Edoardo Frank James Fox

Frank married Emily Anna Maria Gibbs [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Oct 1929, Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire

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2nd son. Baptised 6 October 1929 at Hertingfordbury. Educated at Eton.

Joined the Army September 1947. Commissioned in 60th Rifles May 1948 and demobilised September 1949. Joined Queen Victoria's Rifles (TA) 1952; Captain 1956; Major 1959; retired 1962.

Entered Port Line Ltd. October 1949; Assistant Manager 1957; London Manager 1959-62. Entered Charles Barker and Sons Ltd. 1962, Director since 1962. Director Vaux Breweries from 1971 and other companies

Travelled extensively in the USA, Canada, Southern Africa and Australasia.

Interests: Fishing, shooting, stalking, ornithology and gardening.

Clubs: White's, Pratt's.

Address: Isle of Arran since 1972


Dougarie owner dies aged 88
The Arran Banner 18 Nov 2017

Stephen Gibbs OBE, who died on november 12.
The man who ran Dougarie Estate for the last 35 years has passed away. Stephen Gibbs OBE died peacefully at his home on Sunday. He was 88.
A statement from the Gibbs family said: ‘It is with great sadness that we inform you that Stephen Gibbs died on Sunday morning (November 12) at home. A service of thanksgiving will be held at 11.45am, Monday November 27 at Shiskine Church.’
Stephen Cokayne Gibbs was born on 18 July 1929, the son of Sir Geoffrey Cokayne Gibbs and Helen Margaret Leslie. He was educated at Eton College, Windsor and gained the rank of lieutenant in 1948 in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He later reached the rank of major in 1960 in the QVR (Territorial Army).
He married Lavinia Winifred Bacon, daughter of Sir Edmund Castell Bacon and Priscilla Dora Ponsonby, on 21 November 1972. The couple acquired the 27,000-acre sporting estate on Arran the same year and it was to be their home for the next 35 years. Stephen was also a former director of Charles Barker plc and the Vaux Group plc.
He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s honours list in 2001 for his services to deer management.
He is survived by his wife Lavinia and their three children Emily, James and William.


Dougarie Estate: https://www.dougarieestate.co.uk

Stephen married Lavinia Winifred Bacon [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: London
• Baptism: 1 Sep 1901, Camfield, Hatfield, Herts
• Admission: 18 Apr 1923

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2nd son of Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, Lord Hunsdon. Baptised 1 September 1901 at St. Mark's, Hatfield. Educated at Eton College 1914-19, Matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 1919 and resided to 1922. Died 6 July 1975 and was buried at St. Michael & All Angels, Clifton Hampden, Oxon.

C.M.G. 1945; K.C.M.G. 1955, Hon. D.C.L. Oxford. Lived at Holwell Manor, Hatfield, Hertfordshire from 1932-49. Inherited Clifton Hampden Estate and lived there 1949-75; Patron of the Living, Church Warden, Chairman Parish Council.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1923; was with Gibbs Bright & Co. in Australia 1924-29; Partner of the Australian firm from 1929 and of Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1932 (Chairman 1966-72).

Chairman of The Bank of Australia 1945-51 and The Australia & New Zealand Bank Ltd. 1951-67; Director, Barclays Bank D.C.O. (now Barclays Bank International) 1945-71 (Vice-Chairman 1948, Deputy Chairman 1955).

Other directorships include: The Sulphide Corporation from 1929; London Board of Australian Mutual Provident Society 1935 (Chairman 1958-72); The Union Discount Co. of London Ltd. (Director 1945-72); Oxford University Chest.

Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Economic Warfare 1943-45, Chairman of the Advisory Council, Export Credit Guarantee Department 1948-62. Member of the Council of The Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses 1952-73. Chairman of The Nuffield Foundation 1951-73. Chairman Morris Garages 1961-75. Chairman of the Imperial Relations Trust 1952-73.

He had several other directorships and was connected with many charities. Grocers Company: on the Livery 1929; on the Court 1932; Master 1938.

Clubs: Brooke's, Pratt's, Beefsteak; Melbourne: Union (Sidney); Queenslad.

Portrait: Oil by Allan Gwynne Jones (1968) at Nuffield Lodge, Regents Park.

