John Gumley (c. 1696 – c. 1749) was a British glass manufacturer, East India merchant and Tory politician who sat briefly in the House of Commons in 1728.
[1] Gumley was returned as Member of Parliament for Bramber, where his father was steward of the court leet, at a by-election on 2 March 1728.
He was unseated on petition on 4 April 1728 for alleged malpractices by the returning officer, who was his father's nominee.
Gumley was the brother-in-law of William Pulteney who caused a furore when the matter came before the house by pointing out indirectly that Gumley's opponent, John Hoste, was a relation of Robert Walpole.
In 1734 he went as head merchant to Bengal, which entitled him to become a member of Council.