Alexandra Margot de Zoete

Timothy married Moyra Jane Dawnay [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 12 Jul 1914

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Younger son of Herman Walter de Zoete of The Rookery, Sproughton, Ipswich. Educated at Eton.

Director of Mallets of Bond Street. Retired 1978. Served 1939-45 War in the Derbyshire Yeomanry and 12th Royal Lancers. Mentioned in despatches.

Rupert married Anna Patricia Gibbs on 22 Jun 1940 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Anna (daughter of Major Guy Melvil Gibbs and Margaret Olivia St. John) was born on 24 Oct 1915 in Eccleston Square, London; died on 7 Nov 2004 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 23 Nov 1915, St. Saviour's, Pimlico, London

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Baptised 23 November 1915 at St. Saviour's, Pimlico. Educated at Westonbirt, Paris & Florence.

Chairman for many years of Chelsea Branch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and made an Honorary Member of the Council in 1954 in recognition of services to the cause. Former Chairman of the South Kensington Branch of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and in 1978 elected a Life Governor for services rendered to the Fund. Author of gardening articles in The Royal Horticultural Society's journal The Garden (Vol. 101, Part 12, December 1976, p. 573-574) and also in House and Garden. She and her husband both enjoy gardening and travelling.

Portrait: Pastel (1926) by Miss Noyes last in own possession.

Peter married Lady Angela Christine Rose Montagu Douglas Scott on 28 Apr 1936 in Westminster, London. Angela (daughter of John Charles Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Bucchleuch and 9th Queensbury and Lady Margaret Alice Bridgeman) was born on 26 Dec 1906 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 28 Sep 2000 in Winchester, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Departure: Bombay, India
• Arrival: 1 Mar 1929, London

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• University: Jun 1895, Cambridge, Somerset, Maine, USA
• Residence: 1901, Roxwell, Essex; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Military Service: Between 1914 and 1918, Great War; Capt Essex Yeomanry
• Residence: 1943, Stortford herts

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Herman married Dorothy Courage about Aug 1903 in Billericay, Essex. Dorothy (daughter of Edward Courage and Hellen R Courage) was born on 4 Jul 1877 in Shenfield, Essex; died in Jun 1972 in Suffolk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1881, Shenfield, Essex
• Residence: 1891, Shenfield, Essex
• Residence: 1891, Shenfield, Essex; Age: 13; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 1901, Shenfield, Essex; Age: 23; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

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• Departure: Liverpool, Lancashire
• Baptism: 28 Dec 1889, Paddington, London; St Michael's
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Gloucestershire
• Arrival: 13 May 1912, New York, USA

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5th son of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 28 December 1889 at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College 1902-8 ad at Cirencester Agricultural College 1909-10.

He qualified as an Associate of the Surveyors' Institution, 1910, and was learning land agency, 1911-12. A clerk in Vivian Gray & Co., stockbrokers, in the City of London, 1912-14; member of the London Stock Exchange from 1914.

After the Great War he rejoined Vivian Gray & Co., but from 1919-23 his home was at Gatwicke Hall, Barrow Gurney, where he was working his father's Home Farm on his own account. Partner in Vivian Gray & Co. from 1922. 2nd Lieut., North Somerset Yeomanry, Jan. 1910; Lieut., Aug. 1914; Capt. May 1915. Territorial Decoration, 1920. Retired from Territ. Army, 1928. Served 1914-18 in the Great War in France and Belgium (1914 Star, British War Medal, and Allies' (Victory) Medal). Served in North Somerset Yeomanry in the Second World War.

A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar from 1918. Resided at 7 Tite Street, Chelsea, 1923-25; The Hyde, Hatfield, Herts, 1925-27; Chestnut Farm, Acton Turville, Glos., 1927-28; from 1928 at Ruckley, Easton Grey, Malmesbury; after the war at The Cottage, Badminton and finally at Park Leaze, Ewen, Cirencester.

Portrait as a boy by F. Crawley-Boevey at Sheldon Manor in possession of Martin Gibbs and another in uniform by Ogilvie with his son Martin St. John Valentine Gibbs, together with a portrait of Margaret Olivia by L. Trapp last in possession of his son Martin St. John Valentine Gibbs.

Birth:
16 Hyde Park Gardens,

Guy married Margaret Olivia St. John on 6 Aug 1914 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. Margaret (daughter of Henry Percy St John and Maude Louise Glyn) was born on 3 Jun 1890 in Westminster, London; died on 29 Sep 1964 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire; was buried in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1901, St George Hanover Square, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 20; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

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Baptised 8 July 1890 at St. Saviour's, Pimlico. 1st daughter of Henry Percy St. John (died 1921); a Principal Clerk in the House of Lords, for whom see Bolingbroke in Burke's 'Peerage') by Maude Louise, daughter of Hon. Pascoe Ch. Glyn, for whom see Wolverton in Burke's 'Peerage'. Buried at Barrow.

A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar from 1928. Indefatigable worker in many social spheres. For many years, while living at Easton Grey, she was a leading organiser of Malmesbury Hospital. A keen and able Conservative politician in the Chippenham Division, she was the mainstay first to Sir Victor Cazalet M.P. and then from 1943-62 to Mr. David Eccles, M.P. (now Lord Eccles). In the Second World War she kept the Constituency going by her own endeavours in her official capacities of Treasurer and then Chairman. She also ran a canteen at Badminton for H.M. Queen Mary's Guard and other soldiers stationed in the neighbourhood. An enthusiastic and
talented gardener.

Died 29 September 1964.

Portrait: In pastel by Miss Broughton, in possession of Mrs. H. P. St. John in 1932, present whereabouts unknown.

Birth:
94 Belgrave Road

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• Residence: 1891, Holy Trinity, York, Yorkshire

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Died:
KIA Life Guards

Hugh married Susan Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford on 28 Apr 1902 in London. Susan (daughter of 5th Marquess of Waterford John Henry De La Poer Beresford and Lady Blanche Elizabeth Adelaide Gower Somerset) was born on 30 Apr 1877 in Hereford, Herefordshire; died on 30 Oct 1947 in Waterford, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 9 Jun 1877, St James, Westminster, London
• Residence: 1901, Great Badminton, Gloucestershire

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• Residence: 1871, Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland
• Residence: 1901, Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland
• Probate Date: 29 Dec 1936, London

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John Charles Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch and 9th Duke of Queensberry, KT, GCVO (30 March 1864 – 19 October 1935), styled The Honourable John Montagu Douglas Scott until 1884, Lord John Montagu Douglas Scott between 1884 and 1886 and Earl of Dalkeith until 1914 was a Scottish Member of Parliament and peer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu_Douglas_Scott,_7th_Duke_of_Buccleuch

John married Lady Margaret Alice Bridgeman on 30 Jan 1893 in London. Margaret was born on 20 Jan 1872 in Chelsea, London; died on 7 Aug 1954 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1881, Aston, Warwickshire
• Residence: 1891, Aston, Warwickshire
• Residence: 1901, Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland