Victoria Florence de Burgh Long

1880 - 1920  (39 years)

• Name	Victoria Florence de Burgh Long
  Nickname	Via
  Birth	10 Aug 1880	1 Grafton Street, Westminster, London
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1881	London
  Residence	1891	Croughton, Northamptonshire
  Residence	1901	Westminster, London
  Residence	2 Apr 1911	Wraxall, Somerset
  Death	29 Mar 1920	Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset
  Notes	1st daughter of the Right Hon. Walter Hume Long, PC of Rood Ashton, Wiltshire, who was created 1921 Viscount Long of Wraxall (Wraxall, Wiltshire), by Lady Dorothy Blanche, 4th daughter of Richard E. St. L. Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery. Baptised at St. James's, Piccadilly, in London. Died at Tyntesfield 29 March, and was buried 1 April 1920 at Wraxall, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in the church (Charlton chapel) and churchyard, and in Tyntesfield chapel. Died of Spanish Flu epidemic. In the Great War she directed the Bristol Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society. She was chairman of the Ladies' House and Social Committee of the Bristol branch of the Royal Colonial Institute, and was an active member of the Bristol Women's Unionist Association. A Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1918. She is commemorated in Bristol by the "Victoria Gibbs Babies' Home" at Kingsdown. Her life by Madeleine Alston (Via Gibbs, a Memoir) was published in 1921. Portraits: Min. in emeralds (1903), 2 by Alb. H. Collings (1908); all 3 last in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930.
  Person ID	I2084	Gibbs Family Tree
  Last Modified	9 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Viscount Walter Hume Long,   b. 13 Jul 1854, Bath, Somerset d. 26 Sep 1924, Westbury, Wiltshire (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Dorothy Blanche Boyle,   b. 18 Nov 1858, London d. 7 Jun 1938, Steeple Ashton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	1 Aug 1878	St George Hanover Square, London
  Family ID	F2025	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	The Right Hon. George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall,   b. 6 Jul 1873, Wraxall, Somerset d. 28 Oct 1931, London (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	26 Nov 1901	All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, London
  Children	1. George Antony Gibbs,   b. 5 Sep 1911, Long Ashton, Somerset d. 5 Sep 1911, Long Ashton, Somerset (Age 0 years)   2. Doreen Albinia de Burgh Gibbs,   b. 17 Sep 1913, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset d. 25 Jan 2008, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands (Age 94 years)   3. Antony Eustace Long Gibbs,   b. 24 Sep 1916, London d. 29 Nov 1916, London (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F948	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2018

  
  

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  Birth - 10 Aug 1880 - 1 Grafton Street, Westminster, London Residence - 1881 - London Residence - 1891 - Croughton, Northamptonshire Residence - 1901 - Westminster, London Marriage - 26 Nov 1901 - All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, London Residence - 2 Apr 1911 - Wraxall, Somerset Death - 29 Mar 1920 - Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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