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351 40 Clanricarde Gardens Fortescue-Brickdale, Edmund Arthur (I2645)
 
352 40 Norroy Road Gibbs, Dr. Denis Dunbar (I1034)
 
353 43 Alma Road Gibbs, Lieut. Colonel William Otter (I2319)
 
354 43 Lansdowne Crescent Gordon, Isabella Margaret (I1720)
 
355 4th and youngest daughter and coheir of Richard Durant of High Canon, Shenley, Herts., and Sharpham, Devon, for whom see Parker of Sharpham in Burke's 'Landed Gentry', by Charlotte Still, daughter of Lieut. Colonel Alexander Wilton Dashwood, for whom see Dashwood (Bart.) of Oxfordshire in 'Burke's Peerage'. Born at High Canons 8 May 1862 and baptised at Shenley Church. Married at Shenley 12 February 1885. Died 30 December 1938.

Lady Hunsdon. President of the Herts. Federation of Women's Institutes and of the Women's Branch of the City of London Conservative Association.

Portrait: oil, three quarter length, 1891, by Sir John Millais, P.R.A., a companion to the Ouless of her husband at the Manor House, Clifton Hampden in possession of Stephen C. Gibbs. 
Durant, Anna Maria Lady Hunsdon (I1640)
 
356 4th and youngest daughter of General Charles Crutchley (died 1898) of Sunninghill Park, Berks., for whom see Burke's 'Landed Gentry', by Eliza Bayfield (died 1910), daughter of John Harris, RN, of Eldon House, London, Ontario. Baptised in the chapel of The Duke of York's School, Chelsea .

On her husband's death she gave up The Manor House and in 1919 moved from 10 Lennox Gardens to 25 Cadagon Square, Chelsea. President of the Elstree branch of the Victoria League from 1904 and on the Central Executive Council of the League from 1925. In the Great Way served from 1916 in a depot in Eton Square, Westminster, for supplying parcels to those of the Scots Guards who were prisoners in the enemy's hands.

Portrait: by Hanson Walker, last in the possession of Anthea H. Lowes. 
Crutchley, The Hon. Alice Mary (I1984)
 
357 4th daughter of Joseph Harper, MD, by Augusta Mary, 4th daughter of Commander John de Lancy Robinson, RN of Ruckland House, nr. Braunton, Devon.
 
Harper, Margaret Ellen (I2713)
 
358 4th daughter, baptised privately 3 January and received into the Church 15 April 1873 at Clevedon parish church. Died childless 11 March 1961 in Natal.

Lived with her parents till their death. In the Great War was head of a Hopsital Supply Depot in Newbury 1915-17. 
Gibbs, Ethel Constance (I1445)
 
359 4th daughter. Baptised 26 December 1864 at East Hendred. Died childless at Clifton Hampden and buried at Warborough, Oxon.
 
Pott, Alice (I2830)
 
360 4th daughter. Baptised 3 June 1923 at Hunsdon aforesaid.

3 sons, 2 daughters: Thomas James Ponsonby, born 1950; George Edward, born 1953; Richard Ashley, born 1954; Emma Juliet Geraldine, born 1957; Charlotte Mary Rose, born 1960. 
Ponsonby, Juliet Barbara Anna (I1912)
 
361 4th daughter. Baptised 4 January 1876.

In S. Africa 1889-94.

Lived at Bex, Switzerand 1902-14 and 1918-32.

From later in 1932 living with her sister Isabel.

In the Great War she worked at the Royal Northern Hospital afsd. 1914 and with her sister Evelyn 1915.

Died unmarried. 
Heberden, Dorothea Blanche (I2880)
 
362 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Gibbs, Arabella Sophie (I1874)
 
363 4th daughter. Baptised there 25 July 1873.

In the Great War she worked for the soldiers from 1914 and from 1916 to the end of the war in Belgravia Work Room War Hospital. She was awarded a medal with 3 bars for the requisite amount of hours.

Died unmarried. 
Gibbs, Ethel May (I2737)
 
364 4th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs) Lord Aldenham, of Briggens, Herts. Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (created 1923). born at Frognall in Hampstead, London and baptised 23 June 1854 at St. John's Hampstead. Educated at Winchester College, 1868-71. Matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1873; B.A. 1877, M.A. 1884. Died 22 May 1935 at Briggens and was buried 25 May 1935 at St. Dunstan's, Hunsdon.

