Thomas Gumble, D.D. (died 1676) was an English clergyman and biographer.

Life

Gumble, for some time vicar of

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, Buckinghamshire was appointed chaplain to

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, then in Scotland, at the end of 1655. 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. On his arrival (12 January) parliament ordered £100 to be given him, and recommended him (26 January) for the first vacant fellowship at

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. In 1661 he was made D.D. of the

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by royal mandate, and on 6 July of the same year was collated to the twelfth prebendal stall in

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. He was also that year commissioned as Chaplain to Albemarle's Troop of the King's Life Guards. On 21 May 1663 he received the rectory of East Lavant, Sussex. Much to his regret, ill-health prevented him from performing his duty as chaplain of the

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during the conflict with the Dutch in February 1666. He died in 1676, apparently unmarried, for his estate was administered on 10 March 1676–7 by his brothers Stephen and John Gumble.Administration Act Book, P. C. C., 1677, f. 41

Works

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 (fr) 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.

References

* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Gumble, Thomas Year of birth missing 1676 deaths 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers English chaplains English biographers 17th-century English Anglican priests People educated at Norwich School