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Gamble Surname - Who's Who
The following is a summary of the information collected so far on members
of the wider Gamble Family from a variety of sources. Details of the
source material are included
Albert William GAMBLE: was born on 30 June 1937,
the son of Herbert Milton Gamble. He was educated at Parramatta High
School and Granville Technical College, Sydney, Australia. Albert
has been involved in the building industry, having been the manager
and director of a number of companies. In 1979 he married Marie GRANT
and has three daughters. His interests include genealogy, scouting
and bushwalking.
Source: WHO'S WHO IN AUSTRALIA, 1991 Edition.
Archibald Neil GAMBLE: was born on 22 January 1922
in North Perth, Western Australia, the son of Robert A GAMBLE. He
was educated at Highgate and Perth Modern Schools and the University
of W.A. Archibald was admitted to the W.A. bar in 1938 and became
the District Registrar of the High Court of Australia in 1957. During
World War II he served in the AIF. In 1950 he married Dorothy Jean
TAYLOR and has two sons. His recreations include gardening, reading
and walking.
Source: WHO'S WHO IN AUSTRALIA, 1959 Edition.
Arthur Mellor GAMBLE (Rev):was born in 1899, the
son of P.A. Gamble. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at Oriel
College, Oxford. Arthur was appointed Head Master of Denstone College
in 1941, a position he held until his appointment as Rector of Cley-next-the-Sea
with Wiveton (Norfolk) in 1958. His next appointment was to the nearby
parish of Letheringsett with Glandford in 1969. In 1924 he married
Doris Mary EVERSHED and has one son and two daughters.
Source: WHO WAS WHO, 1971-1980 (Vol VII).
David GAMBLE (Sir):was born in 1823, the son of
the Rev Josias Christopher GAMBLE. He married Elizabeth HADDOCK and
had six sons and one daughter. David was Mayor of St Helens (Lancashire)
between 1858 and 1870 and again in 1886. He was a pioneer of the
Volunteer Movement and the first Honorary Colonel (V.D.) of the 2nd
Battalion of the Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire). David
became the 1st Baronet in 1897 and was awarded the KCB
in 1904. He died in 1907 and his name remains associated with the
public library and technical college he gifted to the town of St
Helens - The Gamble Institute.
Source: Debrett's Peerage 1970 and 1980 editions and
published articles.
David GAMBLE (Sir):was born in 1876, the son of
Sir Josias Christopher GAMBLE (2nd Baronet). He married
Eveline Frances Josephine COLE in 1903 and has five sons. David followed
in a family tradition and was mayor of St Helens (Lancashire) between
1913 and 1915. He became the third holder of the title on his fathers
death in 1908. He died in 1943.
Source: Who Was Who, 1941-1951 (Vol IV).
David Arthur Josias GAMBLE (Sir): was born in 1907,
the son of Sir David GAMBLE (3rd Baronet). He was educated
at Shrewsbury and at Wadham College, Oxford. He married Elinor Mary
COLE in 1932 and had one son. David became the fourth holder of the
title on his fathers death in 1943. He died in 1982.
Source: Debrett's Peerage 1970 and 1980 editions.
David Hugh Norman GAMBLE (Sir): was born in 1966,
the son of Sir David GAMBLE (5th Baronet). He was educated
at Shiplake College, Henley-on-Thames and became the sixth holder
of the title on his fathers death in 1984.
Source: Who's Who, 1989 edition.
Douglas Austin GAMBLE (Admiral Sir): was born in
1856. He entered the Royal Navy in 1870, rising to the rank of Commander
in 1893. Douglas joined the Naval Intelligence Department in 1893
and became a Captain in 1899. He was Naval Adviser to the Turkish
Government in 1909 and was promoted to Rear-Admiral commanding the
6th Cruiser Squadron in 1910. In 1914 Douglas was Commander of the
4th Battle Squadron. He died in 1934.
Source: WHO WAS WHO, 1929-1940 (Vol III).
Edward James GAMBLE:was born in 1929 in Duluth,
Minnesota, the son of Edward James GAMBLE. He was educated at the
University of Michigan and admitted to the bar in Michigan in 1953
Edward had also studied accountancy and held a number of senior positions
in various accounting and legal firms, as well as lecturing at a
number of universities. He married Lois KENNEDY in 1954 and has two
sons and one daughter.
Source: WHO's WHO IN AMERICA, 1990-91
Edward Harpur GAMBLE (Admiral):was born in 1849.
