GURDON-REBOW, John. b. London 1799; assumed additional name of Rebow 1835; sheriff of Essex 1853; M.P. for Colchester 1857–59 and 1865 to death. d. Wivenhoe park near Colchester 12 Oct. 1870.
GURNEY, Anna (youngest child of Richard Gurney of Keswick near Norwich, d. 16 July 1811). b. 31 Dec. 1795; paralysed at 10 months old and deprived for ever of the use of her lower limbs; translated the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, By A Lady in the country 1819; lived at Northrepps cottage near Cromer 1825 to death; travelled in Italy and Greece. d. Keswick near Norwich 6 June 1857. bur. in Overstrand church. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xiv, 187–9 (1858).
GURNEY, Rev. Archer Thompson (son of Richard Gurney 1790–1843, vice-warden of stannaries of Devon). b. Tregony, Cornwall 15 July 1820; barrister of M.T. 8 May 1846; ordained C. of Holy Trinity, Exeter 1849; chaplain to Court chapel, Paris 1858–71; C. of Llangunider, Brecon 1882–3; author of Turandot, Princess of China, a drama 1836; Songs of early summer 1856; Words of faith and cheer 1874 and other books, besides songs and hymns. d. Castle hotel, 4 Northgate st. Bath 21 March 1887.
GURNEY, Daniel (youngest son of John Gurney d. 1809). b. Earlham hall near Norwich 9 March 1791; partner in firm of Gurney & Co. bankers, Norwich 1820–80; F.S.A. 12 March 1818; sheriff of Norfolk 1853; author of The record of the house of Gournay 1848–58. d. North Runcton, Norfolk 14 June 1880.
GURNEY, Edmund (3 son of John Hampden Gurney 1802–62). b. Hersham near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey 23 March 1847; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1871, fellow 1872; resided at Harrow 1872–5; studied music 1872–5, medicine 1877–81 and law 1881–3; a founder of Soc. for Psychical research 1882 and a writer of numerous articles on the subject; a student of hypnotism 1887; author of The power of sound 1880; Tertium Quid, chapters on disputed questions 2 vols. 1887; principal author of Phantasms of the living 1886. d. from taking an overdose of narcotic at the Royal Albion hotel, Brighton 23 June 1888. Brighton Gazette 28 June 1888 p. 6.
GURNEY, Sir Goldsworthy (son of John Gurney of Trevorgus, Cornwall, d. 1823). b. Treator near Padstow 14 Feb. 1793; surgeon at Wadebridge 1814, in London 1820; invented the steam jet 1820 and the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe 1823; discovered Drummond light 1826; invented an instrument of musical glasses played as a piano; applied high pressure steam to a locomotive on the road from London to Bath 28 July 1829; invented Bude light 1839; introduced new mode of lighting house of commons 1839, superintendent of lighting and ventilation there 1854–63; knighted by patent 10 Aug. 1863. d. The Reeds near Bude 28 Feb. 1875.
GURNEY, Hudson (brother of Anna Gurney 1775–1857). b. Norwich 19 Jany. 1775; M.P. Shaftesbury 1812, unseated on petition; M.P. Newton, Isle of Wight 1816–31; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1812, V.P. 1822–46; F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1818; sheriff of Norfolk 1835; purchased from Mrs. Woodward all S. Woodward’s manuscripts, and printed the Norfolk Topographer’s Manual 1842 and the The history of Norwich castle 1847; wrote Cupid and Psyche: a mythological tale from the Golden Ass of Apuleius 1799, 3 ed. 1801; printed privately a translation of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso 1843. d. Keswick hall near Norwich 9 Nov. 1864. bur. Intwood ch. yard, personalty sworn under £1,100,000, 24 Dec. 1864. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections, i, 242–45 (1883).
GURNEY, Rev. John Hampden (1 son of Sir John Gurney 1768–1845). b. 12 Serjeant’s inn, Fleet st. London 15 Aug. 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; C. of Lutterworth, Leics. 1827–44; R. of St. Mary’s, Bryanston sq. London 6 Dec. 1847 to death; preb. of St. Pancras, St. Paul’s cath. 1857 to death; author of Historical sketches 1400–1546, 1852; St. Louis and Henry iv, 1855; God’s heroes and the world’s heroes 1858. d. 63 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 8 March 1862. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) p. 40, portrait.
GURNEY, John Henry (only son of Joseph John Gurney the philanthropist 1788–1847). b. 1819; of firm of Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay and Buxton, bankers in the eastern counties; M.P. Lynn Regis 1854–65; an active partner in Overend, Gurney & Co. bill discounters, London 1865, the firm suspended payment 10 May 1866 liabilities £11,000,000; presented his collections of birds to Norfolk and Norwich museum; author of A sketch of the raptorial birds in the Norwich museum 1872. d. Northrepps, Norfolk 21 April 1890. I.L.N. xxvi, 181 (1855), portrait; Pictorial World 8 May 1890 p. 598, portrait.
GURNEY, Rev. John Phillips. ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1834; chaplain of Black chapel, Great Waltham, Essex; V. of Great Canfield, Essex 22 Dec. 1822 to death; author of The woman and the dragon, an exposition of twelfth chapter of Apocalypse 1851; The approaching fall of Rome 1857. d. Great Canfield vicarage 9 March 1872.