After a course of training (1877-9) in the offices of Wallace Bros. London; Ventura Marco del Pont, Paris; Gibbs Bright & Co., Liverpool; and Henry Bath & Son, Swansea; he joined Antony Gibbs & Sons 1879; was with their Chilean Branch, Gibbs & Co., 1880-1, and a manager thereof 1881: a manager of the London firm 1881 and a partner thereof from 1882. Original Chairman of the Alianza (Nitrate) Co. Ld., 1895-1928, and of the Pan de Azucar Nitrate Co., Ld., 1901-26; Director of the Rio de Janeiro City Improvements Co. Ld. from 1884 and Chairman from 1905: Director of the Australian Mutual Provdent Soc. from 1908: and sometime Director of other public companies. Chairman of the City of London Conservative Association Sep. 1912 to 1932. On the Public Works Loan Board from July 1884 (dep. Chairman 1908-21, Chairman from 1921). Justice of the Peace for Herts, from 1916. High Sheriff of Herts. for 1913. He was a member of the Deputation sent by the British Government to Russia in the winter of 1912-13 to return the visit of the Duma to England. In the Great War he was director of Purchases of Nitrate of Soda for the Allies (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p.389). Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (?1918). Created Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon 24 July 1923. First speech in the House of Lords 7 July 1924, the subject being 'Trade and Unemployment'. Chairman of the City of London Club 1928-31; Member of the Carlton Club, Pall Mall, from 1910. Author of 'History of Gibbs of Fenton' in Dartington (1925), 'The Parish Registers of Hunsdon (1915)', several pamphlets on Bimetallism and the Currency, 1894-5, including 'A Bimetallic Primer' 1894 (rd ed. 1896), and one on 'The Incidence of Income Tax and Wasting Securities (1904)'. His evidence on 'Wasting Assets Abroad' before the Royal Comn. on Income Tax of 1920 is in an appendix to their Report.

He bought Biggens in the parish of Hunsdon and the lordship of the Manor of Hunsdon in 1908. His successive London residences from 1885 were 34 York Terrace, 17 Portman Street, 9 Portman Square (1898-1923), all in St. Marylebone.

Portraits: Drawing by W.E. Miller, 1882, another by E.U. Eddis in a group with his mother and brother Vicary, 1860, both in possession of Lord Aldenham. Oil, three quarter length, 1891, by W. Ouless, R.A., at Briggens (copy by Miss Richardson in possession of A.Gibbs & Sons). Crayon by John Hay, presentation from City of London Conservative Association, 1932, in possession of Antony D. Gibbs, 5th Lord Aldenham. 
Gibbs, The Hon. Herbert Cokayne 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (I1630)
 
365 4th son of John Arthur Gibbs. Born 28 May 1912 at 20 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington, and baptised 26 June 1912 at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate. Educated at Eton College 1925-30; matric. Oxford (University College) January 1931; Student at St. Stephen's House (Theological College) Oxford, April 1932-35.

Ordained Anglican Deacon, Oxford 1935. Priest 1936. Curate of Wantage, Berks, 1935-43. Vicar Wootton, Berks., 1943-57. Rector of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell 1957-67. Rural Dean Wallingford 1961-67. Vicar of Roath St. Germans, Cardiff 1967-77.

Retired to Hinton St. George, Somerset. Converted to Roman Catholicism 1993. Enthusiast of the Italian Renaissance, art, poetry and ornithology. Widely travelled especially Italy, also France, The Holy Land, Africa.

Author of 'Fireflies' published posthumously 2005 by House Martin Press.

Died 18 January 2003. Buried at St. George's Church, Hinton St. George, Somerset. 
Gibbs, Rev. Martin Franck (I649)
 
366 4th son of Rev. Joseph Gibbs of Clifton Hampden. Baptised 26 October 1842 at Wraxall. Educated at Marlborough College, 1857-9, matric. Oxford (Exeter College), 18 October 1862, BA and student at Cuddesdon Theological College, 1867. Buried at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and Memorial window in Hutton Church. Will dated 23 August 1874.

Deacon 1867; Priest 1868. Curate of Hambledon, Bucks., 1867-9; Rector of Hutton, Somerset (for which Living he was nominated under the will of his uncle George Gibbs, 1869 till 1895, when he resigned and retired to Oxford. 
Gibbs, Rev. George Henry (I2577)
 
367 4th son of William Gibbs of Tyntesfield of Barrow Court, Somerset. Baptised 24 June 1850 at St. John's, Paddington. Educated at Lancing College 1866-69; matric. Cambridge (Clare College) 1871. Buried 25 April 1928 at Barrow Gurney, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there; in Barrow Court chapel; in the chapel of Keble College, Oxford; in King's College, Taunton and Lancing College; Memorial window in Down Ampney Church, Wiltshire and Memorial reredos in the chapel of St. Michael's Home in Cheddar, the 2 last to him and his wife. Will dated 19 November 1926, cod. 20 March 1928, proved 24 August 1928.

