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Gunning, Charles John Hope, son of John Edmund Gunning, M.R.C.S., of Tooting, by Augusta Maria, daughter of William J. Gaye; b. Sept. 13, 1880; adm. Sept. 7, 1894 (H); left July 1895; St. George's Hospital 1897; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1904; in practice in London; Chief Clinical Asst. Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital 1912; Hon. Ophthalmic Surgeon St. Marylebone Dispensary 1914; joint author with A. Warder of Genealogy of the Gunning Family (1907); m. Nov. 8, 1917, Ethel Winterley May, youngest daughter of Christo­pher Crouch, of Norwood; d. Feb. 4, 1963.

GUNNING, JOHN, son of John Gunning, Castle Coote, co. Roscommon, and Hon. Bridget Bourke, dau. of Theobald Bourke, 6th Viscount Mayo (I); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1751 (Levett's); in school list 1754; Ensign, 25th Foot 20 Dec 1757; Lieut., 50th Foot 5 Apr 1759; Capt., 92nd Foot 22 Jan 1760; 43rd Foot 30 Sep 1768; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 23 Jan 1775; Lieut. -Col., 82nd Foot 22 Dec 1777; Col., 15 Jun 1781; Col., 65th Foot, from 28 Jan 1788; Maj. -Gen., 28 Sep 1787; served in North America; m. 8 Aug 1768 Susannah Minifie, Fairworth, Somerset, novelist (DNB); d. at Naples 2 Sep 1797, having eloped there by 1792 with Mrs Rebecca Duberly.

GUNTER, EDMUND, son of --- Gunter, Herts., originally from Gunterstown, Breconshire; b.; adm.; QS in 1596; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1599, matr. 25 Jan 1599/1600, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1616; BA 1603; MA 1606; BD 1615; ordained; Incumbent, St. George’s, Southwark, Surrey 1615; Professor of Astronomy, Gresham College, London, from 6 Mar 1619; applied to navigation and other parts of mathematics his rule of proportion, known as “Gunter’s Line”; discovered the variation of the magnetic needle by experiments at Deptford 1622; introduced “Gunter’s Chain”, used in land surveying, and was proably the inventor of the “decimal separator”; author, Canon Triangulorum, or Table of Artificial Sines and Tangents, 1620, and other works, published in a collected edition 1624; d. 10 Dec 1626. DNB.

GUNTHORP, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 8) Sep 1721; in under school list 1725.

Gurney, Clement Henderson, son of Jason Gurney, of Westminster, by Marion Wilhelmina, daughter of Patrick Adie, of Isleworth, Middlesex; b. Sept. 14, 1881; adm. from Merchant Taylors' School Sept. 28, 1893 (A); left Dec. 1894; adm. a solicitor May 1905; retired from practice in 1920 and joined Lloyds; a director of Matthews, Wrightson and Co. Ltd., ship and insurance brokers, Leadenhall Street, London; served in the S. African War and in Great War I; mentioned in despatches; D. S. O. Jan. 14, 1916, Bar July 26, 1918; d. before 1960.

GURNEY, THOMAS; b. 7 Aug 1833; adm. 28 Sep 1844, chorister; left Christmas 1847.

Gush, Frank, son of William Frank Gush, of London; b. Aug. 14, 1869; adm. Sept. 28, 1883 (D); left Dec. 1883; adm. a solicitor; practised in London and afterwards in South Africa; served in the South African War 1899-1901 with Methuen's Colonial Volunteers, and was seriously wounded at Spion Kop; in business in South Wales.

GUTHRIE, CHARLES WILLIAM GARDINER, brother of Lowry Guthrie (qv); b. 20 Apr 1816; adm. 16 Jan 1826 (G); MRCS 1838; FRCS 1853; Surgeon, Royal Ophthalmic Hospital; practised in Pall Mall East, London; m. 3 Oct 1855 Annie Bassett, eldest dau. of Rev. William Hewson DD, Vicar of Swansea, Glamorgan; d. 13 Aug 1859.

GUTHRIE, GEORGE ANDREW; b. 24 Mar 1807; adm. 16 Jul 1819.