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GB-2014-WSA-07655 · Person · 1917-1938

Gardiner, Harold Michael, brother of Peter Ambrose Gardiner (qv); b. 11 Jan. 1917; adm. May 1930 (H); left July 1935; d. 5 Feb. 1938.

GB-2014-WSA-07677 · Person · 1895-1916

Garvin, Roland Gerard, only son of James Louis Garvin, of Kilburn, editor of the Observer, by Christina, daughter of Robert Wilson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; b. Oct. 12, 1895; adm. April 30, 1908 (H); won the Public Schools Foils Championship at Aldershot 1913; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1914; 2nd Lieut. 7th (Service) Batt. the Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancs Regt.) Sept. 19, 1914; Lieut. July 3, 1915; went out to the western front July 15, 1915; Capt. July 15, 1916; killed in action near Bazentin le Petit July 22, 1916; unm.

GB-2014-WSA-07692 · Person · 1924-1998

Gaster, John Marson Stewart, son of Stanley Mostrop Gaster, bank official, of Golders Green, and Mary, d. of Rev. Charles Latimer Marson, Rector of Orlestone, Kent; b. 15 Feb. 1924; adm. Jan. 1938 (H); left Dec. 1941; involved in a number of far-right political organisations, incl. British League of Ex-Servicemen, North West (Racial) Task Force, and British Pan-German League; d. 1998.

GB-2014-WSA-07727 · Person · 1919-2011

Geare, John Duncan Watherston, son of Henry Leslie Geare (qv); b. 27 Mar. 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (H), KS Sept. 1933; left July 1937; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1937, BA 1945, MA 1946; RA 1939-46 (Maj.), despatches (N. W. Europe) Apr. 1946; Malayan Civil Service 1946-57; asst master Waitaki Boys HS, Oamaru, NZ, dep. Rector 1971-83, boarding hostel manager 1983-; m. 1st 5 Sept. 1946 Mary Fern, d. of George Edwin King MB ChB of Lanchow, N. China; 2nd 3 Jan. 1975 Mary Theodora Webb, sister of Sir David Charles Watherston (qv); d. 16 Jun 2011.

GB-2014-WSA-07728 · Person · 1890-1917

Geare, William Duncan, brother of Henry Leslie Geare (q.v.); b. Nov. 28, 1890; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (H); left July 1909; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1909; B.A. 1912; M.A. 1916; Leeds Clergy School 1913, ord. 1913; Curate of St. Margaret, Ilkley, Yorks, 1913; temp. Chaplain to the Forces May 1, 1916; went out to the western front, being attached to the 7th and 9th Batts. of the King's (Liverpool) Regt., in Sept. 1916; killed while ministering to the wounded on the battlefield near Ypres July 31, 1917; unm.

GB-2014-WSA-07738 · Person · 1920-2013

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.

GB-2014-WSA-07775 · Person · 1909-1981

Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard (known at school as Cuthbert Howard Gibbs-Smith), brother of Oswin Harvard Gibbs-Smith (qv); b. 22 Mar. 1909; adm. Apr. 1923 (H); left Dec. 1925; Harvard Univ., MA and res. Fellow; Asst Keeper V & A Museum 1932; Min. of Information 1939-45, Asst Dir. Photographic Divn 1943, Dir. 1945; Keeper Public Relations and Education Dept V & A Museum 1947-71, Keeper Emeritus 1971; FRSA 1948; Chevalier Roy. Order of Danneborg 1948; FMA 1952; hon. CRAeS 1962; res. Fellow Science Museum 1976; first Lindbergh Prof. of Aerospace History, Nat. Air & Space Museum, Washington DC, 1978-9; author of many works on aeronautical subjects; wrote and broadcast on art, crime, aircraft and tank recognition; m. 1st 25 Oct. 1930 Joan, d. of Thomas Brooke; 2nd Mar. 197 5 Lavinia Snelling, lutenist; d. 3 Dec. 1981.

GB-2014-WSA-07776 · Person · 1901-1969

Gibbs-Smith, Oswin Harvard, son of Edward Gibbs-Smith, M. D., of South Kensington, by Ethel Harvard, daughter of Thomas Fitzwilliam Watts, of Cambridge; b. Nov. 15, 1901; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (H); left July 1919; Clare Coll. Camb. (Choral scholar), matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1922, M.A. 1927; Cuddesdon Theol. Coll.; ordained deacon 1924, priest 1925 (London); Curate of Harrow 1924; asst. master Harrow School 1925-7; Curate of St. Margaret, Ilkley, Yorks 1927-31; Priest in charge and first Vicar of the Church of John Keble, Mill Hill, Middx, 1932-41; Rector of Christ Church, St. Marylebone with St. John's Wood Chapel 1941; Archdeacon of London and Residentiary Canon of St. Paul's 1947; Select Preacher, Univ. of Cambridge 1950; Sub-Dean of the Order of the British Empire 1957; C.B.E. 1961; Dean of Winchester Sept. 1961; Sub-Prelate of the Order of St. John 1962; m. June 7, 1949, Nora Maude, younger daughter of H. Gregg, of Esher; d. 26 Sept. 1969.

GB-2014-WSA-07780 · Person · 1903-?

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.

Gibson, John, 1910-1990
GB-2014-WSA-07781 · Person · 1910-1990

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.