During 1874 he lived at Malahuasi in the valley of Jauga, Peru, for his health. He restored Barrow Court 1882-84 for his home and bought it and the advowson of Barrow Gurney in 1885: restored the church at Barrow Gurney, 1887; erected or restored many buildings in the village; and bought the manor of Barrow Gurney 1902. The manor and village had previously belonged to J. Gratwick Blagrave, son of J. H. Blagrave.

Leased Down Ampney House, co. Glos., 1893-1916 and gave the screen, new pulpit, new seats and other gifts to the church there. For his benefaction with his brother Antony of a block of buildings to Keble College, Oxford, in 1875-78, in memory of their father, see Antony Gibbs. He gave the building which contains the school hall and class rooms, and many other benefactions, to Lancing College, and to its chapel; also gave a new wing to Ardingly College and was a great benefactor to this and other of the Southern and Western schools of the "Woodard" group.

He was on the Corporation of SS. Mary and Nicolas (the governing body of all the "Woodard" schools); a Fellow (1879-1928) of the Society of the SS. Mary and Nicolas (Lancing and the other Southern Schools); Fellow and Gustos (1879-1928) of the Society of SS. Mary and Andrew (King's Coll., Taunton); on the Committee of Lancing Coll., and Trustee of its property; founded three scholarships there.

He restored the Garrison Church at Dover Castle, and gave the reredos to the English Church at Balquhidder, co. Perth. Chairman of the Trust of St. Michael's Home in Cheddar. On the Long Ashton Rural District Council, 1902-28, and Chairman of the Barrow-Gurney Parish Council. A Justice of the Peace for Somerset (Long Ashton petty sessional division) 1886-1928. High Sheriff of Somerset for 1897. Served on various committees of the Bath and Wells Diocesan Conference.

Portraits: Oil by Solomon J. Solomon, last in possession of his son Major Antony Gibbs; water colour by E. Clifford, chalk by J. de Cazenave (1859), a min., a water colour (on photo base) by Speaight (1920), whereabouts unknown (1980); oil by Goldsborough Anderson (about 1903) at Lancing Coll.; min. (as a child, with his bro. George) by Sir W. Ross was last in possn. of Lord Wraxall (in 1930. 
Gibbs, Henry Martin High Sheriff, Somerset (I1726)
 
368 4th son of William Heberden by Elvina, daughter of John Underwood, MD. Born at Great Bookham, Surrey where his father was Rector, baptised there 17 November 1833. Educated privately, matric. Oxford (Oriel College), 3 March 1853, BA 1856, MA 1859. Buried in Ceres Cemetery. Memorial Inscription there and Memorial window in Manmore Church. Will dated 15 September, 1880, proved 18 August 1891.

He was curate at Wraxall, Somerset, 1857, and of Great Bookham, Surrey, 1858; Rector of Ranmore, Surrey 1859-72; vicar of Rothwell co. York 1872-82; vicar of Clifton Hampden 1882-9.

Oil portrait last in possession of his grand-daughter Elizabeth Mary Hoare (b, Heberden). 
Heberden, Rev. George (I2872)
 
369 4th son, baptised at Topsham, died and buried there aged 5 months. Gibbs, Abraham (I3069)
 
370 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Gibbs, Raymond Martin (I2052)
 
371 4th son, born at Knowle Park, Almondsbury, co. Gloucestershire, June and baptised 28 August 1824 at Almondsbury. Died at Knowle Park 18 November 1824 and was buried 27 November at Almondsbury. Gibbs, Charles Crawley (I1620)
 
372 4th son. Baptised 1 June 1930 at Broadwell. Educated at Eton College and Oxford (Christ Church) MA.

FRICS, FRSA. Joined Messrs. Knight Frank & Rutley 1952. Partner in 1961 and Senior Partner in 1978. Has always been involved with the agricultural side of the business, working in Australia and West Africa, as well as in the UK Governor of London House for Overseas Graduates 1961 (appointed a Vice-Chairman of the Trust in 1980), Halls of Residence for Commonwealth Postgraduate Students founded by his grand-father F.C. Goodenough and his father Sir William Goodenough. Chairman of the Homeopathic Trust, a medical Charity supporting the training of doctors in Homeopathic Medicine.

Liveryman of the Goldsmith's Company; Commissioner of Taxation 1978; First President of the Agriculture Commission of the International Real Estate Federation 1974-78.

