GELL, ROBERT, son of Rev. William Gell, Rector of Frindsbury, Kent; b. 19 Feb 1594/5; at school under Camden and Wilson eight years (Notes and Queries, 8th series, xii, 401); KS ; Christ’s Coll. Cambrtdge, sizar, matr. Easter 1615; BA 1617/8; MA 1621; BD 1628; DD 1641; Fellow of Christ’s Coll. before Christmas 1623 - after 1638; held several college offices; ordained; preached frequently before the University; Chaplain to Archbishop of Canterbury; Rector of St. Mary Aldermary, London, from 27 Jan 1640/1; bequeathed £5 to the King’s Scholars “to buy them bookes”; author, An Essay towards the Amendment of the last Translation of the Bible, 1659; his Remaines were “collected and set in order” by R. Bacon 1676; m. 7 Nov 1641 Elizabeth Lowvenir, Pampisford, Cambs.; d. 25 Mar 1665, aged 69. DNB.
GELL, THOMAS WILLIAM, brother of Anthony Gell (qv); b. 1 Dec 1778; at school 1792; d. “of a putrid fever” 25 Dec 1792. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
GELL, WILLIAM EGERTON, brother of Anthony Gell (qv); b. 30 Jul 1781; at school 1791; in school list 1795; Auditor of the College Accounts, Westminster Abbey, from 5 May 1801; m. 22 Aug 1825 Jane Perkins (IGI); d. 17 May 1838. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey, with tablet to his memory.
GENEST, JOHN, second son of John Genest, Dunkeswell, Devon, and his second wife Elizabeth, widow of John Samuel Longuet, Honiton, Devon, and of --- Shepheard, Army officer, and dau. of --- Hare, Honiton, Devon; b.; adm. 15 Jun 1774; left Whitsun 1780; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 9 May 1780, aged 17, scholar 19 Apr 1782, matr. Mich. 1780; BA 1784; MA 1787; ordained; for many years a curate in Lincolnshire; Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Ancaster; resided at Bath towards end of life; author, Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 1832; d. 15 Dec 1839. DNB.