Charlie Geoffrey Gibbs-Henny

Charlie married Holly Jayne Harris [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jude Denis Gibbs
2. Marley Daniel Raymond Gibbs

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Trinity College Oxford, Graduate Research Development, Economics. UC Berkeley, California: BA, Economics & Political Science. City University, London UK: MBA, Finance, Risk Management & Systems Analysis.

1976/79: Shell International, Manager Economic Financial Evaluations, Simulations & Supplier Coordination; 1979/81: InterMatrix Group, London, Director, Client Studies and New Business Development; 1980/82: University Telematics, VP and Chief Operating Officer; Universal Machine Intelligence, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Chief Executive Officer, 1992/94: University of Michigan Health System, Director Technology Transfer, 1997/2000: Triada, Senior VP, 2000-date: Henny & Associates, Chief Executive Officer

Other: Adjunct Professor, Strategic Management, Wayne State University Business School

Married to Linda Henny, lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Geoffrey married Sarah Mary Gibbs. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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