Geoffrey married Helen Margaret Leslie, CBE on 6 Oct 1926 in St Marys, Hertingfordbury, UK. Helen (daughter of Charles Frederick Henry Leslie and Maud Foster) was born on 7 Jun 1905 in Alexander Square, Kensington, London; died on 28 Dec 1979 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; was buried on 2 Jan 1980 in St. Michael & All Angels, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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2nd and youngest daughter of Charles Frederick Henry Leslie of Epcombs, Hertingfordbury, Herts., by Maud, 6th daughter of John Foster of New Hall Grange, Maltby, Yorks (of the family of Foster of Thorne Hall, Yorks); born in Alexander Square, Kensington, 7 June 1905 and baptised at Hertingfordbury. Married 6 October 1926 at St. Mary's, Hertingfordbury. Died 28 December 1979 and buried 2 January 1980 at St. Michael & All Angels, Clifton Hampden.

C.B.E. (1961). Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire (1942) and for Oxfordshire (1950).
1923-78 Various posts with the Girl Guide Association, including County Commissioner, Herts. (1938-46); Chief Commissioner for Overseas Territories (1950-60); Deputy Chief Commissioner of the Commonwealth (1951-54); Vice-Chairman of Executive Committee (1951-54); Member of the Council (1940-77); Vice-President of the Council (1978-79); Delegate to World Conference in Holland (1954); Visitor to the World Conference in Greece (1960); Chairman, Central African Guide Conference in Southern Rhodesia (1956); Chairman, West Indies Federation Guide Conference (1959).

Member of Village School Committee and Parochial Church Council in Essenden and Cliften Hampden, and a variety of other local committees.

Silver Fish, 1964.

Patron of the Living of St. Michael and All Angels, Clifton Hampden, 1976-79.

In her obituary in The Times of 7 January 1980 a correspondent wrote: 'Lady Gibbs managed the Clifton Hampden estate on her husband's behalf for 30 years, and her real recreation was her interest in, and care of, people; and this included all her neighbours and tenants. In addition, she was a skilful and indefatigable gardener and no mean ornithologist.

Until a year ago when a fall seriously injured her spine and deprived her of the sight of an eye, she never relaxed, and with her incisive brain she delved deeply into any problem of village life with an efficiency that alarmed the idle and disconcerted the easy-going.

The rewards of such a life of service were many: a preserved village which became an oasis of beauty with an active church with fabric restored and treasures repaired and recorded; a viable infant school; an invaluable village-hall in excellent repair; and, perhaps most important of all, a family who follow their parents' example in the care of people and places'.

She gave special support to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and to Missions in Rhodesia where her husband's younger brother, Sir Humphrey Gibbs was Governor 1959-1969.

Portrait: by Simon Elwes, in possession of Elizabeth Fleming.

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Lt. Col. Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, KG, OBE, TD, RA (TA), 14th Baronet Premier Baronet of England, succeeded his father 1947. Educated at Eton & Trinity College, Cambridge.

13th Baronet of Regdrave and 14th Baronet of Mildenhall; Hon. DCL, University of East Anglia; Lt. Col. late Commanding 55th (Suffolk Yeo.) Anti-Tank-Regt. RA (TA); Hon. Col. RA (TA) 1947-67; Lord Lt. and a JP for Norfolk; a K. St. J.; a Director of Lloyds Bank Ltd. 1949-73; Pro-Chancellor of University of East Anglia 1964-73; High Steward of Norwich Cathedral since 1956, and of Great Yarmouth since 1968; a Church Commissioner 1955-63; Chairman of British Sugar Corporation 1957-68; Chairman of Economic Development Committee for Agriculture 1966-71; North West Europe 1944 (despatches, OBE); OBE (Mil.) 1945, KBE (Civil) 1965, KG 1970.

Clubs: Carlton and Pratt's.

Edmund married Priscilla Dora Ponsonby on 15 Jan 1936 in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. Priscilla (daughter of Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, TD and The Hon. Winifred Marian Gibbs, JP) was born in 1913 in 9 Portman Square, St. Marylebone, London; died in 2000. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Baptism: 13 Jul 1913, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire
• Arrival: 30 Nov 1933, London; Age: 20
• Residence: 1935, Westminster, London

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1st daughter. Baptised 13 July 1913 at Hunsdon, Herts. 1 son and 4 daughters: Nicholas Hickman Ponsonby, born 1937, Page of Honour to The Queen 1966-69; Joanna Constance, born 1937, married Hon. Edward Roundell Palamer; Lavina Winifred, born 1939, married Stephen Cokayne Gibbs; Elizabeth Albinia, born 1944, married Ronald James Bremner Hoare; Sarah, born 1947, married Paul Douglas Nicholson.