Joseph Hucks

Joseph married Fiducia Lomax in 1709 in St Swithin London Stone, London. Fiducia (daughter of Joshua Lomax and Ruth Lee) was born in 1690 in London; died in 1719. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Sarah Luckyn in 1726. Sarah was born in 1691; died in 1776. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Eleanor Barnett on 14 Mar 1749 in Pancras, London. Eleanor (daughter of Thomas Barnett and Dorothy Carter) was born on 24 Aug 1729 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire; died on 23 May 1807 in Exmouth, Devon; was buried in Exmouth, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mrs Townley Ward, a daughter of William Hucks of Knaresborough, was considered one of the most beautiful women of the late 18th century.

Eleanor married Henry Townley Ward in 1774. Henry was born about 1743; died in Feb 1810; was buried in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Saint George Martin, Middlesex, England
• Baptism: 9 Jan 1761, Knaresborough, Yorkshire

Notes:

For the full history of her life, see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs (also for history and portraits of the Hucks family, from whom her son, George Henry Gibbs, derived his properties, and for references to pedigrees (which contain also references to their wills). The Hucks family became extinct in the male line at the death of her brother John in 1836. She was a beneficiary under the will of Henry Townley Ward (d. 1816) the husband of her elder sister Eleanor (d.1800). As a widow her home was with her daughter Harriett at Redland 1816-17, with her son George Henry at 2 Powis Place in London 1817-19, and again with Harriett July 1819, till her death. For note of portraits, see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 434. For her descent from King Henry III see Ellacombe's 'Clyst St. George'(1864), and Burke's 'Royal Descents' (1858).

Dorothea married Antony Gibbs on 3 Oct 1784 in Littleham, Devon. Antony (son of George Abraham Gibbs, of Pytte and Anne Vicary, of Dunkeswell) was born on 3 Mar 1756 in Exeter, Devon; died on 10 Dec 1815 in 2 Powis Place, Holborn, London; was buried in Dec 1815 in St Mary the Virgin, Hayes, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Partner with his father in Antony Gibbs & Sons, London
• Residence: Bedford Square, Middlesex, England
• Baptism: 26 Sep 1785, St Mary Major, Exeter, Devon

Notes:

Trained in his father's business, from the age of 15 he paid 6 visits of 6 to 10 months each to the Peninsula (Portugal and Spain) between 1801 and 1807. Present in Cadiz at the Spanish revolt against the French in June 1808, he reopened his father's house of business there and remained till 1810. Partner with his father in Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, (and in the Cadiz branch) from the founding of the firm in Sep. 1808. From 1815 till he died he was head of Antony Gibbs & Sons, who, under him and his brother William, opened branches at Gibraltar 1818, Lima 1822, Arequipa and Guayaquil 1823, Valparaiso 1826 (see the History of the Business in the book 'Antony and Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs). A director of the London Assurance Corporation 1822-42. A member of the club 'Nobody's Friends' 1832-42 and of the 'City of London Club' 1840-2. A member of the London Committee which (1832-5), with the Bristol Committee, promoted the Great Western Railway, and an original Director of that Company 1835-42. Between 1819 and 1840 he and his brother William voluntarily completed the payment of those of their father's and grandfather's debts which were still outstanding from their bankruptcy in 1789.

A few months before he died in 1842 he succeeded to most of the properties (for particulars see the book 'Antony and Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs) which his cousins Sarah (died April 1842) and Anne Noyes (died Dec. 1841) had inherited in 1814 from their uncle Robert Hucks of Aldenham, Herts (his mother's 2nd cousin): namely as heir at law to Sarah he received Aldenham House and other estates in Herts, and Middlesex; and under Anne's will, on Sarah's death, estates in Oxon and Berks, and in Lambeth, Surrey. With these properties he became lord of the manors of North Moreton, Berks (sold by his son Henry), Burston, Herts. (sold by his grandson, Alban), and Clifton Hampden, Oxon; and patron and lay rector of the last named. His residence was 2 Powis Place 1817-21, 11 Bedford Square 1821-42 (both in the Borough of Holborn). For note of portraits and sculptures of him see the book 'Antony and Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 435 and the Additions of 1927, to which add that a replica or copy of the portrait by Edmund Gill was in possession of Lord Cullen in 1932, who also had a miniature by Miss Ross (1860) (? founded on a portrait by Gill of 1843); and that a portrait in oils belonged to A. Gibbs and Sons (in 1932) after the min by Ross in Lord Aldenham's possession.

