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Joseph Arthur Gibbs

Joseph Arthur Gibbs

Male 1867 - 1899  (31 years)

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  • Name Joseph Arthur Gibbs 
    Birth 25 Nov 1867  Westminster, London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 28 Dec 1867  Wraxall, Somerset Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1871  Edgware, Middlesex Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age: 3; Relationship: Son 
    Death 13 May 1899  London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Effects of an operation
    Burial 18 May 1899  Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Baptised 28 December 1867 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College, 1881-6; matric. at Oxford (Christ Church) 1887. Died unmarried in London from the effects of an operation 13th and was buried 18 May 1899 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Will proved 13 July 1899.

      Was in Antony Gibbs & Sons' London and Liverpool offices 1890-92. An original director, 1894-99, of Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co., Ltd., London. Author of A Cotswold Village (1st edition. 1898, 2nd 1899, popular edition. 1909, Travellers's Library edition. 1929) and The improvement of cricket grounds (1895). The former went through more editions to cover a record span of 65 years of printing and publishing by John Murray.

    • J. Arthur Gibbs was born in Westminster in 1867 and educated at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. After two years with the family banking firm in London he moved to Ablington Manor in the Coln Valley to live as the squire of a small estate. He was a keen cricketer, playing for Somerset and the MCC and writing 'The Improvement of Cricket Grounds on Economic Princples', as well as enjoying hunting, shooting and fishing. He died in 1899.

      For further info see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gibbs_(cricketer)
    Person ID I2590  Gibbs Family Tree
    Last Modified 3 Feb 2022 

    Father George Louis Monck Gibbs,   b. 28 Apr 1838, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Nov 1881, Elstree, Hertfordshire Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Mother Laura Beatrice Elton,   b. 29 Mar 1842, Rome, Italy Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Aug 1911, Bourton, Dorset Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Marriage 5 Jan 1864  East Clevedon, Somerset Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1128  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 25 Nov 1867 - Westminster, London Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 28 Dec 1867 - Wraxall, Somerset Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 3; Relationship: Son - 1871 - Edgware, Middlesex Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 13 May 1899 - London Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 18 May 1899 - Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Ablington Manor
    Joseph Arthur Gibbs

    Documents
    1871 England Census - George Louis Monck Gibbs-1.jpeg
    1871 England Census - George Louis Monck Gibbs-1.jpeg
    Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 - Joseph A Gibbs.jpeg
    Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 - Joseph A Gibbs.jpeg

    Headstones
    Joseph Arthur Gibbs Headstone
    Joseph Arthur Gibbs Headstone