Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
NameJohn Henry “Jackey” GURNEY, 5743
Birth1819
Death1890
FatherJoseph John GURNEY , 5742 (1788-1847)
MotherJane BIRKBECK , 8498
Spouses
Birth1829
Death1872
FatherRichard Hanbury GURNEY , 8485 (1783-1854)
MotherMary JARY , 8565
Marriage1846
ChildrenJohn Henry “Jack” , 5744 (1848-1919)
Notes for John Henry “Jackey” GURNEY
John Henry Gurney, only son. Of Catton hall, Norfolk He succeeded to Keswick in 1864 on the death of his kinsman, Hudson Gurney. Ornithologist and partner in Gurney's bank., subsequently a director in Overend, Gurney and co., London.

John Henry Gurney (4 July 1819 – 20 April 1890) was an English banker, and amateur ornithologist, and Liberal Party politician.

Life

Gurney was the only son of Joseph John Gurney of Earlham Hall, Norwich, Norfolk. At the age of ten he was sent to a private tutor at Leytonstone near the Epping Forest, where he met Henry Doubleday, and commenced his first natural history collection. From there he moved to the Friends' School at Tottenham, and whilst there met William Yarrell. At the age of seventeen he joined the family's banking business in Norwich.

Gurney published a number of articles in The Zoologist on the birds of Norfolk. He also commenced a collection of bird of prey. In 1864 he published Part I. of his Descriptive Catalogue of this collection, and in 1872 he edited The Birds of Damara Land from the notes of his friend Charles John Andersson.

Between 1875 and 1882 he produced a series of notes in The Ibis on the first volume of the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, and in 1884 brought out a List of Diurnal Birds of Prey, with References and Annotations.

For the last twenty years of his life he resided at the family's home at Northrepps, near Cromer.

His son, John Henry Gurney Jr., was also an ornithologist, and his great great grandson, Henry Richard Gurney of Heggatt Hall has continued the family tradition.

The southern African race of the Black-necked Grebe, Podiceps nigricollis gurneyi, was named by South African zoologist and author Austin Roberts in 1919 in honour of the father and son.

John Henry Gurney Jr.'s daughter Agatha Gurney (1881-1937) married Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet.

Political career

He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament (MP) for King's Lynn at a by-election in 1854, and was re-elected unopposed in 1857 and 1859. He stood down from the House of Commons at the 1865 general election.[1]
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