Actively involved in Church affairs in Oxfordshire, as Patron, Lay Chairman of the PCC and Organist of St. Peter's, Broughton Poggs. Amateur organist (Prize Winner at Eton); amateur landscape painter. With his brother Roger and his family he farms in the parishes of Broadwell and Filkins. Other interests: gardening, trees, shooting.

Clubs: Brooks's, Pratt's New (Edinburgh).

Last address: Filkins Hall, Filkins, Lechlade, Glos. and 4 Stanhope Gardens, London, SW7. 
Goodenough, Samuel Kenneth Henry (I1972)
 
373 4th son. Baptised 2 March 1869. Educated at Leeds Grammar School and (1882-8) Lancing College.

In S. Africa since 1888. A clerk in the Standard Bank of S. Africa at Johannesburg and elsewhere 1889-94.

Afterwards a farmer in Cape Coloney and in the Bechuanaland Mounted Police.

Served in the Boer War of 1899-1902 with Remmington's Scouts. Farming and mining in Southern Rhodesia from 1908, till his retirement to the Cape at Port Alfred.

1 son and 2 daughters. 
Heberden, Hector Vaughan (I2876)
 
374 4th son. Baptised 7 September 1871 at St. John's, Putney. Educated at Charterhouse, Surrey, 1884-90; matric. Oxford (Oriel College) Michaelmas 1890; BA 1893.

In Racquets pair for Charterhouse 1889: for Oxford University, Racquets, 1891-92, Royal Tennis, 1892.

Member of the London Stock Exchange from 1899 and partner of David Bevan & Co., stockbrokers, in the City of London. Residences, 54 Montagu Sq., London, W, 1909-29, 1 Bryanston Sq. from 1929.

Portraits: Chalk, age 23, by P. Downes 1894; pencil by Francis F. Crawley-Boevey, 1894; chalk by Geoffroi de Chaume 1924; and chalk by the same 1925; all four last in his own possession.

1 son and 3 daughters. Thomas Probyn, born 1920
(d. 1943); Elizabeth,born 1913, m. Peter Duke Doulton and has issue; Anne, born 1916, m. Walter Arbuthnot Prideaux and has issue; Susan, born 1923, who has in her possession a portrait by George Richmond of Mary Dorothea Cokayne. 
Cokayne, Francis Stewart (I2022)
 
375 4th son. Baptised at Segrave, Northants 17 October 1906. Educated at Royal Naval Colleges of Osborne 1920-21, Dartmouth 1921-23.

Midshipman September 1924; Sub-Lieut. 1928; Lieut. April 1929. Has served in H.M.Ss. Benbow, Wessex, Cornwall, Sandwich and Devonshire. On the China station 1928-31; the Mediterranean station 1931, China 1932. Lieutenant Commander 1937. Commander 1940. Captain 1947. Served also in Crusader (Home Fleet; and Red Sea during Abyssinian War). R.N. Staff College 1937. Commanded destroyers Stronghold and Beagle 1938-39. In July 1939 appointed Staff Officer to Commodore, South American Division. At Battle of River Plate in Ajax (Despatches). Commanded Beagle for the second time in Greenock Escort Force 1942-43 and took part in Russian Convoys (D.S.O. July 1942) and North African Landing. Lent to Royal Canadian Navy March 1943 for command of C3 Atlantic Escort Group and served in Burnham, Saskatchewan and Prince Rupert. Appointed Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief,
Mediterranean, July 1944, at Caserta, Italy, and later at Malta. O.B.E. 1945. Drafting Commander, Portsmouth R.N. Barracks 1947-48. Commanded Cardigan Bay in Mediterranean and as Captain, 4th Frigate Flotilla on China Station 1948-50. Deputy Director Admiralty Operations Division 1950-52. Senior Directing Staff Officer at Joint Services Staff College, Latimer, Bucks., 1952-54. Chief Staff Officer to (French) Admiral, Central European Command at N.A.T.O. Headquarters at Fontainebleu 1955-57, as Commodore.

Retired March 1957. Became Clerk to the Worshipful Company of Sadlers from 1960-71. A Freeman of the City of London and Honorary Assistant of the Saddlers' Company in 1971. Lived at Emsworth, Hants. 1938-57 and from the latter year, at Biggs Cave, Dinton, Aylesbury, Bucks.

Retired first to Aynho, and then to Chilton House Nursing Home where he died.

