GUNN, Robert Campbell. b. Cape of Good Hope 4 April 1808; assist. superintendent of convict prisons, Tasmania 1829; superintendent, police magistrate and coroner; sent collections of plants to Sir W. Hooker and W. Lindley, and mammals, birds, etc. to Dr. J. E. Gray; clerk to executive and legislative councils of Tasmania and private sec. to Sir John Franklin 1837–43; F.L.S. Jany. 1850; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; a commissioner to select site for capital of New Zealand, when Wellington was chosen 1864. d. Hobart Town 12 March 1881. Proc. Royal Soc. xxxiv, pp. xiii-xv (1883).
GUNNER, Thomas (2 son of Wm. Gunner of Bishop’s Waltham, Hants.) b. 23 Nov. 1815; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1842; recorder of Southampton, Oct. 1870 to death. d. Heathfield, Winchester 3 March 1883.
GUNNING, Henry (1 son of Rev. Francis Gunning, V. of Newton near Cambridge, d. 1788). b. Newton 13 Feb. 1768; ed. at Christ’s coll. Cam., 5 wr. 1788, B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; one of esquires bedells of the univ. 13 Oct. 1789, senior esquire bedell 1827 to death; mem. of town council of Cambridge 1835–41; author of Poll books of Cambridge 7 vols. 1822–47; The ceremonies in the senate house, Cambridge 1836. d. Brighton 4 Jany. 1854. Reminiscences of Cambridge, by H. Gunning 2 vols. 1854, portrait; G.M. xli, 207–208 (1854).
GUNNING, John. b. 1774; hospital assistant in the army Oct. 1793; surgeon to commander in chief through Peninsular war; surgeon in chief at Waterloo; inspector general 1 Feb. 1816, placed on h.p. 1 Oct. 1816; lived at Paris 1815 to death; C.B. 17 Aug. 1849. d. 52 Rue du Colisée, Paris 11 Jany. 1863. Proc. of Med. and Chir. society, iv, 207 (1864).
GUNNING, Ven. William. Ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., LL.B. 1828; V. of Stowey near Bath 1839–51; preb. of Wells 24 Aug. 1840 to death; V. of Buckland Newton, Dorset 1851 to death; archdeacon of Bath, Aug. 1852 to death. d. Manila crescent, Weston-super-Mare 11 Oct. 1860 aged 64.
GUNSON, Rev. William Mandell. Ed. at Bolton-Gate sch. near Mealsgate and Christ’s coll. Cam., 28 wrangler and 1 class cl. trip. 1847, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, fellow of his coll. 1847, tutor 1851–70; drowned himself near the Knowe, Baggrew, Aspatria, Cumberland 30 Sep. 1881.
GUNTER, Robert. Confectioner at Berkeley sq. London 1819–44. d. Earl’s court, Old Brompton 16 Oct. 1852 aged 69.
GUPPY, Thomas Richard (2 son of Samuel Guppy of Bristol, merchant). b. Bristol 1797; a sugar refiner at Bristol about 1826–30; started with I. K. Brunel a company for constructing a railway from Bristol to London 1830 for which they got an act 1832; constructed with Brunel the ‘Great Western’ steamship which was launched 19 July 1837, ran from Bristol to New York 1838–46, became property of Royal mail steam packet company 1846 and was broken up 1857; invented the cellular system of ship building; constructed the Great Britain, launched 19 July 1843; assisted in the introduction of the screw propeller; manager of Cwmavon, Glamorgan, copper works 1844; practised at Naples 1849, a mechanical engineer there 1854; A.I.C.E. 3 May 1842, M.I.C.E. 19 Feb. 1878. d. Portici near Naples 28 June 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxix, 411–15 (1882).
GURDON, Brampton. b. London 25 Sep. 1797; sheriff of Norfolk 1855; M.P. for West Norfolk 1857–65. d. 38 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 28 April 1881.
GURDON, William (4 son of lieut. col. Theophilus Thornhagh Gurdon of Letton, Norfolk 1764–1849). b. 1804; ed. at Eton and Downing coll. Cam., fellow 1838, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 3 July 1829: recorder of Bury St. Edmunds 185-to 1860; judge of county courts, circuit 38 (Essex), March 1847 to March 1871; author of Our highways: what they are and what they might be; Bankruptcy for the million 1862. d. Brantham court, Manningtree, Suffolk 12 Oct. 1884.