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GUISE, POWELL COLCHESTER, third son of Sir John Guise, Bart., Highnam Court, Gloucs., and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Wright, Lawrence Lane, London; b. 18 Dec 1778; adm.; Min. Can. 1793; KS 1794; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1798, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 May 1798; BA 1802; MA 1804; ordained; Rector of Craike, co. Durham, Jul 1805; Vicar of Elmore and Longney, Gloucs.; m. 13 Oct 1808 Maria, dau. of Nathaniel Clifford (formerly Winchcombe), Frampton Court, Gloucs.; d. 9 May 1835.

Gully, Harry James, son of John Gully, of Brixton, by Augusta Elizabeth, daughter of John Robinson, of London; b. March 27, 1871; adm. Jan. 22, 1885; exhibitioner 1885 (H); Q.S. Sept. 16, 1886; left April 1889; A. C. A. Aug. 1896; F. C. A. May 1910; practised in London; m.; d. Jan. 13, 1953.

Gully, Sydney George, brother of Harry James Gully (q.v.); b. June 5, 1872; adm. Jan. 13, 1887 (H); left July 1888; cashier of Baxter's Leather Co. Ltd. 1900; m. Sept. 30, 1895; Caroline, daughter of John Obree, of Hackney, Middx.; d. 1953

GULSTON, ---; b.; KS 1640 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS, lxix, f. 140).

GUMBLETON, GEORGE, younger son of Rev. George Gumbleton, Belgrove, near Queenstown, co. Cork, and his second wife Frances Anne, dau. of James Penrose, Woodhill, co. Cork; b. 4 Jun 1843; adm. 30 Jul 1857 (G); QS 1858; Capt. of the School 1861; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1862, matr. 12 Jun 1862; BA 1866; MA and BCL 1869; DCL 1886; adm. Inner Temple 6 May 1867, called to bar 26 Jan 1870; migr. to Middle Temple; Oxford Circuit; a law reporter for The Times; founded Gumbleton English Verse Prize at the School 1874; author, Sketches in Sunny Climes; m. 18 Jul 1889 Jessie Ramsay, eldest dau. of Thomas Skinner, Roland Gardens, South Kensington; d. 25 May 1894.

In 1874 he gave a prize of £5 for the encouragement of English verse composition. This gift he continued annually until 1881, when he gave £100 as a permanent endowment for the prize. The endowment is now held in the School’s Gumbleton Fund (terms varied by schemes of 16 Apr 1959 and 8 Nov 1965).

Gundry, Horace Montague, son of Horace Gundry, of Paddington, by Marion Jane, daughter of George Barker, of Hyde Park; b. Aug. 31, 1885; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (H); left July 1901; entered an architect's office, and in 1908 emigrated to Canada; enlisted in the 7th Canadian Batt. early in 1915; killed in action Sept. 26, 1916; unm.

Gunn, Battiscombe George, son of George Gunn, of South Kensington, by Julia Alice, second daughter of John Moore Philp, of Clapham Road, Surrey; b. June 30, 1883; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (H); left July 1898; went to Bedales on leaving; tried and abandoned banking and engineering as a career; taught himself hieroglyphics during this period and published The Wisdom of Ptah-Hotep (1906); private secretary to Sir Arther Pinero, the playwright, 1908-11; sub-editor of the Continental Daily Mail 1912; assisted Flinders Petrie in excavations at Harageh 1913 and after service in the army in 1914, and being invalided out, joined Sir Allan Gardiner; his Studies in Egyptian Syntax (1924) revolutionised the study of Middle Egyptian Grammar; asst. keeper Egyptian Museum, Cairo, 1928-31; curator, Egyptian Section, Univ. Museum, Philadelphia, 1931-4; Professor of Egyptology, Oxford Univ. and Fellow of Queen's Coll. 1934; M . A. Oxon. 1934; F. B.A. 1943; m. 1st-; 2nd July 7, 1948, Constance Anne Rogers; d. Feb. 27, 1950.

Gunn, Rodney Stapleton, son of Harry Nathan Gunn of Golders Green and Susannah Maud, d. of Frederick Henry Stapleton of Beaconsfield, Berks; b. 12 Oct. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (A); left July 1929; a chartered accountant, ACA 1935, FCA; RA in WW2; dir. Regent Oil Co. Ltd; m. 11 June 1938 Constance Irene, d. of Leonard Thomas Hutchings of Fulmer, Bucks; d. 9 Aug. 1989.