Background
GUNTHER, Robert Theodore was born on August 23, 1869. Son of Doctor Albert Gunther, q,v.
GUNTHER, Robert Theodore was born on August 23, 1869. Son of Doctor Albert Gunther, q,v.
Robert Gunther was educated at University College School, attached to University College London. Towards the end of his schooling he attended lectures at University College itself.
Foreign the Minnesota politician, see Bob Gunther. Gunther"s father, Albert Günther, was Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London. He was elected to a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1887 and took this up in 1888.
He joined the Oxford University Scientific Club in his first term at Magdalen and subsequently he took up a Fellowship at the College.
In 1911, Gunther and his family moved to 5 Folly Bridge, an unusual and distinctive tall house on a small island in the River Thames next to the bridge. This made the river central to his life.
He was a pioneer of environmental conservation in Oxford. From 1923, Robert Gunther produced a fourteen volume set of books on Early Science in Oxford, his magnum opus, the last appearing in 1945.
These were initially produced under the auspices of the Oxford Historical Society and printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Between 1926 and 1930, Gunther founded the Museum of the History of Science in the Old Ashmolean building, with some difficulty: it is apparent that few of his contemporaries shared his passion for historical scientific instruments, and indeed the Early Science series makes barbed comments about the failure of predecessors in various august bodies to preserve such things. Gunther died after a short illness, while staying at a friend"s house in the south Oxfordshire village of South Stoke. He was succeeded as Curator of the Museum of the History of Science by Frank Sherwood Taylor.
An archive of manuscripts collected by Gunther is held by the Museum of the History of Science.
They had two sons: Eustace Rolfe Gunther (1902–1940) and Albert Everard Gunther (1903–1998).
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Fellow of the Linnean Society.