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2101 Vicarage Gibbs, Mary Katharina Pynder (I2586)
 
2102 Vice-Admiral the Hon. Charles Orlando Bridgeman (5 February 1791 – 13 April 1860) was a Royal Navy officer who saw active service in the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Orlando_Bridgeman
 
Bridgeman, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Charles Orlando Henry (I5270)
 
2103 Villa Mont Fleury Gibbs, Caroline Blanche (I1514)
 
2104 Virginia, Births, 1864–2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia. Source (S526)
 
2105 Walter Antony Gibbs (2nd son), born at Frognal, Hampstead, Middlesex 19 January and baptised 20 February 1850 at St. John's, Hampstead. Died at St. Dunstan's, Regents Park, of typoid fever 16th and was buried 21 July 1858 at Clifton Hampden. Monumental Inscription there.

Miniature by Angelo Tricca of Florence, 1858, in possession of Alban Gibbs. 
Gibbs, Walter Antony (I1636)
 
2106 Walter Francis David Long, 2nd Viscount Long (14 September 1911 – 23 September 1944), was a British peer and soldier. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Long,_2nd_Viscount_Long Long, Major Walter Francis David 2nd Viscount (I5058)
 
2107 Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long, PC, JP, FRS (13 July 1854 – 26 September 1924), was a British Unionist politician. In a political career spanning over 40 years, he held office as President of the Board of Agriculture, President of the Local Government Board, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Secretary of State for the Colonies and First Lord of the Admiralty. He is also remembered for his links with Irish Unionism, and served as Leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Long,_1st_Viscount_Long Long, Viscount Walter Hume (I5050)
 
2108 Was appointed Governor of Bermuda from April 1764 until his death in 1780. Was also a military figure in the King's army with the rank of Lt Col. Following his death in 1780 he was buried under the floor boards of St Peter's Church in St George, Bermuda. His coffin was rediscovered in 2008 during an excavation project. George Bruere, son of George James Bruere, became Governor in 1780.

He has been described as "a benign, simple and kindly man with a large family" and by the historian Sir John William Kaye as "a staunch royalist... loyal to the core". However, Kaye reports further that -

"Of this Governor Bruere the colonial annalists relate that he was a man of an irascible temper and overbearing disposition, living and ruling in a perpetual state of antagonism with the Assembly and the People. He was a soldier, and a good one; but he was habituated to command, and impatient of opposition."

Governorship of Bermuda

On taking up his appointment as governor, Bruere was taken aback by the way slaves were treated in the Bermuda islands. He made a speech to the House of Assembly of Bermuda in 1766 in which he proposed the need for stricter controls, including "...haveing the Doors lock'd where they are, under the inspection of a white Person". Familiar with the control of slaves in other colonies, he advised the Bermudians:

"Bring your Negroes to a better regularity and due obedience... prevent their unlawfull Assemblys, Thefts, and pernicious practices of leaving their Masters Houses and going to meetings... by night."

On 21 March 1767, the House of Assembly resolved to appoint a Committee consisting of its Speaker and eleven other members to address His Majesty the King on "the tyranny and oppression of the Governor" if they deemed it necessary during the House's adjournment.

Bruere was interested in agriculture, and he and his wife bought 60 acres (240,000 m2) of land to the north of St George's to grow grapes, hoping to produce the equivalent of Madeira.

American War of Independence

On 20 August 1774, Bruere wrote to the Colonial Secretary, the Earl of Dartmouth, that some Bermudians were showing sympathy for the rebellion on the North American mainland:

"As the People here, have thought themselves of Sufficient Consequence, to Choose Delegates, and Address the Congress at Philadelphia, I hope the Government will think they have Sufficient Reason to put some Check upon them and Support the few Officers of Government."

In 1775, after the Battle of Lexington, the Continental Congress announced a trade embargo against British colonies remaining loyal to the Crown. Bermuda offered to supply the Patriots with salt, but they were unimpressed and asked for gunpowder. Meanwhile, in June 1775 Bruere lost his son John, who was killed fighting on the British side at the Battle of Bunker Hill. On 14 August, to the fury of Bruere, Bermudians sympathetic to the Revolution stole the island's supply of gunpowder from the Powder Magazine in St George's and shipped it to the rebels. Trade with Bermuda developed, for which Bruere was not blamed in London.

Death

Exhausted by his last years in office, Bruere became ill in July 1780, probably a result of chronic stress, and he died in St George's on 10 September 1780, at the age of fifty-nine. He was later said by the historian Henry Wilkinson to be "the victim in the eyes of his family of five years of incessant strain and foul play", in particular caused by the dealings of the islanders with the rebel colonists. Perhaps because he was said to have died of yellow fever, he was buried under the floor of St Peter's Church, St George's.

