Anthony O'Brien Ffrench-Blake

Anthony married Susanne Bergsoe [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Flemming Martin Ffrench-Blake
2. Nicholas Anthony Ffrench-Blake was born on 22 Jan 1974 in Reading, Berkshire; died on 13 Apr 2021 in Vientiane. Laos.

Anthony married Gillian Anne Steele-Perkins [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Commissioned 17/21st Lancers.

Commissioned 17/21st Lancers. During 2nd World War served 17/21 Lancers in North Africa, Italy. Lt. Colonel 1944. D.S.O. Now retired.

Died:
Nursing Home

Robert married Grania Bryde Curran on 11 Jul 1939 in London. Grania (daughter of Walter Hilton Curran and Beatrice Rhoda Gibbs) was born on 13 Mar 1920 in Westminster, London; died in Jan 2004 in Wokingham, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Britwell Salome, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Only child. Baptised at Britwell Salome, Oxon.

She held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Cornwall in 1952.

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Died:
Killed in Action

St married Doris Kathleen Tweedie on 1 Jun 1912 in Kensington, London. Doris was born on 18 Aug 1891 in Barnstaple, Devon; died in Jun 1975 in Barnstaple, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Youngest son of John Curran of Irillia, Ontario by Jennie, daughter of Miller of Crossgar, Ireland.

His family was an offshoot from a Protestant branch of the Irish family to which the Right Hon. John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) K.C., the patriot, belonged. In the Great War he was on the personal staff of the Canadian Overseas War Minister and at one time acting Aide-de-Campe to General Sir Samuel Steele; serious illness prevented his taking up an appointment to Headquarter Staff of Gen. Sir Arthur Currie (Commander of the Canadian Army Corps); he was in the 2nd attack of the Canadian Army at Paschendael.

Walter married Beatrice Rhoda Gibbs on 4 Apr 1918 in All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, London. Beatrice (daughter of George Louis Monck Gibbs and Laura Beatrice Elton) was born on 11 Jul 1870 in Westminster, London; died on 10 Aug 1945 in Guildford, Surrey; was buried in Aug 1945 in Notgrove, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 Aug 1870, Elstree, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1891, London; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

Baptised at Elstree, Herts. Buried at Notgrove, Glos.

She and her first husband resided at Faringdon House, Berks., 1902-7; at The Manor House, Notgrove, co. Glos., from 1908, which she retained after his death till 1918. With her second husband she resided at Britwell House, Britwell Salome, co. Oxon., 1918-26; chiefly in London afterwards.

Oil portrait by M. Bisson last in possession of Veronica Hanbury-Tracey and pastel by Braun last in possession of Penelope Loveday.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1875
• Residence: 1891, Orillia, Simcoe East, Ontario, Canada

John married Jane or Jenny Miller. Jane was born in 1846 in Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1875

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant S America
• Baptism: 24 May 1838, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wiltshire
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 32; Relationship: Head
• Residence: 1881, London; Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Head

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Baptised there 24 May 1838. Educated at Marlborough College 1947-53. Died at his residence Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts 26 November and was buried 1 December 1881 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and in Aldenham Church and Memorial Screen in Elstree Chapel. Will proved 1882.

He inherited Belmont, Wraxall, on his father's death in 1865 (subject to his mother's life interest) and sold it in 1870 to his uncle William Gibbs of the adjoining Tyntesfield. Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1855 (was in London 1855-59; in William Gibbs & Co., Peru & Chile, 1859-62; in London, as a manager of A. Gibbs & Sons 1863, as a partner 1865-81). Visited New York 1863, Spain and Portugal 1864, Mexico 1869 all on business of the firm. A director of the London Assurance Co. 1865 (deputy Governor 1878, sub-Governor Dec. 1878-81).

A benefactor to Elstree church. Patron of the living of Hutton, Somerset (see VI, n33). Resided at 14 Devonshire Terrace, Paddington, 1864-67; Nutwood, Bickley, Kent, 1867-70; Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts., 1870-81; 46 Grosvenor Street, Westminster, 1881. See book In Memoriam mentioned below under entry for his wife Laura Beatrice Hallam and Obituary notice in The Guardian of Dec. 1881.

Portraits (head) in possession of his daughter Beatrice Rhoda Gibbs; 2 posthumous portraits by Hanson Walker (one last in possession of Antony Gibbs & Sons, the other in that of his grandson Lt.-col George Arthur Gibbs; watercolour thought to be of G. L. M. Gibbs last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley).



1851 CENSUS - Aged 12, at Marlborough College.
1871 CENSUS - Aged 32, living at Deacon's Hill, Edgware.Occ. Merchant. Children, 6 listed, no wife.
1881 CENSUS - Aged 42 , living at 46 Lower Grosvenor St. Occ. Merchant, S. America.
Laura, aged 38, Lillian, aged 15, & Mabel , aged16. Also present, Edmund Elton, 54,
(brother in law), Justice of the Peace - Somerset, and wife Mary, 56.
PROBATE - 1 March 1882, personal estate of £127,333 19s 11d.

( Refer to National Trust guide book for Tyntesfield for family tree.)

Died:
Deacon's Hill

George married Laura Beatrice Elton on 5 Jan 1864 in East Clevedon, Somerset. Laura (daughter of Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet and Rhoda Susan Willis) was born on 29 Mar 1842 in Rome, Italy; died on 30 Aug 1911 in Bourton, Dorset; was buried on 4 Sep 1911 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Apr 1842, Rome, Italy; British Chaplaincy
• Residence: 1851, Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Tormoham, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, St Margaret and St John, London

Notes:

1st daughter of Sir Arthur Hallam Elton (7th Baronet), died 1883) of Clevedon Court, Somerset, by his 1st wife Rhoda Susan (died 1873), who was daughter of James Willis of Atherfield and Freshwater House, Isle of Wight, and widow of Captain James C. Baird. Was buried 4 September 1911 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Will proved 9 October 1911.

After her husband died she resided first at Queen's Gate Gardens, Kensington, next at Gosden House, Bramley, Surrey 1883-90; 29 Queen's Gate Terrace, Kensington, 1890-7; Ablington Manor, Glos. 1891-1901; 56 Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, 1899-1911.



( Refer to National Trust guide book to Clevedon Court for family tree.)

1851 CENSUS - Aged 9, living with parents and grandfather.
Also, 2 stepsisters (children of her mother's first marriage.)


Died:
Chaffeymoor Grange