Nicholas Mark Gibbs

Nicholas married Myrtle Elizabeth Cools [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rebecca Elizabeth Gibbs, Dr.
2. Jessica Mary Gibbs, Dr.
3. George Henry Gibbs

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Doctor of Medicine

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1st son. Baptised 28 August 1927 at Aldenham, Herts. Educated at the Diocesan College, Cape Town, 1942-44; Cape Town University Medical School, 1945-47; Keble College (Oxford) 1948-50; St. Mary's Hospital Medical School 1950-52, BA (Oxon 1949), BM, BCh (1952); DM (1962); MRCP (London 1955), FRCP (1973).

1935-40 Ruzawi School, Marandellas, Southern Rhodesia, founded by Maurice Carver (later to be brother-in-law). Scholarship in Anatomy and Physiology, University of Cape Town, 1947; Fulbright Travel Award to USA 1962; Trainee Research Grant of the US Public Health Service, 1962-63; Wellcome Grant for Research in Medical History, 1970. House Physician posts between 1953 and 1958 at St. Mary's Hospital, London;
Hillingdon Hospital, Middlesex.; Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases; Hammersmith Hospital. Registrar and Senior Registrar, The London Hospital, 1958-62; Fellow in Medicine (Gastroenterology) Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, and Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass. 1962-63. Senior Medical Registrar, King George Hospital, Ilford 1963-64; Consultant Physician Good Hope District General Hospital, Sutton Coldfield and to the North Birmingham Group of Hospitals 1965-74. Consultant Physician in General Medicine and Gastroenterology to The London Hospital from March 1974. National Service in the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force, 1955-57 (Squadron Leader).

Author of Exfolialive Cytology of the Stomach, Butterworth, London, 1968, and articles in medical journals. Examiner in Medicine, University of London (1978-79), University of Liverpool (1978), University of Basrah, Iraq (1979), Conjoint Board (1975-79). Adviser on examination reform, Indian Civil Service sponsored by British Council (1980).
Chief Medical Officer to the Provident Life Association of London.

Fellow Royal Society of Medicine; Member Harveian Society of London; British Society of the History of Medicine; British Soc. of Gastroenterology; British Society of Digestive Endoscopy (Hon. Treas. 1973-78).

Interests: Old books, medical history, walking.
Club: Athenaeum.

Portrait: Watercolour by Harry More-Gordon (1979) in own possession

Died suddenly, but painlessly, on 8th January 2015 with Rachel, Nicholas and Sarah at his bedside.

Birth:
40 Norroy Road

Denis married Rachel Elizabeth Youard [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Sep 1900, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire

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Baptised privately at Banbury Road, Oxford 1st September, and baptised privately there 21 September, and received into the Church 11 October 1900 at Clifton Hampden. Educated at Lancing College (scholar) 1914-19; matric. Oxford (Keble College) Michaelmas 1919, BA 1922, MA 1927. Student at Cuddesdon Theology College 1924. Memorial in Chester Cathedral.

In Lancing College 1st Cricket XI. Rowed in the Keble College VIII and rowed in the Oxford Trial VIII for selection for the University crew. Member of Oxford University Dramatic Society. Assistant master at Edgeborough, Guildford, 1922-4 (his prep. school before Lancing). Cuddesdon Theological College 1924-5. Ordained Deacon at Southwark 1925; Priest 1926. Curate of St. Mary, Putney, 1925-7. Assistant Priest of the Cathedral Chapel at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia 1928-34; Sub-Dean of the Cathedral 1934. Rector of Bulawayo 1936-41; 1937 Archdeacon of Matabeleland. Rector of St. Saviour's, Claremont, Cape Town, 1941-47; Canon of Cape Town Cathedral 1946. Dean and Rector of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town 1947-54. Dean of Chester 1954-62.

