Edward Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale

Notes:

Charles has dropped the 'FORTESCUE' from his name.
Birth record Vol. 5c Page 1425.

Charles married Pamela Judith Ryder in Oct 1986 in Leeds, Yorkshire. Pamela was born in Q2 1954 in Halifax, Yorkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married first, Andrew G. Walker, Oct- Dec 1978 Halifax, Yorkshire.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 10; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

1911 CENSUS - Aged 10, living at 79 Cornwell Gardens,Kensington, London, with parents.
Record on Passenger List of "Kaiser-I-Hind", Dep. London 15 Oct 1920, for Calcutta, India.
Died as a result of a motoring accident.



Birth:
40 Clanricarde Gardens

Died:
Dies as a result of a motoring accident

Edmund married Marjorie Mary Gill on 27 Aug 1955 in Kensington, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of Hartley Gill of Hexham, Northumberland

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 54; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

Son of Matthew Inglett Fortescue-Brickdale, Conveyancing Counsel to the Court of Chancery of Lincoln's Inn, and of Newland (for pedigrees see Note), by Sarah Anna, daughter of Edward John Lloyd, QC, judge of the Bristol County Court. Baptised 12 April 1857 at St. Leonards-on-Sea. Educated at Westminster school (in College) 1870-5; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 20 May 1875, 2nd class Classics and BA 1879.

Barrister (Lincoln's Inn), called 1883. Advocated Registration of Title of Land, 1886; Assisting barrister, Land Registry, 1888; Asstistant Registrar, 1894; Chief Registrar, 1900-23. Carried out, under successive Lord Chancellors, the effective first establishment of compulsory registration of title in the County of London. See fully in his evidence before Royal Commission of 1908-10 on the Land Transfer Acts. On Departmental committee on Ordnance Survey, 1893. Reported to Government on Registration of Title in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1896. On Royal Commission on Registration of Title in Scotland, 1907. Chairman of Departmental committee on Stewards' Fees, 1925. Retired from public service, 1923. Author of several works on Land Titles, Transfer and Registry (for a list of these and for other information see Who's Who of 1930 and earlier). Editor of Sir Henry Hallam Parr's Recollections (1917). Justice of the Peace co. Glos., from 1923. A Verderer of the Forest of Dean from 1929. Sometime Member of the Reform Club, London.

For pedigrees see Brickdale of Birchamp House, co. Glos., and Fortescue of Buckland Filleigh, Devon, in Burke's 'Landed Gentry', 1848; Burke's Royal Descents 1848; and Lord Clermont's History of Fortescue Family 1869.

Two oil portraits of Sir Charles by his sister Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (one at the Land Registry, one in possession of the family); another by Ralph Peacock in possessionof Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.

He was knighted in 1911



1861 CENSUS - Living @@ 18 Endsleigh St. St Pancras. London, with parents, aged 4. Also sister Kate.
1871 CENSUS - At school, 1 Little Deans Yard, St. Margarets, Westminister. Aged 14.
1881 CENSUS - Living at Birchamp Villa, Norwood, Croydon, with family, aged 24, occ. Student of Law.
1891 CENSUS - Living in (12 Gatestone ??), Upper Norwood. Aged 34, occ. Barrister.
1901 CENSUS - Living in 40 Clanricarde Gdns. Kensington, London. Aged 44, occ. Barrister,
Registrar of Land Registry.
1911 CENSUS - Living at 79 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington. Aged 54, occ. Barrister, Registrar of Land Registry. Family listed,wife Mabel, aged 46; daughter Laura, aged 21: son Matthew aged 20: and son Edmund aged 10.

Died at Gorse Corner, Townsend Drive, St.Albans, Herts. on 29 Sept 1944.

Probate read on 29 January 1945 at Llandudno to Matthew F-B OBE company director.
Effects £3909 9s 1d.
{ Watercolour painting, entitled "From the Meadow Building, Christchurch, Oxford. 1876" by C.F.Brickdale. } #
# At 10 Shady Grove, Hilton,Derby.

Charles married Lady Mabel Beatrice Gibbs on 5 Sep 1888 in Bramley, Surrey. Mabel (daughter of George Louis Monck Gibbs and Laura Beatrice Elton) was born on 27 Sep 1864 in Paddington, London; died on 11 Mar 1944 in 10 Sheen Gate Gardens, East Sheen, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Paddington, London; St John's
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 6; Relationship: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 46; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Notes:

Photo of Mabel at Cevedon Court with the Elton family, see marriage scrapbook of Sir Edmund Harry Elton.
Photo of Mabel with Sir Charles & Laura with Gibbs family, see marriage scrapbook of George Louis M. Gibbs.

1891 CENSUS - Aged 26. Living with Charles, and children Laura, aged 1, and Matthew aged 1 month.
1901 CENSUS - Aged 36. Living with husband and family.
1911 CENSUS - Living at 79 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington. Aged 46. Family listed, husband Charles, aged 54; daughter Laura, aged 21: son Matthew aged 20: and son Edmund aged 10.

Died at 10 Sheen Gate-gardens, East Sheen, Surrey on 11 March 1944.

Probate read 24 August 1944 at Llandudno "the said Sir Charles F-B knight and Matthew F-B OBE company director . Effects £2668 8s 4d."

Birth:
14 Devonshire Terrace