2 daughters: Shirley Vivienne m. Robert Antony Lewis Phipps and has issue; Carolyn m. Ian Richard Taylor and has issue. 
Medley, Captain Ralph Cyril DSO, OBE (I2071)
 
376 4th son. Born at the Parsonage, Clifton Hampden, 28 January and baptised in the church there 28 February 1869. Educated privately in England and at Bonn, Germany; matric. at Oxford (Keble College) October 1888, BA 1892. Died childless 28 December 1943 and was buried 1 January 1944 at Putney Vale Cemetery.

He was in Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1892-1907. In his own business at 62 London Wall from 1907. Amongst other companies, director of Minerals Separation Ld. from 1906 (chairman from 1919); an original director and chairman of Rhodesian Congo Border Concession Ld., 1923-30, and of N'Changa Copper Mines Ld. 1926-30; director and deputy chairman of Rhokana Corporation from 1930; director of Eagle Oil Transport Co. 1913-30; director sometime of the Argentine N. Eastern Railway Co. Ld., and a Trustee for its debenture holders. Churchwarden of the parish church of Roehampton, 1911-23. Last residences: Woodmansterne, Putney Heath, and Groman, Erwood, co. Brecon. 
Gibbs, Francis Lomax (I1458)
 
377 56 Ennismore Gardens Gibbs, Sylvia Mary (I2616)
 
378 5th daughter of Rev. William Bruere Otter, Archdeacon of Lewes, by Elizabeth, 3rd and youngest daughter of Robert Melvil, English Consul at Amsterdam. Baptised 9 April 1854 in Cowfold Parish Church. Buried 8 July 1928 at Barrow Gurney. Memorial Inscription in the churchyard there and in Barrow Court chapel. Memorial reredos and Memorial window, both as aforesaid under her husband. Administration 23 November 1928.

The following is a selection from a number of posts which she held at different times. In 1920 she resigned from sixteen on account of ill health. An original member of the General and Exec. Committees of the Somerset Federation of Women's Institutes, 1902-12, and an elected Vice-President, 1902-28; President of the Barrow-Gurney Women's Institute till 1928; Founder and President of the local Nursing Association; for many years on the Committee of the Somerset Association of the Welfare of Women and Girls:
co-opted Member of the Board of Guardians of Long Ashton afsd. 1904-28, and acted on many of its sub-committees; on the Somerset County Education Committee, 1903-20, and co-opted Member of its Special Subjects Committee, 1913-20; a Trustee of St. Michael's Home afsd. till 1928; on the Council of Bristol Blind School for many years till 1928; on the General Committee of Bristol Blind Asylum 1912-28; founded in 1912 the North Somerset Women's Unionist Association and was President and Chairman thereof; Local Representative of the Long Ashton War Pensions Sub-committee, 1914-20.

Portraits: By Wm. Walker (1883); by Goldsborough Anderson (1905); min. by Miss Hall, last in possession of her son Major Anthony Gibbs. 
Otter, Emily Anna (I1733)
 
379 5th daughter. Baptised 3 October 1867 at East Hendred. Died unmarried at Clifton Hampden 13 November 1961 and buried there.

Member 1919, Officer 1922 of the Order of the British Empire. Woman Inspector of Women's Branch of the Board of Agriculture 1916-19. Woman Executive Officer of Overseas Settlement Dept. of the Colonial Office 1930. Adviser to H.M. Government on Women's Migration in the Commonwealth.

From 1912 lived at Clifton Hampden. 
Pott, Gladys Sydney (I2829)
 
380 5th daughter. Died in infancy and buried at Rothwell. Memorial Inscription there. Heberden, Elvina Catherine (I2881)
 
381 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Eyre, Patrick Giles Andrew (I488)
 
382 5th son of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 28 December 1889 at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College 1902-8 ad at Cirencester Agricultural College 1909-10.

He qualified as an Associate of the Surveyors' Institution, 1910, and was learning land agency, 1911-12. A clerk in Vivian Gray & Co., stockbrokers, in the City of London, 1912-14; member of the London Stock Exchange from 1914.

After the Great War he rejoined Vivian Gray & Co., but from 1919-23 his home was at Gatwicke Hall, Barrow Gurney, where he was working his father's Home Farm on his own account. Partner in Vivian Gray & Co. from 1922. 2nd Lieut., North Somerset Yeomanry, Jan. 1910; Lieut., Aug. 1914; Capt. May 1915. Territorial Decoration, 1920. Retired from Territ. Army, 1928. Served 1914-18 in the Great War in France and Belgium (1914 Star, British War Medal, and Allies' (Victory) Medal). Served in North Somerset Yeomanry in the Second World War.

