Thomas Gumble

Gumble, for some time vicar of Chipping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire[1] was appointed chaplain to George Monck, then in Scotland, at the end of 1655.[2] Monck, finding him an excellent man of business, entrusted him with many commissions. On 4 January 1660 he was despatched from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to London with Monck's letters to the parliament and city.[3] On his arrival (12 January) parliament ordered £100 to be given him,[4] and recommended him (26 January) for the first vacant fellowship at Eton College.[5]

In 1661 he was made D.D. of the University of Cambridge by royal mandate, and on 6 July of the same year was collated to the twelfth prebendal stall in Winchester Cathedral.[6] He was also that year commissioned as Chaplain to Albemarle's Troop of the King's Life Guards.[7] On 21 May 1663 he received the rectory of East Lavant, Sussex.[8] Much to his regret, ill-health prevented him from performing his duty as chaplain of the Royal Charles during the conflict with the Dutch in February 1666.[9] He died in 1676, apparently unmarried, for his estate was administered on 10 March 1676–7 by his brothers Stephen and John Gumble.[10]

His only published work was a Life of General Monck, Duke of Albemarle, &c., with Remarks upon his Actions (London 1671). A French translation by Guy Miege was issued at London in 1672. Some copies of the translation have a second additional title-page, printed at Cologne in 1712, when the work was sold to advance the cause of the Old Pretender.

• "Gumble, Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Gumble, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.