStJ, d. of Ivor Miles, 2nd Earl of Plymouth PC GStj.; d. May 1998.
GLYN, GEORGE CARR, 1ST BARON WOLVERTON, fifth son of Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Bart. (qv); b. 27 Mar 1797; adm. 2 Oct 1807; banker, firm Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co., Lombard Street, London, of which he eventually became head; chairman, London and North-Western Railway, for many years; MP (Whig/Liberal) Kendal 1847-68; created Baron Wolverton 14 Dec 1869; took Liberal whip in House of Lords; one of HM Lieuts for City of London; JP Middlesex; m. 23 Mar 1823 Marianne, dau. of Pascoe Grenfell MP, Taplow, Bucks.; d. 24 Jul 1873.