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Gurney family (Norwich)

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The Gurneys were an influential family of English Quakers who had a major influence on the development of Norwich. [1]

67 relations: Anna Gurney, Archaeology, Arnold Cazenove, Augustus Hare, Backhouse's Bank, Barclays, Christopher Cazenove, Coltishall, Comic opera, Cromer, Daniel Gurney, David Barclay of Youngsbury, Earlham Hall, Edward Ruggles-Brise, Elizabeth Fry, Fowell Buxton, Genealogy, Gilbert and Sullivan, Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery, Norwich, Gurney's Bank (Norwich), Henry Thoby Prinsep, High Sheriff of Norfolk, Hudson Gurney, Hugh Gurney, Intwood, Isabel Talbot, Baroness Talbot de Malahide, John Gurney (1749–1809), John Gurney (1845–1887), John Henry Gurney Jr., John Henry Gurney Sr., Joseph Fry (tea merchant), Joseph John Gurney, Keswick, South Norfolk, Louisa Gurney Hoare, Maldon, Essex, Negotiable instrument, Newtown (UK Parliament constituency), Norfolk, Normal school, Normans, North Runcton, Northrepps, Norwich, Old English, Oliver Gurney, Ornithology, Overend, Gurney and Company, Percy Lubbock, Prinsep, Quakers, ..., Reform movement, Robert Gurney, Royal Society, Samuel Gurney (1786–1856), Samuel Gurney (MP), Sir Edward Buxton, 2nd Baronet, Suffolk, The Times, Trial by Jury, Trinity College, Cambridge, UEA Law School, University of East Anglia, Verily Anderson, Walter Garstang, William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll, William the Conqueror, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Expand index (17 more) »

Anna Gurney

Anna Gurney (1795–1857) was an English scholar and philanthropist, a member of the Gurney family of Norfolk.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arnold Cazenove

Brigadier Arnold de Lérisson Cazenove (18 September 1898 – 2 April 1969) was a British Army officer in World War I and World War II.

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Augustus Hare

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (13 March 1834 – 22 January 1903) was an English writer and raconteur.

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Backhouse's Bank

Backhouse's Bank of Darlington (James & Jonathan Backhouse and Co., from 1798 Jonathan Backhouse and Co.) was founded in 1774 by James Backhouse (1720-1798), a wealthy Quaker flax dresser and linen manufacturer, and his sons Jonathan (1747-1826) and James (1757-1804).

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Barclays

Barclays plc is a British multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in London.

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Christopher Cazenove

Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove (17 December 1943 – 7 April 2010) was an English film, television and stage actor.

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Coltishall

Coltishall is a village on the River Bure, west of Wroxham, in the English county of Norfolk, within the Norfolk Broads.

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Comic opera

Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending.

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Cromer

Cromer is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk.

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Daniel Gurney

Daniel Gurney (1791–1880), was an English banker and antiquary from the Gurney family of Norwich.

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David Barclay of Youngsbury

David Barclay (1729–1809) was an English Quaker merchant, banker, and philanthropist.

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Earlham Hall

Earlham Hall is a country house in Norfolk, England.

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Edward Ruggles-Brise

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet (19 September 1882 – 12 May 1942) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Elizabeth Fry

Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney, often referred to as Betsy; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845) was an English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist.

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Fowell Buxton

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet (1 April 1786Olwyn Mary Blouet, "Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, first baronet (1786–1845)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010. – 19 February 1845) was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and social reformer.

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Genealogy

Genealogy (from γενεαλογία from γενεά, "generation" and λόγος, "knowledge"), also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.

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Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.

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Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery, Norwich

The Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Chatham Street, Norwich, Norfolk, England, where many of the city's Quakers were buried including the writer Amelia Opie.

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Gurney's Bank (Norwich)

Gurney's bank was a well-respected family-run bank founded by members of the Gurney family in 1770 and headquartered in Norwich, England.

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Henry Thoby Prinsep

Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792–1878) was an English official of the Indian Civil Service, and historian of India.

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High Sheriff of Norfolk

This is a list of High Sheriffs of Norfolk.

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Hudson Gurney

Hudson Gurney (19 January 1775 – 9 November 1864) was an English antiquary and verse-writer, also known as a politician.

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Hugh Gurney

Sir Hugh Gurney (4 February 1878 - 7 March 1968) was a British diplomat.

