Samuel Gurney
1816–82
Banker. Partner in the firm of Overend, Gurney and Co., money-lenders. MP for Penryn and Falmouth, 1857–65. Member of the committee of the Anti-slavery Society; president of the Aborigines’ Protection Society. Director of several telegraph companies. Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
Sources
Friends’ biographical catalogue
Modern English biography
Stenton 1976.
Bibliography
Friends’ biographical catalogue: Biographical catalogue: being an account of the lives of Friends and others whose portraits are in the London Friends’ institute. London: Friends’ institute. 1888
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
Stenton, Michael. 1976. Who’s who of British members of Parliament, 1832–1885. Volume 1 of Who’s who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod’s Parliamentary companion and other sources. Brighton: Harvester Press.
