Christopher John Hamilton Gault

Family/Spouse: Nancye Colbeck. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. 3 sons, 1 daughter Hamilton Gault

Notes:

2nd son of Leslie Hamilton Gault by Marion daughter of John Davidson Anderson. Baptised 15 January 1900. Educated at Eton College 1914-18, matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1919, BA 1921.

2nd Lieut. Grenadier Guards Sept. 1918-July 1919.

Leslie married Iris Hilda Gordon Young on 8 Dec 1925 in Westminster, London, and was divorced in 1940. Iris (daughter of Maj. Gen. Charles Frederick Gordon Young and Agnes Hilda Gibbs) was born on 18 Dec 1900 in Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, India; died on 21 Aug 1986 in Horsham, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 5 Feb 1901, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, India
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Notgrove and Naunton, Gloucestershire
• Residence: 1946, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Notes:

Baptised at Dehra Dun, India 5 February 1901.

Attended Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 1921-22. During the 2nd World War worked in a canteen at Liverpool Street Station, London. 1957-68 worked with Red Cross Hospital Libraries.

Divorced 1940. Married 2ndly 1941.

2 sons and 1 daughter: David Hamilton Gault, born 9 April 1928, and married Felicity Jane Gribble, 3 sons, 2 daughters, Executive Chairman, Gallic Management Co. Ltd. since 1974 (see Who's Who); Christopher John Hamilton Gault, born 14 Sept. 1938, m. Nancye Colbeck, 3 sons, 1 daughter; Jennifer Mary Hamilton Gault, born 13 March 1930, m. John Hunter Blair, 1 son, 2 daughters. Address: 11 Compton, Chichester, Sussex.

Notes:

Married:
St. Peter's, Eaton Square,

Other Events and Attributes:

• Race: Irish
• Residence: 1911, 148 Tavish St, Montreal St Antoine, Quebec

Leslie married Marion Anderson Davidson. Marion was born on 2 May 1870 in Anderston, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 21 Aug 1939 in Westminster, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1896
• Residence: 1901, Montreal St Antoine, Quebec, Canada
• Departure: 1923, London
• Arrival: Jul 1923, Quebec, Canada

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Jan 1860, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
• Residence: 1871, London; Census probably wrongly identifies CFGY as son of Crawford. He must have been a visitor in 1871
• Military Service: Between 1877 and 1879, South Africa
• Residence: 1912, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Military Service: Between 1914 and 1920

Notes:

His wife's 2nd cousin, he being great-nephew of her grandmother, Lady Elton (born Willis). Son of Colonel Gordon Young (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, 287, n.). Baptised 10 January 1860 at Rawal Pindi. Educated at Bradfield College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

2nd Lieut. 99th Foot Regt. May 1878; Lieut. The Wilts. Regt. (into which the 99th was transferred) Jan. 1880. Served in South Africa 1878-79 (medal & clasp in Zulu war): Joined Indian Army (6th Bengal Light Infantry) 1880; Capt. May 1889; served in China 1900 (medal); Major May 1898; Lieut.-Col. May 1904; Colonel May 1907; Major General September 1912 and commanded Jhansi, Peshawar Infantry and Rangoon Brigades. Awarded 1914-15 Star, British War medal, Allies' (Victory) medal of the Great War.

Retired from Indian Army 1919. He and his wife lived from 1919 at Carringtons, Milford-on-Sea, Hants.

Birth:
Information from his baptism record. Rawalpindi was part of India at that time, I think Father George Gordon Young was Assistant Commissioner of that "place" was it Rawalpindi or Punjab?

Charles married Agnes Hilda Gibbs on 20 Sep 1892 in St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, London. Agnes (daughter of George Louis Monck Gibbs and Laura Beatrice Elton) was born on 4 Sep 1865 in Paddington, London; died on 1 Mar 1934 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Oct 1865, East Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Slough, Buckinghamshire
• Death: 23 Oct 1934, Hampshire

Notes:

Baptised 4 October 1865 at East Clevedon, Somerset.

Birth:
10 Sussex Square

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Feb 1837, Walcot, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Fleet, Hampshire

George married Charlotte Sophia Smith on 5 Oct 1858 in Murree, Bengal, India. Charlotte (daughter of Matthew Smith and Isabella Fraser Morris Hook) was born on 26 Aug 1840 in Agra, Bengal, India; died on 20 Nov 1926 in Lymington, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Sep 1840, Agra, Bengal, India

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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

Notes:

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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