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GEE, WILLIAM, only son of William Gee, Bishop Burton, Yorks., and his first wife Rachel Parker, Willingdon, Sussex; b. 15 Sep 1648 (IGI); adm. 1656 (school list 1656, last quarter); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 15 Apr 1664, aged 15; MP Kingston upon Hull Oct 1679- Mar 1681, 1689-90, Beverley1690 - 95, Dec 1701-5; m. 1st, 23 Feb 1663/4 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Hotham, Scorborough, Yorks.; m. 2nd, (settlement dated 8 Oct 1685) Elizabeth, widow of John Ellerker, Risby, Yorks., and elder dau. of Charles Cracroft, Louth, Lincs.; buried Bishop Burton 18 Oct 1718.

GEE, WILLIAM, son of Col. William Gee, 30th Foot, Bishop Burton, Yorks., and his second wife Elizabeth, only dau. of Roger Talbot, Woodend; bapt. 28 May 1735; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1748/9; left 1751. [Perhaps William Gee, gent., adm. Gray’s Inn 28 Jun 1753]

Geffen, Ivan Ernest, son of Maximilian Walter Geffen MRCS and May Florence, d. of lsaac Spero of Southsea, Hants; b. 24 Mar. 1920; adm. Sept. 1932 (H); left July 1936; LLB (Lond.) 1940; adm. a solicitor Mar. 1942; RA and RAEC in WW2; contested (Lab.) parly elections 1950, 1951, Feb. and Oct. 1974, 1979; NEC Nat. Council for Civil Liberties 1952; NEC Brit. Legal Assn 1970-4; m. 1st 2 Apr. 1947 Pauline Kyra, d. of Cecil Gray; 2nd 14 Aug. 1952 Sybil, d. of Joseph William Gray of Pelton, Co. Durham; 3rd 10 Aug. 1968 Mary, d. of Harry Shawcross of Manchester; d. 2013.

GEFFERSON, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1553/4 (Chapter Muniments).

Geidt, Mervyn Bernard, son of Capt. Edward Wollaston Geidt, Bombay Pioneers, of Oxford, and Anna Dorothy Margaret, d. of William Reginald Partridge of Starcross, Devon; b. 9 June 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (B); left July 1944; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1944, BA 1950; called to the Bar, Middle Temple June 1953; legal asst., Min. of Housing and Local Govt.; clerk to Torbay Justices; m. 10 July 1954 Diana Cecil, d. of Alastair J. MacKenzie OBE DSC, Provost of Stornoway, I. of Lewis; d. 9 Feb. 1991.

Geikie-Cobb, Bayard, son of the Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, D.D., Rector of St. Ethelburga's, Bishopsgate, London, by Harriette Emily White, of High Barnet, Herts; b. Nov. 5, 1885; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 28, 1899; left Easter 1902; a mining engineer in Toronto.

GELL, ANTHONY, son of Anthony Gell, Receiver-Gen. to Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and Frances, dau. of Joseph Dalby, Welbeck Street, London, apothecary; b. 26 May 1764; adm. 15 Apr 1776; left Aug 1780; Clerk of the Cash Book to Auditor of the Exchequer; d. unm. 20 Nov 1801. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

GELL, DANIEL; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1730/1; left 1733.

GELL, JOHN HENRY, brother of Anthony Gell (qv); b.; adm. 29 Mar 1780; Auditor of the College Accounts, Westminster Abbey 25 Nov 1795; Receiver-Gen. to Dean and Chapter, jointly with father 5 May 1801 - Jan 1817, alone Jan 1817 - Jul 1854, and jointly with Robert Marsh from 12 Jul 1854; Coroner and Clerk of the Market, Westminster 6 Jun 1816-45, Deputy Coroner from 1845; m. 23 May 1801 Charlotte Harmer, St. Luke’s, Chelsea, spinster; d. 8 Oct 1856, aged 85. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey, memorial tablet in Dark Cloister.

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.