Geoffrey Campbell Gunter

Gunter was born on 30 April 1879 in Kingston, Jamaica.^[1] He was educated in the Kingston Collegiate School.^[2]

Gurner joined the civil service in 1896. During World War I, he served as a lieutenant in the Jamaica Reserve Regiment from 1914 to 1918.^[3] From 1923 to 1940, he was chief accountant of the Jamaica Government Railway.^[4] From 1943 to 1947, he was alderman of Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation. Having been deputy mayor from 1944 to 1946, Gunter served as mayor of Kingston from 1946 to 1947. He then spent a year as a Trade Controller and Competent Authority.^[2] On 14 June 1960, while Sir Kenneth Blackburne was away on leave, Gunter became acting governor of Jamaica. He was the first Jamaican to have held the office of governor.^[3] Blackburne resumed his duties as governor on 13 October 1960.^[5] Gunter also founded the Jamaica Philatelic Society and was its first president.^[6]