Antony Gibbs

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Educated at Exeter Grammar School
• Memorial: Hayes, Middlesex; Monument inscription MI in churchyard at Hayes
• Occupation: Founder of the House of Antony Gibbs & Son of London
• Residence: 14 Dec 1773, Exeter, Devon
• Will: 16 Mar 1816; Will proved in C.P.C.

Notes:

After an apprenticeship in a Spanish business in Exeter he was from 1778 to 1789 a merchant there exporting woollen cloth to Spain and elsewhere; also from 1785 to 1789 a partner in a firm styled Gibbs Granger & Banfill, working a cloth factory at Exwick in the outskirts of Exeter. His father financed him and was also in the Exwick partnership. He was a member 1778 - 1789 of the Incorporation of Tuckers Hall, Exeter; head warden 1782, master 1783.

Bankrupt in 1789 (alike with his father), he went to Madrid and for the next 18 years was engaged in business which centred in Spain. Mainly working as agent for British manufacturers he was at times (from 1783) also exporting Spanish produce as partner in a firm at Malaga styled Juan Pomar Gibbs y Compania. Driven out of Spain by war in 1797 he conducted his business from 1798 to 1801 in Lisbon, but in 1802 became regularly established in Cadiz as a merchant there, till war again forced him away. His last visit to Spain was in 1807.

In 1808 he became one of the Commissioners in London for dealing with Portuguese property sent to England in the war, and in September that year founded, in partnership with his son George Henry, the firm of Antony Gibbs & Son, London, with a branch in Cadiz. The firm became Antony Gibbs & Sons in 1813 on admission of his second son William to the partnership.

He was author of a pamphlet signed "A Merchant," An Appeal to Common Sense on the Bullion Question, published 1810.

After his marriage he and his wife lived in Exeter 1784-6, at Exwick House 1786-9, in Madrid 1789-92. From 1792 to 1808 their home was in Exeter or its neighbourhood (at Cowley 1803-8), but in that period he made ten trips to the Peninsula of an average duration of 12 months each. The family moved to London in 1808 and lived in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 1808-9; Denmark Hill, Camberwell, 1809-10; Dulwich Common, 1810-12; 2 Powis Place in the parish of St George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, 1812 onwards.



For a brief summary of the firm Antony Gibbs and Sons see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gibbs_%26_Sons

Antony married Dorothea Barnetta Hucks on 3 Oct 1784 in Littleham, Devon. Dorothea (daughter of William Hucks and Eleanor Barnett) was born in Dec 1760 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire; died on 24 Feb 1820 in Redland, Gloucestershire; was buried on 10 Mar 1820 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Title Of Nobility: Baron Aldenham
• Occupation: South American Merchant, Justice of the Peace
• Title: High Sheriff, Hertfordshire
• Baptism: 4 Oct 1819, Northamptonshire
• Residence: 1851, Hampstead, London
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1891, London

Notes:

Henry Hucks Gibbs of Aldenham and Clifton Hampden. 1st Baron Aldenham (1896). Born at 2 Powis Place, Bloomsbury, Holborn, 31 August and baptised at Stowe-Nine-Churches, 4 October 1819. Educated Rugby 1832-6, matric. at Oxford (Exeter College) 16 February 1837; 3rd Class Classics and BA. 1841. M.A. 1844. Died aged 88 at Aldenham House 13 September and was buried 18 September 1907 at Aldenham. Will was dated 16 (cod. 28) 1906, proved 20 December 1907. Monument in Clifton Hampden churchyard.

