WINDSHIP, George Barker, athlete, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 3 January, 1834; died there, 14 September, 1876. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all physicians; the last-named, Dr. Amos Windship, was surgeon on the "Alliance," under John Paul Jones. George entered Harvard in 1850, and in his freshman year was induced to pay special attention to physical training by ridicule of his weakness and small stature. He was graduated in 1854, and at the medical department in 1857, and while engaged in active practice kept himself in training and gave particular attention to lifting, devising a harness with which, by constantly increasing his load, he finally succeeded in raising from the ground 2,600 pounds, a greater weight than any one else had ever lifted, He gave public lectures on "Physical Culture" illustrating them with feats of strength, and thus attained a wide reputation. Out of his experiments has grown the modern system of health-lifting; but he carried them too far, and was attacked by a paralytic affection, which resulted in his death. Besides his lifting-apparatus, Dr. Windship invented a system of graduated dumb-bells.