Lieut. Colonel William Richard Edgedale

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• Baptism: Mar 1931, London

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Born 28 February 1931. Baptised March 1931 at St. Michael's, Chester Square. Educated at Eton and RMA Mons.

Commissioned with The Life Guards 1949; served Egypt, Cyprus, W. Germany, Borneo, Malaya, Singapore; Regimental Adjutant Household Cavalry 1964-66; Commanding Officer, Household Cavalry Regiment 1972-75; Retired 1975 from the Army;

Assistant Clerk of the Course, Ascot Racecourse from 1975. Knight of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Chevalier of the Order of the Dannebrog; Chevalier of the Order of the Polar Star; Officer (Military Division) the Order of Orange Nassau.

Died: 9 August 1996.

1 son and 3 daughters by his first wife Mary Ella Newman:

(1) James William b. 14 January 1963 and married to Sarah Louise Jenkinson (b. 19 March 1964) with three children - Alice Lucy Rose b. 30 June 1995, Rupert Guy b. 16 September 1997, and George William b. 2 August 2001

(2) Mirabel Jean Elaine Edgedale b. 13 June 1955

(3) Emma Margaret Belak b. 20 August 1956

(4) Sarah Jane Donlan b. 12 December 1965 and married to Robert Donlan (b. 27 October 1967), children - Imogen Emily Zoe, Oliver Guy George, Saskia Eve Mary.

Birth:
22 Gerald Road, SW1

Died:
or 9 August 1996?

William married Mary Newman on 19 Jul 1954 in St Michael's, Chester, and was divorced in Nov 1976. Mary (daughter of Guy Arthur Newman, JP.) was born on 3 Oct 1931 in London; died on 22 sept 2004. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mirabel Jean Elaine Edgedale
2. Emma Margaret Belak Edgedale was born on 20 Aug 1956; died on 9 Jan 2017.
3. James William Edgedale
4. Sarah Jane Edgedale

William married Anne Virginia Smith on 18 Jan 1977. Anne (daughter of George William Murray Smith) was born on 17 Apr 1951; died on 15 Apr 1997. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 3 Jul 1897, Newbold, Lancashire

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Baptised 3 July 1897 at Newbold, Lancashire. Educated at Shrewsbury 1911-14 and Christ Church, Oxford, 1920-21. (Boulter Exhibition). Buried in Finchampstead churchyard.

Vice-President Oxford University Moot Club, 1921. Served in the Great War with the Royal Field Artillery in France and Mesopotamia, 1914-19 (British War Medal, and Allies' Victory Medal). Called to the Bar (Inner Temple) 1921. Contested Parliamentary Division of Mansfield co. Notts., 1929 as Conservative. Chairman of Coningsby Club, 1925-26. K.C. 1947; J.P. 1949-52; Special Commissioner for Trial of Matrimonial Causes 1953; County Court Judge 1961-66.

Club: Carlton.

Changed his Surname from Sidebottom to Edgedale during the 1920s (had enough of the jokes)

Samuel married Elaine Blanche Gibbs on 16 Sep 1925 in Clyst St George, Devon. Elaine (daughter of Antony Hubert Gibbs, JP and Mary Mercy Llewellyn) was born on 17 Jan 1901 in Langford Court, Burrington, Somerset; died on 19 Feb 1977 in Bracknell, Berkshire; was buried in Feb 1977 in Finchampstead, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 24 Feb 1901, Wraxall, Somerset
• Arrival: 4 Feb 1925, London

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1st daughter of Antony Hubert Gibbs. Baptised 24 Feb 1901 at Wraxall, Somerset.Married 16 Sept. 1925 at Clyst St. George. d 19 Feb 1977 and bur. in Finchampstead ch yd.

Before marriage was President of Girls' Exeter Diocesan Assoc., Scoutmaster of Boy Scouts and Captain of Girl Guides. 1925-75 On Committee of Florence Nightingale Hospital for Gentlewomen in Lisson Grove, London. 1935-39 Active with Roehampton Conservative Assn. and 1945-77 with Crowthorne Conservative Assn. (Chairman, Women's Committee). Chairman and President, Crowthorne Girl Guides.

There are three Memorials to her at Crowthorne, Berkshire. 1. Flowering Cherry Tree donated by Crowthorne Girl Guides, planted 19 Feb. 1978 by her son William, in Crowthorne Churchyard; 2. Elaine Edgedale Silver Cup for Crowthorne children's Spring Bulb Competition, 1st awarded 18 Feb. 1978; 3. Elaine Edgedale Memorial Rose Bowl for Best Kept Garden in Crowthorne, 1st awarded 15 July 1978.

Portraits: Pastel as a child by H. M. Heaton; small water colour by unknown artist when about 5 or 6 years old; and an oil painting by unknown artist when about 8 years old. All in the possession of her son Lt. Col. william Richard Edgedale.

Samuel married Maude Peternel Richards on 13 Aug 1896. Maude was born on 17 Oct 1870 in Rochdale, Lancashire; died on 25 Jan 1955 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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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• Occupation: High Sheriff, county Somerset
• Baptism: 11 Jan 1842, St Johns, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1901, Paddington, London

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1st son of Tyntesfield. Baptised 11 January 1842 at St. John's, Paddington. Educated at Radley College 1855-7; matric. at Oxford (Exeter College) 2 May 1862; BA 1867; MA 1869; entered at the Inner Temple as a student 1865. Died at Tyntesfield 24 and was buried 29 April 1907 at Wraxall, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and in the chapel (Charlton chapel), in Tyntesfield chapel and Keble College chapel; Memorial window in Clyst St. George chapel. Will dated 23 March 1905, proved 12 July 1907.