Sir John William Kaye noted that

"In spite... of the internecine strife into which he plunged the islands, he governed them for nearly twenty years, and might have governed them still longer, but that, in the very crisis of the warfare, he was suddenly removed by death."

Bruere was succeeded as governor by his son, George Bruere (1744–1786), who as a lieutenant in the 18th Regiment of Dragoons had been wounded at Bunker Hill, and who in 1777 had married Martha Louisa Fatio, then aged fourteen. The younger Bruere was Lieutenant Governor of the Bermudas from 1780 to 1781. A surviving portrait of Bruere is attributed to John Russell, RA and now hangs in the Tucker House Museum (located in the former home of President Henry Tucker), St. George's.

In 2008, Bruere's skeleton was unexpectedly found under the floorboards of St Peter's Church when archaeologists from Boston University were searching for evidence of the foundations of the original church on the site, built in 1612. His wooden coffin had crumbled away, but a copper plate supposed to be from the top of the coffin was found in the skeleton's chest cavity, bearing the inscription "His Excellency / George James Bruere ESQr / Governor of Bermuda / And Lieut. Colol. In His/ Majestys Service OB / The 10 September 1780/ AE 59 Years". The vicar of the church commented that he had no record of the funeral. From the bones, it was estimated that Bruere was 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m), in height, which was about the average for the 18th century.

Children

Bruere had at least nine children: William; George (ca. 1744–1786); John (killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775); Frederick; Elizabeth; Pendock; Frances (born 18 May 1749, Bermuda, died 20 November 1813, Cheltenham); Charlotte (born 1762, at Alderston, East Lothian, died 22 February 1827); and James (1765–1838).

Bruere's son William Bruere became secretary to the Government of the Bengal Presidency of British India and a member of the Council of India. He married Anne Sadleir, and their daughter Nancy Sadleir Bruere married in 1846 William Otter, later Principal of King's College London and Bishop of Chichester.  
Bruere, George James (I5807)
 
2109 Was in business in Genoa 1771-80; afterwards partner till his death in 1782 in his brother nation's business in Exeter. Member from 1780 of the Incorporation of Weavers, Fullers and Shearsmen of The Tuckers' Hall, Exeter.  Gibbs, Abraham (I1706)
 
2110 Was with BBC News (TV) 1963-67 and married Istly Patricia Mary Simmonds (divorced 1967) by whom he has 2 daughters: married 2ndly Ingrid Helen Una Fosse.  Woodall, Corbett Stafford (I2296)
 
2111 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Gibbs, Eion Roland Merry (I4054)
 
2112 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. J.A. (I5553)
 
2113 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. R.S. (I5863)
 
2114 Went to Harare (Salisbury) in 1977, and he died there in October 2004 Hunter Blair, John David (I603)
 
2115 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Gibbs, Madelaine Susannah (I2508)
 
2116 Westhampnett, Sussex, 2b 223 Rapson, Frank (I1590)
 
2117 While serving as 2nd in command of the 6th Bengal Cavalry & 10th Bengal Lancers. Baker, George Anthony Aufrere (I3222)
 
2118 Whippany Burialyard Lindsley, Joseph (I2159)
 
2119 White Lodge, Richmond Park Elizabeth, Princess of Cambridge, Duchess of Teck Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina (I4336)
 
2120 Widow of Capt. Peter George William Savile Foljambe (see Liverpool, E.), and younger daughter of Major Eric Charles Montagu-Flint, DSO of Hembury Castle, nr. Torrington, Devon. Baptised at Holy Trinity, Folkestone.

During the Second World War she worked in a department of the Foreign Office at Bletchley until 1941. She married in August 1942 Captain Peter G.W.S.Foljambe. By this marriage she had a daughter, and a son born after the death of his father in action. This son succeeded his great-uncle in 1969 as 5th Earl of Liverpool.

Portrait: in oils by Ludmilla Trapp, last in possession of Andrew A Gibbs. 
Flint, Elizabeth Joan (I1938)
 
2121 Widow of Captain Michael Desmond Hamilton Wills, MC and eldest daughter of Lt. Col. Philip Mitford, of Berryfield, Lentran, Invernesshire (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry').

Member of British Red Cross, British Legion, W.R.V.S. Compulsive gardener and took part in botanical trek to Sikkim1979.

