John Tudor ("Jack") Gwynn, CIE, ICS (13 November 1881 – 17 May 1956)[1] was an Irish-born British civil servant in India and cricketer.

and Lucy Josephine O’Brien,[2] he was born at Ramelton, County Donegal, while his father was Dean of Raphoe.

During a period of home leave Jack became engaged to Joan Sedding, a relative through marriage of his elder brother Lucius.

Apart from a break when he covered the Round Table Conference in 1934 – he already knew Mahatma Gandhi and had a great admiration for him – he served as the Irish correspondent of the Guardian until 1936.

They were purchased by the Society of Jesus and subsequently converted into a Jesuit retreat named Manresa House.

Jack and Joan Gwynn stayed for a while in Clontarf, near Baymount, before moving to live with their daughter and son-in-law, Katharine and Laurence Liddle, in Bangor, County Down in 1953.