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Gellibrand (surname)
Gellibrand is a surname. For its etymology, see '' Gillibrand'', of which ''Gellibrand'' is a variant. Around 2016, thirteen people in Great Britain bore the name, and none in Ireland. At the 1881 census of Great Britain, twelve people bore the name, located predominantly in London.''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), II, p. 1052 .v. ''Gillibrand'' . Notable people with the surname include: * Edith Morgan Gellibrand (1864–1894), known also as Edith Chester, British actress * Henry Gellibrand (1597–1637), English mathematician * Samuel Gellibrand (1614–1675), English bookseller * John Gellibrand (1872–1945), Australian military officer and politician * Joseph Gellibrand (1792–1837), Australian jurist, son of William Gellibrand the settler * Paula Gellibrand (1898–1986), English female model and writer * Walter Gellibrand (1832–1909), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillibrand (surname)
Gillibrand () is a surname. Around 2016, 676 people bore the name in Great Britain and none in Ireland. At the time of Great Britain's 1881 census, 608 people bore the name, predominantly in Lancashire. A variant spelling is '' Gellibrand''.''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), II, p. 1052 .v. ''Gillibrand'' . Etymology The name comes into English from Anglo-Norman. It was borrowed into Anglo-Norman from the medieval Continental West Germanic name ''Giselbrand'', whose first element, ''gisel'', meant 'hostage' and whose second element, ''brand'', meant 'firebrand', 'sword'.Max Gottschald, ''Deutsche Namenkunde'', 3rd edn (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1973), p. 205.Wilfried Seibicke, ''Historisches deutsches Vornamenbuch'' (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996), I, p. 335. Notable people People with the surname include: * Ernest Gillibrand (1901–1976), English footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 United Kingdom Census
The United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 3 April 1881, and was the fifth of the UK censuses to include details of household members. Data recorded Details collected include: address, name, relationship to the head of the family, marital status, age at last birthday, gender, occupation, and place of birth. As with earlier censuses, the form asked whether any "lunatics", "imbeciles" or "idiots" lived in the household, causing the Registrar General to observe that: "It is against human nature to expect a mother to admit her young child to be an idiot, however much she may fear this to be true. To acknowledge the fact is to abandon all hope." The total population of England, Wales and Scotland was recorded as 29,707,207. Notable respondents included Winston Churchill, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin. Indexing The 1881 census was the first UK census to be indexed in its entirety. In the 1980s, in a project that has been ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Chester
Edith Chester (1864–1894; born Edith Morgan Gellibrand), known also as Leslie Chester, was a British actress. Early life Chester was born in Arkhangelsk in March 1864; she was the second daughter of Thomas Samuel Gellibrand (1820/1–1897, born in Madras), a British timber merchant resident in Russia from 1847 to 1865. She came from a family who opposed her wish to go on the stage. Her paternal grandfather was Sheriff of Madras, Thomas Gellibrand (died 1824). She has been identified as a model for '' The Golden Stairs'', an 1880 painting by Edward Burne-Jones; but some research suggests the face in question is that of Dorothy Dene. Walter Crane in his memoir ''An Artist's Reminiscences'' (1907) described a sea pleasure trip of the early 1880s, from Brightlingsea to Torquay, in a party where Chester and Calliope Sechiari, daughter of Aglaia Coronio, were the female guests. Performances in amateur productions in 1883, under her real name with her sister Lina, gained Chester po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Gellibrand
Henry Gellibrand (1597–1637) was an English mathematician. He is known for his work on the Earth's magnetic field. He discovered that magnetic declination – the angle of dip of a compass needle – is not constant but changes over time. He announced this in 1635, relying on previous observations by others, which had not yet been correctly interpreted. He was the son of the physician Henry Gellibrand (1568–1615) and Mary Faversham. His four younger brothers were John, Edward, Thomas and Samuel. Samuel Gellibrand became a prominent seventeenth-century London bookseller.Henry Plomer (1907) A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 He also devised a method for measuring longitude, based on eclipses. The mathematical tables of Henry Briggs, consisting of logarithms of trigonometric functions, were published by Gellibrand in 1633 as ''Trigonometria Britannica''. He was Professor at Gresham College, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Gellibrand
Samuel Gellibrand (1614–1675) was a London bookseller active in the seventeenth century. He was the son of the physician Henry Gellibrand (1568–1615)Henry Plomer (1907) A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 and Mary Faversham. He had four brothers: Henry, John, Edward, and Thomas. Henry Gellibrand, his brother, was a mathematician who was appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy. Samuel was apprenticed to Henry Featherstone from 1630 to 1637. He set up business at the sign of the Brazen Serpent, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Notable books published by Samuel Gellibrand *''Mathematical Magick ''Mathematical Magick'' (complete title: ''Mathematical Magick, or, The wonders that may by performed by mechanical geometry''.) is a treatise by the English clergyman, natural philosopher, polymath and author John Wilkins (1614 – 1672). It wa ...'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gellibrand, Samuel Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gellibrand
