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*''The Trial of George Gordon, Esquire, commonly called Lord George Gordon'' (1781 or 1782)<ref>{{cite book|author=Howard D. Weinbrot|title=Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660–1780|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=F09q19BZevsC&pg=PA356|date=14 March 2013|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0516-2|page=356 note 9}}</ref> |
*''The Trial of George Gordon, Esquire, commonly called Lord George Gordon'' (1781 or 1782)<ref>{{cite book|author=Howard D. Weinbrot|title=Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660–1780|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=F09q19BZevsC&pg=PA356|date=14 March 2013|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0516-2|page=356 note 9}}</ref> |
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*''The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of the Hon. Major Henry Fitzroy Stanhope: At a Court Martial Held at the Horse Guards, in the Month of June, 1783''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Gurney|title=The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of the Hon. Major Henry Fitzroy Stanhope: At a Court Martial Held at the Horse Guards, in the Month of June, 1783|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=z5Q0AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA42|accessdate=2 April 2013|year=1783|publisher=M. Gurney, bookseller}}</ref> |
*''The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of the Hon. Major Henry Fitzroy Stanhope: At a Court Martial Held at the Horse Guards, in the Month of June, 1783''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Gurney|title=The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of the Hon. Major Henry Fitzroy Stanhope: At a Court Martial Held at the Horse Guards, in the Month of June, 1783|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=z5Q0AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA42|accessdate=2 April 2013|year=1783|publisher=M. Gurney, bookseller}}</ref> |
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*''The Sentence of the Court-martial... for the Trial of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. James Murray, Late Governor of Minorca, on the Twenty-nine Articles Exhibited Against Him by Sir William Draper'' (1783)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sir William Draper|author2=Joseph Gurney|title=The Sentence of the Court-martial... for the Trial of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. James Murray, Late Governor of Minorca, on the Twenty-nine Articles Exhibited Against Him by Sir William Draper: With His Majesty's Order Thereon. To which are Added, the Whole of the Evidence on the Two Articles of which the General was Found Guilty; and Likewise Upon the Four Articles of Complaint of Personal Wrong and Grievance. Taken in Short-hand by Joseph Gurney|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wV0DAAAAYAAJ|year=1783|publisher=M. Gurney}</ref> |
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*''The trial of John Horne Tooke, on a charge of high treason'' (1794, 1795)<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Gurney|title=The trial of John Horne Tooke, on a charge of high treason: Containing the whole of the proceedings of each day at the Old-Bailey, including the examinations of Lord Camden, Duke of Richmond, Lord Fred. Campbell ... &c. &c., with Chief Justice Eyre's charge, and Mr. Tooke's address to the jury|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NoE5XolgO6kC|year=1794|publisher=Printed for Allen and West}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Gurney|title=The Trial of John Horne Tooke for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Monday the Seventeenth, Tuesday the Eighteenth, Wednesday the Nineteenth, Thursday the Twentieth, Friday the Twenty-first and Saturday the Twenty-second of November, 1794|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WqCqc3kByO8C|year=1795|publisher=Martha Gurney, Bookseller}}</ref> |
*''The trial of John Horne Tooke, on a charge of high treason'' (1794, 1795)<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Gurney|title=The trial of John Horne Tooke, on a charge of high treason: Containing the whole of the proceedings of each day at the Old-Bailey, including the examinations of Lord Camden, Duke of Richmond, Lord Fred. Campbell ... &c. &c., with Chief Justice Eyre's charge, and Mr. Tooke's address to the jury|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NoE5XolgO6kC|year=1794|publisher=Printed for Allen and West}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Gurney|title=The Trial of John Horne Tooke for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Monday the Seventeenth, Tuesday the Eighteenth, Wednesday the Nineteenth, Thursday the Twentieth, Friday the Twenty-first and Saturday the Twenty-second of November, 1794|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WqCqc3kByO8C|year=1795|publisher=Martha Gurney, Bookseller}}</ref> |
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*''The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Tuesday the Twenty-eighth, Wednesday the Twenty-ninth, Thursday the Thirtieth, Friday the Thirty-first of October, and on Saturday the First, Monday the Third, Tuesday the Fourth, and Wednesday the Fifth of November, 1794'' (1794 and further volumes)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Thomas Hardy|author2=Joseph Gurney|title=The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Tuesday the Twenty-eighth, Wednesday the Twenty-ninth, Thursday the Thirtieth, Friday the Thirty-first of October, and on Saturday the First, Monday the Third, Tuesday the Fourth, and Wednesday the Fifth of November, 1794|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=AO8yAAAAIAAJ|year=1794|publisher=Martha Gurney}}</ref> |
*''The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Tuesday the Twenty-eighth, Wednesday the Twenty-ninth, Thursday the Thirtieth, Friday the Thirty-first of October, and on Saturday the First, Monday the Third, Tuesday the Fourth, and Wednesday the Fifth of November, 1794'' (1794 and further volumes)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Thomas Hardy|author2=Joseph Gurney|title=The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Tuesday the Twenty-eighth, Wednesday the Twenty-ninth, Thursday the Thirtieth, Friday the Thirty-first of October, and on Saturday the First, Monday the Third, Tuesday the Fourth, and Wednesday the Fifth of November, 1794|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=AO8yAAAAIAAJ|year=1794|publisher=Martha Gurney}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 11:45, 6 March 2014
Joseph Gurney (1744–1815) was an English shorthand-writer and evangelical activist.