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Intwood

Intwood is a small village in Norfolk, England, south west of Norwich.

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Isabel Talbot, Baroness Talbot de Malahide

Isabel Charlotte Talbot, Baroness Talbot de Malahide, DBE (20 December 1851 – 22 February 1932), née Blake-Humfrey, known as Isabel Charlotte Gurney from 1873 to 1901, was an English philanthropist.

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John Gurney (1749–1809)

John Gurney (10 November 1749 – 28 October 1809) was an English banker and member of the Gurney family of Norwich.

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John Gurney (1845–1887)

John Gurney (1845–1887), a member of the renowned Gurney banking family of Norfolk, was mayor of Norwich.

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John Henry Gurney Jr.

John Henry Gurney Jr. (1848–1922), was British ornithologist, son of John Henry Gurney Sr. and member of the Gurney family.

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John Henry Gurney Sr.

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

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Joseph Fry (tea merchant)

Joseph Fry (21 April 1777 – 28 August 1861) was a tea dealer and an unsuccessful banker.

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Joseph John Gurney

Joseph John Gurney (2 August 1788 – 4 January 1847) was a banker in Norwich, England and a member of the Gurney family of that city.

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Keswick, South Norfolk

Keswick is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England.

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Louisa Gurney Hoare

Louisa Gurney Hoare (25 September 1784 – 6 September 1836) was an English diarist and writer on education, and a member of the Gurney family.

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Maldon, Essex

Maldon (locally) is a town on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, England.

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Negotiable instrument

A negotiable instrument is a document guaranteeing the payment of a specific amount of money, either on demand, or at a set time, with the payer usually named on the document.

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Newtown (UK Parliament constituency)

Newtown was a parliamentary borough located in Newtown on the Isle of Wight, which was represented in the House of Commons of England until 1707, then in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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Normal school

A normal school was an institution created to train high school graduates to be teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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North Runcton

North Runcton is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Northrepps

Northrepps is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Norwich

Norwich (also) is a city on the River Wensum in East Anglia and lies approximately north-east of London.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Oliver Gurney

Oliver Robert Gurney (28 January 1911 – 11 January 2001) was an English Assyriologist from the Gurney family and a leading scholar of the Hittites.

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Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.

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Overend, Gurney and Company

Overend, Gurney & Company was a London wholesale discount bank, known as "the bankers' bank", which collapsed in 1866 owing about £11 million, equivalent to £ million in.

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Percy Lubbock

Percy Lubbock, CBE (4 June 1879 – 1 August 1965) was an English man of letters, known as an essayist, critic and biographer.

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Prinsep

Prinsep may mean any of several notable members of the British Prinsep family.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Reform movement

A reform movement is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or political system closer to the community's ideal.

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Robert Gurney

Robert Gurney (31 July 1879 – 5 March 1950) was a British zoologist from the Gurney family, most famous for his monographs on British Freshwater Copepoda (1931–1933) and the Larvae of Decapod Crustacea (1942).

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Samuel Gurney (1786–1856)

Samuel Gurney (18 October 1786 – 5 June 1856) was an English banker and philanthropist from the Gurney family of Norwich.

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Samuel Gurney (MP)

Samuel Gurney (1816–1882) was a banker from the Gurney family.

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Sir Edward Buxton, 2nd Baronet

Sir Edward North Buxton, 2nd Baronet (16 September 1812 – 11 June 1858) was a British Liberal Party politician.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Trial by Jury

Trial by Jury is a comic opera in one act, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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UEA Law School

UEA Law School, founded in 1977, is a school within the University of East Anglia, dedicated to research and teaching in law.

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University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia (abbreviated as UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England.

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Verily Anderson

Verily Anderson (12 January 1915 – 16 July 2010) was a British author, best known for writing the screenplay of the 1960 film No Kidding, based on her 1958 book Beware of Children, for writing Brownie books and writing genealogical books about the Gurney, Barclay and Buxton families.

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Walter Garstang

Walter Garstang FLS FZS (9 February 1868 – 23 February 1949), a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and Professor of Zoology at the University of Leeds, was one of the first to study the functional biology of marine invertebrate larvae.

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William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll

William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll (12 March 1772 – 26 January 1819), known as Lord Hay until 1778, was a Scottish peer.

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William the Conqueror

William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

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Woodbridge, Suffolk

Woodbridge is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, about from the sea coast.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney_family_(Norwich)

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