Elizabeth Pamela Scott

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Educated at Wellington College.

Regular Army Officer, Queen's Bays. Retired 1949.

Richard married Evelyn Mercy Bennett on 22 Jul 1948. Evelyn (daughter of Richard Alexander Bennett and Albinia Rose Gibbs) was born on 4 Oct 1916 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire; died in 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Baptised privately 13 November 1916 and received into Church 21 May 1918.

Member, Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (qualified 1939).

2 daughters: Elizabeth Pamela, born 1950; Janet
Albinia, born 1954, married Douglas George Readings.

Notes:

1st son of Rev. Alexander Bennett, sometime Vicar of St. Stephens, Bournemouth (died 1912), by Jessie, 3rd daughter of Rev. Richard Payne, sometime Vicar of Downton, Wilts. Baptised at St. Peter's, Bournemouth. Educated at Eton College, 1886-91; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 1891, MA 1896.

Justice of the Peace, co. Glos., from 1911. In the Great War joined 2/1 Glos. Yeomanry (Territorial Force) September 1914, as 2nd Lieut.; Lieut., 1915; Captain, 1919; served in England and Ireland and was demobilized, March 1919.

Residence, 21 Norfolk Crescent, Paddington, 1900-4; Wickwar, co. Glos., 1904-9; Thornbury Park, co. Glos., from 1910.

His great grandmother was sister of William Adams of Thorpe (also in the Gibbs Family Tree).

Richard married Albinia Rose Gibbs on 2 Dec 1899 in Wraxall, Somerset. Albinia (daughter of Antony Gibbs, of Tyntesfield and Janet Louisa Merivale) was born on 31 Mar 1876 in Paddington, London; died on 3 Oct 1941 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: May 1876, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Paddington, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Thornbury, Gloucestershire

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1st daughter of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised in May 1876 at St. Michael's, Paddington.

Portrait, aged 6 (1882) by W. Walker; Portrait (1878) by E. Clifford, see Lord Wraxall, both last in possession of Lord Wraxall.

Alexander married Jessie Payne on 7 Aug 1865 in Downton, Wiltshire. Jessie (daughter of Richard Payne, Rev.) was born on 25 Apr 1844 in Winchester, Hampshire; died on 7 Oct 1888. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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.