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Gumbleton, George, 1843-1894
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1843-1894
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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).
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.