Life
The son of Thomas Gurney, he was his assistant and successor as a shorthand-writer in law courts and parliament.[1] Before that, he spent a period as a bookseller.[2] He was employed officially after 1790 to report civil cases in courts of law. In 1786 he attended as a reporter some slave-trade inquiries in the House of Lords.[1]
At the Warren Hastings trial, Gurney acted as shorthand writer for the government; William Isaac Blanchard did so for the defence.[3] In May 1789 the House of Commons called on Gurney to read, from his notes Edmund Burke's words accusing Sir Elijah Impey of murder; and a vote of censure on Burke was then passed. According to Thompson Cooper, writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, this incident was the first public acknowledgment of the verbal accuracy of shorthand.[1]
In 1791 the House of Commons first used shorthand for reporting the proceedings of one of its committees on the Eau-Brink Drainage Bill. In the same year Gurney took notes of six election petition committees. In 1802 an act was passed authorising the regular use of shorthand in election committees; and in the following year, a select committee of the House of Commons having reported positively, it was generally applied to other committees.[1]
Works
Gurney edited the ninth edition of his father Thomas Gurney's Brachygraphy in 1778; and printed reports of major contemporary trials from his official shorthand notes. Those included:[1]
- The trial (at large) of the Rev. Henry Bate, with the previous proceedings, upon an information exhibited against him by His Grace the Duke of Richmond, for a libel (1780)[4]
- The Trial of George Gordon, Esquire, commonly called Lord George Gordon (1781 or 1782)[5]
- The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of the Hon. Major Henry Fitzroy Stanhope: At a Court Martial Held at the Horse Guards, in the Month of June, 1783.[6]
- The Sentence of the Court-martial... for the Trial of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. James Murray, Late Governor of Minorca, on the Twenty-nine Articles Exhibited Against Him by Sir William Draper (1783)[7]
- The trial of John Horne Tooke, on a charge of high treason (1794, 1795)[8][9]
- The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Tuesday the Twenty-eighth, Wednesday the Twenty-ninth, Thursday the Thirtieth, Friday the Thirty-first of October, and on Saturday the First, Monday the Third, Tuesday the Fourth, and Wednesday the Fifth of November, 1794 (1794 and further volumes)[10]
- The Trial of Robert Thomas Crossfield for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey on Wednesday the Eleventh and Thursday the Twelfth of May, 1796 (1796)[11]
- The trial of Edward Marcus Despard, esquire: For high treason, at the Session house, Newington, Surry, on Monday the seventh of February, 1803, with William Brodie Gurney.[12]
Gurney also edited The Gospel Magazine.[2]
Family
Gurney married a daughter of William Brodie of Mansfield. Two of his sons were Sir John Gurney and William Brodie Gurney.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ a b Robert Pope; D. Densil Morgan (21 November 2013). T&T Clark Companion to Nonconformity. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 412. ISBN 978-1-4725-5830-5.
- ^ Life, Page. "Blanchard, William Isaac". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2605. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Sir Henry Bate Dudley; Joseph Gurney; Charles Lennox Richmond and Lennox (Duke of) (1780). The trial (at large) of the Rev. Henry Bate, with the previous proceedings, upon an information exhibited against him by His Grace the Duke of Richmond, for a libel. G. Kearsly.
- ^ Howard D. Weinbrot (14 March 2013). Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660–1780. JHU Press. p. 356 note 9. ISBN 978-1-4214-0516-2.
- ^ Joseph Gurney (1783). The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of the Hon. Major Henry Fitzroy Stanhope: At a Court Martial Held at the Horse Guards, in the Month of June, 1783. M. Gurney, bookseller. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ^ {{cite book|author1=Sir William Draper|author2=Joseph Gurney|title=The Sentence of the Court-martial... for the Trial of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. James Murray, Late Governor of Minorca, on the Twenty-nine Articles Exhibited Against Him by Sir William Draper: With His Majesty's Order Thereon. To which are Added, the Whole of the Evidence on the Two Articles of which the General was Found Guilty; and Likewise Upon the Four Articles of Complaint of Personal Wrong and Grievance. Taken in Short-hand by Joseph Gurney|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wV0DAAAAYAAJ%7Cyear=1783%7Cpublisher=M. Gurney}
- ^ Joseph Gurney (1794). The trial of John Horne Tooke, on a charge of high treason: Containing the whole of the proceedings of each day at the Old-Bailey, including the examinations of Lord Camden, Duke of Richmond, Lord Fred. Campbell ... &c. &c., with Chief Justice Eyre's charge, and Mr. Tooke's address to the jury. Printed for Allen and West.
- ^ Joseph Gurney (1795). The Trial of John Horne Tooke for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Monday the Seventeenth, Tuesday the Eighteenth, Wednesday the Nineteenth, Thursday the Twentieth, Friday the Twenty-first and Saturday the Twenty-second of November, 1794. Martha Gurney, Bookseller.
- ^ Thomas Hardy; Joseph Gurney (1794). The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Tuesday the Twenty-eighth, Wednesday the Twenty-ninth, Thursday the Thirtieth, Friday the Thirty-first of October, and on Saturday the First, Monday the Third, Tuesday the Fourth, and Wednesday the Fifth of November, 1794. Martha Gurney.
- ^ Robert Thomas Crosfeild; Joseph Gurney (1796). The Trial of Robert Thomas Crossfield for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey on Wednesday the Eleventh and Thursday the Twelfth of May, 1796. Martha Gurney.
- ^ The trial of Edward Marcus Despard, esquire: For high treason, at the Session house, Newington, Surry, on Monday the seventh of February, 1803.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Gurney, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.