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Daniel Oliver Guion

Royal Navy officer

Died when: 35 years 248 days (428 months)
Star Sign: Taurus

 

Daniel Oliver Guion

Daniel Oliver Guion (London, 20 April 1776 – Ringkøbing, 24 December 1811) was an officer of the Royal Navy.He was the son of Daniel Guion (1742–1780) – a Merchant who was befriended and professionally involved with Oliver Toulmin (Navy Agent), Major David Parry (a close friend to William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne) and Henry Cort and lived for some years in 35 Crutched Ffriars opposite to the Office of the Royal Navy – and Ann (Harwood) who would be Matron of the London Hospital 1790–1797.

He was the brother of Captain Gardiner Henry Guion.The Guion family were Huguenots and probably related to the family de Guyon de Geis from France.

Another Huguenot branch of this family is still living in England and a famous member of this family is Richard Debaufre Guyon, general in Hungarian and Turkish service.


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