Social Victorians/People/Gully Selby

Also Known As

 * Family name: Gully; wife's name Selby, thus the name of the title
 * William Court Gully
 * 1st Viscount Selby
 * William Court Gully (6 July 1905 – 6 November 1909)
 * "The Speaker"
 * Authority Controls
 * GND: 117656305
 * VIAF: 27854204

Friends

 * Sir William Herschel

Organizations

 * University College School, London
 * Christ College, Cambridge
 * Liberal Party
 * His Honor, Judge of Brighton District Court
 * House of Commons
 * Speaker of the House of Commons (1895–1905)

Timeline
1860, William Gully was called to the bar, Inner Temple.

1865 April 15, William Gully and Elizabeth Selby married.

1877, William Gully took silk.

1886, William Gully was elected to the House of Commons for Carlisle.

1888 May 17, Gertrude Annie Gully and James Aloysius Scully married.

1892 November 12, Florence Julia Gully and Sir William Guy Granet married.

1894 March 17, Mary Honorah Rhoda Gully and Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock (1867–1943) married.

1897 July 2, "the speaker and Mrs. and Miss Gully" — William and Elizabeth Selby Gully as well as Elizabeth Kate Shelley Gully — attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. (William Gully is #153 in the list of people who were present; Elizabeth Selby Gully is #441; Miss Elizabeth Gully is #442.)

1901 December 4, Edward Walford Karslake Gully and Ada Symon married.

1902 July 24, Elizabeth Kate Shelley Gully and Captain Carleton Salkeld married.

1905 July 6, William Gully was raised to the peerage as 1st Viscount Selby, of Carlisle.

1907 December, Elizabeth Kate Shelley Gully and Hon. Edward Brabazon Meade married.



Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, William Gully sat at Table 4. Elizabeth Selby Gully and Elizabeth Kate Shelley Gully also attended, according to the Carlisle Patriot.

We know nothing about any of their costumes. The caricature (right) of William Court Gully by Leslie Ward ("Spy") for Vanity Fair gives an idea of what he looked like in 1896.

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Family

 * William Court Gully (29 August 1835 – 6 November 1909)
 * Elizabeth Selby (24 August 1839 – 15 November 1906)
 * 1) Hon. Elizabeth Kate Shelley Gully ( – 26 February 1908)
 * 2) Hon. Mary Honorah Rhoda Gully ( – 21 August 1961)
 * 3) Hon. Gertrude Annie Gully ( – 12 April 1949)
 * 4) Hon. Florence Julia Gully ( – 17 September 1949)
 * 5) James William Herschell Gully, 2nd Viscount Selby (4 October 1867– 2 February 1923)
 * 6) Hon. Edward Walford Karslake Gully (21 October 1870 – 8 November 1931)