benefactor of Kenyon College in the United States, and the town that was founded with it, Gambier, Ohio, is named after him, as is Mount Gambier, the city and dormant volcano in South Australia, and Gambier Island in British Columbia. Gambier appears as a minor character near the end of Flying Colours, a 1938 Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester. Personal life In July 1788 Gambier married Louisa Mathew, daughter of Daniel Mathew, 1718–1777, of Felix Hall, Kelvedon, Essex and St Kitts, West Indies, and Mary Elizabeth Byam, 1729–1814; they had no children. Arms See also Governors of Newfoundland List of people from Newfoundland and Labrador References Sources External links |- |- |- 1756 births 1833 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Peers of the United Kingdom created by George III Royal Navy admirals of the fleet Kenyon College people Lords of the Admiralty Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars British naval commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Governors of Newfoundland Colony Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Bahamian diaspora Bahamian emigrants to the United Kingdom Bahamian emigrants to England Bahamian people of British descent Bahamian people of English descent Bahamian people of European descent English people of Bahamian descent British people of Bahamian descent Royal Navy officers who were court-martialled Bahamian people of Bermudian descent