Lieut. Noel Martin Gibbs

Notes:

Baptised 1 January 1885 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College 1898-9 (Miss Evans' house)' Radley College 1899-1902.

Died unmarried, being killed in the Great War on the the bank of the river Ruhu near Kahe in German East Africa and was buried next day near Kahe Ry. Station, and re-buried after the War in the cemetery at Moschi in that country.

Memorial Inscriptions in Barrow Gurney Churchyard, Barrow Court chapel. Eton College War Memorial and Muthaiga War Memorial in British East Africa. Will proved in East Africa.

2nd Lieut. 4th Bn. (Militia Bn.), The Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry, Sep. 1902; Lieut., October 1903. Resigned April 1908. Went to British East Africa first in 1906; farmed there (successively at N. Tabibbi, Naivasha, and Nakuru) till his death. In the Great War enlisted in the East African Mounted Rifles, September 1914, and was in operations near Kisi on Lake Victoria and near Mt. Kilimanjaro, in German E. Africa. Recommended for a commission. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal—issued to his father.

Portraits: by F. Crawley-Boevey (1894); by Ogilvie; and a min.; all three last in possession of Martin Antony Gibbs.

Died:
Killed in action in the Great War

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 24 Jun 1850, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1891, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1901, Windsor, Berkshire

Notes:

4th son of William Gibbs of Tyntesfield of Barrow Court, Somerset. Baptised 24 June 1850 at St. John's, Paddington. Educated at Lancing College 1866-69; matric. Cambridge (Clare College) 1871. Buried 25 April 1928 at Barrow Gurney, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there; in Barrow Court chapel; in the chapel of Keble College, Oxford; in King's College, Taunton and Lancing College; Memorial window in Down Ampney Church, Wiltshire and Memorial reredos in the chapel of St. Michael's Home in Cheddar, the 2 last to him and his wife. Will dated 19 November 1926, cod. 20 March 1928, proved 24 August 1928.

During 1874 he lived at Malahuasi in the valley of Jauga, Peru, for his health. He restored Barrow Court 1882-84 for his home and bought it and the advowson of Barrow Gurney in 1885: restored the church at Barrow Gurney, 1887; erected or restored many buildings in the village; and bought the manor of Barrow Gurney 1902. The manor and village had previously belonged to J. Gratwick Blagrave, son of J. H. Blagrave.

Leased Down Ampney House, co. Glos., 1893-1916 and gave the screen, new pulpit, new seats and other gifts to the church there. For his benefaction with his brother Antony of a block of buildings to Keble College, Oxford, in 1875-78, in memory of their father, see Antony Gibbs. He gave the building which contains the school hall and class rooms, and many other benefactions, to Lancing College, and to its chapel; also gave a new wing to Ardingly College and was a great benefactor to this and other of the Southern and Western schools of the "Woodard" group.

He was on the Corporation of SS. Mary and Nicolas (the governing body of all the "Woodard" schools); a Fellow (1879-1928) of the Society of the SS. Mary and Nicolas (Lancing and the other Southern Schools); Fellow and Gustos (1879-1928) of the Society of SS. Mary and Andrew (King's Coll., Taunton); on the Committee of Lancing Coll., and Trustee of its property; founded three scholarships there.

He restored the Garrison Church at Dover Castle, and gave the reredos to the English Church at Balquhidder, co. Perth. Chairman of the Trust of St. Michael's Home in Cheddar. On the Long Ashton Rural District Council, 1902-28, and Chairman of the Barrow-Gurney Parish Council. A Justice of the Peace for Somerset (Long Ashton petty sessional division) 1886-1928. High Sheriff of Somerset for 1897. Served on various committees of the Bath and Wells Diocesan Conference.

Portraits: Oil by Solomon J. Solomon, last in possession of his son Major Antony Gibbs; water colour by E. Clifford, chalk by J. de Cazenave (1859), a min., a water colour (on photo base) by Speaight (1920), whereabouts unknown (1980); oil by Goldsborough Anderson (about 1903) at Lancing Coll.; min. (as a child, with his bro. George) by Sir W. Ross was last in possn. of Lord Wraxall (in 1930.

