Sir Robert Gunning, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Gunning, 1st Baronet Bt KB (8 June 1731 – 22 September 1816) was a British diplomat. He served as the British minister in Denmark 1765–1771, in Prussia in 1771 and in Russia 1772–1776. Gunning was appointed a Knight Companion of the Bath on the 9 July 1773 and the first Baronet of Eltham in the County of Kent on 27 October 1778.
Family
The Gunnings were an Irish family. His country seat was at Horton which he purchased 1782; he was the eldest son of Robert Gunning - and his mother was Catherine, the daughter of John Edwards. The family was descended from Richard Gunning, who was an uncle of Peter Gunning, the Bishop of Ely who had settled in Ireland in the time of James I. The Gunning family stayed at Horton Hall until 1888 when it was sold to Pickering Phipps, the Northampton brewer. Later still, it was sold to George Winterbottom.
Marriages

27 March 1752, Elizabeth, daughter of John Harrison of Grantham, by whom
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