Galle II, Cornelis (1615-1678), engraver
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Galle II, Cornelis (1615-1678), engraver
Galle, Philips (1537-1612), engraver and publisher
Galle, Theodor (1571-1633), engraver and print publisher
Mentioned by George Mallory.
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [known as Mahatma Gandhi] (1869–1948), political leader and religious and social reformer, was born in Porbandar, Kathiawar, western India, on 2 October 1869, to Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi and his fourth wife, Putlibai: he was the youngest of the one daughter and three sons of the marriage.
Garcia de la Vega, Denis (1790-1856), judge and politician
Gardiner [née Power], Marguerite (1789–1849), countess of Blessington and author
Writer of novels and non-fiction.
Gardiner, Sir Robert William (1781–1864), army officer and writer
Gardiner, Walter (1859-1941), Botanist and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
Walter Gardiner was a botanist. He was a Fellow and Bursar of Clare College.
Garnier, Auguste François (active 1836-1848), engraver
Garrett, Stephen Denis (1906-1989), mycologist and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Matric 1926. Despite six generations of engineers behind him (Garrett Engines of Leiston, Suffolk), he took up Botany, and married Jane Perkins from the rival firm in Peterborough. After research work in Adelaide, London and Rothamsted, Berks, he returned to Cambridge in 1949, becoming Reader in Mycology in 1961 and Professor in 1971. He became a Fellow in 1962, one of two elections (the other was Dr R V Short in Physiology) made to meet the recommendations of the Bridges Report about increasing the number of College fellowships for those with University posts. Garrett was an adventurous eater of fungus species, but never made a mistake.
Educated at Eton and Magdalene College. While still an undergraduate, his show 'Share my lettuce' was performed in the West End (1957-1958); meanwhile he took a double first in the English Tripos. He might have then become a Research Fellow, but instead went to Yale as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow (1958-1959). Author, theatre-critic, broadcaster; and publisher of scholarly editions of nineteenth-century prints; best known as TV presenter of 'University Challenge', 1962-1987. Sandars Reader in Bibliography, Cambridge, 1993-1994. Honorary Fellow, 1996. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of 'www.historyworld.net' (2000).
College Magazine
Obituary by James Raven, College Magazine, No. 66 (2021-22), pp. 20-25
Gaselee (née Frost), Alice (1852-1928), artist
Alice Gaselee (née Frost) was the mother of Sir Stephen Gaselee, Pepys Librarian.
Gaselee, Sir Stephen (1882-1943), Pepys Librarian and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Stephen Gaselee was born in Brunswick Gardens, Kensington, London, the elder son of Henry Gaselee (1842–1926), fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and his wife, Alice Esther. His great-grandfather was Sir Stephen Gaselee, justice of the court of common pleas.
He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge (matriculated 1901). He obtained a first class in part 1 of the classical tripos (1904) and a second class in part 2 (1905). He left Cambridge in that year and, as tutor to Prince Leopold of Battenberg (later Lord Leopold Mountbatten) and travelled widely. He returned to Cambridge in 1907 and was editor of the Cambridge Review.
Between 1908 and 1919 he was Pepys librarian at Magdalene College, and became a Fellow in 1909 (which he held for 4 years).
In 1916 Gaselee entered the Foreign Office and was rewarded for this war service in 1918 by appointment as CBE. By Michaelmas term 1919 he was back in Cambridge.
On 1 January 1920 he was made librarian and keeper of the papers at the Foreign Office. He was appointed KCMG in 1935, and served the crown until his death.
In 1917 he married May Evely. They had three daughters.
He had a large number of interests he was a Latinist, Coptologist, medievalist, palaeographer, liturgiologist, and hagiographer. In 1932 he was president of the Bibliographical Society and from 1928 honorary librarian of the Athenaeum.
In 1934 he presented to the Cambridge University Library 300 early printed books, to which he subsequently added his rare and large collection of early sixteenth-century books and his Petroniana.
He died at his home in London on 16 June 1943.
Arms in Hall glass, W1.
Gauci, Maxim (1774-1854), lithographer and painter
Maltese lithographer and painter. Settled in London in 1809.
Gaultier, Léonard (c. 1561-c. 1635), engraver and publisher
Geefs, Willem (1805-1883), Belgian sculptor
Geelkercken, Nicolaes van (1585/6-1656), engraver and cartographer
Geille, Amédée Felix Barthélémy (1802-1843), engraver
Gendebien, Alexandre (1789-1869), lawyer and politician
Belgian politican.
Gerlache, Baron Etienne de (1785-1871), politician, magistrate and historian
Belgian Congressman.
Gersdorff, George R. de (active 1842-1844), Ambassador of the King of Saxony in London
Ghémar, Louis Joseph (1820-1873), painter and engraver
Gibson, Thomas (1680-1751), artist
An English portrait painter and copyist, notable as master of George Vertue. Gibson's sitters included a number of important public figures: Dr Henry Sacheverell (1710; Oxford, Magdalen Coll.), John Flamsteed (1712; Oxford, Bodleian Lib.), Sir Robert Walpole (untraced; engr. G. Bockman), Archbishop William Wake (Oxford, Christ Church Pict. Gal.) and Archbishop John Potter (London, Lambeth Pal.).
Gillick, Ernest (1874-1951), sculptor and painter
Studied at the Royal College of Art, where he won a Travelling Scholarship. Married to the sculptor Mary Gillick. Exhibited RA, RSA and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Gillick was awarded the RBS medal in 1935, three years later becoming a fellow. Was master of the Art Workers’ Guild in 1935, served on the faculty of sculpture of the British School in Rome and on the Imperial Arts League’s council. Gillick completed a large volume of public sculpture, including the Frampton memorial in St Paul’s Cathedral, London; medals for the Royal Mint, RA and Inner Temple; London’s Lord Mayor’s seal; plus a variety of work for Commonwealth countries. Lived in London. The Henry Moore Institute archive, Leeds, holds a huge postcard collection documenting sculpture, monuments and paintings by Gillick from around the world.
Goche, Dr Barnaby, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Master of Magdalene College, 1604-1626
Former undergraduate, admitted Pensioner in 1582. BA in 1587. Wray Fellow 1588.
He had been granted special dispensation to study civil law in 1591.
Godwin, William (1756–1836), philosopher and novelist
Goltzius, Hendrick (1558–1617), painter, engraver and publisher