A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar from 1918. Resided at 7 Tite Street, Chelsea, 1923-25; The Hyde, Hatfield, Herts, 1925-27; Chestnut Farm, Acton Turville, Glos., 1927-28; from 1928 at Ruckley, Easton Grey, Malmesbury; after the war at The Cottage, Badminton and finally at Park Leaze, Ewen, Cirencester.

Portrait as a boy by F. Crawley-Boevey at Sheldon Manor in possession of Martin Gibbs and another in uniform by Ogilvie with his son Martin St. John Valentine Gibbs, together with a portrait of Margaret Olivia by L. Trapp last in possession of his son Martin St. John Valentine Gibbs. 
Gibbs, Major Guy Melvil (I2315)
 
383 5th son of Rev. Joseph Gibbs of Clifton Hampden. Baptised 28 August 1845 at Wraxall. Educated at Marlborough College, 1852-62, matric. at Cambridge (Jesus College) October 1865, BA 1870, MA 1876. Student at Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxon, 1868-9. Buried 18 March 1918 at Clyst St. George. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Memorial window in Hagley Church, co. Worcester, to him and his sons Beresford and Edward. Will proved London 8 May 1918.

Won the mile race for Cambridge v. Oxford in 1868 in the fastest amateur time then on record (4 min. 28 sec.). Deacon 1869; Priest 1871. Curate of Abingdon, Berks., 1869-73; Vicar of Exwick, nr. Exeter, 1873-8; (presented by Wm. Gibbs; Vicar of Abingdon 1878-84; Rector of Hagley, co. Worcester, 1884-1903; Rector of Clyst St. George, Devon (presented by Antony Gibbs) 1903 to 1911 when he resigned and retired to Temple Hill afsd. 
Gibbs, Rev. William Cobham (I2579)
 
384 5th son, baptised at Topsham, educated at Blundell's aforesaid 1818-26, died 14 December 1857 at Genoa and buried there. Will proved there.

Joined Gibbs & Co., Genoa, the business of his uncle Lyle, about 1828, became a partner and remained in the firm till his death. 
Gibbs, Charles of Genoa (I3070)
 
385 5th son, born at 11 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London 11 February, and baptised 2 June 1827 at St. George's, Hart Street, Holborn. Educated at Charterhouse, London, 1836-46, matric, at Oxford (Exeter College) 22 May 1845; drowned there in the Isis on 3 June 1846 and was buried 9 June 1846 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in church and churchyard there.

His diary 1846, is in possession of J.A. Gibbs. A bust (posthumous) by Jos. Dinham in in possession of Lord Aldenham. 
Gibbs, George (I1622)
 
386 5th son, Esq. of Genoa: merchant, bapitsed at Topsham 9 July 1761. Died unmarried in Genoa 1839, buried there 11 February 1839.

Lyle Gibbs of Genoa. In business in Italy from 1777 or 1778; partner in Heath & Co. Genoa, from 1794 (about) to 1814; stle of firm changed 1 May 1814 to Lyle Gibbs, and in 1820 to Gibbs & Co., which style it retained till 1864. See the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p.337 for its later history. A letter from him (17 November 1798) to Admiral Lord Nelson is in the British Museum (Addl. MSS., No. 34908, fo. 150). Portrait see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs. 
Gibbs, Lyle (I3080)
 
387 5th son. Baptised 1 July 1883 at Wraxall, Somerset. Buried at Wraxall. Memorial Inscription in the churchyard. Gibbs, Louis Merivale (I1740)
 
388 5th son. Baptised 7 June 1887 at Hagley. Educated at Marlborough College 1901-5 and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 1906-7. Died unmarried 31 December 1969 at Coxwell House, Cirencester, and buried St. Nicholas Church, Standish, 7 January 1970.

2nd Lieut. Royal Field Artillery Dec. 1907; Lieut. December 1910; Capt. 30 October 1914. Major 2 December 1917. Retired on wound pension Aug. 1926. Was serving in Ireland 1908-10, at Aldershot 1910-August 1914. In the Great War he served in France August 1914-August 1915 and December 1915-August 1918. Aide-de-camp August 1914-June 1915, Staff Captain June-August 1915, to Commander R.A. 1st Division; Brigade Major August 1915-August 1918 32nd Divisional Artillery.

Wounded in the battle of the Aisne at Veudrasse 15 September 1914 and severely at Bayonvillers in the advance from Amiens 24 August 1918. Mentioned in despatches 3 times (Gazettes 22 June 1915, 15 June 1916, 11 December 1917). Military Cross January 1917. Companion of Distinguished Service Order January 1918. Croix de Guerre avec Palme November 1918. 1914 Star, British War medal, and Allies' (Victory) Medal of the Great War. Assistant Military Secretary to General The Lord Home in Eastern Command, England 1921-23.