George married Caroline Crawley on 7 Jul 1817 in Stowe-nine-Churches, Upper Stowe, Northamptonshire. Caroline (daughter of Rev. Charles Crawley and Mary Gibbs) was born on 25 Apr 1794 in Clyst St George, Devon; died on 13 Feb 1850 in Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 21 Feb 1850 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Relationship: Wife
• Residence: 1861, Wraxall, Somerset; Residence Age: 72; Relationship: Wife

Notes:

As a widow she continued at Belmont till she died. For note of portraits see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A.Gibbs.

Harriett married George Gibbs, of Belmont on 8 Aug 1814 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. George (son of George Gibbs, of Redland and Esther Joanna Farr) was born on 27 Dec 1779 in Wraxall, Somerset; died on 28 Mar 1863 in Belmont, Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 4 Apr 1863 in Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Head of Antony Gibbs & Sons
• Baptism: 21 Jul 1790, British Embassy, Madrid, Spain
• Residence: 1861, Paddington, London; Relationship: Head
• Residence: 1871, Wraxall, Somerset; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

His baptism in Madrid is recorded in the Register of St. Mary Major, Exeter, see Additions of 1927 in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p.XVI (4).

He was employed in Cadiz, Lisbon and England in his father's business 1802-5; in his uncle George's (George Gibbs of Redland) business (Gibbs Richards and Gibbs) in Bristol, 1806-8; in London under his father in the Portuguese Commission 1808-9; in London in Antony Gibbs and Son 1809-12. Partner in Antony Gibbs & Sons 1813-75; resident in Cadiz in charge of their House there 1813-22: head of A. Gibbs & Sons 1843-75 and sole partner 1843-7. During his headship the South American business prospered exceedingly. Member of Lloyds 1812-75.

After marriage his successive residences in London were 13 Hyde Park Street (number since changed) 1840-8, Gloucester Square 1849, Sussex Square 1850, 16 Hyde Park Gardens 1851-75, all in Paddington. He bought the estate and house of Tyntesfield, Wraxall, north Somerset in April 1844 from Reverend George Turner Seymour, at various times (notably 1862-4) greatly altered the house (John Norton one of the architects) and at the end of his life built the beautiful chapel to it (Sir A. W. Blomfield, architect). He added to his property in 1865 the adjoining estate and house called Charlton (in Wraxall parish) buying it from the Kingston family, and in 1870 he reunited Belmont and Tyntesfield, buying Belmont from his nephew George L. M. Gibbs. In Devon he bought back Pytte the ancient home of our family in Clyst St. George from the executors of General Doveton, in 1859, made other purchases in that parish, rebuilt cottages, and amongst other benefactions to the village and church gave a memorial window (1860) to his grandfather (George Abraham Gibbs of Pytte). He also bought from Lord Devon in 1873 an estate in Alphington, nr. Exeter (which extended into Whitestone). At Littlemore, Oxon, he bought in 1872 the house of his cousin and former partner Charles Crawley.

The village school and school-master's house at Clifton Hampden, Oxon, in 1847, and the Church at Flaxley, in Gloucestershire, in 1856 were both built at his cost (the architect being G. Gilbert Scott): so also in 1861 were St. Michael and All Angels Church in Star Street, Paddington, and its vicarage (architect Rhode Hawkins). In Devon, he built in 1868 the Chapel-of-Ease of St. Antony at Cowley in memory of his parents and of his own life there, and at the same time and with the same architect (R. Hawkins) the Church of St. Michael and All Angels and its vicarage in the parish of St. David, Exeter; and in 1872 he enlarged the church at Exwick and in 1874 built its vicarage on the site of the grounds of his father's one time residence Exwick House. Moreover, he contributed largely to the restoration of Exeter and Bristol Cathedrals. The endowments of the livings of Exwick, St. Michael's Exeter, and St. Michael's Paddington, were also gifts from him. He acquired the advowsons of Clyst St. George (1857), Exwick, St. Michael's in Paddington, Stowe-nine-churches, North Newton in Somerset, and Otterbourne in Hampshire (the latter because of its connection with Rev. John Keble). He founded in 1859 at Brixham, Devon, a Mission to Seamen of ships sheltering in Torbay, and in 1860 there the British Seamen's Orphan Boys' Home for the Western Counties, his interest in that parish being due to his temporary tenancy of Berryhead House there, the home of Rev. John Hogg.

