Guy Gaunt

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Sir Guy Gaunt
Gaunt in 1912
Born(1869-05-25)25 May 1869
Ballarat, Australia
Died18 May 1953(1953-05-18) (aged 83)
Woking, Surrey, England
NationalityBritish
Known forAdmiral
Political partyConservative
Spouses
Margaret Elizabeth Worthington
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(m. 1904; div. 1927)​
Sybil Victoria Joseph
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(m. 1935)​
Children2 daughters from second marriage
Parent(s)William Henry Gaunt and his wife Elizabeth Mary
Relatives
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CB (25 May 1869 – 18 May 1953)[1] was an Australian-born officer of the Royal Navy, counter-intelligence officer and a British Conservative Party
politician.

Gaunt was born in Ballarat, Australia, to William Henry Gaunt and his wife Elizabeth Mary Palmer. Gaunt's brother-in-law was Alexander Stenson Palmer (banker and M.P. for Victoria). Gaunt's brother Ernest Gaunt was also an admiral. Their sister, Mary Gaunt, was a well-known author in Australia and wrote several travel books. Guy was educated at Melbourne Grammar School from 1881 to 1883.[1]

Naval career

Gaunt's parents wanted him to become a lawyer, but he chose to go to sea. He began training for the merchant navy, but transferred to the Royal Navy in 1885, one of the "hungry hundred" merchant navy officers who were commissioned via the supplementary list.

Gaunt served as a lieutenant on several vessels in the Pacific Ocean, and was promoted to the rank of

battleships HMS Majestic and HMS Thunderer. He saw action in the Philippines in 1897 and Samoa in 1901.[1]

In 1914 Gaunt was appointed

Habsburg
subjects, were presumed to be German supporters but were involved in spying on German and Austrian diplomats.

When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, Gaunt was appointed as liaison officer. In 1918 he served on

convoys across the Atlantic[6]
and in June was appointed to the naval intelligence staff at the Admiralty.

Gaunt was promoted on the retired list to rear admiral in October 1918,

KCMG
in 1918.

Political career

Gaunt first stood as a candidate for parliament at the 1918 general election. He was the

Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for the Buckrose constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire at the 1922 general election, replacing the Liberal Algernon Moreing
.

Gaunt resigned from the

House of Commons in 1926, when he was cited as co-respondent
in the divorce case between Sir Richard Cruise and his wife.

Family

Gaunt married a widow, Mrs Margaret Elizabeth Worthington (daughter of Sir Thomas Wardle) at Hong Kong in 1904.[1] She divorced him in 1927 following the scandal with Lady Cruise, and he retired to

Woking Hospital on 18 May 1953 and was cremated.[1]

Gaunt's autobiography, The Yield of the Years, was published in 1940. His brother Ernest Gaunt was also an admiral in the Royal Navy; his sister, Mary Gaunt, was a novelist.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g O'Neill, Sally. "Gaunt, Sir Guy Reginald Archer (1869–1953)".
    ISSN 1833-7538
    .
  2. ^ Popplewell 1995, p. 237
  3. ^ Masaryk 1970, pp. 50, 221, 242
  4. ^ Voska & Irwin 1940, pp. 98, 108, 120, 122, 123
  5. ^ Bose 1971, pp. 233, 233
  6. ^ "Dine Commodore Gaunt.; His India House Friends Bid Farewell to Departing Naval Attache". The New York Times. 27 March 1918. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  7. ^ Debrett's House of Commons, 1922

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