Birth:
8 Sussex Square,

Died:
Barrow Court

Henry married Emily Anna Otter on 22 Jun 1883 in Lindfield, Sussex. Emily (daughter of Rev. William Bruere Otter and Elizabeth Melvil) was born on 6 Mar 1854 in Cowfold, Sussex; died on 5 Jul 1928 in Fyfield, Berkshire; was buried on 8 Jul 1928 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Apr 1854, Cowfold, Sussex
• Residence: 1861, Cowfold, Sussex
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, Berkshire

Notes:

5th daughter of Rev. William Bruere Otter, Archdeacon of Lewes, by Elizabeth, 3rd and youngest daughter of Robert Melvil, English Consul at Amsterdam. Baptised 9 April 1854 in Cowfold Parish Church. Buried 8 July 1928 at Barrow Gurney. Memorial Inscription in the churchyard there and in Barrow Court chapel. Memorial reredos and Memorial window, both as aforesaid under her husband. Administration 23 November 1928.

The following is a selection from a number of posts which she held at different times. In 1920 she resigned from sixteen on account of ill health. An original member of the General and Exec. Committees of the Somerset Federation of Women's Institutes, 1902-12, and an elected Vice-President, 1902-28; President of the Barrow-Gurney Women's Institute till 1928; Founder and President of the local Nursing Association; for many years on the Committee of the Somerset Association of the Welfare of Women and Girls:
co-opted Member of the Board of Guardians of Long Ashton afsd. 1904-28, and acted on many of its sub-committees; on the Somerset County Education Committee, 1903-20, and co-opted Member of its Special Subjects Committee, 1913-20; a Trustee of St. Michael's Home afsd. till 1928; on the Council of Bristol Blind School for many years till 1928; on the General Committee of Bristol Blind Asylum 1912-28; founded in 1912 the North Somerset Women's Unionist Association and was President and Chairman thereof; Local Representative of the Long Ashton War Pensions Sub-committee, 1914-20.

Portraits: By Wm. Walker (1883); by Goldsborough Anderson (1905); min. by Miss Hall, last in possession of her son Major Anthony Gibbs.

Birth:
Vicarage

Died:
Car Accident

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Head of Antony Gibbs & Sons
• Baptism: 21 Jul 1790, British Embassy, Madrid, Spain
• Residence: 1861, Paddington, London; Relationship: Head
• Residence: 1871, Wraxall, Somerset; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

His baptism in Madrid is recorded in the Register of St. Mary Major, Exeter, see Additions of 1927 in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p.XVI (4).

He was employed in Cadiz, Lisbon and England in his father's business 1802-5; in his uncle George's (George Gibbs of Redland) business (Gibbs Richards and Gibbs) in Bristol, 1806-8; in London under his father in the Portuguese Commission 1808-9; in London in Antony Gibbs and Son 1809-12. Partner in Antony Gibbs & Sons 1813-75; resident in Cadiz in charge of their House there 1813-22: head of A. Gibbs & Sons 1843-75 and sole partner 1843-7. During his headship the South American business prospered exceedingly. Member of Lloyds 1812-75.

After marriage his successive residences in London were 13 Hyde Park Street (number since changed) 1840-8, Gloucester Square 1849, Sussex Square 1850, 16 Hyde Park Gardens 1851-75, all in Paddington. He bought the estate and house of Tyntesfield, Wraxall, north Somerset in April 1844 from Reverend George Turner Seymour, at various times (notably 1862-4) greatly altered the house (John Norton one of the architects) and at the end of his life built the beautiful chapel to it (Sir A. W. Blomfield, architect). He added to his property in 1865 the adjoining estate and house called Charlton (in Wraxall parish) buying it from the Kingston family, and in 1870 he reunited Belmont and Tyntesfield, buying Belmont from his nephew George L. M. Gibbs. In Devon he bought back Pytte the ancient home of our family in Clyst St. George from the executors of General Doveton, in 1859, made other purchases in that parish, rebuilt cottages, and amongst other benefactions to the village and church gave a memorial window (1860) to his grandfather (George Abraham Gibbs of Pytte). He also bought from Lord Devon in 1873 an estate in Alphington, nr. Exeter (which extended into Whitestone). At Littlemore, Oxon, he bought in 1872 the house of his cousin and former partner Charles Crawley.

