Gunner and Company was an English private bank, based in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire.
Founded in 1809, it served as the primary provincial bank for Bishop's Waltham and the Meon Valley throughout much of the nineteenth century.
Formally known as the Bishop's Waltham and Hampshire Bank, it was founded by four partners: Thomas Fox, a dealer in wine and spirits; Stephen Steele, a farmer; John Seymour, a doctor and William Gummer, a solicitor.
Charles Gummer died in 1874 aged only 54 and his wife took her husband's place; Lock made Managing Partner.
One final touch from Pressnell indicated the gap between the old and the new: Gunners “did not possess a telephone line until its last years”.