Arabella Sophie Gibbs

Arabella married Benedict J A Padovan [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Oliver Humphrey Umberto Padovan
2. Daisy Amelia Padovan

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• Departure: New York, USA
• Departure: Beira, Sofala, Mozambique
• Baptism: 15 Mar 1935, Bonisa, Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
• Arrival: 16 Sep 1954, London; Age: 19
• Arrival: 10 Oct 1955, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 20

Notes:

Baptised at Bonisa 15 March 1935. Educated at Ruzawi School, Diocesan College Rondebosch; Christ Church, Oxford (M.A.).

Worked for various subsidiaries of Antony Gibbs Holdings since 1957, firstly in Johannesburg and then in Rhodesia for 12 years. At present with Antony Gibbs Safe Ltd. in London. Fellow of the Corporation of Insurance Brokers; Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute. Secretary to the Fund Raising Committee of Jairos Jiri Association in Britain (an Association to help handicapped Africans). Governor of St. Mary's School, Wantage, since 1973; Governor of Colville Junior School (Inner London Education Authority).

Interests: shooting and fishing.

Club: Bulawayo (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe).

Jeremy married Alison Douglas Martin, JP [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Departure: Limon, Costa Rica
• Departure: Beira, Sofala, Mozambique
• Departure: Brazil
• Occupation: Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 28th December 1959 until 24th June 1969
• Baptism: 13 Jan 1903, St Thomas', Portman Sq, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 8; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 25 Mar 1924, Plymouth, Devon
• Arrival: 29 Apr 1927, Liverpool, Lancashire
• Arrival: 27 Aug 1934, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 16 Sep 1954, London
• Arrival: 24 Jul 1959, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

3rd son of Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, Lord Hunsdon. Baptised 13 January 1903 at St. Thomas's, Portman Square. Educated at Eton College, 1915-21, matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1921.

P.C. (1969), G.C.V.O. (1969); K.C.V.O. (1965); K.C.M.G. (1960); O.B.E. (1959); Governor of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) 1957-1969; Hon. L.L.D., Birmingham 1969; Hon. D.C.L. East Anglia, 1969.

Farming in Rhodesia, near Bulawayo, since 1928. Founder Member and later Chairman of the Natural Resources Board; Founder Member of the Rhodesia National Farmers Union which encouraged Rhodesian farmers to produce more food for Britain in the Second World War. Member of Parliament (United Party) 1947-53; Chairman of the United Party for many years. One of the two originators of the Central African Trade Fair (later the Rhodesian Trade Fair).

Governor of Southern Rhodesia 1959; last Governor General (Acting) of the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland. In 1965 after the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, announced the 'Unilateral Declaration of Independence,' he remained at Government House for 4 years. In 1969 he was allowed to leave after a Referendum in Rhodesia which resulted in the declaration of a Republic.

Member of the Board of Barclays Bank for many years (except during his Governorship) until his retirement in 1978. Member of Wankie Colliery Board; Commercial Union Board, Premier Portland Cement Board and Gibbs & Co.

Active in the establishment and continuation of Private Schools, both Junior and Senior, Chairman of Ruzawi Board of Governors.

Knight Commander of the Order of St. John since 1963; Member of the Council for the Blind.

Clubs: Athenaeum' Bulawayo (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe); Salisbury (Salisbury, Zimbabwe).


More information about Humphrey Gibbs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Gibbs

Humphrey married Dame Molly Peel Nelson, DBE on 17 Jan 1934 in Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. Molly (daughter of John Peel Nelson and Ruth Annie Parlett) was born on 13 Jul 1912 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; died on 20 Jan 1997 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Baptism: 3 Mar 1913, Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
• Arrival: 27 Aug 1934, Southampton, Hampshire
• Death: 20 Mar 1997

Notes:

2nd daughter of John Peel Nelson of Bulawayo, Rhodesia. Baptised 3 March 1913 at Benoni. Educated at Girls' High School, Barnato Park, Johannesburg.

D.B.E. (1969). President of Rhodesia Red Cross for 19 years until 1978; President of Girl Guides Association for 20 years until 1979; President National Council of Women; President African Women's Clubs.

Interests: Farm livestock, breeding Labradors, sewing, water colour painting (Exhibition 1976), and fish farming.

Birth:
Modder 'B' Mine

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• Residence: Dunchatton, Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland

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WW1 - Lieutenant in the British Army, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force.; 1939 - Tanner

Douglas married Annie Dunlop Galbraith on 12 Apr 1923. Annie (daughter of William Brodie Galbraith and Anne Jack Dunlop) was born on 28 Mar 1900; died on 14 Dec 1988. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Residence: Shenley, Hertfordshire
• Baptism: 23 Jun 1854, St John's, Hampstead
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, Hampshire
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 56; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Arrival: 17 Dec 1921, Southampton, Hampshire

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4th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs) Lord Aldenham, of Briggens, Herts. Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (created 1923). born at Frognall in Hampstead, London and baptised 23 June 1854 at St. John's Hampstead. Educated at Winchester College, 1868-71. Matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1873; B.A. 1877, M.A. 1884. Died 22 May 1935 at Briggens and was buried 25 May 1935 at St. Dunstan's, Hunsdon.

