and of sympathy with modern scientific tendencies placed him at a disadvantage.  His character was a singularly complex one, and his intellect possessed a plasticity which made it possible to say of him that he never was anything, but was always becoming something.  His life was a singularly noble and stainless one, and he must probably ever remain one of the great figures in the history of his country.

Life by J. Morley (3 vols.), others by J. M’Carthy, Sir Wemyss Reid, and many others.

GLANVILL, JOSEPH (1636-1680).—­Controversialist and moral writer, b. at Plymouth, and ed. at Oxf., took orders, and held various benefices, including the Rectory of Bath Abbey and a prebend at Worcester.  He came under the influence of the Camb.  Platonists, especially of Henry More (q.v.).  His contendings were chiefly with the English Nonconformists, against whom (with the exception of Baxter whom he held in great esteem) he exhibited great bitterness.  His chief work is the Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661) which contains the story of “The Scholar Gipsy,” in later days turned to such fine account by Matthew Arnold.  G. wrote a fine literary style, at its best recalling that of Sir Thomas Browne.

GLAPTHORNE, HENRY (fl. 1640).—­Dramatist, had a high reputation among his contemporaries, though now almost forgotten.  He wrote two comedies, three tragedies, and a book of poems, which were all reprinted in two vols. in 1874.  His best work, is Argalus and Parthenia (1639), based upon Sidney’s Arcadia.  Others were The Hollander, Wit is a Constable, and The Ladies’ Privilege (all 1640).

GLASCOCK, WILLIAM NUGENT (1787-1847).—­Novelist.  He saw a good deal of service in the navy with credit, and from this drew the inspiration of his vigorous and breezy sea-stories, which include Sailors and Saints (1829), Tales of a Tar (1836), and Land Sharks and Sea Gulls (1838).

GLEIG, GEORGE ROBERT (1796-1888).—­S. of George G., Bishop of Brechin, entered the army, and served in the Peninsula and America.  In 1820 he took orders, and after serving various cures bec., in 1834, Chaplain of Chelsea Hospital, and in 1844 Chaplain-General of the Forces, which office he held until 1875.  He was a frequent contributor to reviews and magazines, especially Blackwood’s, in which his best known novel, The Subaltern, appeared, and he was also the author of Lives of Warren Hastings, Clive, and Wellington, Military Commanders, Chelsea Pensioners, and other works.

GLEN, WILLIAM (1789-1826).—­Poet, b. in Glasgow, was for some years in the West Indies.  He d. in poverty.  He wrote several poems, but the only one which has survived is his Jacobite ballad, Wae’s me for Prince Charlie.