Paternal Family Tree: Gunning
On 8th June 1731 Robert Gunning 1st Baronet was born to Robert Gunning [aged 34].
In 1750 [his father] Robert Gunning [aged 53] died.
On 27th March 1752 Robert Gunning 1st Baronet [aged 20] and Elizabeth Harrison were married. There were no children from the marriage.
In 1757 Robert Gunning 1st Baronet [aged 25] and Anne Sutton were married.
On 5th January 1759 [his daughter] Charlotte Margaret Gunning was born to Robert Gunning 1st Baronet [aged 27] and [his wife] Anne Sutton. She married 6th January 1790 Colonel Stephen Digby.
In 1763 [his son] George William Gunning 2nd Baronet was born to Robert Gunning 1st Baronet [aged 31] and [his wife] Anne Sutton. He married 10th February 1794 Elizabeth Diana Bridgeman, daughter of Henry Bridgeman 1st Baron Bradford and Elizabeth Simpson Baroness Bradford, and had issue.
The London Gazette 11376. Petersburg, July 9 [1773]. The King of Great Britain having been graciously pleased to nominate Robert Gunning [aged 42], Esq;; His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at this Court, to be a Knight Companion of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, and His Majesty being desirous that he should be knighted and invested with the Ensigns of the said Order in the most Honourable and most distinguished Manner, Mr. Gunning applied to her Imperial Majesty the Empress of Russia, by Order of the King His Master, to desire she would be pleased to represent His Majesty on this Occasion; to which her Imperial Majesty very readily consented, expressing in the strongest Terms her Sentiments of Friendship and Affection towards His Britannick Majesty, and was at the same Time pleased to appoint this Day, (being the Anniversary Festival of her Imperial Majesty's Accession to the Throne) for the Performance of the Cerempny, which was as follows:
Mr Gunning having, between Four and Five o'Clock in the Afternoon repaired to the Palace, according to Appointment, he was there received by the Grand Master of the Ceremonies, who conducted him through manv of the Royal Apartments, where a great Number of the Nobility and Persons of Distinction were assembled in Honour of the Day, and proceeded to the Apartment destined for the Performance of the Ceremony, where her Imperial Majesety was attended by her Serene Highness the Landgravine of Hesse Darmstadt, and the three Princesses her Daughters, Prince Orlow, Count Panin, Count Zachar Czernicbew, and all the Great Officers of State and of the Household. Mr. Gunning being introduced by the Grand Master of the Ceremonies, made a low Reverence on his Entrance, a Second in the Middle of the Room, and a Third on his approaching her Imperial Majesty; and Mr. Gunning then kneeling, the Empress took from a Table a curious Gold-hilted Sword richly ornamented with Diamonds, and touched his left Shoulder three Times with it, pronouncing these Words, Soyez, Bon & Honorable Chevalier au Nom de Dieu, and laid the Sword upon the Table. Then the Vice-Chancellor Prince Gallitzin presented to her Imperial Majesty the Ribbon of the Order, which the Empress put over the Knight's right Shoulder; and receiving the Star likewise from the Vice-Chancellor, her Imperial Majesty delivered it to Sir Robert Gunning: After which the Empress again took the Sword from the Table, and, delivering the fame to Sir Robert Gunning, her Imperial Majesty most graciously condescended to do him the Honour of desiring him to wear the Sword with which he had been knighted. Sir Robert Gunning then rose up; and, after expressing to her Imperial Majesty how much he was penetrated by this most gracious and extraordinary Mark of Favour, which she had been pleased to add to that of investing him with the Order, he withdrew, observing the same Ceremony as at his Entrance.
The London Gazette 11922. St. James's, October 27 [1778]. The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baronet of the Kingdom of Great Britain unto Sir Robert Gunning [aged 47], of Eltham in the County of Kent, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and to his Issue,
On 6th January 1790 [his son-in-law] Colonel Stephen Digby [aged 47] and [his daughter] Charlotte Margaret Gunning [aged 31] were married.
In 1794 [his daughter] Charlotte Margaret Gunning [aged 34] died.
On 10th February 1794 [his son] George William Gunning 2nd Baronet [aged 31] and [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Diana Bridgeman were married.
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On 22nd September 1816 Robert Gunning 1st Baronet [aged 85] died. His son George [aged 53] succeeded 2nd Baronet Gunning of Eltham in Kent.
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Gunning
Great x 3 Grandfather: Peter Gunning
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Gunning
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Gunning
Grandfather: John Gunning of Castlecoote
father: Robert Gunning