Dame Anstice Rosa Gibbs, DCVO, CBE

1905 - 1978  (73 years)

• Name	Anstice Rosa Gibbs
  Title	Dame
  Suffix	DCVO, CBE
  Birth	2 Jan 1905	Aldenham, Hertfordshire
  	Twin
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	11 Jan 1905	Aldenham, Hertfordshire
  Occupation	Girl Guide leader
  Death	7 Feb 1978	Kingsclere and Whitchurch, Hampshire
  Burial	13 Feb 1978	Wasing, Berkshire
  Notes	Elder twin with Bernard Vicary. Baptised 11 January 1905 at Aldenham. Buried at St. Nicholas, Wasing. Berks. 13 February 1978. Chief Commissioner and Chairman Girl Guides' Association (British Commonwealth) 1956-66. Worked with Girl Guides from 1922. In the United Kingdom she served as a Guider, Commissioner and Camp Adviser and a Trainer and in 1945 she was awarded the Girl Guides Association's highest award, the Silver Fish, for exceptional service to the Movement. Deputy Chief Commissioner, 1954; Member of the Committee of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, 1952-66; Vice-Chairman 1954-60. Chairman of the Hostess Country's Planning Committee for the 22nd World Conference of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, held in the United Kingdom in 1975. Member of the Council of the Victoria League for 10 years until she became Deputy President. During 1948/49 and 1950/51 she was Lady-in-Waiting to her old friend Countess Alexander of Tunis when Earl Alexander of Tunis was Governor-General of Canada. Dame Anstice Gibbs, DCVO, CBE (b. Hertfordshire, 2 January 1905, d. Hampshire, 7th February 1978) was the Chief Commissioner of the Girl Guides Association in the UK for ten years, and vice-chair of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) from 1957 to 1960. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anstice_Gibbs Our Hatfield - DAME ANSTICE GIBBS, CRVO 1905 -1978 https://www.ourhatfield.org.uk/content/topics/organizations/girl_guides/dame_anstice_gibbs_crvo
  Person ID	I1936	Gibbs Family Tree
  Last Modified	23 May 2023

  
  

  Father	Ven. Archdeacon Kenneth Francis Gibbs,   b. 2 Apr 1856, Hampstead, London d. 1 Feb 1935, Hatfield, Hertfordshire (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Mabel Alice Barnett,   b. 6 Sep 1874, 1 Eaton Terrace, Westminster, London d. 20 Mar 1953, Witney, Oxfordshire (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	5 Jun 1894	Aldenham, Hertfordshire
  Family ID	F820	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 2 Jan 1905 - Aldenham, Hertfordshire Baptism - 11 Jan 1905 - Aldenham, Hertfordshire Death - 7 Feb 1978 - Kingsclere and Whitchurch, Hampshire Burial - 13 Feb 1978 - Wasing, Berkshire  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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