The village school and school-master's house at Clifton Hampden, Oxon, in 1847, and the Church at Flaxley, in Gloucestershire, in 1856 were both built at his cost (the architect being G. Gilbert Scott): so also in 1861 were St. Michael and All Angels Church in Star Street, Paddington, and its vicarage (architect Rhode Hawkins). In Devon, he built in 1868 the Chapel-of-Ease of St. Antony at Cowley in memory of his parents and of his own life there, and at the same time and with the same architect (R. Hawkins) the Church of St. Michael and All Angels and its vicarage in the parish of St. David, Exeter; and in 1872 he enlarged the church at Exwick and in 1874 built its vicarage on the site of the grounds of his father's one time residence Exwick House. Moreover, he contributed largely to the restoration of Exeter and Bristol Cathedrals. The endowments of the livings of Exwick, St. Michael's Exeter, and St. Michael's Paddington, were also gifts from him. He acquired the advowsons of Clyst St. George (1857), Exwick, St. Michael's in Paddington, Stowe-nine-churches, North Newton in Somerset, and Otterbourne in Hampshire (the latter because of its connection with Rev. John Keble). He founded in 1859 at Brixham, Devon, a Mission to Seamen of ships sheltering in Torbay, and in 1860 there the British Seamen's Orphan Boys' Home for the Western Counties, his interest in that parish being due to his temporary tenancy of Berryhead House there, the home of Rev. John Hogg.

Of all his gifts the most famous was the chapel of Keble College Oxford. He offered it to the College in 1872 (on the suggestion of his friend Sir John Taylor Coleridge), and himself laid the foundation stone on St. Mark's Day (25 April) 1873. He died in 1875, and his son Antony formally presented it at the opening service on St. Mark's Day 1876, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The same day Lord Salisbury (Chancellor of the University) laid the foundation stone of the block of buildings given to the College by William's sons Antony and Martin. W. Butterfield was architect both of chapel and block, as of the rest of the College.

William was an original (1832) member of the City of London Club and a member of the Athenaeum Club. Memorial Inscription in Wraxall church and churchyard at Tyntesfield chapel, Barrow Court chapel, Flaxley church, St. Michael's Paddington (rose window erected by the parish in his memory), St. Michael's Exeter, Keble College Chapel, Cowley chapel, Exwick chapel and St. Martin's Brighton.

For his life in detail up to 1824 and for some particulars as to his later years see book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs. See also a booklet 'In memory of William Gibbs' (privileged printing Rivingtons, 1875) containing (inter alia) an article on his life and character by E.M.Goulburn, Dean of Norwich, reprinted from The Guardian newspaper.

For portraits and scultpures of him see Gibbs Pedigree (1904) p.16 and list in 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p.435. In the latter G. Richmond as artist of the posthumous portrait at Keble College is an error for Sir William B. Richmond, R.A. This portrait is wrongly stated to be after Boxall in 'Catalogue of Portraits in Oxford Colleges' by Mrs. Poole, Vol. III, part II, 1925. The portrait in the list in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs by 'artist unkown' in possession of John A. Gibbs was by E. Gill and has since been destroyed. Portraits not in the lists are, one by Edward Opie, which was in possession of Lord Wraxall, and a copy in A. Gibbs and Sons' possession of the one of the Portraits by Boxall which is engraved by Cousins.



