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Darwin. Gunson Rev W. M. X Coll. Cambridge William Mandell Gunson (1822-1881), William Erasmus Darwin's tutor at Christ's College. Gould John 26 Charlotte St. Bedford Sqr John Gould, ornithologist. Amongst much else, described and illustrated birds from Darwin's Beagle collection. Birds. Griffin Chemist 119 Bunhill Row E.C. J. J. Griffin Sons. Scientific instrument, book, and chemical supplier. There are payments to Griffin in Darwin's Account Books (Down House). Glass-Bells for Hot-House (Kew
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SUBSCRIPTIONS ALREADY PROMISED TO THE DARWIN MEMORIAL FUND. The Chancellor £ s. d. £ s. d. The Master of Christ's College 5 0 0 Mr. W. Herbert Evans 5 0 0 The Master of St John's College 5 0 0 Dr Michael Foster 2 2 0 The Master of Trinity College 5 0 0 Mr Francis Galton 5 0 0 The Master of Peterhouse 5 0 0 Mr W. H. Gaskell 2 2 0 The Master of Emmanuel 5 0 0 Mr Neville Goodman 5 5 0 Professor Adams 5 0 0 Mr Gunson 5 0 0 Professor C. C. Babington 5 0 0 Mr J. R
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Peile, John ed. 1913. Biographical register of Christ's College 1505-1905 and of the earlier foundation, God's House 1448-1505. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. vol. 2.
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Darwin, William Erasmus: eldest son of Charles Robert [1827], insignis philosophus. School: Rugby. Admitted pensioner under Messrs Hays and Gunson 13 March 1858. Born 27 Dec. 1839. B.A. (12th jun. opt.) 1862; M.A. 1889. Member of the Geological and Anthropological Societies. Director of Grant and Maddison's Union Banking Company, Southampton. J.P.: and member of the C.C. Chairman of the Southants. Water Company. Married 1877 Sarah Ashburner Sedgwick, daughter of Theodore Sedgwick, lawyer, of
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Periodical contribution:
Darwin, Francis. 1914. [Obituary of] William Erasmus Darwin. Christ's College Magazine 29: 16-23.
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have gone in for the Tripos with his mathematics in a rusty condition, otherwise he might perhaps have been higher than bracketed top of the Apostles where his name appears. His alarming Tutor, the great Gunson, was probably annoyed at this performance by a Scholar of the College. I remember my brother in our summer holidays of 1861 preparing himself for his new position by working out absurd self-imposed problems in arithmetic so that he might not be absolutely shamed in addition and
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