Family
In 1904 at Hong Kong he married a widow, Mrs Margaret Elizabeth Worthington, daughter of Sir Thomas Wardle. She divorced him in 1927 following the scandal with Lady Cruise, and he retired to Tangier. He later remarried on 1 December 1932 a 35-year-old widow, Sybil Victoria Joseph, née Grant White and had two daughters. He returned to live in Cobham, Surrey and died at Woking Hospital in 1953. He was cremated.
Gaunt's autobiography, The yield of the years, was published in 1940. His brother Ernest Gaunt was also an Admiral of the Royal Navy; his sister, Mary Gaunt, was a novelist.
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