GWILT, RICHARD BRANDRAM, brother of Charles Perkins Gwilt (qv); b. 14 Feb 1814; adm. 26 Mar 1821; KS 1827; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1831, adm. pens. 26 May 1831, scholar 1832, matr. Mich. 1831; 2nd Lieut., Ceylon Rifle Regt. 30 Oct 1838; Lieut., 10th Foot 8 Apr 1842; d. at Meerut, North Western Provinces, India 3 Jun 1845.
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GWILT, JOHN SEBASTIAN, brother of Charles Perkins Gwilt (qv); b. 19 Feb 1811; adm. 11 Jan 1819; KS 1825; left 1826; an architect; assisted his father in the preparation of A Project for a New National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, 1838, and The Encyclopaedia of Architecture, 1842; living at Fingest, Hambleden, Bucks., in 1881; m. (by 1881) Emma --- (b. Cadiz, Spain); d. 4 Mar 1890. DNB (s. v. Joseph Gwilt).
GWILT, CHARLES PERKINS, eldest son of Joseph Gwilt FSA, Abingdon Street, Westminster, architect, and Louisa, third dau. of Samuel Brandram, London, merchant; b. 4 Jan 1809; adm. 8 Apr 1818; KS 1823; left 1827; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 May 1827; BA 1831; adm. Middle Temple 26 Apr 1827; devoted himself to heraldic and literary pursuits; d. 22 Dec 1835. DNB (s. v. Joseph Gwilt).
Gwatkin, Frederick Ambrose Stapleton, son of Alexander George Stapleton Gwatkin, of Fulham, by Alice Jane, daughter of Andrew Thompson, of Keele, Staffs; b. July 3, 1880; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 27, 1894; left July 1897; adm. a solicitor Aug. 1904; practised in London; m. Hilda Muriel Bannerman Ramsey, youngest daughter of the Rev. John Wilson, of Liff, Fife; d. Oct. 24, 1953.
GUYES, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
GUNTER, EDMUND, son of --- Gunter, Herts., originally from Gunterstown, Breconshire; b.; adm.; QS in 1596; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1599, matr. 25 Jan 1599/1600, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1616; BA 1603; MA 1606; BD 1615; ordained; Incumbent, St. George’s, Southwark, Surrey 1615; Professor of Astronomy, Gresham College, London, from 6 Mar 1619; applied to navigation and other parts of mathematics his rule of proportion, known as “Gunter’s Line”; discovered the variation of the magnetic needle by experiments at Deptford 1622; introduced “Gunter’s Chain”, used in land surveying, and was proably the inventor of the “decimal separator”; author, Canon Triangulorum, or Table of Artificial Sines and Tangents, 1620, and other works, published in a collected edition 1624; d. 10 Dec 1626. DNB.
GULSTON, ---; b.; KS 1640 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS, lxix, f. 140).
GUISE, POWELL COLCHESTER, third son of Sir John Guise, Bart., Highnam Court, Gloucs., and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Wright, Lawrence Lane, London; b. 18 Dec 1778; adm.; Min. Can. 1793; KS 1794; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1798, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 May 1798; BA 1802; MA 1804; ordained; Rector of Craike, co. Durham, Jul 1805; Vicar of Elmore and Longney, Gloucs.; m. 13 Oct 1808 Maria, dau. of Nathaniel Clifford (formerly Winchcombe), Frampton Court, Gloucs.; d. 9 May 1835.
GUEST, EDWARD PERCIVAL, son of Edward Percival Guest, High Street, Brentwood, Essex, pharmaceutical chemist, and Frances, dau. of John Boys, Rochester, Kent; b. 21 Jun 1860; adm. 4 Jun 1874 (G), exhibitioner; QS 1875; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Triplett) 1879, adm. pens. 9 Oct 1879, sizar 1881; BA 1883; MA 1889; Assistant Master for forty-three years at various schools; d. unm. 14 Jul 1935.
GUEST (or GESTE or GUEAST), SIR LYONEL, only son of Alexander Guest, Tewkesbury, Gloucs., and Margery, dau. of John Meredeth, Upper Weld, Bucks.; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1578, matr. 20 Nov 1580, aged 20, Westminster Student to 1583; BA 30 Jan 1581/2; went to Ireland as Capt. in Army c. 1595; knighted by Lord Deputy of Ireland at Leixlip 5 May 1604; m. 1st, 14 Sep 1592 Elizabeth, dau. of Simon Love, Northants.; m. 2nd, Elinor, widow of David O’Duda, Castle Connor, co. Sligo, and dau. of Patrick Lynch, The Knock, co. Meath; d. c. 1620.