After marriage, Charlton (see entry for William Gibbs of Tyntesfield) was his country residence till his mother died; thereafter Tyntesfield. He succeeded to his father's properties in Somerset and Devon. He bought Barrow Court in Barrow Gurney, Somerset, adjoining Flax Bourton, from John Henry Blagrave in 1881 and sold it (with most of its land) to his brother Martin in 1884 and he augmented the living of Barrow Gurney. He bought, about 1874, Barton Place in the parish of St. David, Exeter, the ancestral home of his wife's family. He was patron of the livings of Clyst St. George, Exwick, Stowe-nine-churches, St. Michael's in Paddington, North Newton and Otterbourne which were all in his father's gift, also of Alphington, Devon, and of Flax Barton (in which part of the Tyntesfield Estate lies) both of which he bought.

A member of the Council of Radley College 1890-7. He and his brother, Martin, gave to Keble College, Oxford, in their father's memory, the side of the main quadrangle of the College embracing the hall, library, common rooms and kitchen. The foundation stone was laid in 1876, on the same day that the Chapel given by their father to the College was opened (see also entry for William Gibbs of Tyntesfield), and the opening took place in 1878, when the two brothers, whose names had so far been withheld, were disclosed as the donors (the deed of gift hangs in the Senior Common Room of the College).

Wraxall church was restored (1893) at his chief cost (Sir Arthur Blomfield, architect), and he introduced the stained glass windows by Kemp, and screened off the Charlton chapel, adding to it the reredos by Kemp.

He joined the North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry as Cornet, 3 January, 1871; Captain October, 1881; Hon. Major, 1881; Major, 1886; retired 1893.

Justice of the Peace for Somerset from about 1867 to 1907. On the Highway Board and Board of Guardians. High Sheriff of Somerset for 1888 and Deputy Lieutenant 1889-1907. An Alderman of the Somerset County Council to 1898. President of the North Somerset Conservative Association for a great number of years. A Life Governor of Bristol General Hospital. On Bristol Diocesan committees for the promotion of Church matters. (In Sidney Lee's 'Life of King Edward VII (1923-7) it is related that the King when Prince of Wales twice in 1881 pressed on Gladstone the bestowal of a Baronetcy on Antony Gibbs. His son Lord Wraxall told John Arthur Gibbs - fourth editor of the Gibbs Pedigree - that this story was inaccurate and he asked Lee to omit it from any later edition, the facts being that the Liberal Whip Marjoribanks (later Lord Tweedmouth invited Antony to an interview, at which he said that gladstone desired to suggest him to the Queen for a Peerage, making reference to his and his father's philanthropic works, but that Antony having then mentioned that he was a Conservative he heard no more of the matter

Portraits: as a child by John Phillip, miniature with his father and sister Dorothea by Sir Wm. Ross, oil by J. H. Lorimer; all last in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930 (11). The portrait in the Hall of Keble College is a copy by F. George Swaish of the Lorimer.

Birth:
13 Hyde Park Gardens

Antony married Janet Louisa Merivale on 22 Jun 1872 in St. Michael's, Star Street, Paddington. Janet (daughter of John Louis Merivale and Mary Anne Webster) was born on 15 Dec 1850 in Kilburn, Middlesex; died on 10 Dec 1909 in London; was buried on 14 Dec 1909 in Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Jan 1851, Hampstead, London
• Residence: 1861, Exeter St David, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset

Notes:

1st daughter of John Louis Merrivale (died 1886) by his 1st wife Mary Anne, daughter of Joseph Webster. Baptised 25 January 1851 at the parish church of Hampstead, Middlesex. Died at 104 Eaton Square, Westminster, 10th and was buried 14 December 1909 at Wraxall, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in same places as her husband's except Keble College. Will dated 17 August 1908, proved 20 January 1910.

After her husband died she resided at Charlton aforesaid, and for her London house took 104 Eaton Sq., Westminster, in place of 16 Hyde Park Gds. aforesaid. the lease of which she sold. One of her brothers, George Montagu Merivale (1855-1931) was a partner in Gibbs, Bright & Co., Sydney, Australia, till 1924. Her father was Senior Registrar in Chancery and brother of Herman Merivale, C.B., and of Charles, Dean of Ely, whose lives are in Dictionary National Biography.

Her father's 2nd wife was his cousin, Frances Rose, sister of Baron John Benjamin Heath (born 1879), who was son of John Heath of the firm Heath and Co., Genoa. For the Merivale family and their relatives of the Heath, Drury, Malet and Frere families, and for printed books which refer to them see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs. The friendship between the Gibbs and Merivale families began in 1803 when Antony Gibbs (born 1756) went to live at Cowley near Barton Place.

Portrait by Archer (1875) with her son George
(Lord Wraxall) was last in possession of the latter, 1930.

Notes:

Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn (25 February 1847 – 27 February 1914) was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1906.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Henry_Llewellyn

Evan married Mary Blanche Somers on 29 Oct 1868 in Axbridge, Somerset. Mary was born in Jan 1847 in Burrington, Somerset; died on 3 Feb 1906 in Axbridge, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]