THE ZOOLOGIST. 



THIRD SERIES. 



Vol. XIV.] JUNE, 1890. [No. J 62. 



MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN HENRY GURNEY. 



To the great regret of his many friends, this well-known 

 ornithologist, after some months of failing health, passed peace- 

 fully away, in his seventy-first year, on the 20th April last, at 

 Northrepps, near Norwich. 



To our readers the name of John Henry Gurney is "a 

 household word," for, as many no doubt are aware, he helped 

 to found 'The Zoologist' five-and-forty years ago, and from 

 1846, when, in conjunction with the late Mr. W. E. Fisher, he 

 published in these pages (pp.1300, 1324, 1373, 1393), "An 

 Account of the Birds found in Norfolk," he continued to the last 

 to give to this Journal his encouragement and support. 



His friend and neighbour, Mr. Thomas Southwell, of Norwich, 

 has obligingly placed at our disposal some biographical notes, of 

 which we are glad to avail ourselves, and which we do not doubt 

 will be acceptable to our readers. From him we learn that 

 Mr. Gurney was born at Earlham Hall in 1819, and married 

 Mary Jary, daughter of Kichard Hanbury Gurney, Esq., of 

 Thickthorn, by whom he leaves two sons, Mr. J. H. Gurney, 

 who now succeeds to the family estates, and Mr. Eichard H. J. 

 Gurney, of Brighton. In 1854 he entered Parliament as member 

 for King's Lynn, his colleague being Lord Stanley (the present 

 Earl Derby), and sat for that borough till 1865, when he resigned 

 his seat. He was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Norfolk, 

 the senior member of the Norwich Bench, and also a magistrate 

 for the borough of Lynn. 



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