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sissimarissa | 14:21 Mon 18th Jun 2007 | History
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Does anyone know what the abbreviation G of E stands for, please? It has a religious significance, I believe, and I have found it in a reference dating to the 1890's.
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Garden of Eden ???

In what context was it used?
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Thanks. No, not Garden of Eden. I think it stands for an organisation, like Church of England. It is used in the context that G of E were the organisers of a large and important religous concert in the 1890's.
Are you sure it says G of E and not C of E? Sounds as though it may have been misread.
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Definitely G of E. It occurs in a bronze dedicated to part of the Choralis Constantinus by Heinrich Isaac - the chant "I have seen His star in the East". G of E either organised the concert or the bronze or both.
Sounds like it could be anything. Was it in a particular place, it could be something like (e.g.) George�s of Esher, or Grants of Ely referring to a local firm?
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Thank you. Could be, I suppose, but it is most likely to be a Catholic society in existence at the end of the 1800's. My own thinking is currently along the line that the E may stand for Ejus, but I have been unable to think of a word beginning with G that might stand for "Friends" or "Society" etc.
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