=Gentle Shepherd= (_The_), George Grenville. In one of his speeches he exclaimed in the House, “Tell me where!” when Pitt hummed the line of a popular song, “Gentle Shepherd, tell me where!” and the House was convulsed with laughter (1712-1770). _Gentle Shepherd_ (_The_), the title and chief character of Allan Ramsay’s pastoral (1725). =Gentleman of Europe= (_The First_), George IV. (1762, 1820-1830). It was the “first gentleman in Europe” in whose high presence Mrs. Rawdon passed her examination, and took her degree in reputation; so it must be flat disloyalty to doubt her virtue. What a noble appreciation of character must there not have been in Vanity Fair when that august sovereign was invested with the title of _Premier Gentilhomme_ of all Europe!—Thackeray, _Vanity Fair_ (1843). _Gentleman of Europe_ (_First_), Louis d’Artois. =Gentleman Smith=, William Smith, actor, noted for his gentlemanly deportment on the stage (1730-1790). =Geoffrey=, archbishop of York.—Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). _Geoffrey_, the old ostler of John Mengs (inn-keeper at Kirchhoff).—Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). =Geoffrey Crayon=, the hypothetical name of the author of the _Sketch-Book_ by Washington Irving (1818-1820). =George= (_Honest_). General Monk, George, duke of Albemarle, was so called by the votaries of Cromwell (1608-1670). _George_ (_Mr._), a stalwart, handsome, simple-hearted fellow, son of Mrs. Rouncewell, the housekeeper at Chesney Wold. He was very wild as a lad, and ran away from his mother to enlist as a soldier; but on his return to England he opened a shooting-gallery in Leicester Square, London. When Sir Leicester Dedlock, in his old age, fell into trouble, George became his faithful attendant.—C. Dickens, _Bleak House_ (1853). _George_ (_St._), the patron saint of England. He was born at Lydda, but brought up in Cappadocia, and suffered martyrdom in the reign of Diocletian, April, 23, A.D. 303. Mr. Hogg tells us of a Greek inscription at Ezra, in Syria, dated 346, in which the martyrdom of St. George is referred to. At this date was living George, bishop of Alexandria, with whom Gibbon, in his _Decline and Fall_, has confounded the patron saint of England; but the bishop died in 362, or fifty-nine years after the prince of Cappadocia. (See RED CROSS KNIGHT.) ⁂ Mussulmans revere St. George under the name of “Gherghis.” _St. George’s Bones_ were taken to the church in the City of Constantine. _St. George’s Head._ One of his heads was preserved at Rome. Long forgotten, it was rediscovered in 751, and was given in 1600 to the church of Ferrara. Another of his heads was preserved in the church of Mares-Moutier, in Picardy.