Frederick Robby Gibbs Allen-Back

Joshua married Jessica Juliet Mary Gibbs [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robin married Elizabeth A Back about Aug 1980 in Westminster, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Vicary married Josephine Nicola Fell [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Jun 1922, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire
• Departure: Mar 1948, Liverpool, Lancashire

Notes:

2nd son, 5th Baron Aldenham and 3rd Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (1969). Born at Stanstead Lodge, Stanstead Abbotts, Herts., 18 May and baptised at Hunsdon aforesaid 21 June 1922. Educated at Eton College (1935-40) and Christ Church, Oxford (1946-47). Died 25 January 1986, burial at Hunsdon 9 March 1986. morial at St. Michael's, Cornhill, London, 10 March 1986.

5th Lord Aldenham. Eton College Cricket XI 1940; Eton Society ('Pop' 1940. Served in Royal Navy from December 1940 (ordinary seaman) to June 1946. (Lieutenant R.N.V.R.) mainly in destroyers in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, 2 convoys to Russia (Murmansk). Landings in North Africa (Oran), Italy (Anzio) and Normandy. 1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, North Atlantic Star and Africa Star, Victory Medal.

Read P.P.E. at Christ Church, Oxford, after the War. Joined Antony Gibbs and Sons September 1947 and was sent to the Chilean office; May 1948 Santiago; November 1948-September 1950 Valparaiso, and was responsible for opening a new office in Osorno October 1950-March 1951. Director of Antony Gibbs and Sons 1954-1980.

Maiden Speech in the House of Lords, June 1974, on the National Health Service, Member of Finance Committee of Regional Health Authority, N. Thames since 1974. Member Royal Yacht Squadron 1977. Member of Lloyds Underwirters 1977, 1978 Chairman of Appeal for St. Albans Abbey Restoration Fund. Clubs: R.Y.S., M.C.C., Pratts. Lived at Stanstead Lodge, Stanstead Abbotts, Ware, Herts from 1951-80, and then Rimpton Manor, Yeovil, Somerset.

Antony married Lady Mary Elizabeth Tyser, Aldenham on 16 Jul 1947 in St Margaret's, Westminster, London. Mary (daughter of Walter Parkyns Tyser and Jessie Woodriff Berklely Quill) was born on 23 Jul 1921 in Hyde Park Mansions, London; died on 16 Apr 2022. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Aug 1921, Navestock, Essex

Notes:

Only daughter of Walter Parkyns Tyler of Gordonbush, Brora, Sutherland, by Jessie Woodriff Berkeley Quill only child of Col. Berkeley Quill of Tralee, Co. Kerry. Born at Hyde Park Mansions, London 23 July 1921 and baptised at St. Thomas's, Navestock, Essex 28 August 1921. Educated at Downham, Essex 1933-37, Paris 1937-38. Married 16 July 1947 at St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Presented at Court 1939 (probably the last one with feathers etc.). At outbreak of Second World War served in the Land Army; 1941-1945 WAAF. Commissioned 1943 as a photographic interpreter, serving at C.I.U. Medmennam and Coulommiers (France) March-September 1945.

Hon. Organiser Poppy Day Appeal in Stanstead Abbotts, St. Margarets and Great Amwell from 1965-79. President Hertford and E.Herts. Branch N.S.P.C.C. 1969-79, in aid of which held annual Spring Plant Sales of own raised plants and opened garden in Summer. Also opened garden for Red Cross. Resigned from both in 1979 because of move to Somerset in 1980.

Portraid: oil of head and shoulders 1927 by Philip de Lazlo, in her possession.

John married Cicely Juliet Varley. Cicely (daughter of Cromwell Hanford Varley, D.S.C. and Georgiana Rosalind Steward) was born in 1924 in Woolwich, London; died on 24 Dec 2016. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]