GLE1CHEN 



from the Anglo-Saxon " gligg," 

 music, and has little connexion 

 with gleeful. Standard glee writers 

 are Webbe, Battishill, Callcott, 

 Cooke, Attwood, Horsley, Morn- 

 ington, Danby, Stevens, Spofforth, 

 Storace, Savile, Este, Paxton, Ar- 

 nold, Mazzinghi, Shield, and Ford. 

 Gleichen, ALBERT EDWARD WIL- 

 FRED, LORD (b. 1863). British sol- 

 dier. Born Jan. 15, 1863, the eldest 

 son of Admiral 

 Prince Victor 

 of Hohenlohe- 

 Langenburg, 

 he joined the 

 Grenadier 

 Guards in 1881 

 and served in 

 the Nile expe- 

 dition, 1884- 

 85. From 1886 

 -88 he was at 

 the War 

 Office. He 

 accompanied Sir West Ridgeway's 

 mission to Morocco, 1893, and a 

 mission to Abyssinia, 1897. He 

 served in S. Africa 1899-1900, 

 where he gained the D.S.O. ; was 

 director of intelligence and Sudan 

 agent, 1901-3 ; and employed at the 

 War Office, 1907-11. During the 

 Great War he commanded the 37th 

 division, 1915-16, and organized 

 and directed the intelligence bureau, 

 dept. of information, 1917-18. He 

 was created K.C.V.O. 1909, and 

 promoted major-general 1915. 



Formerly known as Count Glei- 

 chen, he relinquished his German 

 honours in March, 1918, when he 

 was granted the style, title, and pre- 

 cedence of the younger son of a 

 marquess. Lord Gleichen has writ- 

 ten With the Camel Corps up the 

 Nile, 1888; With the Mission to 

 Menelik, 1897 ; The Doings of the 

 15th Brigade, 1917. His sisters. 

 Lady Feodora (1862-1922) and 

 Lady Helena Gleichen, were sculp- 

 tor and painter respectively. 



Gleichenia. Genus of ferns of 

 the natural order Polypodiaceae. 

 Natives of the tropics, they have 

 creeping rhizomes, and the leafy 

 portion of the frond is forked, the 

 two divisions being then subdivided 

 after the manner of a feather. 



Gleiwitz. Town of Germany, in 

 the plebiscite area of Upper Silesia. 

 It stands on the river Klodnitz, 16 

 m. E.S.E. of Beuthen, and is an old 

 place with a fine Roman Catholic 

 church. In the industrial district 

 of Silesia, and near the mines, it is 

 an important banking centre, and 

 has iron and boiler works, and 

 manufactures wire, nails, machi- 

 nery, etc. Pop. 66,981. 



Glen. Narrow valley through 

 which a river flows, or one between 

 two hills. The word is of Celtic 

 origin ; hence the frequency of the 



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word in place-names in Scotland 

 and Ireland. The Gaelic form is 

 gleann, valley. 



Glenalmond. Glen or valley 

 of the Almond river, Perthshire, 

 Scotland It is about 20 m. long, 

 and the most 

 beautiful portion 

 of it is called Sma' 

 Glen. On the right 

 bank of the Al- 

 mond stands 

 Trinity College, 

 the first school in 

 Scotland mo- 

 Glenalmond. Arms delled after the 

 of Trinity College English public 

 schools. The school has accom- 

 modation for about 160 boys. The 



buildings include 



a chapel, labora- f 

 tories, engineer- 

 ing shops, gym- 

 nasium, library, 

 etc. The school 

 has various 

 scholarships. 

 Methven, 4J m. 

 N.W., is the sta- 

 tion, and Perth 

 is 10 m. E. Dr. 

 Charles Words- 

 worth was the 

 first warden. In 

 the glen is the 

 reputed grave of 

 Ossian. 



Glenart Castle. British hos- 

 pital ship. Belonging to the Union- 

 Castle line and of 6,000 tons, she 

 was mined in the approaches to 

 Spithead at 11.40 p.m., March 1, 

 1917, and had on board 525 sick 

 and wounded, 118 crew, and about 

 70 medical staff, all of whom were 

 saved. On Feb. 26, 1918, at 4.5 

 a.m., on a voyage from Newport, 

 Mon., to Brest, she was torpedoed 



GLENCOE 



first earl was Alexander Cunning- 

 ham, a lord of parliament, killed 

 when fighting for James III against 

 some rebels in 1488. His descen- 

 dant, William, the 4th earl, took 

 part in the affairs of both England 

 and Scotland in the reign of Henry 

 VIII, and his son Alexander, the 

 5th earl (d. 1574), was concerned 

 in the troubles of Scotland under 

 Mary Stuart ; at times he was with 

 the reformers and at others \\ ith the 

 queen. William, the 9th earl (d. 

 1664), was, perhaps, the most 

 prominent of all, for he was respon- 

 sible for the rising in Scotland in 

 favour of Charles II which is named 

 after him. He led this in 1653, but 

 it soon collapsed and he was im- 



Glencoe. The 



uleichenia. Feather-shaped fronds 

 of Gleichenia acutifolia 



and sunk by a German submarine 

 in lat. 51 5' N. , long. 5 10' W. She 

 had no patients on board, but of 

 her complement of crew and medical 

 staff about 153 lives were lost. 



Glencairn, EARL OF. Scottish 

 title borne by the family of Cun- 

 ningham from 1488 to 1796. The 



Argyllshire glen in which the 

 were massacred in 1692 



prisoned ; later he became lord 

 chancellor of Scotland. The 14th 

 earl, James, who died childless in 

 1791, is known as the friend of 

 Burns, who wrote a Lament on his 

 death (beginning The wind blew 

 hollow frae the hills). His brother, 

 the 15th earl, died childless in 1796, 

 and the title became extinct. 



Glencoe. Glen in Argyllshire, 

 Scotland. It extends for 10 m. W. 

 from Buchaille Etive to Loch 

 Leven, an E. arm of Loch Linnhe. 

 It lies among magnificent mountain 

 scenery with peaks rising to 3,800 ft. 



The place is noted for the mass- 

 acre which took place here in 1692. 

 After the suppression of Dundee's 

 Jacobite insurrection of 1689, 

 many Scottish clans remained dis- 

 affected, and the Scottish govern- 

 ment, chiefly controlled by Lord 

 Stair, his son, and Lord Melville, 

 proclaimed an amnesty to all who 

 should take an oath of allegiance 

 by Dec. 31, 1691. The chief of 

 the Macdonalds of Glencoe, near 

 Loch Leven, put off doing so till the 

 last moment and, there being no 

 magistrate at Fort William when 

 he went to take the oath, was com- 

 pelled to proceed to Inveraray, with 

 the result that the oath was not 

 taken till Jan. 6. His old enemy, 

 the Master of Stair (Lord Stair's 

 son), took advantage of this, and 

 an order was obtained from William 



