Iris Philippa Rickett

Family/Spouse: John Martin Sladden. John was born in 1928; died in 2017. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Tim Sladden was born in 1960.
2. Dominic Sladden
3. Charlotte Sladden

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Surgeon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire

Notes:

2nd son of A. J. Rickett of Wilby, Northamptonshire, by Helen Dorothy, daughter of Parr. Educated for medical profession at Guy's Hospital, Southwark.

M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. (London, 1927), late House Surgeon at Guy's. In practice (1931) at Havant, Hants., as partner in the firm of Glanville Soames and Rickett. During the Second World War was Major R.A.M.C. (surgeon). Mentioned in Despatches. In 1944 he was attached to Force 133 and was sent to the Island of Vis in the Adriatic, the only one of those islands not occupied by the Germans. He set up a hospital there (by means of barter and other unconventional methods) and treated Commandos and Yugoslav partisans. (There is an account of these adventures called the Island of Terrible Friends by Bill Strutton, pub. 1961 and re-issued by Magnum in paperback 1979).

After the war he returned to General Practice. Retired 1960.

James married Dorothy Beatrice Gordon Young on 24 Jan 1931 in St Michaels, Chester Square, Westminster, London. Dorothy (daughter of Maj. Gen. Charles Frederick Gordon Young and Agnes Hilda Gibbs) was born on 27 Nov 1903 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India; died on 13 Nov 1991 in Chichester, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Dec 1904, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Naunton, Gloucestershire

Notes:

Baptised at Meerut, India 28 December 1904.

Former Commandant Hants. 20 British Red Cross Society; Member of the Women's Institute; Member of the Parochial Church Council (Compton); Driver for Meals on wheels (W.R.V.S.). Collector for the R.N.I.B. Holidays in France, Hungary, Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain and California. Hobbies: painting and gardening.

2 sons and 1 daughter: John William Stanley Rickett, b. 1935, Consultant Surgeon at Torbay Hospital, m. 1968 Rosemary Ducat, 1 son, 2 daughters. Barnaby James Rickett, b. 1938, Professor and researcher in radio astronomy at The University of California, San Diego, m. Paddy Barnes and has 2 sons. Iris Philippa, b. 1933 m. John Martin Sladden and has 2 sons, 1 daughter.

Arthur married Helen Dorothea Parr. Helen was born on 28 Jan 1874; died on 23 Feb 1943 in Brookhill House, Wilby, Northants. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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