GIFFORD, FRANCIS, eldest son of Roger Gifford, St. James’s Abbey, Duston, Northants, and Anne, dau. of Francis Samwell, Rothersthorpe, Northants; b.; at school (aged 15) 2 Jul 1582; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1585, adm. scholar 1585, matr. Mich. 1585; BA 1589/90; MA 1593; adm. Middle Temple 26 Jan 1588/9; lic. to m. 26 Nov 1595 Jane, dau. of Richard Troughton, Hanslope, Bucks.; d. 18 May 1625.

Gifford, Eric Claude, son of C. F. Gilford of St Margaret's-on-Thames; b. 5 Nov. 1906; adm. Jan. 1921 (H); left July 1924.

Gielgud, Sir (Arthur) John, son of Frank Gielgud, stockbroker, and Kate Terry, d. of Arthur James Lewis; b. 14 Apr. 1904; adm. Sept. 1917 (G), non-res. KS Sept. 1918; left July 1921; an actor; a continuous succession of outstanding performances and productions or stage, screen and TV in this country and in North America since his first appearance at the Old Vic on 7 Nov. 1921; also tours of Australasia 1963-4, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Helsinki, Moscow and Dublin 1964; has taken leading parts in plays by Shakespeare, Wilde, Congreve, Chekhov, Sheridan, Bond, Pinter and Storey; Kt 1953; Legion d'Honneur 1960; CH 1977; Pres. RADA; hon. degrees Oxford, London, St Andrews, Brandeis (USA) and Open Univs; author of Early Stages 1935 (reprinted 1987), Stage Directions 1963; Distinguished Company 1973, An Actor and His Time 1979; d. 21 May 2000.

GIDLEY, BARTHOLOMEW CHARLES, fifth son of John Gidley, Bradnish, Devon, solicitor and Town Clerk of Exeter, and Elizabeth Caroline, dau. of Robert Cornish, Exeter; b. 21 Sep 1839; adm. 26 May 1853 (James'); St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 29 Jun 1857; BA 1862; MA 1865; adm. solicitor Easter 1866; Mayor of Exeter 1870-1; Town Clerk of Exeter from 1874; m. 5 Jun 1866 Mary Elizabeth, only surviving child of John James Russell, Handsworth, Staffs.; d. 1 Oct 1888.

Gibson, William Pettigrew, son of Edwin Arthur Gibson, M. D., of Hyde Park, by Ellen Shaw, daughter of William Pettigrew, of Chislehurst, Kent; b. Jan. 3, 1902; adm. Sept. 23, 1915 (H); left July 1920; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1920; B.A. 1924; keeper of the Wallace Collection 1927-36; Reader in History of Art, London Univ., and deputy director of the Courtauld Institute 1936-8; keeper of the National Gallery 1939; m. 1940 Christina, daughter of Francis Ogilvy; d. April 2, 1960.

Gibson, Ralph Remington, son of Jasper Gibson, of Hampstead; b. June 10, 1894; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (A); left Easter 1911.

Gibson, Peter, brother of John Gibson (qv); b. 24 Nov. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (H); left July 1928; RAOC 1940-5; a company director; m. 11 Apr. 1934 Gladys Marjorie Flews, d. of Rev. George Matthew Waters of Hythe, Kent; d. 14 Mar. 1979.

Gibson, Jonathan Marriott, son of Edward Leslie Gibson, shipping man. Bombay Burmah Trading Co., Bangkok, Thailand, and Charlotte Noreen, d. of Col. James Fuller-Good, Indian Med. Service, of Fleet, Hants; b. 1 Sept. 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (W); left July 1951; a professional photographer, ABIPP 1960; a regular contributor to Country Life and Nat. Trust Photographic Library; work on view at Lutyens Exhibition, Hayward Gallery, 1981; d. 22 Nov. 2003.

Gibson, John, son of Alfred Gibson of Ealing, and Elizabeth, d. of Peter Stubs of Longhope, Gloucs; b. 14 Apr. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left Dec. 1927; RA in WW2 (Capt.); staff of BBC, retd 1949; d. 1990.

Gibson, James Arthur Walker, brother of William Pettigrew Gibson (q.v.); b. April 8, 1903; adm. as non-resident K.S. Sept. 21, 1916 (H); left April 1917; m. June 3, 1933, Carmela Luise Brunton, of Sioza, Spain.