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Gounter, George, 1703-1718
GB-2014-WSA-08070 · Person · 1703-1718

GOUNTER, GEORGE, elder son of George Gounter, Racton, Sussex, and his second wife Judith, dau. of Richard Nicoll, Norbiton, Surrey; bap. 28 Nov 1703; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1716/7; left 1717; buried Racton Nov 1718.

GB-2014-WSA-08071 · Person · 1907-1976

Gourlay, Arthur Bellyse, son of Thomas Gourlay of Putney and Edith May, d. of Frederick Bellyse of Coleford, Gloucs; b. 24 Mar. 1907; adm. Sept. 1920 (A), non-res. KS Sept. 1921; left July 1925; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1925, BA 1929, MA 1932; asst master Sherborne Sch., OC Sherborne OTC (Capt.), housemaster 1946-61, retd 1971; TD; d. 18 July 1976.

Gover, Charles Cecil, 1890-?
GB-2014-WSA-08072 · Person · 1890-?

Gover, Charles Cecil, son of Charles Sydney Gover, of St. Marylebone, by Constance Helen Montgomery, daughter of George Anderson, of New York, U. S. A.; b. May 22, 1890; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (H); K.S. (non-resident) Sept. 28, 1905; left July 1907; a civil engineer; managing director and subsequently chairman of a civil engineering and marine contracting company; served in France 1915-6; temp. Lieut. R.E. Aug. 30, 1915; severely wounded near Messines Aug. 30, 1916, and invalided home; Capt. Oct. 1, 1917; was transferred to the R.A.F. May 1918, and qualified as Aeroplane Pilot (Night Flying); returned to France in 1918; demob. as Hon. Capt. R.A.F. Feb. 1919; m. 1st Nov. 7, 1912, Maud Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Philipson, of Chelsea; 2nd 1929, Dorothy Mary, daughter of Henry Francis Dorey.

GB-2014-WSA-08073 · Person · 1904-1939

Gover, Patrick Montgomery, brother of Charles Cecil Gover (q.v.); b. July 8, 1904; adm. April 26, 1918 (H); left July 1921; an actor; d. Jan. 17, 1939

GB-2014-WSA-08074 · Person · 1891-1916

Gow, Charles Humphry, only son of the Rev. Henry Gow, of Hampstead, Unitarian Minister, by Edith, daughter of Dr. Charles Beard, of Liverpool; b. May 26, 1891; adm. May 4, 1905 (R); left July 1908; Emann. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1909; B.A. 1912; a student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1912-5; Surgeon Probationer R. N. V. R. Aug. 8, 1914; served for eight months on the destroyer H. M. S. Laforey; returned to the Hospital and qualified as M.R.C.S. (Eng.) and L.R.C.P. (Lond.) 1915; joined the R. N. D. as temp. Surgeon July 19, 1915, and served in the Gallipoli Peninsula, at Salonika, and for the last eight months of his life on the western front; killed while attending to the wounded near Beaucourt-sur-Ancre Nov. 13, 1916; unm.

GB-2014-WSA-08075 · Person · 1890-1929

Gow, James Fitzjames Cuthbert, second son of the Rev. James Gow, LL. D., Head Master of Westminster School, by Gertrude Sydenham, daughter of G. P. Everett Green; b. Aug. 6, 1890; adm. as K.S. Sept. 22, 1904; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1909, matric. Michaelmas 1909; played football (Assoc.) against Cambridge 1912; B.A. 1913; M.A. 1920; served in France in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. York and Lancaster Regt. (T. F.) Sept. 14, 1914; Lieut. Aug. 25; 1916; was in the employ of Cammell Laird & Co., Sheffield; m. June 19, 1919, Katherine, elder daughter of B. George Wood, of Sheffield, Yorks; d. on a voyage to America, April 1929.

Gow, James, 1854-1923
GB-2014-WSA-00024 · Person · 1854-1923

Son of James Gow, a member of the Royal Society of British Artists; born Jan. 16, 1854; educated at King's Coll. School, London, and Trin. Coll. Camb., where he graduated B.A. 1875, M.A. 1878; Third Classic and Chancellor's Second Classical Medallist 1875; Litt.D. (Camb.) 1885; Master of the High School, Nottingham, 1885-1901; President of the Head Master's Association 1900-2; appointed by the Governing Body as Rutherford's successor May 9, 1901; ordained 1901; installed Head Master up School Sept. 1901; resigned July 1919; Select Preacher, Camb. Univ., 1903-12; author of 'A Short History of Greek Mathematics' (1884), and other works; married Aug. 12 1895, Gertrude Sydenham, daughter of G.P. Everett-Green, artist; died Feb. 16, 1923.

GB-2014-WSA-20589 · Person · 1922-D.D.

Gow, John Alexander, son of John Ferguson Gow LDS and Mabel Emily Moss; b. 13 Aug. 1922; adm. Apr. 1936 (H); left Dec. 1939; Middx Hosp. Med. Sch. 1940-2, Roy. Dental Hosp. 1942-6, LDS RCS 1946; RAF 1948-57 (Sqdn Ldr); practised as dental surgeon in Hythe; Kent; commu­nity dental officer Gloucs. Area Health Authority, retd 1979; Open Univ., BA 1978; m. 22 Sept. 1954 Kathleen Margaret, d. of Francis Reilly, veterinary surgeon.