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     Citizen and Mercer of London.² John Garraway married Ursula Bridges, daughter of Sir John Bridges.

     Merchant of London.² Sir William Garraway Kt. was born circa 1537.¹ He was the son of John Garraway and Ursula Bridges.^1,3 Sir William Garraway Kt. and Elizabeth Anderson married by licence dated 7 January 1571. Sir William Garraway Kt. died on 26 September 1625.¹ He was buried in St. Peter le Poer, London.¹

     Rev. Freeborn Garretson was born on 15 August 1752 in Maryland.^1,2 He became a convert to Methodism and in 1775 became an itinerant preacher for that denomination. He was eminently successful in his labors and in 1784 was elected by the general conference a presiding elder and was a voluntary missionary in Nova Scotia for four years. He then selected twelve young ministers and organized an evangelical work in eastern New York and western New England. After his marriage he lived in New York city, making Rhinebeck-on-the-Hudson his summer home. His itinerary extended from Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico in the tier of Atlantic states. His daughter, Mary Rutherford Garretson, born in 1783, inherited his property as well as his missionary spirit. Her home on the Hudson was the mecca of Methodism during her lifetime and hundreds of young men, afterward prominent as missionaries and preachers, received their first encouragement and financial help from her. She died at Rhinebeck, N.Y., March 7, 1879.² He married Catharine Livingston, daughter of Judge Robert Robert Livingston and Margaret Beekman, on 30 June 1793.³ Rev. Freeborn Garretson died on 26 September 1827 in New York City at the age of 75.^1,2

     Mary Rutherford Garretson was born in 1783.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. Freeborn Garretson and Catharine Livingston.¹ She inherited her father's property as well as his missionary spirit. Her home on the Hudson was the mecca of Methodism during her lifetime and hundreds of young men, afterward prominent as missionaries and preachers, received their first encouragement and financial help from her.¹ Mary Rutherford Garretson died on 7 March 1879 in Rhinebeck, New York.¹

     Arthur R. Garrett was born on 22 September 1913.¹ He was the son of Robert McClelland Garrett and Anna Maude Sewall.¹ Arthur R. Garrett married Margaret Josephine Swartz on 14 May 1940.² Arthur R. Garrett died on 26 April 1994 at the age of 80.¹

     Donald M. Garrett was born on 6 July 1902 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.¹ He was the son of Robert McClelland Garrett and Anna Maude Sewall.¹ Donald M. Garrett died on 19 April 1960 in Jameson Memorial Hospital, New Castle, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, at the age of 57.¹

     George Greer Garrett was born on 5 August 1901 in Lackawannoch Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.¹ He was the son of Robert McClelland Garrett and Anna Maude Sewall.¹ George Greer Garrett died on 25 April 1963 in Wilmington Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, at the age of 61.¹

     Robert McClelland Garrett was born on 24 October 1864 in West Middlesex, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.¹ He married Anna Maude Sewall, daughter of Clement Singree Sewall and Minerva Ann Miller.¹ Robert McClelland Garrett died on 11 July 1935 in New Wilmington, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, at the age of 70.¹

     Weldon S. Garrett was born on 5 January 1905.¹ He married firstly Frances Bell. Weldon S. Garrett married secondly Mildred Letitia Sewall, daughter of James Clarence Sewall and Eva Viola Angell, on 10 February 1974.² Weldon S. Garrett died on 12 July 1976 in Pennsylvania at the age of 71.^1,2

     Andrew A. Garver married Jessie Hannah Worcester, daughter of David Worcester and Ellen Shaw Sewall, on 1 October 1891.¹ Andrew A. Garver died on 22 February 1895.¹

     Augustus Garverich was born in 1827 in Pennsylvania.¹

     Elizabeth Garverich was born in February 1893.¹ She was the daughter of Dr. Franklin Hedrich Garverich and Martha Steese.¹

     Dr. Franklin Hedrich Garverich was born on 5 March 1862 in Dauphin.^1,2 He was the son of Augustus Garverich.³ Dr. Franklin Hedrich Garverich married Martha Steese.³ Dr. Franklin Hedrich Garverich died on 15 June 1940 at 1808 Derry street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, at the age of 78.^4,2

     Mary Cordella Garverich was born on 14 March 1890 in Pennsylvania.² She was the daughter of Dr. Franklin Hedrich Garverich and Martha Steese.³ Mary Cordella Garverich died on 25 May 1978 in Pennsylvania at the age of 88² and is buried in Dauphin Cemetery, Pennsylvania.²

