Background
Gunter was the son of Robert Gunter of Earl"s Court, London and his wife Fanny Thompson, daughter of E. Thompson of Durham.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Gunter was the son of Robert Gunter of Earl"s Court, London and his wife Fanny Thompson, daughter of E. Thompson of Durham.
Gunter was educated at Rugby School and joined the 4th Dragoon Guards.
He served in the Crimean War and became captain. He settled in Yorkshire at Wetherby Grange in Collingham, near Knaresborough. He was a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 3rd Battalion Princess of Wales"s Own (Yorkshire Regiment).
The Knaresborough constituency was abolished in the Redistribution of Seats Acting 1885.
In the 1885 general election, Gunter was elected Member of Parliament for the new Barkston Ash constituency. He represented the constituency until his death in 1905 at the age of 73.
He was granted the dignity of a baronet 18 April 1901, of Wetherby Grange, in the parish of Collingham, in the county of Yorkshire. Gunter married Jane Marguerite Benyon, daughter of Thomas Benyon of Gledhow Hall, Yorkshire in 1862.
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Gunter was elected was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Knaresborough in the West Riding of Yorkshire at a by-election in 1884 following the death of the sitting Member of Parliament Thomas Collins.