Rupert Gunnis

Rupert Forbes Gunnis (11 March 1899 – 31 July 1965) was an English collector and historian of British sculpture.

A guide to its towns and villages, monasteries and castles which remains an important resource on Medieval and Ottoman monuments in Cyprus.

[4] Returning to England in 1939, Gunnis inherited a large fortune with which he settled at Hungershall Lodge with his Turkish Cypriot life partner Namuk Kemal in Tunbridge Wells and pursued his antiquarian interests.

[8] Rupert Gunnis died, aged 66, at Stratfield Saye, the Duke of Wellington's estate halfway between Reading and Basingstoke.

His contributions to the art world are cited in the foreword and he also plays a named part in the epilogue section, which is set in 1922.