Hector Gamp III

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This article is about **Hector Gamp (1877-1950), the last Head of the House of Gamp**. You may be looking for **his father or grandfather**.

## Biographical information

### Born

7 July, 1877King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

### Died

14 August, 1950 (aged 73)King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

## Relationship information

### Family members

* Hector Gamp II (father) †
* Miriam Gamp (née Selwyn) (mother) †
* Eglantine Gamp (née Rosier) (wife) †
	+ Araminta Lestrange (née Gamp) (daughter)
	+ Faustus Lestrange II (son-in-law)
		- Cyrus Lestrange (grandson)
	+ Ermintruda Gamp (daughter) †
	+ Floretta Gamp (daughter) †
* Millicent Tremblay (née Gamp) (sister)
* Rufus Tremblay (brother-in-law)
	+ Philippa Tremblay (niece)
	+ Boudica Tremblay (niece)
* Hesper Black (née Gamp) (sister) †
* Sirius Black II (brother-in-law)
	+ Arcturus Black III (nephew)
	+ Lycoris Black (niece)
	+ Regulus Black III (nephew)

## Affiliation

### Loyalty

Gamp family

**Hector Gamp III** (**7 July, 1877** - **14 August, 1950**) was an English pure-blood wizard who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1 September, 1888 to June of 1895. He was the last surviving member of the House of Gamp in the direct male line. Widowed, he had been the husband of Eglantine Gamp (née Rosier), and the father of Araminta Lestrange (née Gamp) and Floretta and Ermintruda.

He was the only surviving son of Hector Gamp II and his wife Miriam Gamp (née Selwyn). He had ten siblings, eight of which were girls. He was the brother of Millicent Tremblay (née Gamp) and Hesper Black (née Gamp), among others.

His wife and two younger daughters were killed tragically in the year 1918 visiting Rosier relatives in Paris, France. After their deaths, Hector never remarried. When he died in 1950, his daughter, Araminta, who had married Faustus Lestrange II, inherited the rest of the Gamp estate.

## Biography

### Early life

Hector Gamp III was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, on 7 July, 1877, to Miriam Gamp (née Selwyn) and Hector Gamp II. His father, at that time, was the Head of the House of Gamp. He was their seventh child, and the younger brother of Millicent, Hannah, Moira, Marian, Henrietta, Gwendoline, and Morgan. Until his older brother, Morgan, died in infancy in 1879, Morgan was Heir to the House of Gamp, and Hector himself Heir Apparent.

The Gamp family estate in which he was raised was unplottable, and had been built by his third great-grandfather in 1749. When Hector was one year old, he lost two of his siblings, including Moira, and Morgan, and his infant brother, George, to diphtheria, which raged throughout their household. Hector was spared, as he was sent to stay with relatives, in an effort to curb the outbreak.

After that, Hector Gamp III became his father's heir.

#### Hogwarts years

Hector Gamp III began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the year 1888. He was the fifth in his family to go, and the fifth of his family to be sorted into Slytherin. As Heir to the House, Hector's sorting was an expectation, rather than a pleasure, to his father, Hector Gamp II.

He left the school in 1895, upon the completion of his seventh year.

### Later life

He married Eglantine Rosier, a member of the House of Rosier, in 1904. They had a daughter together, Araminta, in 1906, followed by another daughter, Ermintruda, who they called Tulie, in 1908. They had another daughter, Floretta, in 1910. For some time they were very happy.

The same autumn that his oldest daughter, Araminta, began at Hogwarts, his wife and two younger daughters went to Paris to see relatives. Hector did not go himself, as he had Ministry work which he supposedly had to complete. He would have joined them later. However, on the night of 8 November, 1918, his nephew by marriage, Corvus Rosier, tried experimenting with fiendfyre to impress Hector's younger daughters, and a fire was started.

The fire quickly consumed the room and all three children, two of which died instantly. The fire raged through the house, consuming everything in its wake. Hector's wife, Eglantine, managed to escape with their younger daughter, Floretta, who died the next day in hospital. Eglantine herself was covered in burns and died a few weeks later. Hector's nephew by marriage, Corvus Rosier, aged ten, who started the fire, and his parents also perished in the blaze.

Hector's oldest daughter, Araminta Gamp, was in her first year at Hogwarts. Hector Gamp had only not gone to Paris because he was working on several cases for the Wizengamot, and they both survived, which presumably caused him much guilt. According to those who knew him, Hector Gamp III henceforth retreated permanently from society and fell on the drink.

After his death in 1950, the male line officially became extinct.

## Etymology

The name Hector is a Latinized form of Greek *‘Εκτωρ (Hektor)*, which was derived from *‘εκτωρ (hektor)* meaning "holding fast", ultimately from *εχω (echo)* meaning "to hold, to possess". In Greek legend, Hector was one of the Trojan champions who fought against the Greeks. After he killed Achilles' friend Patroclus in battle, he was himself brutally slain by Achilles, who proceeded to tie his dead body to a chariot and drag it about. This name also appears in Arthurian legends belonging to King Arthur's foster father.

*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.