page_title: Goldsworthy Gurney
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Goldsworthy Gurney / References
caption_attribution_description: English: St Swithin's Church, Launcells. Tucked away off the main road from Holsworthy to Stratton and Bude is this church without a village, at Launcells Barton.
context_page_description: Sir Goldsworthy Gurney was an English surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder. He was a prototypical British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian era.
  Amongst many accomplishments, he developed the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, and later applied its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; developed a series of early steam-powered road vehicles; and laid claim—still discussed and disputed today—to the blastpipe, a key component in the success of steam locomotives, engines, and other coal-fired systems.
  Events surrounding the failure of his steam vehicle enterprise gave rise to controversy in his time, with considerable polarisation of opinion. His daughter Anna Jane Gurney was devoted to him. During her lifetime, she engaged in an extraordinary campaign to ensure the blastpipe was seen as his invention.
context_section_description: 1861, 1871 England Census
  probably Martha Caroline Goldsworthy
  "The Descendants of John Gurney and Isabella Carter". The Island Register website. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  From Jacob Perkins
  Four Generations of a Literary Family by William Carew Hazlitt, G. Redway 1897, page 113
  Goldsworthy Gurney: Inventor took hot air out of Parliament (BBC, 22 January 2015)
  "Omnibuses and cabs: their origin and history". Henry Charles Moore, 1902 (Ch.IV, p.38 – viewable online). Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  Francis Maceroni. A Few Facts Concerning Elementary Locomotion. Retrieved 31 August 2006.
  Automobile Biographies by Lyman Horace Weeks, The Monograph Press, 1904, page 67
  Bude's Forgotten Genius – Sir Goldsworthy Gurney. B. Dudley-Stamp, 1993. Bude-Stratton Town Council
  The Life of Edward White Benson, 1899, p.455
caption: St. Swithin's Church, Launcells. The corner of Gurney's grave can be seen between the two bushes
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