▶Date of birth: 9 April 1829         Place of birth:  Chiswick, Middlesex

▶Father: Peter Gantillon, Gentleman    Mother:  Hannah

▶Spouse(s): (1) Emma Jane, third daughter of Thomas Cropley, of Manchester (she died in childbirth in 1855); (2) Elizabeth, daughter of R. Buckle, of Cambridge (she died in Cheltenham in 1870); (3) Laura Julia Skinner, youngest daughter of Captain F. Nepean Skinner, Captain of the 26th Cameronians (who survived him)  Date(s) of marriage: (1) 2Q 1852; (2) 20 June 1857; (3) 18 July 1871       Place(s) of marriage: St James’s Church, Birch in Rusholme, Lancashire; (2) St Paul’s Church, Cambridge; (3) St Luke’s Church, Cheltenham

▶Occupation: Clergyman and Schoolmaster

▶Lifestory: Gantillon attended Rugby School, and matriculated at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1847, Foundation Scholar, BA (prizeman) 1851, MA 1854. Between 1854 and 1861 he was Second Master at Leicester Collegiate School; after his first wife’s death in 1855 he took in boarders at the school. He was also a Member of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, to which he read at least one paper, and taught Arithmetic at Leicester’s Young Men’s Institution. Chiefly while he was at Leicester, he produced several textbooks, including a literal translation and notes to books of Herodotus (1852-), the Odyssey (1853-), the Elegies of Propertius (1854), as well as other Classical texts, and A Collection of Cambridge Examination Papers in Arithmetic, Algebra and Plane Trigonometry as given at all the colleges (1852) and Classical Examination Papers (1870).

He was ordained Deacon in 1856, and Priest (both Peterborough) the following year. From 1856-9 he served as Curate at St John’s Church in Leicester, and was a Classical master at Cheltenham College from 1861-85; thereafter he was Chaplain to the Cheltenham General Hospital. When he moved to Cheltenham in 1861, he also took private pupils in Classics and Mathematics at his home, 2 Pittville Parade (now 4 Evesham Road)strong>, where he lived until 1863, when he and his family moved to Courtai House, Tivoli. In 1867 he was also appointed Headmaster and Chaplain of Skipton-in-Craven Grammar School, though he eventually declined it. By 1874 he resided at 5 Fauconberg Terrace, Cheltenham, from where he advertised for pupils to work towards examinations into the Universities, the Army, and the Indian Civil Service from 1886 until into the 20th century.

He died in 1906, aged seventy-six, at his home, Hawthornden, Montpellier Terrace, Cheltenham. His wealth at death was sworn at just over £5,850.

▶Moved to Pittville from: Leicester  Moved from Pittville to: Courtrai house, Cheltenham

▶Date of death:  2 March 1906    Place of death: Cheltenham

▶Date of burial:  7 March 1906       Place of burial: Cheltenham

▶Notes:        ID: 2830

Contributor(s):  Alan Munden/John Simpson