Chairman of the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesian Mission; Vice-President of the South African Church Institute; Chairman of the Missionary Council of Chester Diocese; Member of Convocation of York; Member of Church Assembly; Governor of the King's School and of the Queen's School, Chester; President of the Chester Rotary Club. Fostered contacts and understanding between the Clergy and the Medical Profession.
While he was Dean of Cape Town, building works were started to complete the south side of the cathedral and nave. These were finished in 1963.
Much of his time was devoted to spiritual counsel and direction, individually, through retreats, and helping others in need.

Interests: Fishing, acting, singing, walking, and as a young man, shooting. He was a very good shot, trained by Charlie Woodley, his Cousin Alban's (keeper at Clifton Hampden. A very good tennis player.

Memorials: Window in the north wall of Cape Town Cathedral; Memorial in the chapel of Ranche House College, Salisbury, Rhodesia, where his son John Michael was the first principal. Nave stalls in Chester Cathedral, dedicated on 18 June 1966. Grave stone in the floor, east side of south transept of Chester Cathedral.

Michael married Edith Marjorie Ward on 4 Aug 1926 in Long Wittenham, Berkshire. Edith (daughter of John Spencer Ward and Beatrix Leyla Marjory Wentworth Dunbar) was born on 25 Sep 1898 in Kensington, London; died on 18 Oct 1968 in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, London; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Hastings, Sussex

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1st daughter of John Spencer Ward of Long Wittenham, Berks., by Beatrix, daughter of Rev Sir Charles Gordon Cumming Dunbar, 8th Baronet of Northfield, Co. Elgin. Educated at 'The Bonhams', St. Leonards, Sussex; Aldburgh, and Oxford University (Home Student in Medicine). Memorial in Chester Cathedral.

Before her marriage she studied medicine at Oxford University as a home student, travelling into lectures on a motorcycle. During this time she was also nursing her mother. After 4 years as a medical student she caught scarlet fever and was unable to take her exam in 1923, and then married before her finals. During the whole of her married life she was a constant support and companion to her husband, assisting in parish work and later on, fully involved in all the commitments that fall to a Dean's wife both in Cape Town and Chester.

The year she died she visited Africa for the last time to see her two daughters and their husbands—Mary and Maurice in Malawi and Bridget and John in Lesotho.

Memorial: Grave stone in the floor, east end of south transept of Chester Cathedral.
Interests: Unfailing interest in people and a great encourager.

A home-maker of unbounded hospitality, the Rectory and Deanery were open to all. In later life she enjoyed sketching.

Birth:
15 Stratford Road

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1939, Elmstead Court, Elham; 1939 Census England & Wales, Geoffrey, Rosalind, Richard Youard, Dairy & Stock Farmer

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Died:
Death Age (est): 84

Geoffrey married Rosaline Joan Atkin on 8 Feb 1929 in Holborn, Middlesex. Rosaline (daughter of James Richard Atkin, Baron Atkin and Lucy Elizabeth Hemmant) was born on 8 Sep 1908 in Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, Wales; died on 7 Sep 1973 in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1939, Elmsted Court, Elham, Kent; 1939 Census England & Wales, Geoffrey, Rosalind, Richard Youard, Education Mistress
• Residence: 1953, Pancras, London
• Death: 5 Sep 1973, Montgomershire

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Canon of St. Albans
• Baptism: 4 Aug 1867, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, Christchurch, Hampshire
• Residence: 19 Oct 1886, Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1939, Aldenham Vicarage, Hertfordshire; 1939 Census of England & Wales, Clerk of Holy Orders

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3rd son of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised at the Parsonage, Clifton Hampden, 4 August 1867. Educated at Lancing 1881-6; matric. oxford (Keble College) 19 October 1886; 3rd class Theology 1890 MA 1894. Student at Cuddesdon (Oxon), Theological College 1891-2.

