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GILLETT, ARTHUR WOODALL, second son of Gabriel Edwards Gillett (qv); b. 30 Mar 1830; adm. (G) 27 Jan 1843; left Mar 1845; entered Royal Navy 20 Nov 1845; Sub-Lieut., 20 Nov 1851; Lieut., 9 Nov 1854; Commander, 28 May 1863; Capt., 15 Feb 1869; retd. 1 Oct 1873; Rear-Adm. (on retired list) 9 Mar 1886; served in Black Sea 1854 and in Baltic 1855; Superintendent, Marine Society’s Training Ship Warspite 1877-95; m. 18 Mar 1869 Lucy Clara, eldest dau. of Sir Henry Paul Seale, Bart.; d. 10 Nov 1913.

GILLETT, GABRIEL EDWARDS, son of Rev. Gabriel Gillett, Rector of Waltham on the Wolds, Leics., and Mary Anne Hodgson; b. 15 Dec 1798; adm. Midsummer 1813; left 14 Dec 1816; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 29 Oct 1816, aged 17, Ludwell Exhibitioner 14 Nov 1818; BA 1820; MA 1823; ordained deacon 1822, priest 1823; Rector of Waltham on the Wolds, Leics., from 29 Apr 1831; Hon. Canon Peterborough from 1867; m. 1826 Elizabeth, dau. of John Woodall, Scarborough, Yorks.; d. 22 Apr 1871.

Gillett, George Gabriel Scott, son of the Rev. Edward Alfred Gillett, Rector of Woolsthorpe, Lincs, by Katharine Ellerton, daughter of James Scott, of Dirleton, N. Berwick; b. Dec. 1, 1873; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 22, 1887; left Dec. 1890; Keble Coll. Oxon., matric. Oct. 1892; scholar (History) May 1892; B.A. 1896; ord. deacon 1898, priest 1899 (London); Curate of St. Michael and All Angels, North Kensington, 1898-1901, of St. Saviour, Sunbury, Middlesex, 1901-2, of the Church of the Annunciation, Brighton, Sussex, 1902-4; Domestic Chaplain to Earl Beauchamp 1904-6, and to Viscount Halifax 1906-11; Rector of Madresfield, Worcs, 1911-4; Chaplain to Pretoria Diocesan House of Mercy 1914-5; Curate of St. Mary, Johannesburg, 1915-20; Rector of St. Mary, Jeppestown, Transvaal, and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Pretoria 1920-4; author of Politics and Religion (1912); Editorial Secretary, S. P. G. 1926-33; Chaplain, St. Helen's School, Abingdon, 1933-5; Rector of Chaffcombe, Somerset, 1935-8; d. Aug. 12, 1948.

GILLETT, GEORGE, eldest son of Gabriel Edwards Gillett (qv); b. 1 May 1827; adm. (G) 28 Jan 1841; Oriel Coll. Oxford, adm. commoner 5 Dec 1844, Ludwell Exhibitioner 19 Mar 1846; BA 1848; adm. Inner Temple 8 Nov 1849, called to bar 30 Apr 1853; d. unm. 26 May 1878.

GILLETT, WILLIAM STEDMAN, brother of Gabriel Edwards Gillett (qv); b. Aug 1800; adm. Mich. 1813; one of the founders of The Trifler 1817; left 13 Dec 1817; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 24 Jan 1818, aged 17; BA 1822; MA 1824; adm. Inner Temple 1821; landowner, living Harefield, South Stoneham, Hampshire (1881 Census); m. 19 Jun 1851 Eliza, widow of Cdr. Arthur Grant, Royal Navy, and dau. of Thomas Coster, York Terrace, Regent’s Park, London; d. 22 Jan 1886.

GILLIAT, ARTHUR, son of George Gilliat, Horncastle, Lincs, brewer and barge owner, and his first wife Katharine Betham, Lincoln; younger brother of Rev. Edward Gilliat, Assistant Master; b. 8 Oct 1855; adm. 17 Jun 1868; BB 20 Jun 1868; left Dec 1869; partner, E. G. Jepson & Co., chemical merchants, Leeds; Vice-Consul for Netherlands, Leeds; m. 3 Feb 1887 Gertrude Mary, dau. of William Wellington Sowry, Leeds; d. 15 Jan 1935.