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Antony Gibbs
1756 - 1815 (59 years)-
Name Antony Gibbs Birth 3 Mar 1756 Exeter, Devon Gender Male Education Educated at Exeter Grammar School Memorial Hayes, Middlesex Monument inscription MI in churchyard at Hayes Occupation Founder of the House of Antony Gibbs & Son of London Residence 14 Dec 1773 Exeter, Devon Burial Dec 1815 St Mary the Virgin, Hayes, Kent Death 10 Dec 1815 2 Powis Place, Holborn, London Will 16 Mar 1816 Will proved in C.P.C. Notes - After an apprenticeship in a Spanish business in Exeter he was from 1778 to 1789 a merchant there exporting woollen cloth to Spain and elsewhere; also from 1785 to 1789 a partner in a firm styled Gibbs Granger & Banfill, working a cloth factory at Exwick in the outskirts of Exeter. His father financed him and was also in the Exwick partnership. He was a member 1778 - 1789 of the Incorporation of Tuckers Hall, Exeter; head warden 1782, master 1783.
Bankrupt in 1789 (alike with his father), he went to Madrid and for the next 18 years was engaged in business which centred in Spain. Mainly working as agent for British manufacturers he was at times (from 1783) also exporting Spanish produce as partner in a firm at Malaga styled Juan Pomar Gibbs y Compania. Driven out of Spain by war in 1797 he conducted his business from 1798 to 1801 in Lisbon, but in 1802 became regularly established in Cadiz as a merchant there, till war again forced him away. His last visit to Spain was in 1807.
In 1808 he became one of the Commissioners in London for dealing with Portuguese property sent to England in the war, and in September that year founded, in partnership with his son George Henry, the firm of Antony Gibbs & Son, London, with a branch in Cadiz. The firm became Antony Gibbs & Sons in 1813 on admission of his second son William to the partnership.
He was author of a pamphlet signed "A Merchant," An Appeal to Common Sense on the Bullion Question, published 1810.
After his marriage he and his wife lived in Exeter 1784-6, at Exwick House 1786-9, in Madrid 1789-92. From 1792 to 1808 their home was in Exeter or its neighbourhood (at Cowley 1803-8), but in that period he made ten trips to the Peninsula of an average duration of 12 months each. The family moved to London in 1808 and lived in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 1808-9; Denmark Hill, Camberwell, 1809-10; Dulwich Common, 1810-12; 2 Powis Place in the parish of St George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, 1812 onwards.
- For a brief summary of the firm Antony Gibbs and Sons see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gibbs_%26_Sons
Person ID I132 Gibbs Family Tree Last Modified 7 Sep 2019
Father George Abraham Gibbs, of Pytte, b. 1718, Pytte, Clyst St George, Devon d. 10 Nov 1794, Clyst St George, Devon (Age 76 years) Mother Anne Vicary, of Dunkeswell, b. 4 Nov 1722, Exeter, Devon d. 11 Aug 1803, Clyst St George, Devon (Age 80 years) Marriage 22 Dec 1747 St Petrock's, Exeter, Devon Family ID F127 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Dorothea Barnetta Hucks, b. Dec 1760, Knaresborough, Yorkshire d. 24 Feb 1820, Redland, Gloucestershire (Age 59 years) Marriage 3 Oct 1784 Littleham, Devon Children + 1. George Henry Gibbs, b. 24 Aug 1785, Exeter, Devon d. 21 Aug 1842, Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy (Age 56 years) 2. Harriett Gibbs, b. 8 Oct 1786, Exeter, Devon d. 15 Oct 1865, Wraxall, Somerset (Age 79 years) 3. George Abraham Gibbs, b. 20 Jan 1788, St. Thomas', Exeter, England d. 3 Mar 1789, Layton, Essex (Age 1 year) 4. William Gibbs, of Tyntesfield, b. 22 May 1790, Calle de Cantarranas, Madrid, Spain d. 3 Apr 1875, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset (Age 84 years) 5. Francis Gibbs, b. 7 Jul 1794, Exeter, Devon d. 16 Apr 1795, Exwick House, Exwick, Devon (Age 0 years) 6. Anne Gibbs, b. 29 May 1797, Lower Cleave, nr Exeter, England d. 6 Oct 1852, Wraxall, Somerset (Age 55 years) 7. Rev. Joseph Gibbs, b. 23 Jul 1801, St Davids Hill, Exeter d. 22 Mar 1864, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire (Age 62 years) Family ID F29 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 6 Nov 2021
- After an apprenticeship in a Spanish business in Exeter he was from 1778 to 1789 a merchant there exporting woollen cloth to Spain and elsewhere; also from 1785 to 1789 a partner in a firm styled Gibbs Granger & Banfill, working a cloth factory at Exwick in the outskirts of Exeter. His father financed him and was also in the Exwick partnership. He was a member 1778 - 1789 of the Incorporation of Tuckers Hall, Exeter; head warden 1782, master 1783.
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Headstones Antony Gibbs, Hayes, Kent
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