George Julius Medley, OBE

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• Occupation: 1978-1993; Director of the World Wild Life Fund for Nature (WWF-UK)

George married Vera Frances Brand in Sep 1952 in Croydon, Surrey. Vera was born in 1927 in Croydon, Surrey; died on 18 Jul 2021 in Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, Farnham, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alexandra Isobel Frances Medley
2. Patrick Jonathan Julius Medley

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2nd son. Baptised 18 January 1894 at St. Giles, Oxford. Educated at Sedbergh school 1907-12 and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1912-14. Cremated at Salisbury.

2nd Lieut. Royal Field Artillery July 1914. In the Great War Lieut. June 1915, Adjutant November 1915-November 1916. Acting Captain November 1916-November 1917 Captain November 1917. Acting Major November 1907-March 1919. Brevet
Major 1 July, 1931. Served in France September 1914-March 1915, June 1916-January 1918; May-September 1918; in Belgium March 1915-June 1916, January-May and September-Dec. 1918; in Germany December 1918-March 1919. Military Cross January 1917. Despatches twice (1916 and 1919). "Croix de Guerre avec palme" December 1918. 1914 Star. British War medal. Allies (Victory) Medal. After the war India 1919-26. At Staff College Camberley January 1927; passed January 1929. General Staff Officer (R.A.) 3rd grade, in the Aldershot Command October 1929-31; the same in the War Office from Oct. 1931. R.A.F. Staff College Andover 1934. G.S.O. 2 Malaya 1936-38. Awarded OBE 1938. Commanded 19th S.L. Militia Depot June-October 1939. Commanded 53rd Anti-Tank Regt. R.A. (Worcestershire Yeomanry) November 1939 to June 1940. In France Jan.-June 1940 when evacuated from Dunkirk. DSO 1940. Brigadier and Commander Corps Medium Artillery July 1940. Commander Corps R.A. Feb. 1941. Went to Middle East June 1941. Brigadier R.A. September 1941. Invalided to U.K. G.S.O. 1 Senior Officers' School 1942. Assistant Commandant Staff College 1943-44. Deputy Military Secretary, War Office 1944-46. Retired December 1946.

Lived at Holt, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1946 to 1968 then at Thanes House, Shaftesbury, until his death.

1 son, George Julius Medley, OBE, Director of the World Wild Life Fund for Nature (WWF-UK) 1978-1993, m. Vera Frances Brand and has issue.

Birth:
7 Crick Road

Edgar married Norah Templer on 5 Oct 1929 in Barnstable, Devon. Norah (daughter of Robert Shawe Templer and Frances Anne Beauchamp) was born on 16 Nov 1906 in Monsoon Lodge, Colombo, Sri Lanka; died in Feb 1999 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Twin daughter of Robert Shawe Templer of Upcott, nr. Barnstaple, Devon, and Treenlaur, Newport, co. Mayo, by Frances Anne, 1st daughter by the 2nd marriage of Edmund Beauchamp Beauchamp of Trevince, Gwennap, Cornwall for whom see Burke's 'Landed Gentry'.

Interests: Church embroidery, fine dressmaking, gardening, Women's Institute, bookbinding. At various times Committee member, Chairman, Secretary, etc. of Holt W.I., Semley W.I., Embroiderers Guild, Trowbridge W.I. Market Stall. Official Wilts. County lecturer in Embroidery.

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• Departure: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Occupation: Professor of History, University of Glasgow
• Baptism: 10 May 1861, St James, Dorset
• Residence: 1901, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age in 1911: 50; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head
• Arrival: 15 Aug 1929, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Arrival: 10 Sep 1929, Southampton, Hampshire
• Probate Date: 12 Nov 1953, London

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2nd son of Leiutenant General Julius George Medley (1829-1884) (Royal Engineers), by Adelaide (1841-1923), daughter of Colonel James Steele, C.B. Baptised at a church in the parish of Paddington 10 May 1861. Educated at Wellington College 1875-80; matric at Oxford (Keble College) October 1880; 1st Class Modern History and BA 1883; MA 1887; Hon. LL.D Glasgow University 1931. Cremated at Oxford.

At Wellington was Head of School and Queen's Medallist. History lecturer and tutor of Keble College, Oxford, 1884-99. Professor of History at Glasgow 1899-1931. Sometime Chairman of the Appointments Committee of Glasgow University, a Member of Glasgow School Board, an examiner for the Scottish Education Department, for the Oxford and Cambridge University Examination Board, and for the Civil Service Commissioners. Sometime Honours History Examiner for Oxford, Cambridge, Belfast, Birmingham and Sheffield Universities, now (1932) for Glasgow, Sheffield, and Durham. Member representing Glasgow University in Glasgow Territorial Army and Air Force Association 1908-31. Chairman of the Military Education Committee (Officers' Training Corps) 1909-31. Chairman of Central Organisation Military Education Committee (Senior Divisional O.T.C.) 1923- 31. In the Great War one of the Young Men's Christian Association's lecturers to the Army in France, and (1918-19) sub Director at Trouville, later at Havre, under the Army Scheme of Education: awarded British War medal. Author of A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History published 1894 (6th edition 1925) and other works (see Who's Who 1930). He and his wife lived at Oxford 1890-1900: at Glasgow 1900-31 (45 Lilybank Gardens from 1919). Vacation houses: The Manor House, Mears Ashby, Northants 1908-15; and successively 1915-28 at Bradfield, Greenham, and Highclere, all in Berks, and, from 1928-34, at Hill House, Heckfield, Hants, to which he retired on resigning his Professorship. Thereafter, lived at Ashby, Tydesham, Newbury, until his death.

