Budleigh Notables: G
Alderman Charles Edward Ley GARDNER JP (1843-1932). Former Lord Mayor of Bristol. Listed as living at ‘The Octagon’, Fore Street in 1902 and 1919.
* His wife was Ellen Merlin Gardner, née Griffith (1850-1926); they married at East Budleigh.
* He was a senior partner in the firm of Gardner Thomas & Co., wholesale grocers, Nelson Street, Bristol.
* He served as Bristol’s third Lord Mayor in 1901.
* His term of office covered the visit of the Prince of Wales - the future King George V – and Princess Mary on 5 March 1902 to cut the first sod of the Royal Edward Dock at Avonmouth. As Lord Mayor, he presided over a banquet given to some 500 to 600 visitors in one of the sheds in the old dock. Pictured above: the Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Mary;
* An active Methodist, he included preacher and class leader among his church offices.
* Budleigh may have attracted him because of the location of the Temple Methodist chapel, built in 1812 by James Lackington (1746-1815) – a friend of John Wesley (1703-1791) – and rebuilt as a church in 1905.
* His brother, John Wesley Gardner (1852-1933), is mentioned simply as ‘Uncle John’, and a ‘very eccentric but a lovable character’, in the book Budleigh Salterton in Bygone Days (1987) by Walter James ‘Jim’ Gooding (1904-1986).
* He was buried at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
http://www.davenapier.co.uk/mayors/gardner.htm
John Wesley GARDNER (1852-1933) He lived at ‘East Cliff’ – now known as ‘Eastcliff’ – on Marine Parade.
The above photo shows the Gardner family on Budleigh beach in about 1877 with their boat ‘Merlin I’. L-r: Charles Edward Ley Gardner (1843-1932), John Wesley Gardner (1852-1933), Ada Isabel Rought (1850-1941), ?, Ellen M. Gardner (1850-1926), Mrs Griffith (mother of Ellen M. Gardner (1850-1926).
* He is mentioned simply as ‘Uncle John’, a ‘very eccentric but a lovable character’, in the book Budleigh Salterton in Bygone Days (1987),
* His family, including his brother Charles Edward Ley Gardner (1843-1932), were Bristol-based but knew Budleigh Salterton well.
* Budleigh Salterton in Bygone Days gives as an example of his eccentricity the manner in which he made sure of meeting Edward, Prince of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor – at Bicton House. ‘”Uncle John” stepped forward and received the royal handshake – and was very proud of it!’ writes the author. However it is possible that he had previously met the Prince’s father; some twenty years earlier, in March 1902, at the Royal Edward Dock at Avonmouth, the future King George V had been the guest of honour at a banquet for some 600 people presided over by Alderman Charles Edward Ley in one of the sheds in the old dock.
* According to Budleigh Salterton in Bygone Days 'Uncle John's' commercial ventures were not a success: they included making and bottling ink, and selling secondhand furniture based at an old barn in Barn Lane.
Aalish GAWNE Co-founder of Fairlynch Museum. She lived at 'Cramalt Lodge', Cricketfield Lane.
Elizabeth GAWNE (1913-1992) Co-founder of Fairlynch Museum. Lived at 'Cramalt Lodge', Cricketfield Lane.
* She was the co-author of Early Devon Farmhouses: Longhouses in Widecombe (1998), pictured above.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/helen-elizabeth-gawne-24-1q3tbkg
Joy GAWNE (b. 1920) Co-founder of Fairlynch Museum. Lived at 'Cramalt Lodge', Cricketfield Lane.
* She was remembered by local theatre audiences for her stage performances with Isobel Dorothy Joyce Dennys (1893-1991).
Major Leslie Hewitt GAY (1871-1949). Sportsman, pictured above. He lived at 'Lee Ford', Knowle.
* As a first-class cricketer he played for Cambridge University, Hampshire, Somerset and England.
* As a football player, he represented Cambridge University as goalkeeper against Oxford University in 1892 and appeared for England against Scotland in 1893 and 1894, and against Wales in 1894.
* He also represented Devon at golf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Gay
Maria Susannah GIBBONS (1841-1900), author, lived in Victoria Place.
* This edition of her book Budleigh Salterton: Early Days Remembered was published in 2022 by Fairlynch Museum. The author compares Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1887 with those of King George III's Golden Jubilee in 1809.
* She wrote under the pseudonym ‘Volo Non Valeo’.
* Her books include We Donkeys in Devon (1885), where she stated that Mary Lackington, later Huddy, née Turton (1765-1850). ‘was 7 times engaged, (made) 6 appearances at the altar, and 5 occasions actually married’.
