John Gamble (1762–1811) was a British Anglican clergyman and military chaplain. From 1796 to 1810, he served as the first Chaplain General to the Forces and head of the Army Chaplains' Department.[1][2][3]
Gamble was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. 1784, M.A. 1787, and becoming a Fellow of the college, He was chaplain to the Duke of York and Albany, and became chaplain-general of the forces. He was rector of Alphamstone, and of Bradwell-juxta-mare in Essex. He died at Knightsbridge on 27 July 1811.[4][5] He was minister of Knightsbridge's Trinity Chapel, and had resided there, at 3 South Place, from 1801.[6]
In 1795 Gamble published a pamphlet Observations on Telegraphic Experiments, or the different Modes which have been or may be adopted for the purpose of Distant Communication. He followed it with Essay on the different Modes of Communication by Signals (1797).[4] He is credited with the invention at this period of a six-arm semaphore.[7]
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- ^ "Royal Army Chaplains' Department". nam.ac.uk. National Army Museum. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ^ a b Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 20. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Gamble, John (GML780J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Rutland Gardens and South Place: South Place and South Lodge, in Survey of London: Volume 45, Knightsbridge, ed. John Greenacombe (London, 2000), pp. 128–134. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol45/pp128-134 [accessed 24 December 2016].
- ^ Cliff Lord; Chris Lord; Graham Watson (24 February 2014). Royal Corps of Signals: Unit Histories of the Corps (1920–2001) and Its Antecedents. Helion & Company Limited. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-874622-92-5.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Gamble, John (d.1811)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 20. London: Smith, Elder & Co.