of his colleagues, and Hunter. It ended in John Hunter's death on 16 October 1793. The sale of Surgeon's Hall In 1796 it was determined to sell the Surgeons' Hall on account of the expense attending its repair; but on 7 July Gunning, on behalf of the committee, reported that as no one had bid within £200 of the price set upon it, it had been bought in. At the same court Henry Cline was elected a member of the Court of Assistants, in the absence of a governor (one having just died, and the other being blind and paralysed in Warwickshire). This voided the charter. A bill brought into parliament in 1797 to indemnify the company, and to give it greater power over the profession, after passing the commons, was lost in the House of Lords by the influence of Thurlow, owing, it is said, to a grudge against Gunning. Thurlow having said, "There's no more science in surgery than in butchery" (a remark apparently prompted by his brother's death while undergoing treatment by Hunter). Gunning had retorted: "Then, my lord, I heartily pray that your lordship may break your leg, and have only a butcher to set it". Gunning died at Bath on 14 February 1798. Family Gunning married in 1768 Dorothy, sister of Richard Warren, Physician to the King. They had five children, a son John (1777–1847) who did not marry, and four daughters. His nephew John Gunning (1773–1863) became a military surgeon; he was son of the Rev. Joseph Gunning (died 1806). References Attribution 18th-century births 1798 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors