Geddes, Noel Wilshire, brother of Rex Wilshire Geddes (q.v.); b. June 8, 1892; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (A); left Easter 1908; a clerk in Chancery Chambers, Supreme Court of Justice; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. A. S. C. May 25, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; 2nd Lieut. R. A. S. C. Oct. 2, 1939; Capt.; m. June 30, 1927, Eva, daughter of Col. Frederick William George Gordon-Hall, C. B., of Tonbridge, Kent.
Geddes, John Robertson, brother of Rex Wilshire Geddes (q.v.); b. Sept. 14, 1888; adm. Jan. 16, 1902 (A); left July 1905; sometime sales manager to George Newnes Ltd; m. Sept. 23, 1912, Inez, daughter of Edward McCarthy, of Adderbury, co. Oxon.
Geddes, Alistair Wilshire, brother of Rex Wilshire Geddes (q.v.); b. Sept. 16, 1903; adm. Jan. 17, 1918 (A); left July 1921; adm. a solicitor July 1928; in practice in London; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Aug. 9, 1940; Sqdn.-Ldr. India Command; m. May 2, 1931, Adeline Winifred Joan, only daughter of Dr. Frederick Charles Knight; d. April 23, 1962.
GEAST, HENRY, son of Nicholas Geast, Handsworth, Staffs., and Phoebe Downing; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1709; QS 1710; Matthew Prior (qv) begged Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv) to elect Geast to “our beloved Christ Church” in vain (Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, i, 252), but although elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1714, he went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 May 1714; Canoneer Student, Christ Church 25 Jul 1717 - void 1725; BA 1718; MA 22 Mar 1720/1; ordained deacon 12 Jun 1720, priest 18 Dec 1720 (both Oxford); Rector of Seaton, Rutland, from 26 Aug 1724; also Perpetual Curate of Market Harborough, Leics., 1725; d. 12 Oct 1749.
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.
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.
Geare, John Wilding Arundel, only son of Edward Arundel Geare, of Lincoln's Inn, barristerat-law, by Agnes Maria, daughter of the Rev. Charles James Wilding, of Penbryn Hall, co. Montgomery; b. Jan. 6, 1890; adm. Jan. 14, 1904 (G); left July 1908; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1908; B.A. 1911; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn Nov. 17, 1913; director of Messrs. Pawsons and Leafs, Ltd., St. Paul's Churchyard; 2nd Lieut. 1st Co. of London Yeomanry Oct. 1, 1914; Capt. Nov. 1, 1917; served in France 1916-7, and at Salonika 1917; mentioned in despatches L. G. May 20, 1918; m. Jan. 31, 1923, Winifred, daughter of Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart, of Walton Hall, Warwick.; d. 11 Feb. 1983.
Geare, Henry Leslie, elder son of Henry Cecil Geare, of Hampstead, solicitor, by Caroline Isabella, daughter of the Rev. William Brown Galloway, Vicar of St. Mark's, Regents Park; b. Aug. 31, 1886; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 27, 1900; left Easter 1905; adm. a solicitor May 1909; in practice in London; 2nd Lieut. Inns of Court O. T. C. Oct. 18, 1914; Lieut. June 8, 1915; temp. Capt. July 31, 1915, Capt. June 1, 1916; served in Home Guard 1940-5; m. Jan. 8, 1916, Marjory Violet, youngest daughter of James Henry Watherston, of Hampstead, London.
GEALE, RICHARD, son of John Geale, Sandhurst, Berks.; bapt. Sandhurst, Berks. 14 Dec 1619 (IGI); adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1636; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1638, matr. 23 Nov 1638, aged 18, Westminster Student; BA 1642; MA 1645; refused to submit to Parliamentary Visitors; appears in list of those expelled by Committee of Lords and Commons 15 May 1648, but not ejected until 31 May 1649; ordained; Vicar of East Garston, Berks., 16 Oct 1662; living at Sandhurst, Berks. 1665/6.
Gayer, Houston Courtenay, son of Ernest Conway Gayer, civil engineer, and Margery, d. of William Milford Norsworthy of Teignmouth, Devon; b. 20 Feb. 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (B); left July 1944; FCMA 1967; man. dir. Joseph Gardner & Sons (Holdings) Ltd. 1967-83; m. 6 Jan. 1951 Pamela June Edna, d. of Charles Thomas Reach, civil servant, of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex; d. 5 June 2001.