The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.

General ( United States ) | General Washington and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette | Lafayette look over the troops at Valley Forge.

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

* 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

Gilbert has also been honored by the National Academy of Sciences ( US Steel Foundation Award, 1968 ); Massachusetts General Hospital ( Warren Triennial Prize, 1977 ); the New York Academy of Sciences ; ( Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award, 1977 ), the Academie des Sciences of France ( Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer Award, 1977 ).

Many are named for General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, a French officer who fought under General George Washington in the American Revolutionary War.

* General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette ( 1757 – 1834 ), French general and American Revolutionary War general

Many are named for General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, a French officer who fought under General George Washington in the American Revolutionary War.

This house would serve as General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette ’ s Headquarters at the beginning of the 1781 summer campaign in the South, which would eventually end in Cornwallis ’ capitulation at Yorktown.

It was named after Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, a French general and politician, who came to America in 1777 in order to fight in the Revolutionary War, and who was named Major General of the Continental Army.

The Gilbert General Store is still in operation, providing supplies and hunting and fishing licenses.

The Gilbert welcome sign recognizes that General Claire Chennault lived there for a time as a youth.

In 1884, it was renamed for General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero who fought with and significantly aided the American Army during the American Revolutionary War.

File: Gilbert Stuart Williamstown Portrait of George Washington. jpg | General George Washington was Braddock's aide

File: Lafayette-front. JPG | Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette, Washington, D. C.

In 2000, at the Ninety-Third International Holy Convocation, the General Assembly voted Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson as the new Presiding Bishop of COGIC.

As a result of that conversation, the Presiding Bishop had Gilbert Patterson ’ s name added to the General Board ’ s agenda for the Convocation of 1986.

By 1685, Southampton was recognized by the Provincial Council as a township, and the lands within its borders had been allocated to thirteen original purchasers: John Luff, John Martin, Robert Pressmore, Richard Wood, John Jones, Mark Betres, John Swift, Enoch Flowers, Joseph Jones, Thomas Groom, Robert Marsh, Thomas Hould and John Gilbert, whose tracts were delineated on a Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania drafted by Thomas Holme, Penn's Surveyor General.

Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto ( 9 July 18451 March 1914 ) was a British nobleman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the eighth since Canadian Confederation, and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India, the country's 17th.

General Horatio Gates, portrait by Gilbert Stuart

General Horatio Gates, portrait by Gilbert Stuart

The 44-metre tall monument to Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert was built in 1857 by the townspeople of Bodmin to honour the soldier's life and work in India.

He built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works ( which came to be known as the Savoy Operas ) and founded the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed and promoted Gilbert and Sullivan's works for over a century.

The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963.

The college hall, originally built at the very start of the 16th century was restored in 1875-1879 by George Gilbert Scott, the younger.

He founded the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company and built the state-of-the-art Savoy Theatre to host the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

With profits from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and his concert and lecture agency, he bought property along the Strand in 1880 with frontage onto the Thames Embankment, where he built the Savoy Theatre in 1881.

In 1095, a new cathedral was built in the city by Gilbert, Count of Provence.

Gilbert wrote to a colleague, " I sometimes wish I had never built the Woolworth Building because I fear it may be regarded as my only work and you and I both know that whatever it may be in dimension and in certain lines it is after all only skyscraper.

The name is derived from the Savoy Theatre, which impresario Richard D ' Oyly Carte built to house the Gilbert and Sullivan pieces, and later, those by other composer – librettist teams.

The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built by Richard D ' Oyly Carte on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, which became known as the Savoy Operas as a result.

* Battersea Power Station an iconic edifice designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, built between 1929 and 1939 ( featured, with flying pig, on the sleeve art of Pink Floyd's album Animals ).

In Waterfall Road is Christ Church, a building of stone which has a tower and spire and was built in 1862 by Sir Gilbert Scott, In the grounds stands the Minchenden Oak, said to be the largest oak tree in England, and perhaps 800 years old.

The community was founded in 1902 when a railroad construction camp for the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad was built and named in honor of Charles W. Gilbert, secretary-treasurer of Allegheny Supply Company, which was building the railroad.

The historic district is an area of that includes the Gilbert and Bennett manufacturing plant, institutional housing built for the plant workers, and other private homes.

In 1860, Gilbert Knight built the Pepper-Knight House next to the Union Schoolhouse.

* Gilbert Mills – A hamlet in the northwest corner of the town, named from Gilbert brothers who built a mill here.

* Emmons L. Peck of Carbondale, PA, built a wooden tramway around Gilbert Lake 1906-1909, moving nine million feet of logs using a homebuilt geared steam locomotive later reputed to have been dragged out on the lake ice and sunk by employees when the land was purchased for the state present park about 1927.

The Hartland House, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was the first purpose-built college building, finished in 1937 with an additional wing built in 1973.

After living in San Francisco, California and Astoria, Oregon, Gilbert moved to Seaside where he had a beach cottage ( built in 1885 ).

The Boiling Springs Pools were built in 1927 by Gilbert Malcolm, husband of Helen Bucher.

Those original homes were built by Robert Baird, John Black, John Burke, Hyrum Cook, John Dickson, Robert Fraser, William Graham, David Lewis, Gilbert Marchant, Alfred Nebeker, William Partridge, William Simmons, George Taggart, Henry Tucker, Franklin Turnbow, Lemuel Willis, W. W. Willis and George Harston.

It was built in 1325 by Gilbert de Southworth ( b. 1270 ) and was the primary home of the Southworth Family until the early 1600s.

In 1869, the area along King's Parade between the Wilkins ' Buildings and King's Lane was built upon after a design by George Gilbert Scott.