William Alphonsus Gunn
English cleric
William Alphonsus Gunn (1760–1806) was an English evangelical cleric.
Life
Gunn was born on 29 September 1760, in Rotherhithe, the son of William Gunn, a naval officer, who died when he was an infant; his mother died in 1771.
A cousin, Margaret Morris, supported Gunn's studies at Guildford Grammar School, and he matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1778. He left without taking a degree. He came under the influence of Richard Conyers in Deptford, where he stayed with his cousin. Taking a post as usher in a school in Wandsworth, he was persuaded to think of the Anglican ministry.
Gunn was ordained in 1783, by Brownlow North, and became a curate at the parish of Chobham and Bisley. From 1788 he was curate at Odiham. In 1786 he was appointed preacher at Farnham. He lost this post in 1792, the vicar objecting to his approach, and there was a secession from the Farnham church.
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