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 12 GAMBIER — GANT. of Busbridge Hall. Slimy, by Emma Susan, da. of the Rev. Edward Duscombb, Rector of Barthoniley, Cheshire. Family Estates.— These, in 1SS3, consisted of 4.0S1 acres in Notts, 2,765 in the east and west ridings of Yorkshire, and 162 in Cornwall. Total 7,008 acres, valued nt £10,557 a year. Principal li'esiihnce. Serlby Hall, near Bawtry, Notts. GAMBIER OF IYER. Barony. James Gajibier, 2d s., of John G., Lieut. Gov. of the 7 Bahamas {</. 5 April 1782 aged 57) by Deborah, da. of (— ) Stiles, of 1. 15U7, Bermuda, b. 13 Oct. 1756 at New Providence; entered the navy at to the age of 11, becoming finally, 22 July 1830, Admiral of the Fleet. 1 893 ^ e d 13t mguished himself at Lord Howe's victory 1 June, 1794, being looo. ; u comma nd 0 f tj u, fi,. st gjjfp that broke thro' tlie enemy's line, becoming Hear Admiral in 1795 ; was Commander-in-Chief and Gov. of Newfoundland, 1S02-04 ; was in command of the Baltic licet in the bombard- ment of Copenhagen, Sep. 1807, for which service^ 1 ) he was cr. 0 Nov. 1807, LAKON GAJIBIER OK IVER, co. Buckingham. He was in command of the Channel Fleet, 1S08 to 1811, during the time of the gallant attack by Lord Cochrane on the French fleet in April 1809, in the Basque roads, which attack he but feebly supported, tho' his conduct was upheld by a Court Martial, called at his own request. From 1795 to 1801, from 1804 to 1808, and again in 1807 he was a Lord of the Admiralty, taking great part in compiling a uew (1S06) code of signals. Iu 1814 (July to Dec.) he was first commissioner at Gheut( lr ) for concluding a peace with the United States, which was ratified at Washington, 17 Feb. 1815. He was noru. X.C.B. 2 Jan., and inv. 12 April 1815, being uom. G.C.B. 7 June 1S15, and inv. 5 July 1816. He m. July 178S, at St. Marylebone, Mjdx., Louisa, 2d, da. of Daniel Mathew of Felix Hall, Esses, by Mary, da. of George Byam, of Antigua. He d. s.p. 19 April 1833, in his 76th year, at Ivor House, Bucks, when the title became cctinct. Will pr. May 1833. His widow d. there 17 March 1845. Will pr. April 1851. GANT, GAUNT, or GHENT. Gilbebt de Gant [" de Gcmdavo"] of Folkingham, co. Lincoln, s. and h. of Gilbert, called Earl op Lincoln (which Gilbert was so cr. by Prince Louis of France, in 1216, but was deprived of all his honours in May 1217), sue. his father in 1242, aDd was sum. to [Mimlfort't] Pari. 14 Dec. (1264), 49 Hen. III. Such summons, however, does not originate a hereditary Barony.f 0 ) He d. (1273-74), 2 Ed. I. Barony by Gilbert de Gant, of Folkingham, co. Lincoln, s. and h. Writ. 0 f Gilbert G. next abovenamed, sue. his father in 1274, being then T I on* aged 24, and, having served in the Welsh wars, was sum. to Pari, as 71 ' a Baron [LORD GANT], by writs dat. 23 June (1295), 23 Ed. I to ]0 q S 26 Aug. (1296), 24 Ed. I. He was also sum. 8 June (1294), 22 l - J0 - Ed. I. to attend the King wherever he might be, and on 26 Jan. (1296/7), 25 Ed. I. to attend the King at Salisbury, but neither of (■>) The military commander, Lord Cathcart, received a Viacountcy, "and the other flag or general officers were made Baronets," yet " the achievement was not one from which much glory accrued to either navy or army, for the British force was overpoweringly superior to the Dutch." See "Gambier" in Stephen's " A r ot. Biogr." ( b ) His colleagues therein were Henry Goulburn (afterwards, 1828-30 and 1841-46) Chancellor of the Exchequer, and William Adams, LL.D., one of the Advocates in Doctors Commons. (°) See vol. iii, p. 365, note " d," sub. Fitz-Johu," where, also, a list of those so sum. is given.