Before Rugby he was at Redland, nr. Bristol. On his father's death he succeeded to the estates in and about Clifton Hampden and on his mother's to those in and about Aldenham. He made various changes in them by sales and purchases (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs), pp. 45-6). Lord of the Manor of Burston (Herts), sometime of that of North Moreton (Berks), and till 1902 of that of Clifton Hampden, which estate (and at that time about 1340 ac. nearly all of Oxon.) he then transferred to his son Alban, and, by purchase in 1877, patron of Aldenham. He augmented, 1901-5, the living of Clifton Hampden by restoring to it the Parsonage of 1832-46 and buying the overlarge one of 1846 for his son Alban's Manor House and he built there the beautiful brick bridge over the Thames in 1864 (designer Gilbert Scott), The Coppice house and the Village Hall. He made extensive alterations in Aldenham House and laid out the famous gardens there, his son Vicary helping largely in developing them. He restored and reseated Aldenham Church, 1882 (architect Sir A. Blomfield) and gave a new choir screen in 1903. In St. Alban's Abbey he restored the High Altar Screen 1884-9 (sculpted by H. Hems), gave the reredos with sculpture representing the Resurrection by Sir Alfred Gilbert and reconstructed the organ. He contributed to the building and endowing of Christ Church, Radlett, 1864, erected sundry buildings and cottages in Aldenham and Elstree, and diverted the public road on the west of Aldenham House.

He was entered at Lincoln's Inn Jan. 1840: Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons in the City of London 1843; a manager thereof 1847; partner 1848; head 1875-1907. Under him the Firm closed their Peru Branch in 1880 (at the time of the Peru-Chile War) and concentrated in Chile, and the next year took over Gibbs Bright and Co. with their English & Australasian Branches, and West Indian business. A director of the Bank of England 1853-1901 (Governor 1875-7). A director of the Mexican Railway Co. 1864-1905; of the Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Co. 1869-1906; and sometime of the Colne Valley Co., and of other companies. Member of Lloyds 1855. President of the London Institution in the City of London 1888-94. President of the Bimetallic League from 1881 and of the City of London Conservative Association 1881-1907. Served on Royal Commissions on the Stock Exchange 1877-8, on the City Parochial Charities 1880, on the Depression of trade 1885-6. He and other members of the family founded the London St. James Gazette (Conservative paper) in 1880 and owned it till 1888. Member of Parliament (Conservative) for the City of London 18 April 1891-July 92 when he retired. A commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London. Member of the English Church Union from 1862 (a Trustee 1876-1907), on the Council 1886-1907) and vice-pres. of the Herts (West) Branch 1897-1907. On the Council of Keble College, Oxford, 1873-1907. Member of the House of Laymen of Canterbury Convocation 1887-1907 and treasurer sometime to 1907. A Life Member from 1888 of the Corporation of the Church House, Westminster. Governor of Aldenham Grammar School 1881-1907. A Justice of the Peace for Herts. and Middlesex. High Sheriff of Herts. 1884. A Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery 1891-1907. Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society 1859 and of the Society of Antiquaries 1885 (sometime on its Council). President of Guy's Hospital 1880-96.

Created Baron Aldenham 31 Jan. 1896.

Among his books he had the best collection of copies of the 'Book of Common Prayer' in English hands. Author of catologues of his own books and MSS (printed 1876, 1888 and 1890 with supplements to the last 2 in 1898 - all since revised in a new catalogue, see his son Alban): 'Pedigree of the family of Gibbs' with historical introduction, 1st edn. 1890, 2nd edn. 1904: 'The Game of Ombre' 1st edn. 1874, 2nd 1878, 3rd for Roxburghe Club 1902; 'Account of the High Altar Screen in the Cathedral of St. Alban's' 1890: 'A Colloquy on Currency' (Contemp. Review 1889, 2nd edn. separate 1893, 3rd 1894, 4th 1899): various pamphlets on the currency and bimetallism from 1876, including 'The Double Standard' (1881) of which a French edn. 'Le Double Etalon' was published by the Belgian Bimet. Association 1883. Minutes of his evidence before the 'Indian Currency Committee', 1899, are printed in Appendix to their Report. Editor, 1868, of 'The Romance of the Chevalere Assigne' for the Early Eng. Text Soc.; and, for the Roxburghe Club, the 'Life and Martyrdom of St. Katherine of Alexandra, 1884 and the 'Hystorie of the most noble knight Plasidas' 1873. To the latter club he contributed 'The Royal History of the Knight Generides' 1865. He was a member of the Philological Society from 1859 and assisted in the production of the 'New Oxford English Dict. (pub. 1888-1928) edr. Murray and others) from 1857 to 1907, subedited the greater part of letter C and was one of the sub-editors of K (see Prefaces to Vols. I, II, V, and VI, Pt.2).