From 1923-67 farmed with his brother George at Malthouse Farm.

Second World War: Served in Royal Observer Corps.

Chairman, National Trust Local Committee for Haresfield Beacon. Local Organiser S.S.A.F.A. and British Legion for many years up to 1967.

Left Malthouse Farm in 1967 and lived at Coxwell House, Cirencester until his death.

Portrait: Pastel with his brother Edward c. 1891 last in possession of his nephew Beresford. 
Gibbs, Major Alfred Joseph DSC, MC (I2770)
 
389 5th son. Baptised at Ranmore 10 October 1870. Educated at Lancing College 1883-9.

Associate member of Institution of Civil Engineers. Apprenticed to civil engineers in S. Africa 1889-93 and engaged in engineering thereafter.

For many years in the employ of the Cape Government.

He was Senior Consulting Engineer of the South African Railways.

When he retired in 1930 he settled in Cape Town.

A Freemason. 
Heberden, Louis Edward (I2875)
 
390 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Gibbs, Simon Humphrey (I1896)
 
391 5th son. Baptised privately 11 July 1873 and received into the Church at Abingdon. Educated at Eton College, 1887-91, matric. at Oxford (New College) 1891, BA 1895, MA 1901. Died childless at Levanto, Italy, 12 May 1938, and buried there. Memorial stone in churchyard at Clifton Hampden.

After some years as assistant master elsewhere he became headmaster of Parkside, a private school at Ewell, Surrey, 1902-15. An officer in the Church Army contingent in Italy during the Great war. Lived after 1917 at the Fleur de Lis, Clifton Hampden. 
Pott, Alfred Francis Vaughan (I2838)
 
392 5th son. Born on 31 March 1914, baptised 9 May 1914 at Aldenham. Educated at Winchester College 1927-33, Oxford (Christ Church) BA 1937, MA 1946.

MBE (1945), TD (1945), Major Herts. Regt. RARO served in World War II (despatches); 1939/45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal.

Local Director, Barclays Bank Ltd., Oxford District 1947-53; Shrewsbury District from 1953; York District from 1961; Director of The Bank 1962; Director of Barclays Bank UK Management Ltd. 1971-79; Director Barclays Insurance Services Co. Ltd. 1970-75; Director York Waterworks Co. from 1969. Member York Diocesan Board of Finance from 1964. Member 1968 and Chairman since 1969 of Dean and Chapter of York Minister Finance Committee. Member of the HIgh Stewards Committee of York Minster and a Trustee of the York Minster Fund, from its inception in 1967. Fell Corpn. of SS Mary and Nicolas (Woodard Schools Midlands Division) from 1959; Chairman of the School Council of Worksop College and Ranby House School since 1962. A member of the Executive Committee of the Woodard Corporation since its formation in 1976. Governor of St. Edward's School, Oxford from 1948; Hon. Life member BRCS. A member of 'Nobody's Friends' since 1963.

Clubs: Travellers", Pratt's, MCC, and Yorkshire (York).

Portrait: oil by A.C. Davidson-Houston, last in his own possession and pastel by Mrs Blakeney Ward, likewise.

Last address: Kilvington Hall, Thirsk, Yorkshire
 
Gibbs, Major Andrew Antony MBE, TD (I1937)
 
393 5th son. Citizen and Salter of London, baptised 18 March 1662 at St. Mary Arches aforesaid: died unmarried, Will proved 23 May 1693 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London. Gibbs, Jacob (I3024)
 
394 6th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs), Lord Aldenham. Baptised 7 September 1861 at St. Marylebone Church. Educated privately; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 21 May 1880. Buried 18 September 1907 at Aldenham. Will dated 24 January 1903, proved 30 October 1907.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1889, partner in that firm 1890-1907 and was with their Australian Branch, Gibbs Bright & Co., 1893-5 and 1903. Director of The London Assurance, 1883-97, of the Grand Junction Canal Co. 1883-9, of the East Argentine Railway Co. Ld. 1884-8, of the Argentine North Eastern Railway Co. Ld. 1889-1907, and of The Sulphine Corporation Ld. (from its inception) 1895-1907. A Commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London. Residences: 10 Lennox Gardens, Chelsea, 1888-1907; The Manor House, Elstree, 1896-1907.