He married Charlotte Mainwaring Prance in 1904. Edward had a distinguished
career, serving in Egypt in 1882, where he was awarded the Khedive's
star, Gambia in 1894, where he was mentioned in despatches, and Brass
River in 1895. He also won a number of medals. He died in 1925.
Source: Who Was Who, 1916-1928 (Vol II)
Frederick Barker GAMBLE (His Honour): was born
in 1900 at Sunbury, Victoria, the son of Dr M. F. H. Gamble. He was
educated at Wesley College and the University of Melbourne. Frederick
was admitted to the bar in 1924 and appointed a Judge of the County
Court in 1946. During World War II he served in the 2nd AIF.
Frederick married Jean Apperly in 1925 and has two daughters.
Source: Who's Who in Australia, 1959 edition.
Frederick Charles GAMBLE: was born in 1905 at Charing
Cross, London. He was a professional cricketer, being a right arm
medium pace bowler and a lower order right-hand batsman. Frederick
played 19 matches for Surrey between 1933 and 1935 and also played
for Devon. He was also a well known soccer player, playing centre
forward for West Ham, Aldershot and Reading. He died in 1965 at Lambeth,
London.
Source: Who's Who Cricket, published by Newnes.
Frederick William GAMBLE: was born in 1869 in Manchester,
the son of William GAMBLE. He was educated at Manchester Grammar
School and Manchester and Leipzig Universities. At university he
achieved his Bachelor of Science with first class honours in 1891,
followed by a Master of Science and, following a period as a lecturer
in zoology, gained his doctorate in 1900. He subsequently became
Professor of Zoology at the University of Birmingham and published
many papers. Frederick married Ellen BAMFORD in 1904. He died in
1926.
Source: Who Was Who, 1916-1928 (Vol II)
Geoffrey Massey GAMBLE (Brigadier): was born in
1896 and died in 1970.
Source: Who Was Who, 1961-1970 (Vol VI)
George GAMBLE: was born in 1877at Leicester. He
was a professional cricketer, being a left-arm bowler and a tail
end right-hand batsman. George played for London County between 1900
and 1903 and played eight matches for Surrey in 1906. He died in
1949 at Leicester.
Source: Who's Who Cricket, published by Newnes.
George Clinton GAMBLE: was born in 1910 in Newark,
New Jersey, the son of George Whiting GAMBLE. He gained his Bachelor
of Architecture at the University of Miami in 1931. George was a
partner in a number of architecture firms in the Florida area. He
served in the US Navy from 1942 to 1946, rising to the rank of Lieutenant
Commander. In 1937 George married Virginia RALSTON and had a son
and a daughter. He subsequently married Marion GILL and had five
children.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1990-91
Hamilton Rowan GAMBLE: was born in 1798 in Winchester,
Virginia, the son of Irish immigrants, Joseph Gamble and Ann Hamilton.
He was a lawyer, judge and governor. As a provisional Unionist governor
(1861-64), he laboured to save Missouri for the Union. In 1827 Hamilton
married Caroline S. Coalter.
Sources: Concise Dictionary of American Biographies,
1964 and Dictionary of American Biography, Vol VII.
Henry Reginald GAMBLE (Very Rev): was born circa
1860. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford and was ordained a
priest in 1885. Henry served as rector of a number of parishes in
the London area and became Dean of Exeter in 1918 and was Honorary
Chaplain to His Majesty The King between 1910 and 1918. He published
many of his sermons and contributed to a number of publications.
Henry married Helen Maud Isherwood in 1904. He died in 1931.
Source: WHO WAS WHO, 1929-1940 (Vol III).
James GAMBLE: was born circa 1790, the son of George
GAMBLE and Mary Norris. In 1837 his father in law convinced James
(a candle maker) and William Proctor (a soap manufacturer) to become
business partners, starting the company of Proctor and Gamble.
Source: Various published material.
James Sykes GAMBLE: was born in 1847 in London
the son of Harpur Gamble, M.D., R.N. He was educated at the Royal
Naval School, New Cross, Magdalen College, Oxford (where he gained
his M.A.) and the Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forets, Nancy, France.
James entered the Indian Forest Department in 1871 and had a distinguished
career, rising to the positions including Conservator of Forests
and Director of the Imperial Forest School. He held a number of university
positions, won a number of awards, and published a number of books
on the flora of India. In 1911 James married Gertrude Latter. He
died in 1925.