After a course of training (1877-9) in the offices of Wallace Bros. London; Ventura Marco del Pont, Paris; Gibbs Bright & Co., Liverpool; and Henry Bath & Son, Swansea; he joined Antony Gibbs & Sons 1879; was with their Chilean Branch, Gibbs & Co., 1880-1, and a manager thereof 1881: a manager of the London firm 1881 and a partner thereof from 1882. Original Chairman of the Alianza (Nitrate) Co. Ld., 1895-1928, and of the Pan de Azucar Nitrate Co., Ld., 1901-26; Director of the Rio de Janeiro City Improvements Co. Ld. from 1884 and Chairman from 1905: Director of the Australian Mutual Provdent Soc. from 1908: and sometime Director of other public companies. Chairman of the City of London Conservative Association Sep. 1912 to 1932. On the Public Works Loan Board from July 1884 (dep. Chairman 1908-21, Chairman from 1921). Justice of the Peace for Herts, from 1916. High Sheriff of Herts. for 1913. He was a member of the Deputation sent by the British Government to Russia in the winter of 1912-13 to return the visit of the Duma to England. In the Great War he was director of Purchases of Nitrate of Soda for the Allies (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p.389). Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (?1918). Created Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon 24 July 1923. First speech in the House of Lords 7 July 1924, the subject being 'Trade and Unemployment'. Chairman of the City of London Club 1928-31; Member of the Carlton Club, Pall Mall, from 1910. Author of 'History of Gibbs of Fenton' in Dartington (1925), 'The Parish Registers of Hunsdon (1915)', several pamphlets on Bimetallism and the Currency, 1894-5, including 'A Bimetallic Primer' 1894 (rd ed. 1896), and one on 'The Incidence of Income Tax and Wasting Securities (1904)'. His evidence on 'Wasting Assets Abroad' before the Royal Comn. on Income Tax of 1920 is in an appendix to their Report.

He bought Biggens in the parish of Hunsdon and the lordship of the Manor of Hunsdon in 1908. His successive London residences from 1885 were 34 York Terrace, 17 Portman Street, 9 Portman Square (1898-1923), all in St. Marylebone.

Portraits: Drawing by W.E. Miller, 1882, another by E.U. Eddis in a group with his mother and brother Vicary, 1860, both in possession of Lord Aldenham. Oil, three quarter length, 1891, by W. Ouless, R.A., at Briggens (copy by Miss Richardson in possession of A.Gibbs & Sons). Crayon by John Hay, presentation from City of London Conservative Association, 1932, in possession of Antony D. Gibbs, 5th Lord Aldenham.

Herbert married Anna Maria Durant, Lady Hunsdon on 12 Feb 1885 in Shenley, Hertfordshire. Anna (daughter of Richard Durant and Charlotte Still Dashwood) was born on 8 May 1862 in High Canons; died on 30 Dec 1938 in Ware, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Shenley, Hertfordshire
• Birth: 8 May 1862, Shenley, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1871, Shenley, Hertfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 1881, Shenley, Hertfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 1891, London; Age: 28; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1901, London; Age: 38; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 48; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Notes:

4th and youngest daughter and coheir of Richard Durant of High Canon, Shenley, Herts., and Sharpham, Devon, for whom see Parker of Sharpham in Burke's 'Landed Gentry', by Charlotte Still, daughter of Lieut. Colonel Alexander Wilton Dashwood, for whom see Dashwood (Bart.) of Oxfordshire in 'Burke's Peerage'. Born at High Canons 8 May 1862 and baptised at Shenley Church. Married at Shenley 12 February 1885. Died 30 December 1938.

Lady Hunsdon. President of the Herts. Federation of Women's Institutes and of the Women's Branch of the City of London Conservative Association.

Portrait: oil, three quarter length, 1891, by Sir John Millais, P.R.A., a companion to the Ouless of her husband at the Manor House, Clifton Hampden in possession of Stephen C. Gibbs.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Scholar
• Residence: 1881, London; Age: 8; Relationship to Head: Son
• Residence: 1927, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa

John married Ruth Annie Parlett on 2 Nov 1898 in Shanghai, China. Ruth (daughter of Frederick Parlett and Eliza Blyth) was born in Jul 1873 in Chelmsford, Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Oct 1873, Great Baddow, Essex

William married Anne Jack Dunlop on 9 Oct 1888 in Hillhead, Glasgow City, Scotland. Anne was born on 26 Nov 1860 in Blythswood, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland; died on 12 Jul 1942 in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]