in 1899 to form 'The Regions Beyond Missionary Union,' an unsectarian body whose activities were further extended to India by the formation of the Behar mission in the Bengal presidency in 1901.
Although Guinness did not himself visit the interior of Africa, he went in the interest of his societies to Algeria in 1879, to America in 1889 (where he inspired the creation in Boston and Minneapolis of training institutions similar to his own), to India and Burma in November 1896, and to China and Japan in 1897. A second visit to Egypt in 1900 bore good fruit among the Sudanese. In 1903 Guinness went with his second wife on a five years' missionary tour round the world, visiting Switzerland (1903), America and Canada (1904), Japan and China (1905), Australia and New Zealand (1906), and South Africa (1907). He received the degree of D.D. from Brown University, Providence, U.S.A., in 1889.
Guinness died after four months' illness on 21 June 1910 at Bath, where he spent his last two years, and was buried in the Abbey cemetery there. He was twice married. His first wife, Fanny (1831-1898), daughter of Edward Marlborough Fitzgerald (d. 1839), and grand-daughter of Maurice Fitzgerald of Dublin, whom he married at Bath on 20 Oct. 1860, was one of the first women evangelists. She joined in all her husband's work, was secretary of the East London Institute and of the Livingstone Inland Mission, was editor of 'The Regions Beyond' from 1878, and, besides collaborating with her husband, independently published 'The Life of Mrs. Henry Denning' (Bristol, 1872) and 'The New World of Central Africa' (1890). She died at Cliff House, Curbar, Derbyshire, on 3 Nov. 1898, and was buried in Baslow churchyard. She had six daughters, of whom two only survived childhood, and two sons. All the children engaged in their parents' missionary efforts. The eldest son. Dr. Harry Grattan Guinness (b. 1861), is a director of the mission at Harley House. The younger daughter, Lucy Evangeline (Mrs. Karl Kumm, 1865–1906), edited 'The Regions Beyond' for some nine years after her mother's death, published books on South America and India, and was a writer of verse. Her father published a memoir of her in 1907. Guinness married secondly, on 7 July 1903, Grace, daughter of Russell Hurditch, by whom he had two sons. In collaboration with his first wife Guinness published several works on prophecy. The most important, 'The Approaching End of the Age in the Light of History, Prophecy, and Science,' published in 1878 (8th edit. 1882), went through fourteen editions. Other joint publications were 'Light for the Last Days' (1886) and 'The Divine Programme of the World's History' (1888). Guinness published also in 1882 a translation of Brusciotto's grammar of the Congo language, and 'A Grammar of the Congo Language as spoken in the Cataract Region below Stanley Pool,' containing specimen translations from the Bible, which were printed separately as 'Mosaic History and Gospel Story.' His many other volumes included 'The City of the Seven Hills,' a poem (1891), and 'Creation centred in Christ' (2 vols. 1896).
[The Times, 22 June 1910; Men and Women of the Time, 1899; Thirteen Sermons, 1859 (with brief sketch of Guinness's life and portrait at age of 22); Harper's Weekly, 1860 (portrait); In Memoriam number of Regions Beyond, Jan.–Feb. 1911 (with portraits); Enter Thou, New Year's number of Regions Beyond, 1899, containing memoir of Mrs. Guinness with illustrations; J. S. Dennis, Christian Missions and Social Progress, 3 vols. 1906; Dwight, Tupper, and Bliss, Encyc. of Missions, 1904; James Marchant, Memoirs of Dr. Barnardo, 1907.]
GULLY, WILLIAM COURT, first Viscount Selby (1835–1909), Speaker of the House of Commons, born in London on 29 Aug. 1835, was second son of Dr. James Manby Gully [q. v.], the well-known physician of Great Malvern, by Frances, daughter of Thomas Court. He was educated privately, and at the early age of sixteen went to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was popular at the university and was chosen president of the Cambridge Union. In 1856 he graduated B.A. with a first class in the moral sciences tripos, then recently established, and proceeded M.A. in 1859. On 26 Jan. 1860 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, and joined the northern circuit. He shared the usual struggles of a junior barrister, and there is a well-authenticated story of a meeting between three members of the circuit who, despairing of their prospects at home, agreed to try their fortunes in India or the colonies. But they reconsidered their determination, and all of them rose to eminence in their own country. The three were Charles Russell [q. v. Suppl. I], afterwards lord chief justice of England, Farrer Herschell [q. v. Suppl. I], afterwards lord chancellor of Great Britain, and Gully, who gradually established a good practice at the bar, especially in commercial cases at Liverpool. He had a sound knowledge of law, and a fine presence and attractive personality.
