Francis Gunning qualified as an attorney in 1821 and set up practice on his own in Trumpington Street. In 1832 he took on an articled clerk, Clement Francis and when he qualified in 1838 they set up together to form Gunning and Francis. This ended in 1846 on the death of Francis Gunning. Clement Francis then worked as a sole practitioner, taking over the work of Christopher Pemberton in 1850, until he took on two partners in 1861 to form Francis Webster and Riches
Francis John Gunning was the son of Henry Gunning (1768-1854). He served his articles of clerkship at “Southampton Buildings, Middlesex” and qualified as an attorney 1821 setting up practice on his own in an office in Trumpington Street. In 1832 he took on an articled clerk, Clement Francis, and when he qualified in 1838 the entered into a partnership to form Gunning and Francis. This continued until Francis Gunning died in 1846
He was closely involved with the reforming liberalising and emancipating movement which began in Cambridge in the 1820s.
He married Sarah (nee Bircham) sister of Francis Bircham Gunning's first articled clerk.
In 1839 he was Town Clerk; Deputy Registrar of the Archdeaconry of Ely and Commissioner for Bankrupts and was practicing from Cambridge Town Hall. However, in November 1840 the council voted to remove him from the position of Town Clerk by 20 votes to 17.
Cook at Jesus College between c. 1783 and 1786.
Stephen Hale Gushée, Priest, columnist, television moderator and devoted husband and father, died Saturday [April 6, 2013] after a months-long battle with bladder cancer. He was 76.
Steve lived a life with the throttle wide open, touching countless people through his engaging sermons and his thought-provoking columns. A fiercely independent thinker, he never shied away from controversial opinions and as a man of deep spirituality, he never feared sharing it. His family and many friends also knew a compassionate, loving man with a marvelous sense of humor.
Steve was an ordained Episcopal priest for more than four decades, serving as senior associate rector at Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach from 1991-1994 and also assisting at Grace Episcopal Church in West Palm Beach. For 13 years before that, he was dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford, Connecticut. He was rector of Trinity Church in Newtown, Connecticut, and served at St. Peter's Church in Cheshire, with his mentor and friend, Bishop Morgan Porteus.
For five years, beginning in 1994, he was the religion writer for the Palm Beach Post and contributed a weekly opinion column, "On Religion," until 2008. His column was distributed to hundreds of newspapers across the country by the Cox News Service. He and the papers that carried his work received thousands of laudatory letters, emails and telephone calls over the years. His columns attracted so much attention because of his passion and the simple clarity of his voice. He detested intolerance and hubris, and said so often and loudly. He was skeptical of fundamentalists. He strongly defended the right of women to become priests ("Oppressed women have men to thank.") He was an early advocate for gay rights, once condemning the expulsion of a student from a private school because he came out of the closet his senior year. And often, he was gentle, funny and enlightening ("A banquet is a better symbol of Christianity than a fish stick.'')
For 13 years, until 2012, Steve was the moderator of "Viewpoint" on WPTV, the Miami PBS affiliate. The show, which has been airing for more than three decades, brings together religious leaders and scholars who delve into religious, moral and ethical topics.
Stephen Hale Gushée was born in Detroit in 1936. At age 13, he boarded a train eastward, where he would spend the rest of his life.
He attended Kent School, in Kent, Conn., where he was on the rowing team and was captain of the football team. In 1953, he rowed in the Henley Royal Regatta in England, by far the best known race of its kind in the world. The trip helped fuel his interest in seeing more of the world and he became especially interested in the Mideast, where he would make many trips.
He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on a U.S. Navy scholarship.
Following graduation in 1958, he served for three years as a line officer aboard the USS Shelldrake, a minesweeper assigned to the Navy's Atlantic Fleet.
Shortly after leaving the service, he enrolled in the Episcopal Theological School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he received his master's of divinity degree. He was ordained in 1967.
Over the years he also studied at St. George's College in Jerusalem, the Virginia Seminary in Alexandria, and the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut.
Steve was one of the original members of the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. He was a canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, Scotland, for 10 years and served as a member and, at times, director of a number of social service organizations and inner city agencies.
He married Mary Coakley in 1996 and in his later years assisted her in the day-to-day operations of her women's fashion store in Palm Beach, Mildred Hoit.