GURNEY, Joseph (eld. son of W. B. Gurney 1777–1855). b. London 15 Oct. 1804; shorthand writer to houses of parliament 1849–72; treasurer of Religious Tract soc. and of Baptist coll. in Regent’s park; author of The annotated paragraph Bible, By J. G. 2 vols. 1850–60; The revised English Bible, Preface, By J. G. 1877. d. Tynedale lodge, Wimbledon common, Surrey 12 Aug. 1879.
GURNEY, Russell (brother of Rev. J. H. Gurney 1802–62). b. Norwood, Surrey 2 Sep. 1804; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1828, bencher 1845; Q.C 1845; judge of sheriff’s court and small debts court, city of London 1850; common serjeant of city of London, Jany. 1856; recorder of city of London 16 Dec. 1856, resigned Feb. 1878; M.P. Southampton, July 1865 to death; a comr. to inquire into disturbances in Jamaica Jany. 1866; P.C. 11 June 1866; F.R.S. 22 April 1875; prime warder of Fishmongers’ co. 1876. d. 8 Kensington palace gardens 31 May 1878. Times 1 June 1878 p. 13, 6 June p. 7; I.L.N. lxxii, 589–90 (1878), portrait.
GURNEY, Samuel (2 son of John Gurney, banker, d. 1809). b. Earlham hall near Norwich 18 Oct. 1786; partner with Richardson and Overend, bill and money lenders, 14 Birchin lane, London 1807; firm became Overend, Gurney & Co. 1824; known as the bankers’ banker; in 1856 the firm had deposits of eight millions, insolvent 1866; a patron of the colony of Liberia, his name given to a town in Gallenas 1851. d. Paris 5 June 1856. bur. Friends’ cemet. Barking 19 June. H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 347–64 (1866); I.L.N. xxix, 16 (1856), portrait.
GURNEY, Samuel (2 son of the preceding). b. Upton, Essex 1816; partner in Overend, Guerney & Co. London; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1857–65; sheriff of Surrey 1861; director of several telegraph companies; F.L.S. F.R.G.S. d. The Spa, Tunbridge Wells 4 April 1882 aged 66. I.L.N. 24 July 1859 pp. 92 94, portrait.
GURNEY, William Brodie (son of Joseph Gurney, shorthand writer, d. 1815). b. Stamford hill, London 24 Dec. 1777; a public shorthand writer, reported many state trials 1806–20; shorthand writer to houses of parliament 1813; founded Sunday school union 1803, sec., treasurer, pres. 1803 to death; a founder and editor of The Youth’s magazine 1805; lay preacher at London female penitentiary 1807; author of A lecture to children and youth 1848; edited Brachygraphy by T. Gurney, 15 ed. 1824, 16 ed. 1835. d. Denmark hill, Camberwell 25 March 1855. W. H. Watson’s First fifty years of the Sunday school (1873) 69–75.
GÜTZLAFF, Carl Friedrich August. b. Pyritz, Pomerania 8 July 1803; D.D.; sent to the East by Netherland missionary soc. 1827; went to Macao, China 1831; interpreter to British superintendency 1834; travelled in Japan 1837; Chinese sec. to British consulate, Canton 1844 to death; founded Christian union of Chinese to propagate the gospel 1840; visited England 1850; author of The Journal of three voyages along the coast of China 1834, 3 ed. 1840; A sketch of Chinese history 2 vols. 1834; China opened 2 vols. 1838 and many other works in Dutch, German, Latin, Siamese, Chinese and Japanese. d. Victoria, Hong Kong 9 Aug. 1851. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, x, 236–7 (1879).
GUTCH, John Mathew (eld. son of Rev. John Gutch 1746–1831, chaplain of All Souls’ coll. Ox.) b. Oxford 1776; ed. at Christ’s hospital; law stationer in Southampton buildings, Chancery lane to 1803; proprietor and printer of Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal 1804–44; second-hand bookseller at Bristol; partner in Lavender’s bank, Worcester 1823–48 when the bank failed; F.S.A. 1839; started with Robert Alexander the Morning Journal, London 6 Oct. 1828, last number 30 May 1830; wrote or edited The Country Constitutional Guardian, Bristol 1822–24 a monthly serial; edited Poems of Geo. Withers 3 vols. 1820 and works about Robin Hood 1847–66. d. Barbourne near Worcester 20 Sep. 1861.
GUTCH, John Wheeley Gough (only child of the preceding). b. Bristol 1809; M.R.C.S. 1830; practised in Florence; a queen’s messenger 1850–61; contributed to Felix Farley’s Journal; edited The literary and scientific register 1842–56. d. 38 Bloomsbury sq. London 30 April 1862. F. O. List (1862) p. 161.
GUTHRIE, Charles Seton (1 son of George Dempster Guthrie of Scots Calder). b. 1808; ed. at H.E.I.C. coll. Addiscombe; lieut. col. Bengal engineers 1855–57 when he retired; made a collection of 18,440 eastern coins, the largest ever brought together, which was offered to German government for £5,000; member of Numismatic soc. to death. d. 26 Dec. 1874. Numismatic Chronicle Proceedings, xv, 12 (Dec. 1875).
GUTHRIE, Frederick (son of Alexander Guthrie of 54 New Bond st. London, tailor). b. Bayswater, London 15 Oct. 1833; ed. at Univ. sch. and coll. London; B.A. London 1855, M.A.?; Ph.D. of Marburg univ. Prussia 1854; F.R.S. Edin. 1860; assist. prof. of chemistry Owen’s coll. Manchester 1856–9 and at Edin. 1859–61; prof. of chemistry and physics R. coll. Mauritius 1861–7; lecturer and prof. Sch. of science, South Kensington 1869 to death; discovered the Approach caused by vibration 1870; F.R.S. 8 June 1871; founder of Physical soc. of London 1873, president 1884; author of The Jew, a poem 1863, Logrono, a metric drama 1877, both under name of Frederick Cerny; Elements of heat 1868; The first book of knowledge 1881, new ed. 1883. d. of cancer of the throat 24 St. James’ sq. Notting hill, London 21 Oct. 1886. Nature 4 Nov. 1886 pp. 8–10.