Grove
SIR GEORGE, an English author; born in Clapham, England, in 1820; was trained as a civil engineer, and erected in the West Indies the first two cast-iron lighthouses built. As a member of the staff of Robert Stephenson he was employed at the Chester general station and the Britannia tubular bridge. He was secretary to the Society of Arts from 1849 to 1852, and secretary to the Crystal Palace Company from 1852 to 1873, where he subsequently became a director. He was editor of "Macmillan's Magazine," a large contributor to Smith's "Dictionary of the Bible," and editor and part author GUADALAJARA of the "Great Dictionary of Music and Musicians." D. C. L. from Durham University in 1872, and LL. D. of Glasgow in 1886. He was knighted in 1883 on the opening of the Royal College of Music, Kensington Gore, of which he was made Director by the Prince of Wales. He also assisted Dean Stanley in some of his works on the Bible and the East, and was founder of the Palestine Exploration Fund. He died in London, England, May 28, 1900.