Two portraits, both by James Gunn, R.A., the one at Glasgow University, the other now in the possession of his grandson George Medley.

Birth:
13 Eastbourne Terrace

Died:
Age at Death: 92

Dudley married Isabel Alice Gibbs. Isabel (daughter of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs and Isabel Marianne Bright) was born on 27 Dec 1862 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 17 Apr 1942 in Newbury, Berkshire; was buried in Speen, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Departure: Quebec, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age in 1911: 48; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife
• Arrival: 10 Sep 1929, Southampton, Hampshire

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2nd daughter of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised 29 January 1863 at Wraxall. Buried at Speen. Memorial Inscription there.

Robert married Frances Anne Beauchamp in 1901 in Redruth, Cornwall. Frances was born in 1874 in Gwennap, Cornwall; died on 9 Sep 1969 in Bath, Somerset; was buried in St Mary the Virgin 1’s Church Cemetery, Pilton, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Christening: 23 Jul 1831, Iver, Buckingham

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Died:
on board P&O Steamer Ravenna

Julius married Adelaide Charlotte Steel on 9 Sep 1858 in Simla, Bengal, India. Adelaide was born in Feb 1841 in Norwood, Surrey; died on 10 Jul 1923 in Kensington, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Christening: 5 Jun 1841, Saint John The Baptist, Croydon, Surrey

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• Baptism: 26 May 1832, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, London
• Residence: 1851, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Speen, Berkshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

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8th son of George Henry Gibbs of London. Baptised 26 May 1832 at St.-Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn. Educated at Eton College 1834-35 and Charterhouse, London, 1846-7. Matric at Oxford (Exeter College), 24 Oct. 1849, BA, a 'grand compounder, MA, 1856. Buried 15 January 1914 at Speen. Will proved 17 February 1914.

To add to the facts about education, he went to a school at Brighton about six or seven, and then to one at Clifton, Bristol. After Charterhouse he was, 1848-9, with a tutor, the rector of Poundstock, Cornwall. Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1854, but left them 1856 through ill-health, and in every year 1851 to 58 he travelled much abroad, particularly in Spain, and (1857-8) up the Nile and in Palestine. A student at Wells Theological College 1858. Ordained Deacon (Exeter) 1859, Priest 1860. Curate at St. Mary's, Torwood, Torquay, to Rev. J. Hogg 1859-1860, when his health drove him abroad again (Pyrenees) with his wife and first-born. Living at Bradeham, Bucks., 1863-4. Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden, Oxon., 1864 (presented by his brother Henry Hucks Gibbs), but resigned work in 1874 from the same cause as before. His parsonage there was what is now the Manor House. Resided at Oaklands, Cleveland, Somerset, 1874-8. Vicar of Exwick, Devon, 1878-85; Rector of Clyst St. George, Devon 1885-97 (presented to both by Antony Gibbs). Retired and resided at Speen House, Berks., 1898-1914. Editor of 'The Registers of Clyst St. George', published 1899 by The Parish Register Society. Member of the Athenauem Club, London, 1863-86. His diaries 1851-1912 (52 vols.), last in possession of John Arthur Gibbs in 1932 are now missing. The volume of his 'Reminiscences' (MS.) from c.1840 to 1910, now in the possession of Denis D. Gibbs.

Portraits: Oil 1858 by E.U. Eddis in possession of Lord Aldenham (1932); oil (c. 1902) by A. Macdonald, last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley); a posthumous one painted 1921 (from a photo of about 1910) by Ronald Gray in possession of Denis D. Gibbs; a chalk drawing by E.U. Eddis (c. 1859) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932; a pastel by E. Havell (1887) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932.

Died:
Speen House

John married Isabel Marianne Bright on 3 Jan 1860 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset. Isabel (daughter of Robert Bright and Caroline Tyndall) was born on 1 Mar 1835 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset; died on 22 Mar 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1851, Abbots Leigh, Somerset; Age: 16; Relation: Daughter
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon
• Residence: 1901, Speen, Berkshire; Relation to Head: Wife

Notes:

2nd daughter of Robert Bright (died 1869) of Abbots Leigh, Somerset (partner of George Gibbs), for whose lineage see Bright of Colwall in Burke's 'Landed Gentry', by Caroline (died 1843); 4th and youngest daughter of Thomas Tyndall of The Royal Fort, Bristol. Baptised at Abbots Leigh 3 January 1860. Was buried at Speen House 24 March 1920. Administration May 1920.

Her Tyndall grandmother was Marianne (died 1805), daughter of Lambert Schimmelpennick of Bristol (of the family of the Dutch Counts of that name) and sister-in-law of Mary Anne Schimmelpennick, the authoress, whose life is in the Dictionary of National Biography. For the Tyndall family see articles by Greenfield in The Genealogist Magazine Vol II (1878). Her diaries 1851 to 1920 (53 volumes) were in possession of John Arthur Gibbs in 1932, now missing.

Portraits: Pastel by E. Havell (1887) last in possession of Christopher J. Gibbs; a chalk drawing by E.U. Eddis (c. 1859) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932; a watercolour by Curnock, one of a set of three of herself, her sister Caroline (born 1827) and her sister Constance (born 1837), all in possession of George Medley 2014, but not mentioned in the 1932 edition of the Gibbs Pedigree. Sampler, dated Sept 26 1845 (then aged 10) in possession of Vera Medley.

Died:
Speen House