Portraits: drawing (1865) by E. U. Eddis, and pastel (1883) by W.E. Miller, last in possession of Anthea H. Lowes. 
Gibbs, The Hon. Henry Lloyd (I1637)
 
395 6th son of Henry Martin Gibbs. Baptised 4 August 1891 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College, 1904-9; matric. Oxford (Magdalen College) October 1910.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons, 1912; joined Gibbs & Co., Chile, 1914, but returned on outbreak of the Great War. Re-entered A. Gibbs & Sons, 1919, and joined Gibbs, Bright & Co., Australia in the same year; resigned in 1923. Partner from 1928 in Lamb & Gold, stockjobbers in the City of London. 2nd Lieut. North Somerset Yeomanry (Territ.), Oct. 1912; Lieut., 1915; Captain, 1916; Retired, 1919. In the Great War served in France with N. Som. Yeo., Sept. 1914 to May 1915; and August 1916 to April 1918; and with the 7th Dragoon Guards, April 1918, till end of the War. Despatches, 14 January 1915; 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. He was a Trustee of St. Michael's Home, in Cheddar, and Treasurer of St. Peter's Home, Kilburn. In the Second World War he was a Lt. Col. in the Military Police in India.
Residences: Bush Hall, Hatfield, Herts., 1924-28; Benhay, Little Gaddesden, Herts., from 1928; later at Church Farm, South Marston and The Manor House at Woodmancote.

Portraits: by G. Anderson (1900); by Ogilvie (1915); by F. Crawley-Boevey at Sheldon Manor last in possession Martin A. Gibbs; and a min. by Miss Hall; all four were in possn. of his brother William in 1932. 
Gibbs, Ralph Crawley Boevey (I2316)
 
396 6th son, 2nd Lieut. in H.M.S. Minotaur with Admiral McBride. Died unmarried in the West Indies 1796. Will dated 20 June, proved 7 November 1796 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London. Gibbs, Thomas 2nd Lieut. RN (I3081)
 
397 6th son, born at 11 Bedford Square, London, aforesaid 28 June and baptised 13 August 1829 at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, aforesaid. Educated at Charterhouse, London 1839-43 and at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Matric at Oxford (Exeter College) 11 May 1848. Died at his residence 14 Norfolk Square, Paddington, 18 March, and was buried at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription there. Will proved 24 April 1890.

Ensign in 2nd Regiment of foot (Queen's Royals) 23 November 1849 by purchase for £450; Lieut. 1851 (purchase). Captain 1856 (purchase); Major 1870; sold out and retired 1877 with the rank of Lieut-Col. in the Army. Had foreign service in Cape Colony (where he went in ship Calcutta) arriving January 1854) and at Aden 1867 to beginning of 1869. He left the long lease of 14 Norfolk Square, Paddington, where he lived for many years, to his brother John, whose daughters Blanche Gibbs and Ethel Dickson inherited it.

Portrait: Drawing by E.U Eddis (1859) is in possession of Lord Aldenham. 
Gibbs, Charles Lieut.-Colonel (I1723)
 
398 6th son. Baptised 12 April 1885 at Wraxall Somerset. Educated at Eton College, 1898-1903; matric. at Oxford (Magdalen College) 1903. Died unmarried 13 February 1915, being killed in action in the Great War near Ypres and was buried there. Memorial Inscription in the cemetery in Wraxall church (Charlton chapel), and in Barrow Gurney chapel, (Barrow Court chapel). Administration London 28 July 1915.

2nd Lieut. North Somerset Yeomanry 1906, Lieut. Ap. 1909, Capt. 29 Aug. 1914. Entered Antony Gibbs and Sons, London, 1908: in Gibbs & Co. Chile, 1909-13 (a manager from 1911): in Antony Gibbs & Co., New York, as second in charge, 1913 to Aug. 1914, when he left to join his Yeomanry for the Great War. Served in France and Belgium from October 1914 till his death and was mentioned in despatches of 14 January 1915. He was buried in the Civil Cemetery at Ypres (which is now continuous with the subsequently made War Cemetery and close outside the Menin Gate). He is recorded on the War memorials in Wraxall church and churchyard, at Eton College, Wells Cathedral, and in the church at Valparaiso.

Portrait by Sir W. B. Richmond R.A. (1890) and a posthumous one by Albert H. Collings in uniform were both in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930. 
Gibbs, Captain Eustace Lyle (I1741)
 
399 6th son. Baptised at Ranmore 4 March 1862.

Died 1938 at Port Alfred, South Africa. 
Heberden, Hugh Percy (I2874)
 
400 7 Crick Road Medley, Brigadier Edgar Julius DSO, OBE, MC (I2075)
 

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