Gumley, Peter, ‘The Cabinet’, Strand, London, cm and china dealer (1674–1702). Peter Gumley is recorded as a cm in 1674, with premises named The Cabinet, near St Clement's Church in the Strand. Two purchases, one certain and the other ‘possible’ from him are noted by John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol. Both transactions took place in 1702: ‘April 30. Paid Gumley for my bureau & some china ware, £11. 10s.’ and ‘Dec. 16. Paid Peter Gumley for China & Japan ware, £29’. [Diary of John Hervey, Wells, 1894, pp. 146–47] As John Gumley is not known to have dealt in chinaware, it might be assumed that the first of the payments was made to the same man as the second.

It may also be thought that he is the Peter Gumley, son of John and Mary Gumley, christened at St Martin's, Ludgate, on 26 February 1642. Finally, a brief obituary in the Gents Mag., 1735, p. 387 may be pertinent: ‘5 July. Mrs Gumley, aged 92, who kept the great China-Warehouse in Exeter Change, about 15 years ago’. G.W.