Member of the Club 'Nobody's Friends' from 1851 (president 1895-1907); of the Roxburghe Club 1863-1907) (treasurer 1878-92, vice pres. 1892-1903, pres. 1903-7); of the Carlton and Athenaeum Clubs.

He lost his right hand September 1864 from a gun accident at Mamhead, Devon, (rented for a season by his uncle William).

He resided at Frognal, Hampstead, 1849-56 (a house with 18 acres, since destroyed, in the North Angle of Finchley Road and Frognal Lane); at St. Dunstan's in Regent's Park, St. Marylebone 1856-1907 (then the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Home). Aldenham House, which passed to him on his Mother's Death, was let till 1868 but occupied by him 1868-1907.

His Life is in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' Vol II of 2nd supplement, but there are a few mistakes in it some of which are corrected in 'Errata' printed in Vol. III of the supplment. For some other particulars see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs. See also 'Complete Peerage', 2nd edn., I, 104 (note). His diaries 1841-1907 are in possession of his great-grandson, Antony Aldenham.

Portraits: Drawing by J. Slater (1823); miniature by Sir William Ross (1852) in possession of his great grandson Antony Aldenham; oil by G. F. Watts R.A. 1876, (engraved by James Faed) in possession of Christopher Gibbs 2009 and another copy in possession of Vicary Gibbs: oil by W.W. Ouless R.A., full length; oil by T.C. Gotch; chalk (with his son Alban) by E.U. Eddis (1860). Oil by Watts (1896) in possion of VIII; replica of the Gotch in possession of his grandson Andrew Antony; but three-quarter length in possession of A. Gibbs & Sons. Copy of Ross' miniature by Ross's daughter, and crayon head by her in possession of Lord Cullen.

Standing monument and steps to his memory in Clifton Hampden churchyard by Walter Tower (1907).

Henry married Louisa Anne Adams on 6 May 1845 in Thorpe, Surrey. Louisa (daughter of Dr William Adams, LLD and Mary Anne Cokayne) was born on 10 Sep 1818 in Southampton Row, Holborn, London; died on 17 Apr 1897 in St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park, London; was buried on 21 Apr 1897 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Apr 1823

Notes:

Antony Gibbs (3rd son) of Merry Hill, Bushey, Herts. Born at 2 Powis Place, aforesaid 20 November 1822. Baptised privately there and received into the Church 12 April 1823 at St. George's, Hart Street, Holborn. Educated at Charterhouse, London, 1838-9, matric. at Oxford (Fellow Commoner of Worcester College) 18 October 1847, B.A. 1851. Died childless at Cheltenham 1st and was buried at Clifton Hampden, 8 December 1856. Will proved December 1856.

In Antony Gibbs and Sons, London, 1839-41 and 1844-7. In the interval, a year with Feldman Bohl and Co., merchants in Hamburg. After taking his Oxford degree, he was in 1852 a student at Wells Theological College. Merry Hill was bought by him from his mother's exors. At his death his brother Henry bought it and in 1878 sold it out of the family. His diaries 1841-2 (2 vols) and 1851-2 are in possession of J.A. Gibbs. (The ownership of these diaries and the possession of other items mentioned in these Notes, refer to the known locations in 1932, current whereabouts are uncertain).

A drawing (as a child) by Jos. Slater in in possession of Lord Aldenham.