* Her grave is in All Saints' churchyard, East Budleigh.
https://www.ova.org.uk/article/budleigh-salterton-%E2%80%93-historical-sketch
George Robert GISSING (1857-1903) author, lived in rented accommodation at ‘Parkholme’, 14 West Hill in the 1890s.
* His early novels dealt with the lives of the London poor. Social unrest is a major theme of his writing.
* He published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. His best-known works include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893).
* The writer H.G. Wells (1866-1946) and his wife are said to have stayed with Gissing in Budleigh during the spring of 1897 while on a tandem cycling holiday.
* The above blue plaque in Oakley Gardens, Chelsea, commemorates Gissing's stay in London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gissing
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2014/07/budleigh-in-books-part-i.html (23 July 2014)
http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/Gissing.html
Frederick William Jervis GOODHUE (1867-1940) Surgeon and rugby player. He lived at ‘Tahuna’, Exmouth Road.
* He was the son of Canadian merchant, landowner and politician George Jervis Goodhue (1799-1870) and was born in London, Ontario, Canada.
* A former Scotland international rugby union player, he played club rugby for St. Thomas' – part of the Guy's, Kings and St. Thomas' Rugby Football Club known as ‘GKT’; its arms pictured above.
* He also played for the London Scottish Rugby Club.
* He has been described as ‘the rugby playing surgeon who lied about his age to join the Army’.
https://www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk/story/frederick-william-jervis-goodhue-frcs-1867-1940/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Goodhue
Eli Walter GOODING (1858-1935) Fisherman.
* His wife was Emily Minnie Gooding née Slade (1860-1922).
* His children were Frederick John George Gooding (1891-1941); Elsie Florence Gooding (1893-1970); Walter James Gooding (1904-1986).
* He co-owned, with Beer resident Thomas Anwyl, the 13 ft fishing boat Tommy Atkins, built at Cardiff and based at Beer.
* Walter James 'Jim' Gooding (1904-1986), in
the book Budleigh Salterton in Bygone Days (1987), recalled how his father had served in what was known as the
Coastal Patrol, formed by fishermen who were too old for active service. 'Duty
was twelve hours on, twelve off. The pay was small, but it was one way for the
older men to do their bit for king and country.'
* He was a partner in Goodings Bros Bathing Station, his family owning and managing the bathing station and tea cabin on Budleigh beach.
* Along with his work as an off-shore fisherman, in 1919 he is listed as running a fishmonger’s shop on Fore Street.
* The 1927 photo, exhibited at Fairlynch Museum in 2015 and pictured above, shows the raft that he built for swimmers off Budleigh beach.
* His grave and that of his wife Emily Minnie Gooding, née Slade (1860-1922), is in All Saints’ churchyard, East Budleigh.
Walter James ‘Jim’ GOODING (1904-1986). He was born at 3 Poplar Row, later living at ‘Whitemoor’ on Stoneborough Lane.
* He was the son of fisherman Eli Walter Gooding (1858-1935) and Emily Minnie Gooding née Slade (1860-1922).
* He was the author of Budleigh Salterton in Bygone Days (1987), pictured above.
* He was a partner in Goodings Bros Bathing Station, his family owning and managing the bathing station and tea cabin on Budleigh beach.
* In later life he moved to Iver, Buckinghamshire, where he named his house ‘Budleigh’.
General Julius Edmund GOODWYN CB (1824-1890). Army officer. Lived at ‘Stoneborough’, East Budleigh Road
* A book about his life was published by Roger Talbot Norton Bowen (1935-2023).
* Above is the memorial plaque in his honour at All Saints’ Church, East Budleigh.
Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Frederick GOSSAGE (1863-1933). He lived at 'Homeland' in 1919, and/or ‘Winwood’, Cricketfield Lane
* He came from a family of soap manufacturers based in Widnes, Cheshire.
* He presented the Gossage Cup to Budleigh Salterton Croquet Club in 1925.
* He and his wife, Emily Lewis née Jackson (b.1862), may have renamed their house ‘Winwood’ as part of a Gossage family tradition in names. Their daughter, Evelyn Freda Gossage (1899-1981) is listed as living at ‘Winwood, Budleigh Salterton’ in 1923.
* Their son, Ernest Leslie - the future Air Marshal Sir Ernest Leslie Gossage (1891-1949) – is listed as 'Air Commander Gossage', a Vice-President of Budleigh Salterton Football Club in 1933-34.
* His grave is in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossage
Air Marshal Sir Ernest Leslie GOSSAGE, KCB, CVO, DSO, MC (1891–1949). Above is his photo, taken in October 1941 by Bassano Ltd © National Portrait Gallery, London
* He was one of the most highly decorated RAF officers to have fought in WW1.