Major General Sir John Gellibrand, (5 December 1872 – 3 June 1945) was a senior Australian Army officer in the First World War, Chief Commissioner of the Victoria Police from 1920 to 1922, and a member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Tasmanian Division of Denison for the Nationalist Party from 1925 to 1928. The scion of a prominent Tasmanian family, Gellibrand graduated top of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) in October 1893. He served in the South African War, participating in the Relief of Ladysmith. In May 1900 he was promoted to captain in the Manchester Regiment, and served on St Helena where its primary task was guarding Boer prisoners of war. He graduated from the Staff College, Camberley, in December 1907, and served on the staff of the garrison commander in Ceylon. Frustrated at the poor prospects for promotion, he resigne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Gellibrand
Joseph Tice Gellibrand (1792 – 1837) was the first Attorney-General of the British colony of Van Diemen's Land where he gained notoriety with his attempts to establish full rights of trial by jury. He became an integral part of the Port Phillip Association, producing the Batman Treaty in an attempt to obtain extensive land-holdings from the local Aboriginal people around Port Phillip. He was also later part of an ill-fated expedition into the region west of Geelong where he disappeared and was assumed to have been killed by Aboriginal people in the Otway Range. Early life Joseph Tice Gellibrand was born in England, the second son of William Gellibrand and Sophia Louisa, née Hynde. He studied law, was called to the bar, and on 1 August 1823 was appointed Attorney-General of Van Diemen's Land with a salary of £700 a year, with the right "to practise as a barrister under the same restrictions as are observed in this country". Attorney-General of Van Diemen's Land Gellibrand a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Gellibrand
Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury (1898–1986) was an English society beauty and mannequin, once one of the favourite models of Cecil Beaton, and described by contemporaries as "the most beautiful woman in Europe". Her sister was Nadeja Gellibrand, also known as Nada Ruffer, Vogue editor. Background Paula Gellibrand was born in Penarth in 1898, the daughter of William Clarke Gellibrand, a timber importer based in Cardiff. William Clarke Gellibrand was the son of Thomas Samuel Gellibrand (died 1897), Russia merchant, of Morgan Gellibrand and Co. He married, firstly, in 1885, Agnes Steel Drynan Johnson, daughter of Charles Johnson of Richmond, Surrey. She died in 1886 at age 22. There was a son Guy of this marriage, born 5 December 1886. William married, secondly, in Boston, Isabel Marie Dever, fifth daughter of James Dever. Dever's sixth daughter Adah Felicitas married in 1891 in Kensington a British graduate of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Frederick Arthur Roberts, son of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Gellibrand
Walter Angus Bethune Gellibrand (17 October 1832 – 5 November 1909) was a politician in colonial Tasmania, President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1884 to 1889. Gellibrand was born in Derwent Park, Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania), brother of Thomas and William who both became members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Walter Gellibrand was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Derwent on 8 December 1871. Gellibrand was also a member of the Fisheries Board. Gellibrand was President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1 July 1884 to 9 July 1889. He left the Parliament on 7 May 1901 after losing his bid to be re-elected. Gellibrand died in Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ..., Tasmania on 5 November 1909. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gellibrand (settler)
William Gellibrand (1765–1840) was a nonconformist preacher in England who left the United Kingdom at the end of 1823 for Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania). He settled there, with family including his son Joseph Tice Gellibrand, and ran a successful farm and commercial business. Life in England He was the son of Rev. Joseph Gellibrand of Edmonton, Middlesex and his wife Elizabeth Tice. Richard Hengist Horne wrote in 1873, mentioning that the Rev. Dr. Tice who lived there was the uncle of the Australian settler William Tice Gellibrand. Horne himself was brought up in Edmonton, from 1810, by Sarah Tice, his father James Horne's mother, and stated that Dr Tice was his grandfather. The Gellibrands were a prominent nonconformist family in Kent. Thomas Gellibrand was a nonconformist minister at Ashford, Kent, from 1729 to 1773, and was married to Grace Clarke of Ashford. He was succeeded at Ashford by their son Joseph Gellibrand, minister there from 1773 to 1783; when he was succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Clarke Gellibrand
William Clark(e) Gellibrand (1791–1884) was an English merchant in the Russian Empire. Early life He was the elder son of William Gellibrand (settler), William Gellibrand (1765–1840), who emigrated from the United Kingdom to Van Diemen's Land at the end of 1823 with Joseph Tice Gellibrand. Their mother was Sophia Louisa Hinde or Hynde (1759–1793), of Hampstead. The Gellibrand family were at Brentford from 1792 to 1805, when William Gellibrand gave up his ministry which was at the Brentford Butts presbyterian chapel, built 1783, with Hugh Ronalds in the congregation; his wife died in 1793. William Clarke Gellibrand was a schoolfellow in Brentford of Percy Bysshe Shelley at the academy run by the Rev. Alexander Greenlaw, Zion House or Sion House or Syon House; he told Augustine Birrell an anecdote of that time. Russia merchant Gellibrand became involved in the Russia trade as a partner in J. Hubbard & Co. with John Hubbard, father of John Gellibrand Hubbard. There was a family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
