Lieut. Colonel George Arthur Elton Gibbs

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• Residence: 1901, Bibury, Gloucestershire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Ewell, Surrey; Age: 12; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Boarder

Notes:

Baptised 19 November 1898 at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Wellington College 1912-17, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 1917-18, and Cambridge (Pembroke College) 1923-4.

At Wellington was in Rackets and Shooting VIIs. 2nd Lt. Royal Engineers Jan. 1918. Served BAOR (1918-19 and 1927-29), India (1920-23, and 1938-42). Ceylon (1942-44), Egypt (1945-47). Retired July 1947.

In woodland ownership and forestry till 1978. Chairman Southern Division of Royal Forestry Society (1964-69). On Executive Committee of Squash Rackets Association (1953-68). Conservation interests include Fauna Preservation Society, Member since 1927 and on Council 6 years (between 1958 and 1965); World Wildlife Fund (local Group founder member).


Birth:
23 Oxford Terrace

George married Suzanne East March on 22 Sep 1989 in Romsey, Hampshire. Suzanne (daughter of Michael March) died in Jan 2006. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 1870, Paddington, London; St Michael's
• Residence: 1881, Christchurch, Hampshire

Notes:

Baptised at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Charterhouse School, Surrey, 1883-6. Buried 31 December 1926 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard. Will proved 29 January 1927.

2nd Lieut. 60th Rifles (Militia) c. 1888. In Australia c. 1889-91. Student at the Agricultural College, Cirencester, c. 1892-96, following on which he and his brothers Stanley and Antony were for a few years in the partnership of a brewery at Ashford, Kent. He and his wife resided at Ablington Manor c. 1901-3. He was in delicate health a great part of his married life. In his last years they lived at Slough. He inherited, but gave to the Bishop of Bath & Wells the advowson of Hutton (see George Louis Monck Gibbs).

Portrait by T. W. Webber, and crayon by A. G. Witherby ("Spy" of "Vanity Fair") both last in possession of his widow.

Birth:
8 Lancaster Gate

Died:
Baylis House

George married Anna Everilda Caroline Webber, of Kellavil on 2 Sep 1897 in Ballintubbert, Laois, Ireland. Anna (daughter of Thomas Wingfield Webber and Mathilda Emily Barstow) was born on 21 Sep 1874 in Portarlington, Laois, Ireland; died on 11 Aug 1977 in Winchester, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1901, Bibury, Gloucestershire; Age: 26; Relation to Head of House: Wife

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1st daughter of Thomas Wingfield Webber of Kellavil, Queen's County, JP and DL (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry of Ireland'), by Mathilda Emily, 4th daughter of Thomas Barstow of Garrow Hill, county of York.

Lived in 1932 at 87 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington. Portrait, age 18, by Richard Jack, R.A., last in possession of her daughter Beatrice. Like many in her family she was an artist and a very good one; she bought Smallwood in 1940 and gave a home there to her sister Alice, Lady Coote, till she died in 1975.

Latterly she spent 2 years at the Tiled House Nursing Home nearby and died 11 Aug. 1977 (aged 102). During her last 3 years she knitted many squares for Oxfam blankets, although partially blind.

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• Occupation: Merchant S America
• Baptism: 24 May 1838, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wiltshire
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 32; Relationship: Head
• Residence: 1881, London; Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Head

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Baptised there 24 May 1838. Educated at Marlborough College 1947-53. Died at his residence Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts 26 November and was buried 1 December 1881 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and in Aldenham Church and Memorial Screen in Elstree Chapel. Will proved 1882.

He inherited Belmont, Wraxall, on his father's death in 1865 (subject to his mother's life interest) and sold it in 1870 to his uncle William Gibbs of the adjoining Tyntesfield. Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1855 (was in London 1855-59; in William Gibbs & Co., Peru & Chile, 1859-62; in London, as a manager of A. Gibbs & Sons 1863, as a partner 1865-81). Visited New York 1863, Spain and Portugal 1864, Mexico 1869 all on business of the firm. A director of the London Assurance Co. 1865 (deputy Governor 1878, sub-Governor Dec. 1878-81).

A benefactor to Elstree church. Patron of the living of Hutton, Somerset (see VI, n33). Resided at 14 Devonshire Terrace, Paddington, 1864-67; Nutwood, Bickley, Kent, 1867-70; Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts., 1870-81; 46 Grosvenor Street, Westminster, 1881. See book In Memoriam mentioned below under entry for his wife Laura Beatrice Hallam and Obituary notice in The Guardian of Dec. 1881.

Portraits (head) in possession of his daughter Beatrice Rhoda Gibbs; 2 posthumous portraits by Hanson Walker (one last in possession of Antony Gibbs & Sons, the other in that of his grandson Lt.-col George Arthur Gibbs; watercolour thought to be of G. L. M. Gibbs last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley).



1851 CENSUS - Aged 12, at Marlborough College.
1871 CENSUS - Aged 32, living at Deacon's Hill, Edgware.Occ. Merchant. Children, 6 listed, no wife.
1881 CENSUS - Aged 42 , living at 46 Lower Grosvenor St. Occ. Merchant, S. America.
Laura, aged 38, Lillian, aged 15, & Mabel , aged16. Also present, Edmund Elton, 54,
(brother in law), Justice of the Peace - Somerset, and wife Mary, 56.
PROBATE - 1 March 1882, personal estate of £127,333 19s 11d.