Ordained Deacon at Exeter, 1892, Priest 1893. Curate of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, 1892-4; Curate of Clyst St. George under his father 1894-7. Vicar of Clifton Hampden, Oxon., 1898-1923 (presented by Henry Lord Aldenham). His (overlarge) parsonage of 1832-46 (meanwhile called The Cottage) being re-exchanged with it. Vicar of Aldenham 1923-40 (presented by Alban, Lord Aldenham). Canon of St. Albans.

Reginald married Lucia McCausland on 4 Jan 1899 in Limavady, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Lucia (daughter of Capt. Conolly Thomas McCausland and Laura St John) was born on 18 Oct 1869 in Drenagh, Newtown Limavady, Derry, Ireland; died on 10 Jan 1940 in Peace Memorial Hospital, Watford, Hertfordshire; was buried in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Drumachose,Derry Co.,Ireland
• Residence: 1901, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Culham, Oxfordshire

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Lucia (Reginald's 2nd cousin), 2nd daughter of Connolly Thomas McCausland (d.1902) of Drenagh, Co. Derry (for whom see Burke's 'Landed Gentry of Ireland'), by Hon. Laura, 2nd daughter of St. Andrew Beauchamp St. John, 14th Baron St. John of Bleisho (died 1874). (Her grandmother Marianne McCausland (born Tyndall) and her husband's grandmother, Caroline Bright, were sisters. Baptised at Drumachose, Limavady, Co. Derry. Buried at Aldenham Parish Church.

Buried:
Parish Church

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• Residence: 1871, Kensington, London
• Residence: 1891, Foots Cray, Kent; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1901, Kensington, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1939, Wilsons, Wallingford, Oxfordshire; 1939 Census England & Wales, John S Ward, Bank Clerk Retired

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of Long Wittenham, Abingdon, Berkshire, England (died at Acland Nursing Home, Banbury Rd., Oxford - widow: Ursula Katharine Ward - Pds 1769.11s.2d)

John married Beatrix Leyla Marjory Wentworth Dunbar on 2 Oct 1897 in Sidcup, Kent. Beatrix (daughter of Sir Charles Gordon Cumming Dunbar, 9th Bart. of Northfield and Edith Wentworth) was born on 27 Jul 1873 in Knightsbridge, London; died on 8 Jan 1919 in Little Wittenham Rectory, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Sep 1873, All Saints, Dorset
• Residence: 1891, Duffus, Moray, Scotland
• Residence: 1901, Kensington, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire

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• Baptism: 9 Feb 1870, Dewsbury, Yorkshire
• Residence: 17 Oct 1888, Oxford, Oxfordshire; Age: 18
• Residence: 1891, Over, Cheshire; Age: 21; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1939, Deanery, Battle, Kent; 1939 England & Wales Census, Dean & Vicar of Battle
• Occupation: 1924-1946, Battle, Kent; Dean of Battle Abbey

Wilfred married Evelyn Constance Malcolmson on 8 May 1901 in Betchworth, Surrey. Evelyn (daughter of George Forbes Malcolmson and Catherine Annesley Austen) was born on 24 Mar 1871 in London; died on 26 Jun 1962 in Uckfield, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Apr 1871, England
• Residence: 1901, Betchworth, Surrey; Age: 30; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lawyer and Judge
• Residence: 23 Oct 1885, Oxford, Oxfordshire; Age: 17
• Residence: 1901, Paddington, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Kensington, London

Notes:

James Richard Atkin, Baron Atkin, PC, FBA (28 November 1867 – 25 June 1944), known as Dick Atkin, was a lawyer and judge of Irish, Welsh and Australian origin, who practised in England and Wales. He always thought of himself as a New South Welshman, and was President of the London Welsh Trust from 1938 to 1944.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Atkin,_Baron_Atkin

James married Lucy Elizabeth Hemmant on 16 May 1893 in Kippington, Seven Oaks, Kent. Lucy (daughter of William Hemmant and Lucy Elizabeth Ground) was born on 16 Nov 1867 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; died on 26 Feb 1932 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]