Henry Gamble

Henry Reginald Gamble (6 November 1859 – 9 August 1931) was an Anglican [priest^[2] and author.^[3] He was the Dean of Exeter in the Church of England from 1918^[4] to 1931.^[5]

Gamble was educated at Oriel College, Oxford^[6] and ordained in 1885. He held curacies at All Saints, Molton, Devon^[7] St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace^[8] and St Andrew's, Wells Street.^[9] From 1895^[10] to ^[11] 1902 he was Vicar of St Botolph's Aldersgate^[12] and then Rector of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, with St Jude's, Sloane Court.^[13] An Honorary Chaplain to the King and Select Preacher at Lincoln's Inn,^[14] he was a Canon of Westminster and Rector of St John the Evangelist^[15] until his appointment to the Deanery. He died in post.^[16]

In 1906 he was elected to Chelsea Borough Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Royal Hospital Ward.^[17] He served as Mayor of Chelsea in 1908–09, and was re-elected to the council for a second three-year term in 1909.^[18][19]

He married Helen Maud Isherwood, and had two children: Patrick Gamble and Anthea Rosemary Gamble Carew.^[1]

(All the above places and streets except for Molton and Exeter are in London.)