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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - William Gibbs https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/89656

William married Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey on 1 Aug 1839 in Flaxley, Gloucestershire. Matilda (daughter of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3rd Bart. of Flaxley and Mary Albinia Page) was born on 17 Dec 1817 in Eastgate street, Gloucester; died on 22 Sep 1887 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Jan 1818, St Michael, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
• Residence: 1881, Paddington, London

Notes:

During her widowhood Tyntesfield and 16 Hyde Park Gardens continued to be her residences. She built (1876-8) and endowed St. Michael's Home for Consumptives in the parish of Cheddar, Somerset in memory of her husband, redecorated the chancel of St. Michael's, Exeter, which he built, and improved Exwick church. She endowed Keble College, Oxford (1881) with a fund of an annual value of £800 for Scholarships and for other grants to students. She built and maintained (as also did her son Antony after her) a Cottage Convalescent Home ("St. John's Lodge") at Wraxall afsd. and also built there in 1885 the large village club and in 1887 seven almshouses ("The Jubilee Cottages"): also the Battle Axes Inn, establishing it in her own name and on the principle of temperance as opposed to teetotalism. She gave the site (the site was left to her by her husband, she left money to the Home in her will) for the Convalescent and Incurable Home at Woking, Surrey, founded in connection with the Sisterhood of St. Peter's Kilburn, which manages St. Michael's Home afsd. A ward in Weston-super-Mare Convalescent Home, where she undertook the cost of 33 beds, bore her name.

Memorial Inscription in Wraxall churchyard and church; Tyntesfield chapel; Barrow Gurney chapel (to which she game some windows); Flaxley church (organ remade in her memory); the chapel of Keble College; and M. windows in Barrow Court chapel.

Refer to the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, especially pp. 33-5, 439 and 445-6 for her relations, ancestry, and 'Royal Descent', and for notes of printed books which refer to them; see also entry for her father Rev. Charles Crawley. A good memoir of her by "C.M.Y." (her friend and cousin Charlotte M. Yonge, the authoress) appeared in The Guardian newspaper at her death. For lists of Portraits and Sculpture see Gibbs Pedigree (1904) and the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 435, and add to them a drawing (1873) by C.W.S (was in possession of Martin A Gibbs).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: 22 Jul 1805, Colmworth, Bedfordshire
• Birth: Abt 1816
• Residence: 1851, Cowfold, Sussex; Age: 45; Relationship: Head

Notes:

William Bruère Otter (28 May 1805 – 25 June 1876) was an Anglican cleric who was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1855 until his death in 1876.

William Otter was the son of William Otter, Bishop of Chicester and his wife, born Nancy Sadleir Bruère. He was educated at Rugby, Charterhouse and King's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1828. Ordained in 1830, he was Vicar of Eyeworth from 1832 to 1836, Vicar of Kinlet from 1837 to 1847, Vicar of Cowfold from 1839 to 1876 and Prebendary of Chichester from 1850 to 1876. He died at Cowfold on 25 June 1876.

Source: Wikipedia

William married Elizabeth Melvil on 18 May 1837 in 's-Gravenhage, S-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Melvil and Elisabeth Skurray) was born on 13 Oct 1814 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; died on 17 Jan 1892 in Cowfold, West Sussex; was buried in Cowfold, West Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Melvil was born in the Netherlands to Robert Melvil and Elisabeth Skurray on 13 October 1814. She married William Bruere Otter in The Hague, Nethlerlands 18 May 1837. They had one child, Elizabeth, in the Netherlands; then went to Cowfold, Sussex, England where eight more children were born.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Educated at Exeter Grammar School
• Memorial: Hayes, Middlesex; Monument inscription MI in churchyard at Hayes
• Occupation: Founder of the House of Antony Gibbs & Son of London
• Residence: 14 Dec 1773, Exeter, Devon
• Will: 16 Mar 1816; Will proved in C.P.C.

Notes:

After an apprenticeship in a Spanish business in Exeter he was from 1778 to 1789 a merchant there exporting woollen cloth to Spain and elsewhere; also from 1785 to 1789 a partner in a firm styled Gibbs Granger & Banfill, working a cloth factory at Exwick in the outskirts of Exeter. His father financed him and was also in the Exwick partnership. He was a member 1778 - 1789 of the Incorporation of Tuckers Hall, Exeter; head warden 1782, master 1783.

