OBITUARY. The Rev. John Philip Gell, of Kirk Langley, Derby, rector of Buxted, Sussex, and son in law of Sir John Franklin, died on Saturday, at the residence of his son, 36, Hyde Park-square, in the eighty-third year of his age. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he graduated B.A. in 1839. and received his M.A. Degree by Royal mandate the same year. In 1843 he was ordained by the Bishop of Tasmania, to whom he was chaplain, and he was also Warden of the College, Tasmania, from 1846 to 1848. Then, returning to England, he was successively curate of St. Martin's-in-the-fields and St. Mary's, Brianston-square, and vicar of St. John's, Notting-hill, from 1849 to 1878, when he was presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the rectory of Buxted, near Uckfield. Mr. Gell married Eleanor, the only child and heiress of Admiral Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer, and their eldest surviving son is Mr. Philip Lyttelton Gell, who was Chairman of Council of the Universities Settlement in East London, Toynbee Hall, from 1884 to 1896, and who is the author of "A Memoir of John Richard Green," and other works, and Secretary to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press at Oxford. [London Evening Standard - Tuesday 15 March 1898, p.3]
OBITUARY. The Rev. John Philip Gell, of Kirk Langley, Derby, rector of Buxted, Sussex, and son in law of Sir John Franklin, died on Saturday, at the residence of his son, 36, Hyde Park-square, in the eighty-third year of his age. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he graduated B.A. in 1839. and received his M.A. Degree by Royal mandate the same year. In 1843 he was ordained by the Bishop of Tasmania, to whom he was chaplain, and he was also Warden of the College, Tasmania, from 1846 to 1848. Then, returning to England, he was successively curate of St. Martin's-in-the-fields and St. Mary's, Brianston-square, and vicar of St. John's, Notting-hill, from 1849 to 1878, when he was presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the rectory of Buxted, near Uckfield. Mr. Gell married Eleanor, the only child and heiress of Admiral Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer, and their eldest surviving son is Mr. Philip Lyttelton Gell, who was Chairman of Council of the Universities Settlement in East London, Toynbee Hall, from 1884 to 1896, and who is the author of "A Memoir of John Richard Green," and other works, and Secretary to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press at Oxford. [London Evening Standard - Tuesday 15 March 1898, p.3]
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