John Henry Gurney Sr.

At the age of ten he was sent to a private tutor at Leytonstone near the Epping Forest, where he met Henry Doubleday, and commenced his first natural history collection.

From there he moved to the Friends' School at Tottenham, and whilst there met William Yarrell.

In 1864 he published Part I. of his Descriptive Catalogue of this collection, and in 1872 he edited The Birds of Damara Land (Damaraland, South-West Africa) from the notes of his friend Charles John Andersson.

The archives of Cambridge University Museum of Zoology contains five volumes of correspondence between Alfred Newton and Gurney, who was a founding member of the Norfolk Naturalists Trust.

[3] For the last twenty years of his life he resided at the family's home at Northrepps, near Cromer.