John Gumley

John Gumley ( – 19 December 1728) was an English furniture maker and politician.

Life Gumley was the eldest son of Peter Gumley, a cabinet maker, and Elizabeth Davis. In 1692, he married Susannah White, sister-in-law to Sir John Wittewrong, 3rd Baronet. By 1694, he was advertising "all sorts of cabinet work", but his most successful enterprises were in glass-making. In 1703, he supplied large mirrors to Chatsworth House, and in 1705 opened a glass-house at Lambeth. In 1712, his work was praised by Richard Steele in The Spectator.

Gumley and James Moore succeeded Gerrit Jensen as royal cabinet-makers in 1715, Gumley's daughter, Anna Maria married William Pulteney, the future Earl of Bath in 1714. Gumley's daughter Laetitia married Launcelot Charles Lake and their son Gerard was a general.

He plainly thought very little of his eldest son, George who was to all intents and purposes disinherited being given a stipend of £150 a year on condition that he did not get in contact with his mother.