     Phyllis E. Garverich was born in May 1882 in Dauphin, Pennsylvania.² She was the daughter of Dr. Franklin Hedrich Garverich and Martha Steese.³ Phyllis E. Garverich married Fred Stinson Sewall, son of William Wingate Sewall and Mary Alice Sherman, on 20 June 1912 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.³ Phyllis E. Garverich died on 13 July 1965 in Island Falls, Maine, at the age of 83.⁴

     Susan Garverich was born in 1883.¹ She was the daughter of Dr. Franklin Hedrich Garverich and Martha Steese.¹ Susan Garverich died on 20 March 1943 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.²

     Ann Gask was born in 1829 in Burgh-Le-Marsh, Lincolnshire.² She was the daughter of Charles Gask and Rebecca Crow.¹ Ann Gask was christened on 16 March 1834 at Burgh-Le-Marsh, Lincolnshire.¹

     Charles Gask. Inn keeper. He was born in 1795 in Lincolnshire.¹ He was the son of John Gask and Ann (Unknown).² Charles Gask was christened on 30 October 1795 at Burgh-Le-Marsh, Lincolnshire.² He married Rebecca Crow, daughter of Samuel Crow, on 26 March 1820.³ Charles Gask died before December 1828.⁴

     Charles Gask was born on 10 October 1823 in Burgh-Le-Marsh, Lincolnshire.¹ He was the son of Charles Gask and Rebecca Crow.¹

     Eleanor Gask was born in 1873 in South Mimms the birth was registered in the September quarter in the Barnet district. She was the daughter of Henry Gask and Elizabeth Styles. Eleanor Gask was baptised on 3 September 1873 at St. Giles's, South Mimms.¹ Became the Lady Almoner of St. Bartholomew's Hospital and was awarded an M.B.E. for her work in World War One.² She was probably the Eleanor Gask whose death was registered in the quarter ending March 1962 in the Henley-on-Thames registration district.

     Eliza Gask was christened on 23 January 1802 at Burgh-Le-Marsh, Lincolnshire.¹ She was the daughter of John Gask and Ann (Unknown).¹

     Elizabeth Dewhurst Gask was the daughter of Percy Tillson Gask and Janet Reid Murray Clarke.¹ Elizabeth Dewhurst Gask died on 24 May 1971 in Coombe Bissett.^2,3

     Professor George Ernest Gask M.D., CMG, DSO, M.A., FRCS was born on 1 August 1875 in 10, Queen's Gardens, Bayswater, London.² He was the son of Henry Gask and Elizabeth Styles.³ Professor George Ernest Gask M.D., CMG, DSO, M.A., FRCS was baptised on 8 September 1875 at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London.⁴ He was descended from a family of Lincolnshire smallholders. His father Henry walked to London to seek his fortune, in which he and his brother succeeded by establishing a drapery business in Oxford Street. He went to Dulwich College and also studied at Lausanne, Freiburg im Baden before entering the medical school of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1898; he thus gained a working knowledge of German and French, some experience of continental methods of education, and a realization of the benefits of foreign travel which had a lasting effect upon his subsequent career.

He qualified L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S. in 1898 and became house-surgeon to John Langton, proceeding to the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1901. A period of training as a demonstrator of pathology and as surgical registrar led to his appointment in 1907 as assistant surgeon to (Sir) D'Arcy Power, whose researches into the history of medicine were at once a stimulus and an example to Gask who ultimately became expert in the history of military surgery. He thus embarked on the life of a surgical consultant and teacher, and for five years was warden of the Bart's residential college.

In 1912 the younger surgeons at St. Bartholomew's formed a study group which they called the Paget Club, and in the light of subsequent events it is significant that at their second meeting Gask read a paper on the methods of teaching surgery in England, Germany, and America. In the previous year he had visited several of the university medical schools in the United States and advocated the incorporation of certain features of the foreign systems into British schools, but concluded that such innovations were hindered by the burden of routine work in the hospitals. Clearly he had the advantages of 'whole-time' academic units in mind, but had to wait until after the war of 1914-18 for a chance to translate his ideas into practice. During the war he distinguished himself in the surgery of chest wounds, being appointed to the D.S.O. in 1917 and C.M.G. in 1919 for his services as consulting surgeon to the Fourth Army.

