George Gabriel Scott Gillett

GILLETT, George Gabriel Scott. b. Hawley, Hampshire, 1 December 1873; d. St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, 12 August 1948. He was educated at Westminster School and Keble College, Oxford. He took Holy Orders (deacon 1898, priest, 1899), and held curacies at London and Brighton. He then became domestic chaplain to Earl Beauchamp and Viscount Halifax, and from 1913 to 1925 worked in South Africa, chiefly in Pretoria and Johannesburg. On return to England, he served as Education Secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. His publications include The Claims and Promise of the Church (1910), Politics and Religion (1922), and A Garden of Song (Westminster, 1923). Gillett was closely...