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.
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.
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.
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.