Nicholas Roland Antony Gibbs

Nicholas married Marzia Maria Guilia [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. George Antony Alessio Gibbs

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2nd son. Born 1 February 1934 and baptised 14 March 1934 at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks. Educated at Eton 1947-52.

1952 Visited the Union of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Novemer 1952 enlisted as National Service conscript. 25 July 1955 Commissioned into Coldstream Guards as 2nd Lieut. 1953-55 served with 2nd Battalion in British Army of the Rhine. Lieutenant 24 July 1955. 1956-57 served at Guards Depot. 1957-60 with 1st Battalion in BAOR and UK. 1960-62 GSO3 1st Guards Brigade. Captain 1 Feb. 1961. 1962-64 Adjutant Mons Officer Cadet School. 1964-67 with 1st Battalion in BAOR, Libya, Aden, British Honduras and UK. 1967-69 served at Guards Depot. Major 31 March 1967. 1969-72 Deputy Assistant Adjutant General Headquarters London District. 1972-73 with 1st Battalion in N. Ireland, UK and Berlin. 1973-74 with 2nd Battalion as Second in Command in UK, Sharjah and Cyprus. Lieutenant Colonel 30 June 1974.1975-77 Commanded 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards in UK and N. Ireland. 1977-80 Assistant Adjutant General Headquarters London District.

General Service Medal with Clasp 'South Arabia' (1966); General Service Medal with Clasp 'Northern Ireland' (1972); United National Medal (Cyprus) 1974; Jubilee Medal 1977.

Coordinator State Funeral of Earl Mountbatten of Burma (5 September 1979).

Private Secretary H.R.H. The Princess Anne The Princess Royal 1982-1997. K.C.V.O. 6 October 1997.

Died 6 September 2001 and buried at Clyst St. George.

Birth:
17 Draycott Avenue

Peter married Jane Duncombe Howell [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Baptised 21 July 1906 at St. George's, Clyst St. George. Educated at Eton College 1919/24 and Royal Military College, Sandhurst 1925-26. Killed in Action near Dunkirk, 1st June 1940.

2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards 1926; Lieut. 1929, Capt. 1940. Served with the Shanghai Defence Force 1927-28. Resigned from the Army, February 1930 and joined British Shareholders' Trust in the City of London, but remained on the Reserve until re-called to serve in the Second World War. Member of the Stock Exchange, and partner in David A. Sevan, Stockbrokers, from 1933-39. He was killed on June 1st 1940 while commanding No. 1 Company, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, at Hondeschoote, six miles behind Dunkirk while forming the rear guard of the B.E.F. He was buried by the villagers and afterwards buried by the War Graves Commission in Warhem Cemetery near Dunkirk. He is mentioned in the following books: "Fight Another Day" by J. M. Langley, published by Collins, 1974;
"No Dishonourable Name" by D. C. Quilter, published by Clowes, 1947; "The Coldstream Guards 1920-1946" by Michael Howard and John Sparrow, pub. by The Oxford University Press, 1951.

Portrait as a child in pastel by H. M. Heaton in possession of grandson Patrick Gibbs.

Died:
Killed in Action

Evan married Monica Elizabeth Wyldbore-Smith on 28 Apr 1930 in Westminster, London. Monica (daughter of Sir Edmund Charles Wyldbore-Smith and Evadne Maude Kellett) was born on 29 Sep 1900 in Lonsdale, Kyle, Wexforth; died on 8 Jul 1973 in Winchester, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Younger daughter of Sir Edmund Wyldbore-Smith, Knt. great-grandson of Sir John Wyldbore-Smith, Baronet), by Evadne Maude, daughter of John Talbot Kellett of Great Glonard, County Wexford. Baptised October 1900 at Kyle.

Married 2ndly 24 October 1957, Lt. Col. Walter Pearce-Serocold, DSO, TD, younger son of Colonel Oswald Pearce-Serocold, CMG, DL, JP of Taplow Hill, Bucks (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry').

Arthur married Beryl Stuart Bowater on 9 Apr 1931 in St George Hanover Square, London. Beryl (daughter of Frank Henry Bowater, 1st Baronet of Friston and Ethel Anita Fryar) was born on 11 Dec 1902 in Lewisham, London; died on 15 Oct 1987 in Sherborne, Dorset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Departure: Santa Fe, Argentina
• Baptism: 8 Nov 1874, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Clyst St Mary, Devon
• Arrival: 1 Dec 1960, London

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2nd son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised 8 November 1874 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College, 1888-92; matric. Cambridge (Trinity Hall) 1893; BA 1897.

Tenant of his brother George from 1899 of Pytte, Clyst St. George. In the firm of Antony Gibbs & Sons in the City of London 1898-9. Partner from 1899 in Milford Snow & Co. (The City Bank) Exeter, since united with Sanders & Co. (The Exeter Bank) later the National Provincial Bank, Ltd., of which he was a local director. Among many other official occupations in Devon, member of The Tuckers' Hall, Exeter, from 1906, President for 1912. President of Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital 1923-5. Treasurer from 1930. Chairman of St. Thomas' (Exeter) District Council and Chairman of St. Thomas' Guardians' Committee. Member of the Devon County Council and of the Devon Standing Joint Committee; Treasurer of the Board of Finance of Diocese of Exeter to July 1930, vice-Chairman from July 1930; Treasurer of the East Devon Hunt, and of sundry other institutions. Chairman of the Devon and Exeter Dispensary, 1909, of the West of England Institution for the Blind, 1912, and of the Devon and Exeter Institution, 1929. A Justice of the Peace for Devon from 1922. A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar. Member of the Carlton Club from 1913.

