farmer, was born in Auchmithie, Angus, Scotland on 5 December, elder son of Peter Edward Gilruth, farmer, and his wife Mary Steele Gilruth, née Meikle.

On leaving Arbroath High School he worked on...

colonial treasurer, was born at Doctor's Creek, Fox Bay, West Falkland on 14 January 1921, son of Franklin Gleadell and Winifred, née Davis.

He went to the Government School in Stanley and although...

American academic, was the son of a German professor, Julius Goebel (1857-1931), who emigrated to the USA in 1881 and taught at the University of Illinois. Julius junior was educated to LLB and PhD...

governor, was born in London on 20 June 1839, the second son of Thomas Goldsworthy, an attorney with connections in Calcutta, and his wife (and cousin), Sophia, née Tuckfield. He was educated at...

policeman and handyman at South Georgia, was born to Sydney Goss (1890-1944) and Annie née Ricketts (1890-1943). Both Sydney and Annie Goss’s sons were born in England: Barry Gordon in Brigg,...

housewife, was the eldest daughter of William Henry Goss and Ann Goss, née Aitken ('Billie' GOSS was a younger brother). William Henry was a Camp cook when he married and Christina was born at San...

colonist, was born in Shoreditch, London on 17 August 1825, the son of Richard Victor Goss and Sophia Sarah, née Mann. The young man of 17 who arrived at Port Louis in the brig Alarm on 10 April...

shepherd and publican, was born on 5 November 1853 in Stanley, the son of Jacob Victor Napoleon GOSS and Ann Elizabeth, née Pedrick. Born less than a decade after the move to the new settlement of...

ship's captain and manager, was born on 27 February 1911 in Stanley, the son of William Henry Goss and Ann, née Aitken.

His first job, after leaving school at the age of 13, was to earn his keep...

colonial secretary, was born on 26 December 1855, the fourth son of John Glasgow Grant CMG, Speaker of the House of Assembly in Barbados and Mary Elizabeth Grant, née Walter. He was educated...

botanist, was born on 19 July, 1928 in Cork to a landowner and his wife (née Dickson). Stanley Greene never quite lost his Irish accent despite living most of his life in England. He attended...

geologist, was born in New Malden, Surrey on 17 February 1948, the daughter of Jack Greenway and Vera Greenway, née Collett. She first studied geology at Wimbledon High School for Girls, but her...

governor, was born on 7 April 1852 in Kent, the youngest son of Andrew Wilson and his wife Charlotte, a granddaughter of the first Earl Grey.

He was educated at Cheltenham College and at the young...

stipendiary magistrate, was born on 17 December 1826 at Kenchester, Hereford, the son of John and Marian Griffiths. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1850 and appointed senior...

Argentine historian, was born on 15 February 1848 in Toulouse, France, the son of Pierre Groussac and Catherine, née Deval. After an education in the classics, Groussac entered the Brest Naval...

visiting economist, was born on 2 July 1890 at Calne (Wilts), the son of Ernest Guillebaud, an Anglican priest; his mother Mabel Marshall was sister to the economist Alfred Marshall. Educated at...

Spanish naval officer, was born in Cartagena (Spain) in 1780. On 20 December 1793 he entered the College of Navigation in the Cartagena Comandancia de Pilotos, aged 13, qualifying as a pilotín* on...

biologist, was born at Heacham, Norfolk, the elder of the two sons of Robert William Theodore Gunther, Oxford University reader in the history of science and his wife Amy, née Neville-Rolfe.

After...

engineer, was born on 9 December 1920 at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the second son of Percy and Alice Gutteridge. He had one sister and four brothers.

His father was a self-employed shoe...

teacher and community leader, was born near Aberdour, Aberdeenshire on 7 February 1922, the eldest of six children of Alexander and Janet, née Burnett. His parents' working lives meant moving...

see CRAIGIE-HALKETT

Swedish botanist and geologist, was born on 25 September 1884 in Nykyrka, close to Mullsjö in Västergötland, Sweden. His father, Carl Otto Gustafson was a shopkeeper, and his mother was Eva...

colonial surgeon, became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in February 1835, and practised in Walsall, Warwickshire. One night when the Whig grandee Lord Stanley was passing through...

government naturalist, was born in Liverpool on 26 May 1891 to The Reverend James Hamilton (1859-1935; a Church of Scotland minister) and Barbara Roberton (1862-1936) After graduating from...

sheep farmer and landholder, was born in Janetstown, Wick, Caithness, on 15 March 1858, the oldest son of four children of Angus Hamilton and Catherine Sutherland. (nb. See editorial comment below)...