Thomas Antony John Gibbs

Vicary married Josephine Nicola Fell [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Jun 1922, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire
• Departure: Mar 1948, Liverpool, Lancashire

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2nd son, 5th Baron Aldenham and 3rd Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (1969). Born at Stanstead Lodge, Stanstead Abbotts, Herts., 18 May and baptised at Hunsdon aforesaid 21 June 1922. Educated at Eton College (1935-40) and Christ Church, Oxford (1946-47). Died 25 January 1986, burial at Hunsdon 9 March 1986. morial at St. Michael's, Cornhill, London, 10 March 1986.

5th Lord Aldenham. Eton College Cricket XI 1940; Eton Society ('Pop' 1940. Served in Royal Navy from December 1940 (ordinary seaman) to June 1946. (Lieutenant R.N.V.R.) mainly in destroyers in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, 2 convoys to Russia (Murmansk). Landings in North Africa (Oran), Italy (Anzio) and Normandy. 1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, North Atlantic Star and Africa Star, Victory Medal.

Read P.P.E. at Christ Church, Oxford, after the War. Joined Antony Gibbs and Sons September 1947 and was sent to the Chilean office; May 1948 Santiago; November 1948-September 1950 Valparaiso, and was responsible for opening a new office in Osorno October 1950-March 1951. Director of Antony Gibbs and Sons 1954-1980.

Maiden Speech in the House of Lords, June 1974, on the National Health Service, Member of Finance Committee of Regional Health Authority, N. Thames since 1974. Member Royal Yacht Squadron 1977. Member of Lloyds Underwirters 1977, 1978 Chairman of Appeal for St. Albans Abbey Restoration Fund. Clubs: R.Y.S., M.C.C., Pratts. Lived at Stanstead Lodge, Stanstead Abbotts, Ware, Herts from 1951-80, and then Rimpton Manor, Yeovil, Somerset.

Antony married Lady Mary Elizabeth Tyser, Aldenham on 16 Jul 1947 in St Margaret's, Westminster, London. Mary (daughter of Walter Parkyns Tyser and Jessie Woodriff Berklely Quill) was born on 23 Jul 1921 in Hyde Park Mansions, London; died on 16 Apr 2022. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 28 Aug 1921, Navestock, Essex

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Only daughter of Walter Parkyns Tyler of Gordonbush, Brora, Sutherland, by Jessie Woodriff Berkeley Quill only child of Col. Berkeley Quill of Tralee, Co. Kerry. Born at Hyde Park Mansions, London 23 July 1921 and baptised at St. Thomas's, Navestock, Essex 28 August 1921. Educated at Downham, Essex 1933-37, Paris 1937-38. Married 16 July 1947 at St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Presented at Court 1939 (probably the last one with feathers etc.). At outbreak of Second World War served in the Land Army; 1941-1945 WAAF. Commissioned 1943 as a photographic interpreter, serving at C.I.U. Medmennam and Coulommiers (France) March-September 1945.

Hon. Organiser Poppy Day Appeal in Stanstead Abbotts, St. Margarets and Great Amwell from 1965-79. President Hertford and E.Herts. Branch N.S.P.C.C. 1969-79, in aid of which held annual Spring Plant Sales of own raised plants and opened garden in Summer. Also opened garden for Red Cross. Resigned from both in 1979 because of move to Somerset in 1980.

Portraid: oil of head and shoulders 1927 by Philip de Lazlo, in her possession.

John married Cicely Juliet Varley. Cicely (daughter of Cromwell Hanford Varley, D.S.C. and Georgiana Rosalind Steward) was born in 1924 in Woolwich, London; died on 24 Dec 2016. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile
• Baptism: 8 Sep 1888, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, Eton, Buckinghamshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 22; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 25 Aug 1920, New York, USA

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2nd Baron Hunsdon (1935) and 4th Baron Aldenham (1939). Born at High Canons aforesaid 11 August and baptised 8 September 1888 at Aldenham. Educated at Eton College 1901-7; matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1907; 2nd class History and B.A. 1910. Died at Harlow Hospital, 30 May 1969 and was cremated and ashes buried at St. Dunstan's, Hunsdon.

He was in the Eton School Football XI 1906. Won Royal Tennis, single and doubles, Cambridge v. Oxford 1910. Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1910, and was with their Australian branch, Gibbs, Bright & Co., 1912-14. After the Great War rejoined the London firm 1919; partner thereof from 1920. Director of, amongst other Companies, Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld., from 1921 (Chairman 1928-29), Australian Pastoral Co. Ld. from 1922 (Chairman from 1929), Westminster Bank Ld. from 1924, English Scottish and Australian Bank, Ld., from 1920. On the Livery of the Merchant Taylors Company from 1910, on the Court from 1923, Master 1932.