Of all his gifts the most famous was the chapel of Keble College Oxford. He offered it to the College in 1872 (on the suggestion of his friend Sir John Taylor Coleridge), and himself laid the foundation stone on St. Mark's Day (25 April) 1873. He died in 1875, and his son Antony formally presented it at the opening service on St. Mark's Day 1876, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The same day Lord Salisbury (Chancellor of the University) laid the foundation stone of the block of buildings given to the College by William's sons Antony and Martin. W. Butterfield was architect both of chapel and block, as of the rest of the College.

William was an original (1832) member of the City of London Club and a member of the Athenaeum Club. Memorial Inscription in Wraxall church and churchyard at Tyntesfield chapel, Barrow Court chapel, Flaxley church, St. Michael's Paddington (rose window erected by the parish in his memory), St. Michael's Exeter, Keble College Chapel, Cowley chapel, Exwick chapel and St. Martin's Brighton.

For his life in detail up to 1824 and for some particulars as to his later years see book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs. See also a booklet 'In memory of William Gibbs' (privileged printing Rivingtons, 1875) containing (inter alia) an article on his life and character by E.M.Goulburn, Dean of Norwich, reprinted from The Guardian newspaper.

For portraits and scultpures of him see Gibbs Pedigree (1904) p.16 and list in 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p.435. In the latter G. Richmond as artist of the posthumous portrait at Keble College is an error for Sir William B. Richmond, R.A. This portrait is wrongly stated to be after Boxall in 'Catalogue of Portraits in Oxford Colleges' by Mrs. Poole, Vol. III, part II, 1925. The portrait in the list in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs by 'artist unkown' in possession of John A. Gibbs was by E. Gill and has since been destroyed. Portraits not in the lists are, one by Edward Opie, which was in possession of Lord Wraxall, and a copy in A. Gibbs and Sons' possession of the one of the Portraits by Boxall which is engraved by Cousins.



More information available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibbs_(businessman)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - William Gibbs https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/89656

William married Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey on 1 Aug 1839 in Flaxley, Gloucestershire. Matilda (daughter of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3rd Bart. of Flaxley and Mary Albinia Page) was born on 17 Dec 1817 in Eastgate street, Gloucester; died on 22 Sep 1887 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Deacon, Priest and then Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden
• Residence: Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Baptism: 12 Sep 1801, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1861, Chelsea, London; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

He was in the employ of Antony Gibbs & Sons 1818-24 (in London 1818-21, Cadiz 1818-2, Gibraltar 1822-3, again in London 1823-4). He was ordained Deacon in 1828, Priest by the Bishop of Chester 8 Aug. 1829. Curate of Howarden, co. Flint, 1828-30, Perpectual Curate of Clifton Hampden, co. Oxon 1830-64 in the new parsonage given by his cousin Anne Noyes (patron of the living) which, from 1905, was again the parsonage, and from c. 1846 in the new parsonage built by his sister-in-law Caroline Gibbs (now the Manor House), Devisee of Belmont, Wraxall, under the will of his cousin and brother-in-law George who died 1863. For his life up to 1823 and a few later details see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs.

Portraits: miniature of him by Sir William Ross was in possession of Everilda Gibbs in 1932; a portrait of him with his wife and sister Joanna was known to be in possession of Evelyn Alice Heberden until her death in 1955, but whereabouts unknown in 1980; watercolour in middle age in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley in 1980).



Educated at Mr. Phillip's School, Turnham Green. He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford in 1828 with a B.A. He was the Curate in 1830 at Clifton Hampden, Berkshire.
1851 CENSUS - Visiting relations, ( George & Harriett Gibbs) at "Belmount House" Wraxall, Somerset.
Joseph 49, Emily 47,
1861 CENSUS - Visiting relations, ( George & Harriett Gibbs) at "Belmount House" Wraxall, Somerset.
Joseph 59, Emily 57, Harriett T. 17, Joseph H. 20, George H. 18, & Stanley R. 14.

Occ. Deacon, Priest and then Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden until death.

Probate - 5 May 1864. Left under £20,000.

Joseph married Emily Vaughan on 14 Sep 1831 in Llangattock, Breconshire, Wales. Emily (daughter of Rev. Charles Vaughan and Emilia Monck) was born on 14 Aug 1803 in Farnborough, Berkshire; died on 7 Sep 1869 in Kensington, London; was buried on 10 Sep 1869 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]