* He is likely to have been a regular visitor to the Budleigh home of his parents Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Frederick Gossage (1863-1933) and Emily Lewis née Jackson (b.1862).
* He is listed - as 'Air Commander Gossage - as a Vice-President of Budleigh Salterton Football Club in 1933-34.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Gossage
Harry Goulty (1898-1940)
* He died on active service during WW2 and is buried in a military grave in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane. Unusually, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website gives no details of his family. Harry's CWGC certificate is shown above.
* Parish records indicate that he was living at ‘Holly
Bank’ at 1 Sherbrook Hill, off West Hill, at the time of his death. However his
name is not listed on Budleigh Salterton War Memorial.
* You
can read about him at https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-20-october-1940-budleigh-burial.html
Francis Edward GRAINGER (1857-1957), aka Headon Hill, author, apparently lived on Marine Parade – no exact location given – and at ‘Almora’, 33 Station Road.
* He published popular adventure, detective and spy stories.
* One of the twenty fiction titles that he wrote, The Cliff-Path Mystery (1922), is set in the Devonshire town of Bicton on Sea.
* The Traitor’s Wooing (1909) set in ‘the little town of Ottermouth in South Devon,’ is similarly located, and can be read online. ‘In the curious blend of brand-new brick villas and old-world houses of "cob" there dwelt men of varying fortunes, who in their time had helped to make history, and who had chosen this peaceful spot on the Devon coast as the one in which to end their strenuous days.’ The author writes of ‘The Plume Hotel’.
* First editions of his work are highly sought after. This copy of Zambra the Detective (1894), auctioned in California, was given an estimated value of $1,500 - $2,500.
* His grave is in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=2767
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33453
Clara Gray, née Fley (1861-1949).
Photo: L-r: Henry Harold Gray (1900-1941), sister Florence Kate (1891-1976), mother Clara Gray (1861-1949) and brother Frederick (dates unknown). Image courtesy of Jane Gray.
* Originally from Lympstone she moved to Budleigh Salterton from London after the death of her husband Albert James Gray (unknown-1902). She lived at 4 Cliff Terrace before buying 31 Greenway.
* Their children were Olive Gray (unknown dates), Florence Kate Gray (1891-1976), Frederick Gray (unknown dates), and Henry Harold Gray (1900-1941) who was killed in action during WW2 while serving in the Royal Navy as Chief Electrical Artificer on HMS Repulse, and is listed on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial.
* Her grave and that of her daughter Florence Kate Gray (1891-1976) are in St Peter’s Burial Ground, Moor Lane.
Henry Harold Gray (1900-1941)
Photo of Henry Harold Gray, listed on Budleigh
Salterton's War Memorial Image credit Jane Gray
* His
parents were Albert James Gray (unknown-1902) and Clara Gray, née Fley (1861-1949).
* His
siblings, born in Lympstone, were Olive Gray (unknown dates), Florence Kate Gray
(1891-1976) and Frederick Gray (unknown dates).
* The
family lived at 4 Cliff Terrace, and later at 31 Greenway.
* As a member
of Budleigh Salterton’s Scout Troop Henry Harold Gray was awarded a certificate
by Scouts’ founder Robert Baden-Powell when he rescued another boy from
drowning.
* His wife was Blanche
Florence Gray, née (unknown dates), from
Oreston, near Plymouth,
* He was killed in action
during WW2 while serving in the Royal Navy as Chief Electrical Artificer on HMS
Repulse, and is listed on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial.
* You
can read about him at https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/10/ww2-759-force-z-casualty-chief.html
John Gordon Griffin
(1889-1916)
* He was born in Feniton, the son of John
Griffin and Mary Jane Griffin, née Capron, and by 1911 was living in Fore Street as an apprentice
butcher with the Sellek family.
* His wife was Ada Griffin, née Slater (unknown-1925). They married in 1913
at St Peter’s Church, Budleigh Salterton, and lived at ‘Frewins’, off Bedlands
Road.
* Their son was
John W.G. Griffin (dates unknown).
* John Gordon Griffin
(1889-1916) died while serving with the Royal Army Service Corps in Iraq: its
badge is pictured above.
* You can read
about him at http://www.devonremembers.co.uk/content/the-honoured/griffin-john-gordon
and also at https://fairlynchgreatwar.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-death-from-dysentery-in-mesopotamia.html
Colonel Clarence Preston GUNTER CIE, OBE, RE (1873-1965). Director, Frontier Circle, 1926 Survey of India. He and his wife, Pansy Effie May Gunter, lived at ‘Rosehill’ on West Hill Lane.
* He was buried along with his wife in St Clement’s churchyard, Powderham, pictured above.
https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/11/ww2-75-21-may-1944-england-he-loved.html
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