Portrait by L. Trapp last in own possession. 
Mitford, Mary Margaret (I2448)
 
2122 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Longworth, Jane Phoebe (I2280)
 
2123 Widow of Dr. William H. de Bargue Hubert, MRCS, LRCP, eldest daughter of Major Guy Molesworth Kindersley, OBE, MP, MP. Kindersley, Agnes Ruth (I2651)
 
2124 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Rankine, Susan Heather (I1885)
 
2125 Widow. Robertson, Ethel Manwaring (I197)
 
2126 Widowed; married name Jeanie Yeoman McKnaught, Jeanie (I5306)
 
2127 Wife of George Anthony Molteno, the first Molteno to settle in London. Her tombstone lies cemented into the floor of the coffee house that now exists in the crypt of St Martin’s in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. Her children included James Anthony, John, Charles Dominic, Mary, Emma and Eloise Molteno.
 
Lewis, Mary (I1754)
 
2128 Wife of John Molteno. Daughter of George Bower who rose to a senior position in the Bank of England. After the death of her husband at young age in 1827, she moved with her children out of Central London to Peckham, at that time a small village on the city’s outskirts, where her father had a house. Caroline lived in Peckham for the rest of her life, for some of the time supporting herself by running a school.

A great sadness to her, four of her children emigrated to distant parts of the world. Only her son, Fred Molteno and his children, returned to live in Peckham. Her eldest son, John Charles Molteno, kept in touch with her by letter, although the post in those days was slow and irregular. But she had the joy of seeing him twice as a grown man, including during his lengthy visit to Europe with his wife, Maria, and daughters, Caroline and Betty, in 1860-61.
 
Bower, Caroline (I422)
 
2129 Wife of Westlake, baptised at Topsham 1 January 1612, a widow 1662. Gibbe, Rose (I236)
 
2130 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Matthews, Wilfred James (I3359)
 
2131 Will administration 7 September 1721 in the Peculiar Court of the Vicars Choral, Exeter. Gibbs, Robert (I2988)
 
2132 Will dated 10 May, proved July 1631 in the Archdeaconry Court of Exeter.

His will mentions his nephew John Baker. William Gibbe was churchwarden of Clyst St. George 1607 and William Gibb 1618, 1626, and 1629, all doubtless No. 3. His mother Cecily warden in 1597. For these and other Gibbs churchwardens of Clyst St. George see Clyst St. George 'Booke of Accomptes (extracted in Ellacombe's 'Clyst St. George' and in 'Aldenham General Collections' Vol. A, pp. 396-7) and the parish Registers.

Besides Claypitt with its 23 acres William had a lease on lives of a moiety or halfendeale of Court Farm in Clyst St. George, and both passed to his nephew Baker. For 'Court' see entry for George Gibbs of Pitt. 
Gibbe, William of Claypitt (I2960)
 
2133 Will dated 17 Nov. 1691, proved 24 Nov 1691, in London

The seal on his will of 1691 contains the earliest recorded use by a member of the Clyst St. George branch of the arms of Gibbs of Fenton in Dartington, viz., argent, 3 battle axes sable. It also shows for crest on an esquire's helmet, an arm embowed, in armour, holding a battle axe. These same arms and crest were placed by his first cousin George Gibbs of Pytte in Clyst St. George on the monument which he erected in 1708 to his father and grandfather, John Gibbs of Exeter, nephew of the first named George, sealed his will of 1741 with the same arms and crest, and John's son-in-law Adam Pierce impaled the same in a seal of his arms. On the arms see also Preface to the Third Edition of the Gibbs Pedigree and the opening to the earliest recorded Gibbses, i.e. John Gibbe (taxed in goods 1524). 
Gibbs, George of London (I3023)
 
2134 Will dated 2 May 1820 in Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London. Gibbs, Joanna (I1772)
 
2135 Will dated 27 August 1688, proved 27 February 1701-2 in the Peculiar Court of the Vicars Choral, Exeter.

Will mentions wife Dorothy; daughters Anstice Pearce, Dorothy Lyde, Elizabeth Gibbs, daughters-in-law Joan Kentibeare, Elizabeth Gibbs son Robert; grandson Robert; friends Abraham Gibbs and George Gibbs, yeoman. N.B. - A Joan Gibbs married John Kensbeer, 2 October 1684.
 
Gibbs, Robert of Ebford (I2974)
 
2136 Will dated 4 December 1732, proved 27 February 1723-3 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London. Pierce, Adam (I3044)
 
2137 Will dated February 1747-8, proved same year in Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter.

She is mentioned in the will of her mother's relation Margaret (born Lane and widow of Hunt), wife of Nicholas Prideaux (son of Nicholas Prideaux of Soldon, near Holsworthy, Devon). The wills of Anne and John and Anne Gregson mention her as their aunt, but Margaret Prideaux in her own will of 1698, proved 1704 (in the Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter), calls Isaac - the father of the first two - her cousin. It will be of interest to note the coincidence that the manor and advowson of Clyst St. George belonged to the Prideaux family from 1557 till it was sold in 1643 by Sir John Prideaux of Nutwell in the adjoining parish of Woodbury. Another coincidence to be mentioned is that in 1554 Robert Gibbes of Honington, co. Warwick, a family which like our own (the Clyst St. George) family claims relationship with Gibbs of Fenton in Dartington, married a Margaret daughter of Humphrey Prideaux of Thuborough, near Holsworthy, a relation of the Prideaux who bought the manor of Clyst St. George; see p. 15 of the Treatise by John Arthur Gibbs filed in 'Aldenham General Collections', Volume A, p. 621. 
Gibbs, Anne (I3037)
 
