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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO
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1900; Capt., 1903; Major, 1915; Bt. Lieut.-Col., 1916; graduated at Staff College, 1912; served South African War, 1899-1902 (Queen's medal, four clasps; King's medal, two clasps); India, 1903-10; Director of Military Operations and General Staff Officer, 2nd grade. New Zealand Military Forces, April, 1914; Chief of the General Staff, Sept., 1914; General Staff Officer, 1st grade, 1919; retired pay, 1920. Recns.: hunting, shooting, fishing. A Member of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland; Vice-Pres. Co. Wexford Farmers' Association; son of Surgeon-Major Edward Acton-Gibbon, of Sleedagh; b. 1st Nov., 1877; m. 1911, Margaret, dau. of Alfred Crampton, of London, and has issue one dau. Res.: Sleedagh, Wexford.

GIBNEY, James, J.P. Co. Meath; formerly Member of the Meath Co. Council; M.P. for N. Meath, 1893-1900; b. Beltrasna, Oldcastle, 14th Dec., 1847; son of Thomas Gibney; m. 1st, 1881, Bridget (d. 1895), dau. of John Hennesy, Millbrook Mills, Oldcastle, and Castlepollard; 2nd, 1897, Catharine, dau. of Michael O'Brien, Oldtown, Navan, and has issue two sons and two daus. Res.: Martinstown House, Crossakiel, Co. Meath.

GIBSON, Hon. Edward Graves Mayne, M.A. (T.C.D. and Cantab.); Barrister-at-Law King's Inns, 1901; J.P., Co. and City of Dublin: second son of 1st Baron Ashbourne, P.C, LL.D., and brother and heir-presumptive to present peer; b. 23th July, 1873: m. 1st, 1900, Mary, dau. of H. R. Greg, of Lode Hill, Handforth, Cheshire: 2nd, 1922, Deloraine, dau. of C.W.E. Henslowe, of 34 Clarence Parade, Southsea. Res.: Highlands, Haslemere, Surrey. Clubs: Carlton; Kildare Street, Dublin.

GIBSON, Right Hon. John George, P.C., K.C.; First Justice, King's Bench Division, High Court of Justice, Ireland, 1888 to 1921: called to the Bar, 1870; made Q.C., 1880: 3rd Serjeant-at-Law, 1885; Bencher of King's Inns (1885); Solicitor-General for Ireland, 1885-6: again, 1886-7; Attorney-General for Ireland, 1887-8; M.P. for Walton Division of Liverpool, 1885-88; a Commissioner of Nat. Education in Ireland, 1899-1905; youngest son of the late Wm. Gibson, Esq., of Rockforest, Tipperary, Taxing Master in Chancery; b. 1846: in 1871, Anna, only dau. of the Rev. John Hare. Res.: 38 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin. Clubs: Athenæum, S.W.; University, Dublin.

GIBSON, Michael Joseph, M.A., M.D. (R.U.I.); Master of the Coombe Hospital; Gynæcologist to the Richmond Hospital, Dublin; President of the Obstetrical Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. Res.: 74 Merrion Square South, Dublin.

GILDEA, Arthur Knox, D.L., J.P., Co. Mayo (High Sheriff, 1891): eldest son of late Major-Gen. John Arthur Gildea, 81st Regt; b. 1858; m. 1891, Jane, only dau. of late Thos. Ruttledge, D.L., of Cornfield, Co. Mayo. Res.: Clooncormack House, Hollvmount, Co. Mayo. Sackville Street Club, Dublin.

GILL, Thomas Patrick, Secretary of Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland; Commissioner for Intermediate Education, Senator of National University of Ireland, 1910-14; Member of Consultative Committee for Co-ordinating Educational Administration, etc.; b. Ballygraigue, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, 25th Oct., 1858; son of Robert Gill, C.E. Educ.: Trinity College, Dublin. Editor of the Catholic World magazine of New York, and an associate editor of the North American Review, 1883-85; M.P., South Louth, 1885-92; a member of Recess Committee promoted by Mr. Horace Plunkett, acted as its Hon. Secretary and drew up its report on the Establishment of a Department of Agriculture and Industries for Ireland, 1895; Member of the General Assembly of the International Institute of Agriculture, Rome; Chairman Departmental Committee on Irish Forestry, 1907-8; Member of Departmental Committee on Agricultural Credit, 1913-14; Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Agriculture, etc. Dept. of Agriculture, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin.

GILLFORD, Lord, John Charles Edmund Carson Meade; only son of 5th Earl of Clanwilliam; b. 6th June, 1914.

GINNELL, Laurence (M.P. for Westmeath North from 1906): Barrister Middle Temple and of Irish Bar; one of the founders of the Irish Literary Society, London. Author of The Brehon Laws; The Doubtful Grant of Ireland: Land and Liberty; b. 1854; m. 1902, Alice, dau. of James King, J.P., of Kilbride, Mullingar. Res.: 55 Belgrave Square, Rathmines, Dublin.

GLEESON, Michael. Educ. at Ennis Diocesan College, Catholic University, and T.C.D.; Solicitor, 1877; Crown Solicitor for Co. Tipperary from 1895, and Sessional Crown Solicitor from 1904; Coroner for Co. Tipperary, 1885-95; son of late John Gleeson, of Ivy House, Nenagh; b. 1854; m. 1885, Julia, dau. of late Patrick Boland, of Dublin. Res.: Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

GLENAVY, Baron (Unit. Kgd., 1921), Bart. (Unit. Kgd., 1917), James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron, B.A., Schol., Vice-Chancellor's Gold Medallist, and Senior Mod. in Classics and Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin, K.C.: P.C, Irld. (1905); Irish Barrister (1878); Q.C. (1892); elected a Bencher of the King's