Background
GURNEY, Martyn Cecil Son of late Henry Cecil Gurney, Doctor of Medicine (Member of the Royal College of Physicians Loud., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh), of Chateau St. Laurent, Nice, France, and of Lilly, daughter of James Emley, Knotty-Ash House, near Liverpool. G.-g.-son of Reverend William Gurney, Master of Arts, of Stanmore, near Harrow, Chaplain to His (or Her) Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and Rector, 1808-1843, of St. Clement-Danes, Strand.