Antony married Isabella Margaret Gordon on 7 Dec 1854 in Saint Mary, Great Malvern, Worcester. Isabella (daughter of Charles David Gordon and Marian Phillips) was born in Aug 1823 in Kent; died on 15 Mar 1895 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 May 1832, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, London
• Residence: 1851, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Speen, Berkshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

8th son of George Henry Gibbs of London. Baptised 26 May 1832 at St.-Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn. Educated at Eton College 1834-35 and Charterhouse, London, 1846-7. Matric at Oxford (Exeter College), 24 Oct. 1849, BA, a 'grand compounder, MA, 1856. Buried 15 January 1914 at Speen. Will proved 17 February 1914.

To add to the facts about education, he went to a school at Brighton about six or seven, and then to one at Clifton, Bristol. After Charterhouse he was, 1848-9, with a tutor, the rector of Poundstock, Cornwall. Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1854, but left them 1856 through ill-health, and in every year 1851 to 58 he travelled much abroad, particularly in Spain, and (1857-8) up the Nile and in Palestine. A student at Wells Theological College 1858. Ordained Deacon (Exeter) 1859, Priest 1860. Curate at St. Mary's, Torwood, Torquay, to Rev. J. Hogg 1859-1860, when his health drove him abroad again (Pyrenees) with his wife and first-born. Living at Bradeham, Bucks., 1863-4. Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden, Oxon., 1864 (presented by his brother Henry Hucks Gibbs), but resigned work in 1874 from the same cause as before. His parsonage there was what is now the Manor House. Resided at Oaklands, Cleveland, Somerset, 1874-8. Vicar of Exwick, Devon, 1878-85; Rector of Clyst St. George, Devon 1885-97 (presented to both by Antony Gibbs). Retired and resided at Speen House, Berks., 1898-1914. Editor of 'The Registers of Clyst St. George', published 1899 by The Parish Register Society. Member of the Athenauem Club, London, 1863-86. His diaries 1851-1912 (52 vols.), last in possession of John Arthur Gibbs in 1932 are now missing. The volume of his 'Reminiscences' (MS.) from c.1840 to 1910, now in the possession of Denis D. Gibbs.

Portraits: Oil 1858 by E.U. Eddis in possession of Lord Aldenham (1932); oil (c. 1902) by A. Macdonald, last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley); a posthumous one painted 1921 (from a photo of about 1910) by Ronald Gray in possession of Denis D. Gibbs; a chalk drawing by E.U. Eddis (c. 1859) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932; a pastel by E. Havell (1887) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932.

Died:
Speen House

John married Isabel Marianne Bright on 3 Jan 1860 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset. Isabel (daughter of Robert Bright and Caroline Tyndall) was born on 1 Mar 1835 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset; died on 22 Mar 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Jun 1833, England
• Residence: 1881, London; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Wife
• Residence: 1901, London; Age: 67; Relation: Wife

Notes:

3rd and youngest daughter of George Henry Gibbs. Baptised 3 June 1833 at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn.

Portraits: oil, 3/4, seated, by C. Kay Robertson 1905; crayon head, E. U. Eddis, 1859; last both in possession of her son Lord Cullen. Small water-colour by Alf. H. Taylor 1843; pastel by Edward Havell 1887; both in possession of her son Francis. Watercolour with her brother Robert by Mrs. Gray, 1847, in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - George Medley in 1980).

Buried 15 March 1906, at Putney Vale Cemetery.

Mary married George Edward Adams Cokayne on 2 Dec 1856 in Wraxall, Somerset. George (son of Dr William Adams, LLD and Mary Anne Cokayne) was born on 29 Apr 1825 in Bloomsbury, London; died on 6 Aug 1911 in Exeter House, Roehampton, London; was buried on 9 Aug 1911 in Cemetery, Putney Vale, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: High Sheriff, county Somerset
• Baptism: 11 Jan 1842, St Johns, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1901, Paddington, London

Notes:

1st son of Tyntesfield. Baptised 11 January 1842 at St. John's, Paddington. Educated at Radley College 1855-7; matric. at Oxford (Exeter College) 2 May 1862; BA 1867; MA 1869; entered at the Inner Temple as a student 1865. Died at Tyntesfield 24 and was buried 29 April 1907 at Wraxall, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and in the chapel (Charlton chapel), in Tyntesfield chapel and Keble College chapel; Memorial window in Clyst St. George chapel. Will dated 23 March 1905, proved 12 July 1907.

