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WHO WAS WHO IN OLD PLYMOUTH

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Richard Gant appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Richard Garland appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

John Gartrail appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Richard Gasking appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

William Gaton appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

William Gay appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Sir John Gayer, son of a Plymouth merchant, Mr John Gayer senior, and Lord Mayor of London for 1646, gifted to Plymouth Corporation an estate known as Tor, or Oaten Arish, in the hamlet of Weston Peverel, in the parish of Saint Andrew's.

William Geach appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

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Ronald Ernest German (1905-1983).

Edward Stanley Gibbons (1840-1913).

Thomas Gibbons appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

William Gibbons appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Thomas Gibbs appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Herbert M Gibson was Mayor of Plymouth for 1852-1853.

William Routledge Gibson (1892-1938), teacher and head master of Charles Senior School.

Samuel Giles appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Richard Gill appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Ronald Crispin Gill (1916-2004), local journalist and author.

Thomas Gill appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Thomas Gill (1788-1861) was Mayor of Plymouth for 1835-1836.

William Gill appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

George Gillard appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

John Gillard appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Nicholas Ginnys was Mayor of Plymouth for 1703-1704.

William Henry Charles Glanville (1914-1990) was Lord Mayor of Plymouth for 1986-1987.

William Gloge appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

James William Sleigh Godding (1864-1951) was Mayor of Plymouth for 1912-1913.

William Godfry appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Arthur Goldberg (1908-1982) was Lord Mayor of Plymouth for 1961-1962.

John Philip Goldsmith (1847-1919) was Mayor of Plymouth for 1916-1917.

Charles Goodanew (1814-1903).

Charles Arthur Goodbody (1859-1938), founder of what became Messrs C A and W C Goodbody Limited, bakers, caterers and confectioners.

Walter Cecil Goodbody (1864-1950 joined with his older brother, Mr Charles Arthur Goodbody (1859-1938),  in 1893 to form Messrs C A and W Goodbody Limited, bakers and confectioners.

John Gorges, (15th century), of Warleigh House, lord of the manor of Tamerton Foliot, is believed to be the gentleman portraid by the effigy in the Ancient Parish Church of Saint Mary, Tamerton Foliot.

Ralph de Gorges (circa 1262) was the earliest recorded member of that family to have an interest in the manor and ancient parish of Tamerton Foliot.

Thomas Gorges (circa 1264-1304) was the brother and heir of William Gorges (died 1294).

William Gorges (died 1294) at hid death held the manor of Tamerton Foliot off Hugh de Courtney, Earl of Devon.

George Gortley appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Richard Gortley was Mayor of Plymouth for 1741-1742 but died in service and was replaced by Sir J Rogers.

Thomas Gortley appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Thomas Edwin Gosling appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

John Granger appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Adam Gray appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Mr Rowland Percy Green (1886-1946) was the theatre manager of the New Palace Theatre of Varieties throughout the Second World War. He and his wife, Mrs Ethel Green, and son, Rowland Patrick Green, lived in the theatre manager's flat off Phoenix Street.  Many thousands of Service men and women were grateful to him for the Sunday evening concerts during the winter months of the War.  He retired in March 1946 after suffering a long illness.  Mr Rowland Percy Green died at the Prince of Wales's Hospital on Sunday June 2nd 1946 and after a service at the Anglican Church of Saint Catharine of Alexandria he was buried at Efford Cemetery on Thursday June 6th 1946.

Septimus George Green (1843-1925) and Mrs Sarah Green (1849-1955), formerly Miss Sarah Deveson.  They were Master and Mistress at Cornwood National School while Miss Deveson was Matron of Lady Hannah Rogers' Charity School for a while.

Miss Gwen Greenhalgh, 18-years-old lass from Manchester, where she worked in a dress factory, became a Plymouth City Transport bus conductress in 1940.  [Western Morning News]

James Greenway appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

John Greenway was Mayor of Plymouth for 1883-1884.

Matilda J Greep, born circa 1852 in Cornwood, Devon, was a resident pupil at the Lady Hannah Rogers' Charity School in Plymouth according to the census taken on Sunday April 7th 1861.

Francis Gregory appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.

Herbert Augustine Keate Gribble (1846-1894).

John Griffin was the Post Master at the Hastings Terrace Branch Post Office in 1878.

John Grigg appeared on the list of "Freemen and House-holders of the Borough of Plymouth, entitled to vote for Members of Parliament" in July 1832.