Bankrupt in 1789 (alike with his father), he went to Madrid and for the next 18 years was engaged in business which centred in Spain. Mainly working as agent for British manufacturers he was at times (from 1783) also exporting Spanish produce as partner in a firm at Malaga styled Juan Pomar Gibbs y Compania. Driven out of Spain by war in 1797 he conducted his business from 1798 to 1801 in Lisbon, but in 1802 became regularly established in Cadiz as a merchant there, till war again forced him away. His last visit to Spain was in 1807.

In 1808 he became one of the Commissioners in London for dealing with Portuguese property sent to England in the war, and in September that year founded, in partnership with his son George Henry, the firm of Antony Gibbs & Son, London, with a branch in Cadiz. The firm became Antony Gibbs & Sons in 1813 on admission of his second son William to the partnership.

He was author of a pamphlet signed "A Merchant," An Appeal to Common Sense on the Bullion Question, published 1810.

After his marriage he and his wife lived in Exeter 1784-6, at Exwick House 1786-9, in Madrid 1789-92. From 1792 to 1808 their home was in Exeter or its neighbourhood (at Cowley 1803-8), but in that period he made ten trips to the Peninsula of an average duration of 12 months each. The family moved to London in 1808 and lived in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 1808-9; Denmark Hill, Camberwell, 1809-10; Dulwich Common, 1810-12; 2 Powis Place in the parish of St George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, 1812 onwards.



For a brief summary of the firm Antony Gibbs and Sons see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gibbs_%26_Sons

Antony married Dorothea Barnetta Hucks on 3 Oct 1784 in Littleham, Devon. Dorothea (daughter of William Hucks and Eleanor Barnett) was born in Dec 1760 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire; died on 24 Feb 1820 in Redland, Gloucestershire; was buried on 10 Mar 1820 in St Mary the Virgin, Hayes, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Saint George Martin, Middlesex, England
• Baptism: 9 Jan 1761, Knaresborough, Yorkshire

Notes:

For the full history of her life, see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs (also for history and portraits of the Hucks family, from whom her son, George Henry Gibbs, derived his properties, and for references to pedigrees (which contain also references to their wills). The Hucks family became extinct in the male line at the death of her brother John in 1836. She was a beneficiary under the will of Henry Townley Ward (d. 1816) the husband of her elder sister Eleanor (d.1800). As a widow her home was with her daughter Harriett at Redland 1816-17, with her son George Henry at 2 Powis Place in London 1817-19, and again with Harriett July 1819, till her death. For note of portraits, see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 434. For her descent from King Henry III see Ellacombe's 'Clyst St. George'(1864), and Burke's 'Royal Descents' (1858).

Thomas married Mary Albinia Page on 28 Oct 1807 in St Marylebone, London. Mary (daughter of Thomas Hyde Page, Sir and Mary Albinia Woodward) was born on 22 Sep 1784 in Bettshanger Park, Kent; died on 16 Feb 1835 in Flaxley Abbey, Gloucester, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: 30 Sep 1784, Bishopsbourne, Kent

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: 19 Nov 1768, Cuckney, Nottinghamshire
• Occupation: 1836, Chichester, Sussex; Bishop of Chichester

Notes:

William Otter (23 October 1768 – 20 August 1840) was the first Principal of King's College, London, who later served as Bishop of Chichester. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge where he was later made a fellow. He was appointed Principal of the newly established King's College, London, in 1831, and held the post until 1836 when he was appointed Bishop of Chichester.
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William married Nancy Sadlier Bruere on 3 Jul 1804 in Leatherhead, Surrey. Nancy (daughter of William Bruere and Anne or Nancy Sadlier) was born on 8 Jun 1784 in Calcutta, Bengal, India; died on 12 Mar 1860 in Effingham, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elisabeth Skurray on 2 Nov 1801 in Mortlake, Surrey. Elisabeth was born in 1775 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]