GERY, THOMAS, son of Robert Gery (qv); b.; adm.; QS 1704; left 1708; Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 3 Jun 1708, matr. 1708. [Check if this was Thomas Gery, MA, Prebendary of Lincoln from 28 Jul 1733, buried Buckden, Hunts., 9 Sep 1737].

GERY, ROBERT, son of Ven. William Gery DD, Archdeacon of Norwich, Prebendary of Lincoln, and Rector of Market Bosworth, Leics., and Mary, dau. of Right Rev. Robert Sanderson DD, Bishop of Lincoln; b.; adm.; KS 1668; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1671, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1671, scholar 1672, matr. 1674/5; BA 1674/5; MA 1678; ordained deacon (London) 24 Dec 1676; Perpetual Curate of Northaw, Herts., 1677-83; Rector of Abinger, Surrey 1685-89/90; Rector of All Hallows the Great, London, from 24 Jan 1689/90; Vicar of St. Mary’s, Islington, from 4 May 1691; Prebendary of Lincoln from 9 Dec 1701; lic. to m. 14 Nov 1689 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. William Cave DD, Canon of Windsor; d. 1 Oct 1707, aged 55.

GERVIS (or JARVIS), ROBERT; b.; adm.; QS in 1566; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1570, adm. scholar 1571, matr. Easter 1571; 5th in “ordo” 1574/5; BA 1574/5; MA 1578.

GERARD, WILLIAM, son of Rev. John Gerard, Rector of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks., and his first wife Mary, dau. of Rev. John Vintner, Rector of Weston Turville, Bucks.; bapt. 11 Oct 1642; at school in 1656, a boarder; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 22 Aug 1661, aged 19, Westminster Student 10 Feb 1662 - void 1671; BA 1665; MA 1668; ordained; Rector of Westwell, Oxfordshire, from 18 Jan 1670/1; Rector of Aston Clinton, Bucks., from 6 Dec 1676; d. 10 Jun 1706.

GERARD, PHILIP, son of William Gerard, London; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1645, matr. 29 Jan 1646/7, aged 13, Westminster Student; BA 1649; MA 1652. [Presumably Philip Gerard, son of William Gerard and Judith ---, bapt. St. Andrew’s, Holborn 13 Oct 1632 (IGI)].

George, Griffith Owen, son of John Owen George of Hirwaun, Glam., and Emiah Jane, d. of Griffith William John of Glynneath, South Wales; b. 5 Dec. 1902; adm. Sept. 1916 (KS); left July 1921; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1921, BA 1925, MA 1968; called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) Jan. 1927; RA 1939-43 (Maj.); staff of Judge Advocate General North Africa, Middle East and India 1943- 5; contested (Nat. C) Llanelly 1945; JP (Glam.) 1952-72; DL (Glam.) 1970; Dep. Chairman Glamorgan Quarter Sessions 1956-66, Chairman 1966-71; Nat. Insurance Commissioner (Wales) 1960-7; Recorder, Crown Court, 1972-4; retd 1974; m. 28 July 1937 Anne Elinor, d. of Charles E. Edwards of Llandaff; d. 6 Dec. 1994.

GELL, ROBERT, son of Rev. William Gell, Rector of Frindsbury, Kent; b. 19 Feb 1594/5; at school under Camden and Wilson eight years (Notes and Queries, 8th series, xii, 401); KS ; Christ’s Coll. Cambrtdge, sizar, matr. Easter 1615; BA 1617/8; MA 1621; BD 1628; DD 1641; Fellow of Christ’s Coll. before Christmas 1623 - after 1638; held several college offices; ordained; preached frequently before the University; Chaplain to Archbishop of Canterbury; Rector of St. Mary Aldermary, London, from 27 Jan 1640/1; bequeathed £5 to the King’s Scholars “to buy them bookes”; author, An Essay towards the Amendment of the last Translation of the Bible, 1659; his Remaines were “collected and set in order” by R. Bacon 1676; m. 7 Nov 1641 Elizabeth Lowvenir, Pampisford, Cambs.; d. 25 Mar 1665, aged 69. DNB.

Geikie-Cobb, Bayard, son of the Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, D.D., Rector of St. Ethelburga's, Bishopsgate, London, by Harriette Emily White, of High Barnet, Herts; b. Nov. 5, 1885; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 28, 1899; left Easter 1902; a mining engineer in Toronto.

GEFFERSON, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1553/4 (Chapter Muniments).

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.