2nd Lieut. Hertfordshire Yeomanry (Territ) Feb. 1911-15; temp. Lieut. July, 1915, Capt., Dec., 1916. In the Great War; mobilised with the Herts. Yeomanry in August 1914 he served with them in Egypt Sep. 1914 to Aug. 1915, in Gallipoli August to October 1915 and in Palestine June 1916 to April 1917 and to XXI Corps Staff Intelligence there December 1917-January 1918. Served with the 'Dunster Force' in Mesopotamia and Persia January 1918 to January 1919 and with Herts. Yeomanry in Asia Minor January to April 1919. Mentioned twice in Despatches (1917 and 1918). Medals, 1914-15 Star, British war medal and Allies (Victory) medal.

Deputy Chairman Westminster Bank, 1st January 1933; Chairman of Bank 1st April 1950; resigned from Chairmanship 31 December 1961 but remained on Board, President, British Association of Bankers 1954-55.

Portrait in oils, painted by Simon Elwes, soon after becoming Chariman, in possession of Westminster Bank, Lothbury, EC2.

Walter married Beatrix Elinor Paul on 6 Nov 1919 in St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London. Beatrix (daughter of Herbert Woodfield Paul and Elinor Budworth Ritchie) was born on 28 Jul 1890 in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London; died on 17 Jul 1978 in St Dunstan's, Hunsdon; was buried in St Dunstan's, Hunsdon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1 Aug 1890, Chelsea, London
• Baptism: 7 Sep 1890, Finedon, Northamptonshire
• Residence: 1901, Chelsea, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Forest Row, Sussex; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Death: 17 Jul 1978, Kingsclere & Whitchurch, Hampshire

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Only daughter of Herbert Woodfield Paul, M.P. of Cherry Orchard, Forest Row, Sussex (and widow of Algernon Hyde Villers, by whom she had issue, for which see Clarendon in 'Burke's Peerage'), by Elinor, daughter of William Ritchie. Born at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 28 July and baptised 1 September 1890 at Finedon, Northants. Married 6 November 1919 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. Died 17 July 1978 and was cremated and ashes buried at St Dunstan's, Hunsdon, Herts.

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From the Times :-
“On Friday, May 5, 1944, at Gordonbush, Brora, Sutherland, from pneumonia, WALTER PARKYNS TYSER, dearly loved husband of Jessie Tyser (nee Quill), aged 77. Funeral at Gordonbush, to-day (Monday), at 3 o’clock”
9th May 1944
Obituary.3
The Times :-
“Mr. Walter Parkyns Tyser died from pneumonia at Gordonbush, Brora, Suntherland, on May 5, at the age of 77. He was the eldest of the four sons of George Waler Tyser of Oakfield, Mortimer, Berkshire. His mother was the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas George Augustus Parkyns, fifth baronet. Tyser was educated at Winchester and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In the 1914-18 war he did good work at the Ministry of Shipping, and up to the outbreak of the present war he went regularly to the City and carried on his business as chairman of the Port line and a director of Cunard White Star Line. He was a good fisherman and shot, a fine horseman, and a knowledgeable farmer if his estates in Essex and Scotland. In 1894 he married Gertrude Elinor, daughter of Charles Langton, of Bark Hill, Liverpool. She died in 1918. In 1920 he married, secondly, Jessie Woodriff, daughter of Colonel B.C. Quill, C.B., of Ballycarty, Tralee, Co. Kerry. She survives him will three sons and one daughter.”
Other facts

Cambridge University Alumni in Cambridge, Trinity.1
"Entered : Michs. 1885
Adm. pens. at Trinty, Oct. 8, 1885. (Elder) s. of George (Walter), of 43, Lexham Gardens, Kensington, London (and Annie, dau. of Sir Thomas G. A. Parkyns, 6th Bart., of Bunny Park, Notts.). B. Mar. 27, 1867, at Reigate, Surrey. School, Winchester. Matric. Michs. 1885. Ship and insurance agent. A director of the Tysex Line Ltd., Chairman of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line; Director of the Cunard Steam Ship Company. Married (1) July, 1894, Gertrude Elinor, dau. of Charles Langton, of Barkhill, Aigburth; (2) Oct. 1920, Jessie Woodriffe Berkeley, dau. of Col. Berkeley Quill, and had issue. Died May 5, 1944, at Brora Sunderland. Brother of the above."

Walter married Jessie Woodriff Berklely Quill on 6 Oct 1920 in St. Luke, Chelsea, London. Jessie (daughter of Berkely Crosbie Quill and Lucy Ethel Woodriff) was born on 22 Jun 1893 in Paddington, London; died on 3 Aug 1978 in Culduthel Hospital, Inverness. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 31 Mar 1901, Ballyseedy, Kerry, Ireland
• Arrival: 27 Apr 1920, From Kobe, Japan, via Bombay, returning to London
• Residence: 1921, Kensington, London
• Arrival: 1 Jun 1936, New York, USA

William married Phyllis Munday on 4 Jun 1921 in Newton Abbot, Devon. Phyllis was born in 1888 in Nelson, New Zealand; died on 11 Jul 1979 in Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cromwell married Georgiana Rosalind Steward in Jul 1918 in St Martin, London. Georgiana was born on 15 Jul 1896 in Buckland, Surrey; died in Nov 1986 in Merton, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]