Source: WHO WAS WHO, 1916-1928 (Vol II).
John GAMBLE: was born circa 1630. He was a musician
and composer and was one of Charles I's violinists. In 1656 he published
'Ayres and Dialogues to be sung to the theorbo, lute, or base violl'.
A portrait (engraving) of John is included in the book. The music
won him renown at Oxford, and he published a second book in 1659
which was an important anthology of about 250 songs by his contemporaries.
In 1662 he set the songs for a Lord Mayor's pageant. Records from
1661 to 1663 show his wages as twenty pence per day and £16 2s. 6d. per
annum for livery. By 1674 his salary had risen to forty six pounds
per year. John lost most of his possessions in the Great Fire of
London in 1666. He made out a will in 1680, leaving his books of
music and 20 shillings to his grandson, John Gamble, 'now servant
to Mr. Strong,' cutting of other relatives with a shilling, and bequeathing
the residue to his widow. He died in 1687, advanced in years.
Source: Dictionary of National Biography and The New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie,
1980.
John GAMBLE: was born circa 1760. He was a member
of Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1784, gained
his Master of Arts in 1787 and subsequently became a fellow of his
college. He published (London, 1795) a quarto pamphlet of twenty
pages entitled 'Observations on Telegraphic Experiments, or the different
Modes which have been or may be adopted for the purpose of Distant
communication.' This made some stir in the scientific world, and
encouraged the writer to produce a more ambitious 'Essay on the different
Modes of Communication by Signals' in 1797. This contained a number
of elaborate and ingenious illustrative plates. The book gave a concise
history of the progressive movements in the art of communication
from the first beacon light to the telegraphy of the writer's day,
with many valuable suggestions. John was also chaplain to the Duke
of York, chaplain-general of the forces and was rector of a number
of parishes in Essex. He was much esteemed in scientific circles,
civil as well as military, and died in 1811.
Source: Dictionary of National Biography
John GAMBLE: was born circa 1770 in Ireland and
died in 1831. He was a surgeon, novelist and miscellaneous writer.
Source: Concise Dictionary of Irish Biography by J.S.
Crane
John GAMBLE (Rev): was born near Belfast in 1859.
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he obtained his
Master of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity and won a Gold Medal in Modern
Literature. John was curate at a number of London parishes between
1882 and 1892, before being appointed Vicar of St Mary, Leigh Woods,
Bristol; in 1892, where he remained for thirty years. In 1922 he
was appointed Canon Residentiary of Bristol and in 1924 Treasurer
of Bristol Cathedral. John published a number of his sermons, as
well as writing a number of theological books and pamphlets. He died
in 1929.
Source: WHO WAS WHO, 1929-1940 (Vol III).
Josias Christopher GAMBLE (Rev): was born in 1778,
son of David GAMBLE of Ratonagh, Ireland, and his second wife. He
trained as a Presbyterian clergyman at Glasgow University and graduated
in medicine, theology and chemistry. There is a memorial in Enniskillen
Church to his ministry. Josias continued in chemistry in Dublin with
a soap factory and then moved to St Helens, Lancashire, about 1828.
The chemical company that he founded is now part of the ICI complex.
He married Hannah GOWER in 1820 and had one son. David GAMBLE's son
by his first marriage, George, was the father of James GAMBLE, one
of the co-founders of Proctor and Gamble.
Josias Christopher GAMBLE (Sir): was born in 1848,
son of (Sir) David GAMBLE (1st baronet). He was Mayor
of St Helens between 1888 and 1889. Josias married Isabella Sanderson
and had three sons. He became the 2nd baronet on his father's
death in 1907. Josias died in 1908.
Source: WHO WAS WHO, 1897-1915 (Vol I).
GAMBLE, Joseph: was born in 1836 in County Antrim,
Ireland. He arrived in Victoria (Australia) when about three years
old in 1839. Joseph followed various occupations, such as farming,
quarrying and contracting, until, in 1879, he started the Excelsior
Steam Crushing and Pavement Works, at King-street, East Brunswick,
employing at the time twenty hands, and doing 240 yards of metal
weekly. In 1885 Mr. Gamble launched the Junction Patent Pressed Brick
Works at South Preston, under the management of his son, James Alexander
Gamble, employing four hands at the commencement, and turning out
10,000 bricks a week, rising to about 200,000 weekly with sixty hands
are employed. All the bricks are patent steam-pressed, and are used
all over the colony, and by the Government to a large extent. Joseph
married Jessie CROW in 1863 at Gisborne and had two sons and five
daughters. He died in 1896.
