Gibbs Family Tree
Captain Lionel Cyril Gibbs

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Name Lionel Cyril Gibbs Title Captain Birth 15 Feb 1893 Flax Bourton, Somerset Gender Male Residence 1901 Down Ampney, Gloucestershire Age: 8; Relation: Son Departure 4 Mar 1921 London Arrival 18 Feb 1923 New York, USA Arrival 19 Apr 1923 Southampton, Hampshire Arrival 23 Sep 1923 New York, USA Residence 1926-1927 41 York Terrace, St. Marylebone, London Residence From 1928 Thornhill House, Kington Lisle, Berkshire Death 25 Dec 1940 Brighton, Sussex Destination Kilindini, Mombasa, Coast, Kenya Death 25 Dec 1940 Hampshire Notes - 7th son of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 26 February 1893 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College, 1906-12; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) October 1912.
Master of the Beagles at Eton in 1912 and at Christ Ch. Oxford, 1913. 2nd Lieut., North Somerset Yeomanry (Territ.) November 1912; Lieut. 1917; retired 1919. In the Great War served in France and Belgium October 1914 to May 1915; lost his left arm as the result of wound suffered at Ypres on 13 May 1915; Aide-de-Camp May to November 1918 to Major General Gorringe commanding 47th Divn. in France. Despatches 14 January 1915. 1914 Star. British War medal. Allies (Victory) medal.
Farming in Kenya from 1920 to 1929. Founded Kenya Coffee Co. in London 1921. A Trustee of St. Michael's Home in Cheddar. Portrait: min. by Gertrude Thomson last in possession of Rothesay Timothy Gibbs.
Person ID I2382 Gibbs Family Tree Last Modified 11 Mar 2021
Father Henry Martin Gibbs, High Sheriff, Somerset, b. 30 May 1850, Paddington, London d. 22 Apr 1928, Barrow Gurney, Somerset
(Age 77 years)
Mother Emily Anna Otter, b. 6 Mar 1854, Cowfold, Sussex d. 5 Jul 1928, Fyfield, Berkshire
(Age 74 years)
Marriage 22 Jun 1883 Lindfield, Sussex Family ID F798 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Mary Charlesworth, b. Jan 1904, Park Steet, Westminster, London d. Dec 1962, Staincross, Yorkshire West Riding
(Age 58 years)
Marriage 1 Jul 1925 Divorce 1932 Children 1. Rothesay Timothy Gibbs, b. 26 Jan 1927, 41 York Terrace, Marylebone, London d. 29 Jul 1990, Northampton, Northamptonshire
(Age 63 years)
2. Nicholas Albany Gibbs, b. 11 Jan 1929, London d. 14 Apr 1984, Washington City, District of Columbia, USA
(Age 55 years)
Last Modified 9 Jul 2017 Family ID F1108 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Elizabeth Sonia Snagge, b. 3 1910, Kensington, London d. 30 Oct 1959, Oxfordshire
(Age 49 years)
Marriage 1 Nov 1933 Long Ashton, Somerset Last Modified 9 Jul 2017 Family ID F1107 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- 7th son of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 26 February 1893 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College, 1906-12; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) October 1912.
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