( Refer to National Trust guide book for Tyntesfield for family tree.)

Died:
Deacon's Hill

George married Laura Beatrice Elton on 5 Jan 1864 in East Clevedon, Somerset. Laura (daughter of Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet and Rhoda Susan Willis) was born on 29 Mar 1842 in Rome, Italy; died on 30 Aug 1911 in Bourton, Dorset; was buried on 4 Sep 1911 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 26 Apr 1842, Rome, Italy; British Chaplaincy
• Residence: 1851, Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Tormoham, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, St Margaret and St John, London

Notes:

1st daughter of Sir Arthur Hallam Elton (7th Baronet), died 1883) of Clevedon Court, Somerset, by his 1st wife Rhoda Susan (died 1873), who was daughter of James Willis of Atherfield and Freshwater House, Isle of Wight, and widow of Captain James C. Baird. Was buried 4 September 1911 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Will proved 9 October 1911.

After her husband died she resided first at Queen's Gate Gardens, Kensington, next at Gosden House, Bramley, Surrey 1883-90; 29 Queen's Gate Terrace, Kensington, 1890-7; Ablington Manor, Glos. 1891-1901; 56 Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, 1899-1911.



( Refer to National Trust guide book to Clevedon Court for family tree.)

1851 CENSUS - Aged 9, living with parents and grandfather.
Also, 2 stepsisters (children of her mother's first marriage.)


Died:
Chaffeymoor Grange

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• Residence: 31 Mar 1901, Ballyadams, Queen's Co., Ireland

Thomas married Mathilda Emily Barstow on 22 Sep 1869 in York, Yorkshire. Mathilda was born on 17 Feb 1842 in Fulford, Yorkshire; died on 18 Jul 1917 in Mountmellick, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Deacon, Priest and then Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden
• Residence: Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Baptism: 12 Sep 1801, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1861, Chelsea, London; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

He was in the employ of Antony Gibbs & Sons 1818-24 (in London 1818-21, Cadiz 1818-2, Gibraltar 1822-3, again in London 1823-4). He was ordained Deacon in 1828, Priest by the Bishop of Chester 8 Aug. 1829. Curate of Howarden, co. Flint, 1828-30, Perpectual Curate of Clifton Hampden, co. Oxon 1830-64 in the new parsonage given by his cousin Anne Noyes (patron of the living) which, from 1905, was again the parsonage, and from c. 1846 in the new parsonage built by his sister-in-law Caroline Gibbs (now the Manor House), Devisee of Belmont, Wraxall, under the will of his cousin and brother-in-law George who died 1863. For his life up to 1823 and a few later details see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs.

Portraits: miniature of him by Sir William Ross was in possession of Everilda Gibbs in 1932; a portrait of him with his wife and sister Joanna was known to be in possession of Evelyn Alice Heberden until her death in 1955, but whereabouts unknown in 1980; watercolour in middle age in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley in 1980).



Educated at Mr. Phillip's School, Turnham Green. He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford in 1828 with a B.A. He was the Curate in 1830 at Clifton Hampden, Berkshire.
1851 CENSUS - Visiting relations, ( George & Harriett Gibbs) at "Belmount House" Wraxall, Somerset.
Joseph 49, Emily 47,
1861 CENSUS - Visiting relations, ( George & Harriett Gibbs) at "Belmount House" Wraxall, Somerset.
Joseph 59, Emily 57, Harriett T. 17, Joseph H. 20, George H. 18, & Stanley R. 14.

Occ. Deacon, Priest and then Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden until death.

Probate - 5 May 1864. Left under £20,000.

Joseph married Emily Vaughan on 14 Sep 1831 in Llangattock, Breconshire, Wales. Emily (daughter of Rev. Charles Vaughan and Emilia Monck) was born on 14 Aug 1803 in Farnborough, Berkshire; died on 7 Sep 1869 in Kensington, London; was buried on 10 Sep 1869 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Oct 1803, Farnborough, Berkshire
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor

Notes:

Her father, rector of Crickhowell, co. Brecon, was descended from the Vaughans of Tretower, whose full pedigree (including Sir Roger Vaughan, knighted and mortally wounded at Agincourt) is in Theophilus Jones's 'History of Brecon (1805-9, new edition 1909). Her mother's father John Monck of Bath (Burke's 'Landed Gentry' under 'Monck of Coley Park') was a descendant of William Monck (and his wife Dorothy, sister of 1st Earl of Darnley) whose ancestry is in Burke's Peerage under 'Monck' (Viscount). A miniature of her by Sir William Ross was in possession of Everilda Gibbs in 1932. Portrait Heberden, great-grand-daughter of Joseph and Emily Gibbs. This portrait was formerly in possession of Evelyn Alice Heberden.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Nov 1818, Lewins Mead, Somerset

Notes:

Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet DL (19 April 1818 – 14 October 1883) was a writer and Liberal party politician.

For further details see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Elton,_7th_Baronet

Arthur married Rhoda Susan Willis on 10 Jun 1841 in Clevedon, Somerset. Rhoda was born on 16 May 1809 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight; died on 1 Nov 1873 in Bournemouth; was buried on 7 Nov 1873 in All Saints, Clevedon, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]