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Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey

(Encyclopedia) Grosvenor, Gilbert HoveyGrosvenor, Gilbert Hoveyhŭvˈē grōvˈnər [key], 1875–1966, American editor, b. Constantinople, Turkey. As director (1903–1919) and later as president (1920–54) of…

Gilbert, Grove Karl

(Encyclopedia) Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843–1918, American geologist, b. Rochester, N.Y., grad. Univ. of Rochester, 1862. When the U.S. Geological Survey was created in the Dept. of the Interior in 1879…

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey

(Encyclopedia) Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 1537?–1583, English soldier, navigator, and explorer; half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. Knighted (1570) for his service in the campaigns in Ireland, he later (…

Newton, Gilbert Stuart

(Encyclopedia) Newton, Gilbert Stuart, 1794–1835, English genre and portrait painter, b. Halifax, N.S., studied in Boston with his uncle Gilbert Stuart, and later abroad. He was greatly influenced by…

Parker, Sir Gilbert

(Encyclopedia) Parker, Sir Gilbert, 1862–1932, Canadian novelist, b. Ontario. His novels and collections of tales usually deal either with the history of Canada or with England and the empire. Among…

Spalding, Gilbert R.

(Encyclopedia) Spalding, Gilbert R., 1811?–1880, American showman, b. Albany co., N.Y. Known as “Doc” because he owned a drug and paint store in the early 1840s, he acquired a circus in the mid-1840s…

Herder, Johann Gottfried von

(Encyclopedia) Herder, Johann Gottfried vonHerder, Johann Gottfried vonyōˈhän gôtˈfrēt fən hĕrˈdər [key], 1744–1803, German philosopher, critic, and clergyman, b. East Prussia. Herder was an…

Matthew Gilbert MARTÍNEZ, Congress, CA (1929)

  MARTÍNEZ, Matthew Gilbert, a Representative from California; born in Walsenberg, Huerfano County, Colo., February 14, 1929; received certificate of competence, Los Angeles Trade Technical…