2138 Will mentions wife Tryphaena; daughters Elizabeth, Mary, son Abraham; brothers-in-law William Rowe, gent, and Benjamin Brinley, grocer; and (1st cousin) Philip Gibbs, yeoman. Gibbs, Abraham of Topsham (I232)
 
2139 William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies (16 April 1743 – 6 September 1819) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beresford,_1st_Baron_Decies
 
Beresford, William 1st Baron Decies (I6222)
 
2140 William Bruere became secretary to the Government of the Bengal Presidency of British India and a member of the Council of India. He married Anne Sadleir, and their daughter Nancy Sadleir Bruere married in 1846 William Otter, later Principal of King's College London and Bishop of Chichester.  Bruere, William (I5370)
 
2141 William Bruère Otter (28 May 1805 – 25 June 1876) was an Anglican cleric who was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1855 until his death in 1876.

William Otter was the son of William Otter, Bishop of Chicester and his wife, born Nancy Sadleir Bruère. He was educated at Rugby, Charterhouse and King's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1828. Ordained in 1830, he was Vicar of Eyeworth from 1832 to 1836, Vicar of Kinlet from 1837 to 1847, Vicar of Cowfold from 1839 to 1876 and Prebendary of Chichester from 1850 to 1876. He died at Cowfold on 25 June 1876.

Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bruère_Otter  
Otter, Rev. William Bruere (I2320)
 
2142 William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone and 1st Baron Elphinstone (18 November 1828 – 18 January 1893), known as William Elphinstone until 1861, was a Scottish Conservative politician.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Elphinstone,_15th_Lord_Elphinstone 
Elphinstone, William Buller Fullerton Baron Elphinstone (I3449)
 
2143 William Carr (14 June 1862 – 28 January 1925) was a biographer for the Dictionary of National Biography, historian, magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, England. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carr_(biographer)
 
Carr, William (I5258)
 
2144 William Charles Wentworth (13 August 1790 – 20 March 1872) was an Australian explorer, journalist, politician and author, and one of the leading figures of early colonial New South Wales. He was the first native-born Australian to achieve a reputation overseas, and a leading advocate for self-government for the Australian colonies.

For details see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wentworth 
Wentworth, William Charles (Crowley) (I237)
 
2145 William Douglas Weir, 1st Viscount Weir GCB PC (12 May 1877 – 2 July 1959) was a Scottish industrialist and politician, who served as President of the Air Council in 1918.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Weir,_1st_Viscount_Weir  
Weir, William Douglas 1st Viscount Weir (I6304)
 
2146 William Heneage Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth GCVO KCB VD TD JP (6 May 1851 – 11 March 1936), styled Viscount Lewisham between 1853 and 1891, was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1885 and 1886 and again between 1886 and 1891.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Legge,_6th_Earl_of_Dartmouth 
Legge, William Heneage 6th Earl of Dartmouth (I4846)
 
2147 William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, GCVO, PC, DL (5 November 1833 – 25 September 1917), styled Viscount Valletort between 1839 and 1861, was a British courtier and Conservative politician.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edgcumbe,_4th_Earl_of_Mount_Edgcumbe 
Edgcumbe, William Henry 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (I1508)
 
2148 William Hucks (1672–1740) was an English brewer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1709 and 1740.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hucks
 
Hucks, William (I4990)
 
2149 William Judd Harding was the son of a yeoman of ancient family. Educated and sent to India by M.C.Judd. He was gentleman of the bedchamber to George III and called his house "Baraset" after the college in Calcutta where he trained.
He married Harriet Sweedland, the illegitimate daughter of Miss Plowden and the Earl of Craven. She took her nurses name (Sweedland). A great beauty at school in Bath.
She was drawn in pastels by Sir Thomas Lawrence. 
Harding, William Judd (I1198)
 
2150 William Otter (23 October 1768 – 20 August 1840) was the first Principal of King's College, London, who later served as Bishop of Chichester. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge where he was later made a fellow. He was appointed Principal of the newly established King's College, London, in 1831, and held the post until 1836 when he was appointed Bishop of Chichester.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Otter
 
Otter, Rt. Rev. William (I2324)
 

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