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.
GENEW, WILLIAM, son of John Van Genew, Westminster, originally of Venloo, Netherlands, and Elizabeth --- ; bapt. 30 Mar 1645; adm. ; Min. Can. 1660 (as William Vangenue); adm. Inner Temple 25 May 1661, called to bar 28 Nov 1669; Reader for Clifford’s Inn 1686; called to Bench, Inner Temple Nov 1687, but excused; discontinued use of Van as part of name about 1661; lic. to m. 22 Dec 1673 Mary, dau. of William Gladwin, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, citizen and girdler. [will William Genew, St. Paul, Covent Garden, gentleman, proved PCC 14 Feb 1704]