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Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey
1817 - 1887 (69 years)
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Name Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey Birth 17 Dec 1817 Eastgate street, Gloucester 
Gender Female Baptism 16 Jan 1818 St Michael, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Residence 1881 Paddington, London Death 22 Sep 1887 Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset Notes - During her widowhood Tyntesfield and 16 Hyde Park Gardens continued to be her residences. She built (1876-8) and endowed St. Michael's Home for Consumptives in the parish of Cheddar, Somerset in memory of her husband, redecorated the chancel of St. Michael's, Exeter, which he built, and improved Exwick church. She endowed Keble College, Oxford (1881) with a fund of an annual value of £800 for Scholarships and for other grants to students. She built and maintained (as also did her son Antony after her) a Cottage Convalescent Home ("St. John's Lodge") at Wraxall afsd. and also built there in 1885 the large village club and in 1887 seven almshouses ("The Jubilee Cottages"): also the Battle Axes Inn, establishing it in her own name and on the principle of temperance as opposed to teetotalism. She gave the site (the site was left to her by her husband, she left money to the Home in her will) for the Convalescent and Incurable Home at Woking, Surrey, founded in connection with the Sisterhood of St. Peter's Kilburn, which manages St. Michael's Home afsd. A ward in Weston-super-Mare Convalescent Home, where she undertook the cost of 33 beds, bore her name.
Memorial Inscription in Wraxall churchyard and church; Tyntesfield chapel; Barrow Gurney chapel (to which she game some windows); Flaxley church (organ remade in her memory); the chapel of Keble College; and M. windows in Barrow Court chapel.
Refer to the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, especially pp. 33-5, 439 and 445-6 for her relations, ancestry, and 'Royal Descent', and for notes of printed books which refer to them; see also entry for her father Rev. Charles Crawley. A good memoir of her by "C.M.Y." (her friend and cousin Charlotte M. Yonge, the authoress) appeared in The Guardian newspaper at her death. For lists of Portraits and Sculpture see Gibbs Pedigree (1904) and the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 435, and add to them a drawing (1873) by C.W.S (was in possession of Martin A Gibbs).
Person ID I1628 Gibbs Family Tree Last Modified 13 May 2019
Father Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3rd Bart. of Flaxley, b. 26 Nov 1769, Flaxley, Gloucestershire d. 10 Jan 1847, Flaxley Abbey, Flaxley, Gloucestershire (Age 77 years) Mother Mary Albinia Page, b. 22 Sep 1784, Bettshanger Park, Kent d. 16 Feb 1835, Flaxley Abbey, Gloucester, Gloucestershire (Age 50 years) Marriage 28 Oct 1807 St Marylebone, London Family ID F778 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family William Gibbs, of Tyntesfield, b. 22 May 1790, Calle de Cantarranas, Madrid, Spain d. 3 Apr 1875, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset (Age 84 years) Marriage 1 Aug 1839 Flaxley, Gloucestershire Children 1. Dorothea Harriett Gibbs, b. 12 Jun 1840, 13 Hyde Park Street, Paddington, London d. 20 Sep 1914, 77 Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, London (Age 74 years)2. Antony Gibbs, of Tyntesfield, b. 10 Dec 1841, London d. 24 Apr 1907, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset (Age 65 years)3. Alice Blanche Gibbs, b. 27 Oct 1843, Paddington, London d. 12 Mar 1871, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset (Age 27 years)4. William Gibbs, b. 14 Jan 1846, Paddington, London d. 11 Jun 1869, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset (Age 23 years)5. George Abraham Gibbs, b. 25 Mar 1848, Paddington, London d. 23 Feb 1870, Kingston, Jamaica (Age 21 years)6. Henry Martin Gibbs, High Sheriff, Somerset, b. 30 May 1850, Paddington, London d. 22 Apr 1928, Barrow Gurney, Somerset (Age 77 years)7. Albinia Ann Gibbs, b. 7 Jun 1853, Paddington, London d. 17 Apr 1874, Paddington, London (Age 20 years)Family ID F752 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 9 Jul 2017
- During her widowhood Tyntesfield and 16 Hyde Park Gardens continued to be her residences. She built (1876-8) and endowed St. Michael's Home for Consumptives in the parish of Cheddar, Somerset in memory of her husband, redecorated the chancel of St. Michael's, Exeter, which he built, and improved Exwick church. She endowed Keble College, Oxford (1881) with a fund of an annual value of £800 for Scholarships and for other grants to students. She built and maintained (as also did her son Antony after her) a Cottage Convalescent Home ("St. John's Lodge") at Wraxall afsd. and also built there in 1885 the large village club and in 1887 seven almshouses ("The Jubilee Cottages"): also the Battle Axes Inn, establishing it in her own name and on the principle of temperance as opposed to teetotalism. She gave the site (the site was left to her by her husband, she left money to the Home in her will) for the Convalescent and Incurable Home at Woking, Surrey, founded in connection with the Sisterhood of St. Peter's Kilburn, which manages St. Michael's Home afsd. A ward in Weston-super-Mare Convalescent Home, where she undertook the cost of 33 beds, bore her name.
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Birth - 17 Dec 1817 - Eastgate street, Gloucester 
Baptism - 16 Jan 1818 - St Michael, Gloucester, Gloucestershire 
Marriage - 1 Aug 1839 - Flaxley, Gloucestershire 
Residence - 1881 - Paddington, London 
Death - 22 Sep 1887 - Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset = Link to Google Earth
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