2nd Lieut. North Somerset Yeomanry, 1895; Lieut., December 1898; Captain 1904; Major, June 1912. Coronation Medal of King Edward VII, 1903. Territorial Decoration, 1915. In the Great War served with the North Somerset Yeo., 4 August 1914 to Mar. 1917, and was in France with them 2 November 1914 to May 1915, the Regt. being part of the 6th Cavalry Brig, of 3rd Cav. Division under Major General The Hon. Julian Byng now Lord Byng of Vimy. In command of 3rd N. Som. Yeo. at Bath May 1915-March 1917; on Quarter Master General's Staff of Southern Command at Salisbury May 1917 to end of the War. Medals of the War, 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal.

He was a proficient carpenter, electrician and mechanic, turning articles in ivory and wood on his lathe, an art he had learned from his father. In 1923 he made a gavel and block to be used by the Chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Committee. The gavel is still in the possession of the Hospital and is stamped "A. H. Gibbs 1923, R.D.E.H. Fecit". During the Second World War he became an Air-raid Warden and was given the Defence Medal at the end of the war.
Clyst St. George Church. (Extract from A. Hubert Gibbs obituary in the Express and Echo and Western Morning News, 31 July 1957). "After the destruction of the church by enemy action in 1940, it was rebuilt thanks to his untiring energy and patience, in a style which has won warm approval by its beauty and comfort. In this cause he obtained grants and raised funds, chose the best architect and builders available, and selected the most suitable designs for the lovely east and west windows. He was also the prime mover in the erection of the Parish Hall, of which he was a trustee and the first chairman." It is believed that this church was the first in England to be destroyed in the Second World War (by incendiaries). With his own hands he salvaged the two oldest Gibbs' memorials: to John Gibbe, 1592 (brass); and to George Gibbs (stone), 1692, which he put in a wheelbarrow and reassembled in a cow shed at Pytte, where it remained until the rebuilding in 1950, when it was put together again (not quite complete) by Herbert Read. The church was re-dedicated on 4 July 1952. Architects: Nicholson & Rushton, Lincolns Inn; Builders, Dart & Francis Ltd., Crediton; Windows (east and west), by Hugh Easton, London. Bells: recast and rehung by Hughes & Stainbank of Whitechapel, London.
The Reredos and Bosses were the gift of William Otter Gibbs from Barrow Court oratory.

There is a memorial to Hubert, Mercy and their son Evan in the form of altar rails by Herbert Read, 1948, and altar rail gates by Herbert Read (son) 1961.

Portraits: Pastel by H.M. Heaton last in possession of his son Antony; one by E. Clifford (1878) was in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930.

Antony married Mary Mercy Llewellyn on 18 Oct 1899 in Burrington, Devon. Mary (daughter of Evan Henry Llewellyn and Mary Blanche Somers) was born on 26 Jun 1875 in Langford Court, Burrington, Somerset; died on 16 Jan 1956 in Pytte, Clyst St George, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 11 Jul 1875, Burrington, Somerset

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1st daughter of Evan H. Llewellyn of Langford Court, Burrington, Somerset, MP (by Mary Blanche, 1st daughter of Thomas Somers (died 1862) of Mendip Lodge, Burrington, for whom see Burke's 'Landed Gentry'. Baptised 11 July 1875 at Burrington.

Co-opted member of the Devon County Council's Committee for Care of the Mentally Defective. Member of the following committees: Exeter Diocesan Association for Care of Friendless Girls (Chairman 1927-9); the Devon Voluntary Association for Welfare of the Mentally Defective; the Royal West of England Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; Devon District Nursing Assn. (Topsham & District). Founder Member and 1st President of Clyst St. George & Ebford Women's Institute. A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar. Founded Clyst St. George Mother's Union branch 1912.

Portrait: Pastel by H. M. Heaton in possession of great-nephew Patrick Gibbs.

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• Residence: 1891, Great Amwell, Hertfordshire; Haileybury College

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Sir Edmund Charles Wyldbore Smith (15 January 1877 - 18 October 1938) was a British civil servant, diplomat, and businessman. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Charles_Wyldbore_Smith

Edmund married Evadne Maude Kellett on 14 Oct 1901. Evadne (daughter of John Talbot Kellet and Letitia Emilie Lyster Robinson) was born about 1873; died on 25 Apr 1960 in Aldershot, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Age: 87

Ernest married Lilian Lucy Anna Jennings on 16 Oct 1901 in Chefoo, North China. Lilian was born on 30 Mar 1882 in Chefoo, North China; died on 6 Jan 1983 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frank married Ethel Anita Fryar in 1891 in Manchester, Lancashire. Ethel was born on 2 Jul 1869 in Seetabuldee, Bengal, India; died on 19 Dec 1943 in Blyth, Suffolk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]