The Gunning Baronetcy, of

Eltham Eltham ( ) is a district of southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is east-southeast of Charing Cross, and is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. The three wards o ...

in the

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, is a title in the

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. It was created on 3 September 1778 for Robert Gunning,

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to Berlin and

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. The second Baronet was Member of Parliament for

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and

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while the third Baronet briefly represented

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. The seventh Baronet was a

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in the

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. Orlando George Gunning, grandson of Major John Gunning, sixth son of the second Baronet, was also a Brigadier-General in the Army. His son, Sir Orlando Peter Gunning, was knighted for his military and colonial service. The family name was originally Gonning or Gonnynge and can be traced to the hamlet of Tregonning, Cornwall. Thomas Gunning of Turney's Court, Cold Aston (died 1603) was the ancestor of this branch of the family. The 17th-century clergyman

Peter Gunning Peter Gunning (1614 – 6 July 1684) was an English Royalist church leader, Bishop of Chichester and Bishop of Ely. Life He was born at Hoo St Werburgh, in Kent, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Clare College, Cambridge, wher ...

was another member of the family. The family seat from 1782 to 1888 was

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, Northamptonshire. The eighth baronet and his wife emigrated from England to

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, Canada in the 1940s. The ninth baronet resided in

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Gunning baronets, of Eltham (1778)

Sir Robert Gunning, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Gunning, 1st Baronet (8 June 1731 – 22 September 1816) was a British diplomat. He served as the British minister in Denmark 1765–1771, in Prussia in 1771 and in Russia 1772–1776. Gunning was appointed a Knight Companion of the O ...

(1731–1816) * Sir George William Gunning, 2nd Baronet (1763–1823) * Sir Robert Henry Gunning, 3rd Baronet (1795–1862) *Sir Henry John Gunning, 4th Baronet (1797–1885) *Sir George William Gunning, 5th Baronet (1828–1904) *Sir Frederick Digby Gunning, 6th Baronet (1853–1906) *Sir Charles Vere Gunning, 7th Baronet (1859–1950) *Sir Robert Charles Gunning, 8th Baronet (1901–1989) *Sir Charles Theodore Gunning, 9th Baronet (1935–2020) * John Robert Gunning, ''presumed'' 10th Baronet (b. 1944) Does not appear on the Official Roll of the Baronetage . The

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is the present holder's son Derek John Robert Gunning (b. 1972)Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019 page B334

References

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