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GWYN, JOHN, fourth son of Right Hon. Francis Gwyn PC (I) MP, Secretary at War, Lansannwr, Glamorgan, and his cousin Margaret, dau. of Edmund Fraunceis (formerly Prideaux) MP, Ford Abbey, Thorncombe, Dorset; bapt. 14 Mar 1708/9; adm. (aged 9) Nov 1718; KS 1723; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1727, matr. 8 Jun 1727, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1727 – void 1741; BA 1733; MA 1735; ordained; d. 6 Jun 1741.

GWYN, EDWARD; b.; adm.; KS 1700; d. when at school.

Gwyer, Sir Maurice Linford, son of John Edward Gwyer, of Kensington, by Edith, daughter of William Linford, of Finchley; b. April 25, 1878; adm. from Highgate School as Q.S. Sept. 22, 1892; Mure Scholar 1895; Captain of the School 1896; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1897, matric. Oct. 1897; Fell exhibitioner 1897, Slade exhibitioner 1899; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1899, 2nd class Lit. Hum. 1901; B.A. 1901; M.A. 1904; B.C. L. 1908; Fellow of All Souls Coll. 1902; Lecturer on Private International Law at Oxford Univ. 1912-5; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Jan. 26, 1903, after obtaining a 1st class, and special prize for Constitutional and Legal History in 1901, a 1st class, and special prize for Common Law in 1902, and a 1st class, and Certificate of Honour in the final exam. in Jan. 1903; joined the Western Circuit; solicitor to the National Health Insurance Commissioners (England) 1912-6; Legal Adviser, Ministry of Shipping, 1917-9; Solicitor and Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Health 1919-26; King's Proctor and Solicitor to the Treasury 1926; C. B. Jan. 1, 1921; edited Anson's Law of Contract (14th, 15th, and 16th editions) and Anson's Law of the Constitution; author of the conception, and draftsman, of the Statute of Westminster after the Imperial Conference 1926; K.C. B. 1928; a Busby Trustee 1929; First Parliamentary Counsel 1934; K.C. S. I. June 3, 1935; first Chief Justice of India Oct. 1, 1937-43; Vice­ Chancellor of Delhi Univ. 1938-50; Hon. Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1938; G. C. I. E. Jan. 1, 1948; m. Dec. 18, 1906, Alsina Helen Marion, elder daughter of Sir Henry Burdett, K.C. B., of Bayswater; d. Oct. 12, 1952.

GWILT, RICHARD BRANDRAM, brother of Charles Perkins Gwilt (qv); b. 14 Feb 1814; adm. 26 Mar 1821; KS 1827; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1831, adm. pens. 26 May 1831, scholar 1832, matr. Mich. 1831; 2nd Lieut., Ceylon Rifle Regt. 30 Oct 1838; Lieut., 10th Foot 8 Apr 1842; d. at Meerut, North Western Provinces, India 3 Jun 1845.

GWILT, JOHN SEBASTIAN, brother of Charles Perkins Gwilt (qv); b. 19 Feb 1811; adm. 11 Jan 1819; KS 1825; left 1826; an architect; assisted his father in the preparation of A Project for a New National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, 1838, and The Encyclopaedia of Architecture, 1842; living at Fingest, Hambleden, Bucks., in 1881; m. (by 1881) Emma --- (b. Cadiz, Spain); d. 4 Mar 1890. DNB (s. v. Joseph Gwilt).

GWILT, CHARLES PERKINS, eldest son of Joseph Gwilt FSA, Abingdon Street, Westminster, architect, and Louisa, third dau. of Samuel Brandram, London, merchant; b. 4 Jan 1809; adm. 8 Apr 1818; KS 1823; left 1827; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 May 1827; BA 1831; adm. Middle Temple 26 Apr 1827; devoted himself to heraldic and literary pursuits; d. 22 Dec 1835. DNB (s. v. Joseph Gwilt).

Gwatkin, Frederick Ambrose Stapleton, son of Alexander George Stapleton Gwatkin, of Fulham, by Alice Jane, daughter of Andrew Thompson, of Keele, Staffs; b. July 3, 1880; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 27, 1894; left July 1897; adm. a solicitor Aug. 1904; practised in London; m. Hilda Muriel Bannerman Ramsey, youngest daughter of the Rev. John Wilson, of Liff, Fife; d. Oct. 24, 1953.

GUYES, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

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.

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