Source: Victoria and its Metropolis: Past and Present,
and Leask's Australian Genealogies.
Mary GAMBLE: was born circa 1750. She was a servant
and, at thirty four, was tried at Southwark in 1784 for fraud. She
was sentenced to seven years' transportation and sailed to Australia
on the Lady Penrhyn. Mary worked at Norfolk Island from
October 1788 to 1794. In 1806 she was living with George ATKINSON.
Source: 1788 - The People Of The First Fleet by Don
Chapman, published 1981.
Neil Walton GAMBLE: was born in 1943 at Macclesfield,
Cheshire. He is a lower order right-hand batsman and a right-arm
medium pace bowler. Neil played for Oxford University in 1967, obtaining
his cricketing blue, and continued on playing county cricket for
Cheshire.
Source: Who's Who Cricket, published by Newnes
Reginald Arthur GAMBLE (Sir):: was born in 1862,
the son of Lt-Gen. D. G. Gamble. He was educated at Balliol College,
Oxford, where he gained his Bachelor of Arts. Reginald entered Indian
Civil service in 1881, rising to the position of Accountant General,
Punjab, in 1899, and was Controller and Auditor General in India
between 1914 and 1918 and was awarded a knighthood in 1917. He subsequently
was appointed Chief Inspector, Chinese Government Salt Revenue department,
Peking, in 1918 for four years. Reginald married Jennie Coates in
1892. He died in 1930.
Source: WHO WAS WHO, 1929-1940 (Vol III)
Richard Narrien GAMBLE (Brigadeer-General): was
born in 1860, the son of Lieutenant-General D. J. Gamble. He entered
the army in 1879, rising to the rank of Major in 1900. During this
period Richard served in Bechuanaland in 1884-85, the Soudan in 1898
and in South Africa, 1899-1901. He was General Staff Officer, 1st
Grade, in the Poona Division, 1912-14 and commanded the 17th Brigade
in Mesopotamia during the first World War. He was mentioned in despatches
on many occasions and won a number of medals, as well as being awarded
the D.S.O. Richard married Audrey Nona Bevan in 1901. He died in
1937.
Source: WHO WAS WHO, 1929-1940 (Vol III)
Robert Edward GAMBLE: was born in 1922, the son
of William Harrison Gamble. He was educated at Alderman Newton's
School, Leicester. Robert was a diplomat with HM Diplomatic Service
and was seconded to the Department of Trade as Assistant Secretary
in 1974. He married Mavis Alice Garland in 1947 and has one son and
two daughters.
Source: WHO WAS WHO, 1971-1980 (Vol VII).
Tom GAMBLE: was born in
1898, the son of Edward Gamble and his wife Jane (Grey). He was educated
at St Johns School, Hulme, Manchester. Tom was a comedian and made
his first appearance on stage at Birmingham Hippodrome, Aston in
1911 appearing in "Casey's Court". His first film was "Music
Hall Parade", made in 1938. One of his favourite parts is Spuddy
in "Girls in Arms". He married Mabel Baker. Tom's recreations
included golf, motoring and gardening.
Source: Who's Who in the Theatre, published by Gayle
Pitman
Victor Felix GAMBLE: was born in 1866, the second
son of David GAMBLE. He was educated at Uppingham. He married Myrta
Vivienne Stubbs (from whom he obtained a divorce in 1932) and had
one son. Victor subsequently married Kathleen Anne Brewer (nee Button)
in 1936. He died in 1952.
Source: WHO WAS WHO, 1951-1960 (Vol V).
William GAMBLE: was born in 1868 at Barfold, near
Kyneton, Victoria, the son of Edward Gamble a farmer and grazier.
He was educated at St. Scholasticus, Kyneton, and Dookie Agricultural
College, Vic, where he was Dux in 1888. William farmed at Barfold
and Pinegrove until 1899. He served in the South African War where
he was wounded. On returning to Victoria William joined the Dept.
of Agriculture in 1900, and took up the position of Farm Manager
at Dookie in 1907. He subsequently became Principal of Dookie College
in 1916. In 1922 William moved to Berwick, where he bred Friesian
cattle and Southdown and Border Leicester sheep. He was also active
in the Vic. Council of Agricultural Education, where he held the
position of Chairman from 1936 to 1938. William married Barbara Crawford
in 1901.
Source: Who's Who in Australia, 1959 Edition.
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