As soon as he returned from France, Gask set about forming the surgical professorial unit at St. Bartholomew's, manifesting from the outset an important attribute of a professor, good judgment in the choice of his assistants. He brought (Sir) Thomas Dunhill from Melbourne as his deputy. The unit gradually gained the confidence of the rest of the hospital staff who appreciated Gask's unselfish idealism and trusted him not to interfere with their work. A further evidence of his good judgment was his selection of subjects for research, and in due course significant contributions were made to thyroid surgery, to the use of radium for breast cancer, and to the surgery of the sympathetic nervous system. Gask was quick to appreciate the help he could obtain from his scientific colleagues, and the collaboration of Hopwood in physics, Woollard in anatomy, and Mervyn Gordon in virology was invaluable. He was a model director, providing the ideas and encouraging younger men to do the work. Even when teaching tried to make the students find out things for themselves instead of telling them the answers; the undiscerning thought 'Uncle George' was merely lazy. Although not a brilliant operator his technique was gentle and based on sound principles. He organized the Pilgrim surgeons who traveled widely to see the great masters at work, and he also arranged that in alternate years a leading surgeon should become temporary director the surgical unit.

Gask, who retired in 1935, was called upon to serve on several bodies outside his own medical school. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was on the council from 1923 until 1939, he gave the Vicary and Bradshaw lectures, and was twice a Hunterian professor. He was an original member of the Radium Trust, and served on the Medical Research Council from 1937 to 1941. He took a leading part in planning the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith and was an active member of its governing body. He succeeded Lord Moynihan as chairman of the editorial committee of the British Journal Surgery. His own writings included a pioneer study of The Surgery of the Sympathetic Nervous System (with J. Paterson Ross, 1934) and Essays in the History of Medicine (1950). During the war of 1939-45 he acted as a temporary surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, and greatly appreciated the consequent associations with the university of Oxford and the medical services in the Oxford Region.

There are two portraits; one, a study for the group of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons painted in 1928 by Moussa Ayoub, is in the possession of his son, John, a medical graduate of Oxford who settled in practice at Market Drayton. DNB.⁵ He married Ada Alexandra Crombie, daughter of Lt. Colonel Alexander Crombie CB, MD and Zébée Minto Bell, on 18 June 1913 in Camberley.^3,6 Professor George Ernest Gask M.D., CMG, DSO, M.A., FRCS died on 16 January 1951 at Hatchmans, near Hambleden, Henley-on-Thames, at the age of 75; from coronary heart disease.^3,2

     Henry Gask was christened on 20 April 1825 at Burgh-le-Marsh, Lincolnshire.² He was the son of Charles Gask and Rebecca Crow. The marriage of Henry Gask and Elizabeth Styles was registered in the quarter ending September 1864 in the Marylebone, London registration district.^1,3 Henry's death was registered in the quarter ending June 1906 in the Bromley, Kent registration district.^4,3

     Irene Rosemary Gask was born on 2 November 1918 in Theill, Westby, Kirkham, Lancashire.² She was the daughter of Sydney Gask and Beatrice Cowell Davies.²

     John Gask married Ann (Unknown).¹

     John Gask was christened on 26 December 1823 at Burgh-Le-Marsh, Lincolnshire.¹ He was the son of Charles Gask and Rebecca Crow.¹

     Dr. John Gask BM, BCh's birth was registered in the quarter ending March 1915 in the St. Marylebone, London registration district.¹ He was the son of Professor George Ernest Gask M.D., CMG, DSO, M.A., FRCS and Ada Alexandra Crombie. Dr. John Gask BM, BCh married Daphne Irvine Prideaux Selby OBE, JP, daughter of Captain Roger Prideaux Selby D.S.O., R.N. and May Stirling, on 31 July 1945 in Holy Trinity, Brompton Road, London. Dr. John Gask BM, BCh died on 7 February 2012 in Cawsand, Cornwall, at the age of 96.

     Kate May Gask was born on 6 May 1872 in South Mimms.¹ She was the daughter of Henry Gask and Elizabeth Styles. Kate May Gask was baptised on 1 June 1872 at St. Giles's, South Mimms.¹ She married Lt. Colonel Pulteney Charles Gabbett, son of Joseph Gabbett and Catherine Mary (Unknown), on 25 November 1901 in Colombo.^2,3 Kate's death was registered in the quarter ending June 1935 in the Battle, Sussex registration district.⁴

     Maria Gask was christened on 24 February 1799 at Burgh-Le-Marsh, Lincolnshire.¹ She was the daughter of John Gask and Ann (Unknown).¹