Hector Gamp I

**"Point me!"**

This article is about **Hector Gamp (1817-1849), the man who squandered the Gamp family jewels**. You may be looking for **his son or his grandson**.

## Biographical information

### Born

23 September, 1817King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

### Died

2 August, 1849 (aged 31)King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

## Relationship information

### Family members

* Marian Gamp I (née Prewett) (wife) †
* Hector Gamp II (son) †
* Miriam Gamp (née Selwyn) (daughter-in-law) †
* Millicent Tremblay (née Gamp) (granddaughter) †
* Rufus Tremblay (grandson-in-law) †
* Philippa Tremblay (great-granddaughter) †
* Boudica Tremblay (great-granddaughter) †
* Hannah MacDougal (née Gamp) (granddaughter) †
* Cyril MacDougal (grandson-in-law) †
* Cyril MacDougal II (great-grandson) †
* Moira MacDougal (great-granddaughter) †
* Florus MacDougal (great-grandson) †
* Moira Gamp (granddaughter) †
* Marian Davies (née Gamp) (granddaughter) †
* Amos Davies (grandson-in-law) †
* Reginald Davies (great-grandson) †
* Beatrix Davies (great-granddaughter) †
* Henrietta Goshawk (née Gamp) (granddaughter) †
* Gresham Goshawk Sr. (grandson-in-law) †
* Claribel Goshawk (great-granddaughter) †
* Griselda Goshawk (great-granddaughter) †
* Muriel Goshawk (great-granddaughter) †
* Gresham Goshawk Jr. (great-grandson) †
* Alban Goshawk (great-grandson) †
* Gwendoline Marchbanks (née Gamp) (granddaughter) †
* Aberforth Marchbanks (grandson-in-law) †
* Magdalene Marchbanks (great-granddaughter) †
* Jemima Marchbanks (great-granddaughter) †
* Hugh Marchbanks (great-grandson) †
* Morgan Gamp (grandson) †
* Hector Gamp III (grandson) †
* Eglatine Gamp (née Rosier) (granddaughter-in-law) †
* Araminta Lestrange (née Gamp) (great-granddaughter) †
* Ermintruda Gamp (great-granddaughter) †
* Hesper Black (née Gamp) (granddaughter)
* Sirius Black II (grandson-in-law)
* Arcturus Black III (great-grandson)
* Lycoris Black (great-granddaughter)
* Regulus Black III (great-grandson)

## Affiliation

### Loyalty

Gamp family

**Hector Gamp I** (23 September, 1817 - 2 August, 1849) was a pure-blood English wizard who lived in the 19th Century. He was the husband of Marian Gamp (née Prewett) and the father of Hector Gamp II. He was best known for squandering the family gold on lavish jewels for his wife, who wholly despised him despite all his efforts. He died at the age of 31, and his wife was suspected of poisoning him.

He was the paternal grandfather of Millicent Tremblay (née Gamp), Hannah MacDougal (née Gamp), Moira Gamp, Marian Davies (née Gamp), Henrietta Goshawk (née Gamp), Gwendoline Marchbanks (née Gamp), Morgan Gamp, Hector Gamp III, George Gamp, Martha Moore (née Gamp), and Hesper Black (née Gamp).

Hector is an ancestor of many witches and wizards in Great Britain. It is estimated that he has close to eleven grandchildren and twenty-seven great-grandchildren, and an uncounted number of total descendants. After the male line of the Gamp family officially died with his grandson, Hector Gamp III, in 1950, what then remained of his property and lands was left to his great-grandson, Arcturus Black III, in the will of Araminta Lestrange (née Gamp).

## Biography

### Early life (1817-1828)

Hector Gamp was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. The Gamp family estate in which he was raised was unplottable and had been built by Hector's grandfather in 1749.

In the early 18th century, when the Gamps settled there, Daniel Defoe called the town "beautiful, well built and well situated". The muggles were concerned with shipbuilding, which thrived, as did associated industries such as sail-making and rope-making. Glass-making was prosperous and brewing was another important industry.

The Gamps prospered and had a great amount of money, though this diminished in later years. The fortune that Hector I's grandfather had acquired was well spent on Hector, however. He was raised as an only child.

#### Family History

Hector Gamp was a descendant of Ulrick Gamp, the first Minister for Magic, was in office from 1707 to 1718. Previously head of the Wizengamot, Gamp had the onerous job of policing a fractious and frightened community adjusting to the imposition of the International Statute of Secrecy. His greatest legacy was to found the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. During Gamp's term, the Ministry outlawed the use of the Cruciatus, Imperius and Killing Curses, dubbing them "unforgivable".

During the early years of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, when the fate of the popular wizarding pub The Leaky Cauldron was uncertain, Gamp agreed to bestow the landlord the responsibility of letting people into Diagon Alley, being sensitive to the needs of the patrons. To honour Gamp’s protection of the pub, the landlord created a new brand of beer in his name, Gamp’s Old Gregarious.

#### Hogwarts years (1828-1835)

Hector received his Hogwarts letter in the summer of 1828. He purchased a wand made of elm and dragon heartstring from Ollivander's Wand Shop sometime prior to attending his first year of school. He was Sorted into Slytherin House on 1 September 1828. The Headmaster of Hogwarts at that time was Adolphus Limebert.

### Later years (1835-1849)

Hector was arranged to marry Marian Prewett, a red-haired witch of superior beauty, in 1838. They married in 1839, and had one son together, which they named Hector II. Marian was reportedly disgusted with her husband and the two lived in very separate parts of the Gamp estate.

#### Death (1849)

Hector Gamp I died aged 31 in the Gamp estate in King's Lynn. It was suspected that his wife Marian had poisoned him, although there wasn't any proof.

## Appearance

Hector Gamp I had dark brown hair and slightly turned-in blue eyes. He was not particularly handsome, yet he was not ugly. Marian regarded him as a "piggish boy" with an irritating habit of "sitting too close".

## Personality and traits

Hector Gamp had a spoilt pureblood upbringing. Due to being one example of the embodiment of wealth and influence in the wizarding world, Hector Gamp took great pride in his aristocratic stature by viewing himself as being biologically superior to Muggles and Muggle-borns, although his views on half-bloods were likely more tempered as many a half-blood appears on the Gamp family tree. Hector could be intelligent and manipulative when he needed to be. He often tried to gain respect and the good will of high-ranking individuals, through his fortune and family name.

## Etymology

The name Hector is derived from the name of Hektor, a legendary Trojan champion who was killed by the Greek Achilles. The name Hektor is probably derived from the Greek ekhein, meaning "to check", "restrain".

*Gamp* is a colloquial, primarily British, term for an umbrella, believed to be derived from a character in Charles Dickens' *Martin Chuzzlewit*, nursemaid Sarah Gamp.