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Arbitration and Peace Association and a member of the Positivist Church and English Positivist Committee. Mr. Green is also Chairman of the Executive of the National Democratic Labour Party, mem ber of the Council of the International Peace Bureau, and member of the Com mittee of the Humanitarian League.

GREENAWAY, Kate, painter. B. Mar. 17, 1846. ^.Heatherley s Art School, South Kensington, and Slade School. Her first picture was exhibited, in the Dudley Gallery, in 1868 ; and she exhibited regu larly for many years in the Academy and elsewhere. From the illustration of maga zines she passed, as her repute grew, especially for her depictment of child life, to issuing books of her own which had a very wide circulation. Ruskin speaks warmly of the delicacy of her art and humour in Prcsterita and Fors Clavi- gera. In their biography of her (Kate Grecnaway, 1905) M. H. Spielmann and G. L. Layard quote many letters in which she avows her advanced scepticism. She professes to be religious, but &quot; it is in my own way &quot; (p. 189). She is quite Agnostic about a future life, and considers it &quot; strange beyond anything I can think to be able to believe in any of the known religions &quot; (p. 190). She is not even clearly a Theist. D. Nov. 6, 1901.

GREENLY, Edward, F.G.S., geologist. B. Dec., 1861. Ed. Clifton, and London University College. From 1889 to 1895 he was an officer of H. M. Geological Survey (Scottish Branch), and he was joint author (with other officers) of several sheets of the map of the North of Scotland, with the accompanying memoirs (The Geo logy of the North-west Highlands, The Geo logy of Caithness, etc.). He has written a number of papers on his science, and since 1895 he has been occupied, unofficially, with a geological survey of Anglesey, the results of which are presented to H. M. Geological Survey. See his Geology of Anglesey. Mr. Greenly is a member of the 305

Council of the Pali Text Society as well as a Fellow of the Geological Society (1890). The Geological Society awarded him the Barlow-Jameson Fund in 1898 and the Lyell Medal in 1920. &quot; You may well be proud of your endeavour,&quot; the President remarked in handing him the Lyell Medal. In 1920 the University of Wales conferred on him an honorary degree of Doctor of Science. His Anglesey work was done at his own expense. Mr. Greenly is a member of the R, P. A.

GREENWOOD, Sir George, politician. B. Jan. 3, 1850. Ed. Eton and Cambridge (Trinity College). He was first-class in the Classical Tripos, and was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1876. From 1906 to 1918 he was Liberal M.P. for Peter borough, and was knighted in 1916. Sir George is a strong supporter of the Ration alist Press Association, and in 1902 he issued, under the the name of &quot; George Forester,&quot; a statement of his Agnostic views (The Faith of an Agnostic). It was re-issued, under his own name, in 1919. He has written various other works.

GREG, William Rathbone, writer. B. 1809. Ed. Bristol, and Edinburgh Uni versity. He entered his father s business, and in 1832 became himself a mill-owner. From 1864 to 1877 he was Comptroller of the Stationery Office. Studying much in his leisure, Greg published a Rationalist work, The Creed of Christendom (1851), which went through many editions, and in 1872 he issued Enigmas of Life, which reached a twentieth edition. He was a Theist, and tender to Christianity. In a broad moral sense he defined himself as a Christian, but he did not firmly accept even the belief in a future life. D. Nov. 15, 1881.

GREGORY, Sir William Henry,

KG. M.S., statesman. B. July 12, 1817. Ed. Harrow and Oxford (Christ s Church). He was M.P. for Dublin 1842-47, and for Gal way 1857-71 ; and he strongly advo cated the Sunday opening of museums and

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