March 25, 1817, Chard, Som­er­set, Eng­land.

May 21, 1886, Brent­wood, Mid­dle­sex, Eng­land.

Han­well Cem­e­tery, Eal­ing, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Gunn was educated at Mill Hill School and Un­i­ver­si­ty of London and Coward Coll­ege (1834-9). He held pas­tor­ates at Ba­s­ing­­stoke, Hamp­shire (1842-5); Al­ton, Hamp­shire (1845-8); War­min­ster (1848-70); and Se­ven­oaks, Kent (1873-80), and was chairman of the Wiltshire and East Somerset Congregational Union for many years. He pub­lished var­i­ous works, chief­ly de­script­ive of the Non-Con­form­ist Church­es and their prin­ci­ples, including his 1853 History Of Non­con­form­i­ty in War­min­ster. Be­sides trans­lat­ing some of the ear­li­er Greek and La­tin hymns for the Ex­cel­si­or, ed­it­ed by James Ham­il­ton, he wrote ma­ny hymns.

• Julian, p. 473

1. Higher, High­er to the Cross
2. Our Fa­thers Were High Mind­ed Men
3. To Realms Be­yond the Sound­ing Sea
4. We Want No Priest but Je­sus