Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey

1817 - 1887  (69 years)

• Name	Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey
  Born	17 Dec 1817	Eastgate street, Gloucester
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	16 Jan 1818	St Michael, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
  Residence	1881	Paddington, London
  Died	22 Sep 1887	Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset
  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 1783,   d. 16 Feb 1835  (Age 51 years)
  Married	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)
  Married	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)
  Last Modified	9 Jul 2017
  Family ID	F752	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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).

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 17 Dec 1817 - Eastgate street, Gloucester Baptism - 16 Jan 1818 - St Michael, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Married - 1 Aug 1839 - Flaxley, Gloucestershire Residence - 1881 - Paddington, London Died - 22 Sep 1887 - Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, Mrs William Gibbs (1817 -1888) (after Edward Clifford) by Walter Charles Horsley (London 1855 ¿ 1934) Oil painting on canvas, Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, Mrs William Gibbs (1817 - 1888) by Walter Charles Horsley (London 1855 ¿ 1934), signed on the reverse Walter C. Horsley 1888/from drawing by/E Clifford.A three-quarter-length portrait, seated in a garden, in profile to right, wearing a black dress with white lace shwal and cuffs, black bonnet and a large crucifix. She also has chains hanging from her waist.
  		Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, Mrs William Gibbs (1817-1887) with her Children, Alice Blanche Gibbs later Mrs Alfred Gurney (1843-1871), William Gibbs (1846-1869) and George Abraham Gibbs (1848-1870) Sir William Charles Ross, RA (London 1794 – London 1860)
  		MATILDA BLANCHE GIBBS in old age. One of a pair of miniatures by Antonio Tomasich Haro (1820-90) at Tyntesfield
  		Christopher_Album_Page-10.jpg The central figure is almost certainly Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow. The others look like (from top left) his sister Albinia, brother George Abraham, mother Matilda Blanche, and brother Antony.
  		Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, by Sir William Boxall Oil painting on canvas, Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, Mrs William Gibbs (1817-1887), unfinished, by Sir William Boxall RA (Oxford 1800 ? London 1879), 1859.
  		Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey

  
  

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