The Reverend F.W.G. Gilby, O.B.E.
By H Dominic W Stiles, on 25 November 2011
GILBY, F.W.G. (1865-1949)
Son of “deaf-mute” parents and a missioner to the deaf, Frederick Gilby was born in North London on 3rd of July 1865. He was educated at Bishops Stortford and Shepton Mallet in Somerset. From the age of eleven he was interpreting for the Deaf in public. In 1883 the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb made him a student-missionary and he went on to study at King’s College London and Durham. Marrying in 1892, the same year he was ordained, Gilby moved back to London and on the death of the Rev. Rhind (see entry for the Jewish School) became minister for the Deaf church St.Saviour’s in Oxford St, which was demolished in 1923. After various moves he went to Bath in 1928 as a missioner to the Deaf, then was encouraged to carry on similar work in South Africa for 2 1/2 years. Although he returned to England to retire, the need for a Deaf school in the West Indies once more drew him abroad, and in both Jamaica and Trinidad he founded schools for Deaf children. When his wife died in British Guiana he returned to England at the age of 79, marrying his cousin Edith Gilby in 1945. He died in 1949 and is buried in Woking’s famous Brookwood cemetry.
British Deaf-Mute and Deaf Chronicle, 1892, 2, 1. (photo)
The Rev. F.W.G. Gilby as sign-maker. British Deaf Times, 1904, 1(5), 97-101.
The Rev. F.W.G. Gilby, M.A. British Deaf Times, 1918, 15 (169-170), 1-3.
Resignation of the Rev.F.W.G.Gilby, British Deaf Times, 1932, 29 (341-2), 53-4.
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GILBY, F.W.G. Seventy two years among the deaf and dumb. The author, 1937?
(RNID Library class mark: YBX JAK 9)
Thumb-Nail Biography No.6, The Rev FWG Gilby, Silent World 1946 1(6), 171
An Old war Horse Looks Behind, Silent World, Aug 1947, 2(3), 80-83 & 95
Obituary. Ephphatha, 1949, 1(7), 3-4.
Obituary. Somerset Diocesan Mission to the Deaf and Dumb 1949. p. 11.
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Thomas Davidson (painter) – wiki | wrote on 13 September 2017:
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A short history of the Action on Hearing Loss Library | UCL UCL Ear Institute & Action on Hearing Loss Libraries wrote on 29 October 2018:
[…] the deaf.” Books were donated by many organisations and also by missioners to the deaf like the Rev. F.W.G. Gilby. The Arnold Library from the National Association for Teachers of the Deaf was accommodated in the […]
[…] people were quite aware of the gruesome and devastating aspects of the disease. The memoirs of Reverend Frederick Gilby (1865-1949), for instance, documented a “tragic case” of a poor deaf and dumb child at […]