Education
Gamble was educated at Oriel College, Oxford and ordained in 1885.
Gamble was educated at Oriel College, Oxford and ordained in 1885.
He held curacies at All Saints, Molton, Devon Street Mark"s, Hamilton Terrace and Street Andrew"s, Wells Street. From 1895 to 1902 he was Vicar of Street Botolph"s Aldersgate and then Rector of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, with Street Jude"s, Sloane Court. An Honorary Chaplain to the King and Select Preacher at Lincoln"s Inn, he was a Canon of Westminster and Rector of Street John the Evangelist until his appointment to the Deanery.
He died in post.
In 1906 he was elected to Chelsea Borough Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Royal Hospital Ward. He served as Mayor of Chelsea in 1908-1909, and was re-elected to the council for a second three-year term in 1909. (All the above places and streets except for Molton and Exeter are in London).