Henry Arthur Gibbs

David married Rose-Marie Ada Margot [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of Henry and Erna Margot.

Marriage dissolved by divorce July 6 2000.

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• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 6; Relation to Head of House: Son

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2nd son. Baptised 28 May 1904 at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate. Educated at Eton College 1917-22. matric: at Oxford (University College, 17 October 1922); 2nd class Science (Physiology) and BA 1926; MA 1930; BM and B.Ch. 1930; Medical Student at Oxford 1922-7 and St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, 1927-30, DM 1932. Died at Ewhurst, Surrey, 14th June 1993 and buried at St. James' Abinger.

Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (England), Licentiate of Royal College of Physicians (London), Member of British Medical Association Jan 1930. Clinical Assistant St. Thomas' Hospital Feb-Aug 1930, Casualty and Outpatients' Officer to Evelina Hospital for Children, Southwark, August 1930-Feb 1931. House Physician Mar-Dec 1931, Obstetrical House Physician Mar-Sept 1932, at the Radcliffe Infirmary and County Hospital, Oxford.

Surgeon to Cobham Nursing Division St. John Ambulance 1937-50.

General Practitioner in Cobham, Surrey 1933-71. Lived at Broxmore, Cobham, Surrey 1933-38; at Leylands, Leigh Place, Cobham, 1938-71 and at Mercer's Cottage, The Common, Cranleigh, Surrey, 1971-1993

Birth:
20 Cleveland Gardens

Antony married Helen Margaret Leuchars on 21 Oct 1937 in Cobham, Surrey. Helen (daughter of William Wood Leuchars and Gwendoline Evelyn Fleming) was born on 2 Feb 1913 in Cobham, Surrey; died on 4 Nov 2013 in Reigate, Surrey; was buried on 18 Nov 2013 in St James, Abinger Common, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Departure: Yokohama, Aomori, Japan
• Arrival: 28 Feb 1936, London; Age: 23

Notes:

Only daughter of William Wood Leuchars and Gwendoline Evelyn Leuchars (nee Fleming) of Waystrode, The Ridgeway, Pyrford, Surrey. Formerly of Holmside, W. Byfleet and Cossins, Cobham. Born 2nd February 1913 at Elmhurst, Cobham, baptised March 1913 at St. Andrew's, Cobham. Educated at Farlington House, Haywards Heath.

Married 21st October 1937 at St. Andrew's, Cobham, Surrey.

Lived at Elmbridge, Cranleigh, 1993-1999, The Beaumont, Reigate, Surrey 1999-2013. Died at Reigate, Surrey, 4th November 2013, and buried at St. James' Abinger.


Birth:
Elmhurst

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• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 50; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

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1st son. Born at Collina (now the Vicarage), Torwood, Torquay, 27 October and baptised 7 December 1860 at St. Mark's, Torwood. Educated at Winchester College 1874-8, matric. at Oxford (Keble College), 28 January 1879; 1st class Science (biology) and BA 1882; MA 1925. Died 9 July 1949 and was buried at St. James' Abinger, Surrey. Will proved.

Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London 1882; in Liverpool with Antony Gibbs & Sons & Co., 1882-3; in Melbourne, Australia, with Gibbs Bright. & Co., 1885-9 (a manager there 1889); a partner in Gibbs & Co. Chile (Valparaiso and Iquique) 1890-6; a manager in the London firm 1896 and partner therein 1897 to 31 December 1930, when he retired. Director of the Mexican Railway Co. from 1905 and of the Indemnity Assurance Co. from 1906. Churchwarden of St. James', Abinger, of St. Martin Outwich, of St. Helen's, City of London, from 1920. On the council of Keble College, Oxford, from 1925. Author of 'The History of Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' and of the 'Early Years of Antony Gibbs & Sons', published 1922, and editor of the third edition of the family pedigree. Author of Abinger Parish Church published October 1938 (all his notes are available on-line at http://www.stjameschurchabinger.org/church-history.ashx and view 'Other Documents' on this page. His Chilean War Diaries are in the possession of Julian R. GIbbs

Residences: after marriage, 20 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington, 1902 - March 1931, and Goddards, Abinger, Surrey, leased from 1914, bought by his wife, 1927. Goddards was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1898-9 for Sir Frederick Mirrilees. The house was intended for Sir Frederick's daughter Cecilia (afterwards Mrs Craven) and until she needed it, it was used as a rest home for nurses.

St Cecilia's badge is carved outside the front entrance. After the house was enlarged in 1910 it was occupied for a short time by Sir Frederick's son, Donald Mirrilees and his wife. Mrs. Craven never lived there. It is a fine example of the relationship between house and garden which was of paramount importance to Lutyens (see Edwin Lutyens Architectural Monographs 6, Academy Editions, London, 1979). The garden was designed by Gertrude Jekyll and is mentioned in 'Gardens Old and New' edited by H. Avray Tipping, MA, FSA, Vol. III (pub. about 1912 by Country Life). Distinct reservations on its architectural merits are expressed by Pevsner in the vol. on Surrey in the 'Buildings of England' Series, pub. by Penguin Books, 1st edition 1962, 2nd edition. 1971, however it is the subject of one of the books in Brian Edwards' "Architecture in Detail" series (Goddards, Lutyens by Brian Edwards published by Phaidon Press Ltd 1996).

Birth:
Collina

John married Emily Gertrude Franck Bright on 14 Jan 1902 in Oxford, Oxfordshire. Emily (daughter of Rev. James Franck Bright and Emmeline Theresa Wickham) was born on 31 Aug 1868 in Preshute House, Marlborough College, Wiltshire; died on 27 Nov 1960 in Cobham, Surrey; was buried in Abinger, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: Oct 1960, Wootton Fairmile Lane, Colesham, Surrey

Notes:

Gertrude was John Arthur Gibbs's second cousin. 3rd daughter and co-heir of Rev. James Frank Brighton, DD, (died 1920), Master of University College, Oxford (nephew of Robert Bright, by Emmeline Theresa (died 1871), 1st daughter of Rev. Edmund Dawe Wickham, vicar of Holmwood, Surrey, by Theresa, daughter and heir of Archdale Palmer of Cheam Park, Surrey (see Wickham of Horsington in Burke's 'Landed Gentry' and 'Selborne' in his Peerage): born at Preshute House, Marlborough College, 31 August 1868 and baptised at Preshute House, Marlborough College, 31 August 1868. Married at St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford 14 January 1902. Died 27 November 1960 at Cobham, Surrey and was buried at St. James' Abinger 30 November 1960.

For her lineage see 'Bright of Colwall' in Burke's 'Landed Gentry'. The life of her father and that of her grandfather, Richard Bright, MD (died 1858) are in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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Married:
St. Peter's in the East

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1911, 'Elmhurst', Cobham, Surrey

William married Gwendoline Evelyn Fleming on 29 Sep 1906 in Cobham, Surrey. Gwendoline was born on 29 Sep 1886 in Hampstead, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]