Gell

Gell, Sir William, Knt was born at Hopton, Derbyshire, in 1777. He took his degree at Cambridge, and became a fellow of Emmanuel College. Being sent on a diplomatic mission to Greece he f oundample opportunities for antiquarian researches, and on his return published his Topography of Troy and Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca (1807).

His Itinerary of Greece appeared in 1810, and his Itineranj of the Morea six years later. Pmnpeiana, his most valuable work, was brought out between 1817 and 1831, and in 1834 was followed by The Topoyraphy of Borne. He died at Naples in 1836.