How did Henry Hucks Gibbs (HHG), the 1st Baron Aldenham, come to inherit iconic family estates, including Aldenham House and Clifton Hampden, from a distant 3rd cousin spinster, which had passed down through the Hucks, Noyes, Coghill and Sutton families? … Continue reading →
One of the great consequences of this website being well established and indexed on the internet is that it provides an easy access for people around the world who have an interest in connecting with the Gibbs family. In recent … Continue reading →
The recent death of Sir Thomas Michael Blake Crawley-Boevey, 8th Baronet, seems like an opportune moment to reflect on the multiple connections between the Crawley and Gibbs families, with 6 marriages between the families from 1784 to 1941. David Hogg … Continue reading →
The recent discovery of Lieutenant Piers Edgcumbe’s final resting place is a reminder of how many families were devastated by losses in past wars. The following is an article in The Times on 27th February: Lost Dunkirk hero’s grave found … Continue reading →
The Guardian newspaper has a very topical Valentines Day love story “Nelson urged mistress to give their baby girl ‘new’ smallpox vaccine“. It recounts that the “chance discovery” of a 220-year-old love letter from Admiral Horatio Nelson to Lady Emma … Continue reading →
In my last post I wrote that “…the family appears to have had minimal involvement in the major theatres of British Imperial reach – North America, India and Africa …”. I was promptly pointed to The Journal of Vicary Gibbs … Continue reading →
Much has been written about the extensive involvement of the Gibbs family in Southern Europe, Latin America and Australia, but the family appears to have had minimal involvement in the major theatres of British Imperial reach – North America, India … Continue reading →
The church of St Michael and All Angels at Clifton Hampden in Oxfordshire exists in its present form because of the Gibbs family – and it is an architectural gem. Pevsner talks of its “theatrical quality” standing on its cliff overlooking the … Continue reading →
Cousin Sarah came across this poem ‘Inscription for an Oak Tree’ recently while sorting through books and papers cleared from her father Denis Gibbs’ study. The poem was written by Sir John Coleridge as an inscription for an Oak Tree … Continue reading →
The Reverend Nathaniel Woodard was a C19th Anglican priest whose chief legacy was the founding of schools for the middle classes in England to provide education based on “sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the Christian faith”. There … Continue reading →
