He was born on the 29th of August 1835. Gully was the son of Dr James Manby Gully of Malvern, a successful physician who became involved in the mysterious death of Charles Bravo in April 1876. His grandfather was Daniel Gully, a Jamaican coffee planter.
He was educated at University College School, London and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Union.
He was called to the bar in 1860, went the northern circuit, and took silk in 1877. In 1880 and 1885 he unsuccessfully contested Whitehaven as a Liberal, but was elected for Carlisle in 1886, and continued to represent that constituency until his elevation to the peerage. In April 1895 he was elected Speaker by a majority of eleven votes over Sir Matthew White Ridley (cr. Viscount Ridley, 1900), the Unionist nominee. In 1905 he resigned and was raised to the peerage with the title of Viscount Selby, the name being that of his wife, Miss Elizabeth Selby.
Lord Selby married, in 1865, Elizabeth Selby (d. 1906), daughter of Thomas Selby. They had six children.
He was a Victorian medical doctor, well known for practising hydrotherapy, or the "water cure".
She married 1894 Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock.
She married 1892 Sir William Guy Granet.
She married first 1902 Captain Carleton Salkeld, and secondly Hon. Edward Brabazon Meade.
She married 1888 His Honour James Aloysius Scully, Judge of Brighton District Court.
He was born in 1870 and died in 1931.
He was born in 1867 and died in 1923.