After marriage, Charlton (see entry for William Gibbs of Tyntesfield) was his country residence till his mother died; thereafter Tyntesfield. He succeeded to his father's properties in Somerset and Devon. He bought Barrow Court in Barrow Gurney, Somerset, adjoining Flax Bourton, from John Henry Blagrave in 1881 and sold it (with most of its land) to his brother Martin in 1884 and he augmented the living of Barrow Gurney. He bought, about 1874, Barton Place in the parish of St. David, Exeter, the ancestral home of his wife's family. He was patron of the livings of Clyst St. George, Exwick, Stowe-nine-churches, St. Michael's in Paddington, North Newton and Otterbourne which were all in his father's gift, also of Alphington, Devon, and of Flax Barton (in which part of the Tyntesfield Estate lies) both of which he bought.

A member of the Council of Radley College 1890-7. He and his brother, Martin, gave to Keble College, Oxford, in their father's memory, the side of the main quadrangle of the College embracing the hall, library, common rooms and kitchen. The foundation stone was laid in 1876, on the same day that the Chapel given by their father to the College was opened (see also entry for William Gibbs of Tyntesfield), and the opening took place in 1878, when the two brothers, whose names had so far been withheld, were disclosed as the donors (the deed of gift hangs in the Senior Common Room of the College).

Wraxall church was restored (1893) at his chief cost (Sir Arthur Blomfield, architect), and he introduced the stained glass windows by Kemp, and screened off the Charlton chapel, adding to it the reredos by Kemp.

He joined the North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry as Cornet, 3 January, 1871; Captain October, 1881; Hon. Major, 1881; Major, 1886; retired 1893.

Justice of the Peace for Somerset from about 1867 to 1907. On the Highway Board and Board of Guardians. High Sheriff of Somerset for 1888 and Deputy Lieutenant 1889-1907. An Alderman of the Somerset County Council to 1898. President of the North Somerset Conservative Association for a great number of years. A Life Governor of Bristol General Hospital. On Bristol Diocesan committees for the promotion of Church matters. (In Sidney Lee's 'Life of King Edward VII (1923-7) it is related that the King when Prince of Wales twice in 1881 pressed on Gladstone the bestowal of a Baronetcy on Antony Gibbs. His son Lord Wraxall told John Arthur Gibbs - fourth editor of the Gibbs Pedigree - that this story was inaccurate and he asked Lee to omit it from any later edition, the facts being that the Liberal Whip Marjoribanks (later Lord Tweedmouth invited Antony to an interview, at which he said that gladstone desired to suggest him to the Queen for a Peerage, making reference to his and his father's philanthropic works, but that Antony having then mentioned that he was a Conservative he heard no more of the matter

Portraits: as a child by John Phillip, miniature with his father and sister Dorothea by Sir Wm. Ross, oil by J. H. Lorimer; all last in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930 (11). The portrait in the Hall of Keble College is a copy by F. George Swaish of the Lorimer.

Birth:
13 Hyde Park Gardens

Antony married Janet Louisa Merivale on 22 Jun 1872 in St. Michael's, Star Street, Paddington. Janet (daughter of John Louis Merivale and Mary Anne Webster) was born on 15 Dec 1850 in Kilburn, Middlesex; died on 10 Dec 1909 in London; was buried on 14 Dec 1909 in Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 24 Nov 1843, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1851, Paddington, London
• Residence: 7 1861, Paddington, London

Notes:

Baptised 24 November 1843 at St. John's Church, Paddington. Died at Tyntesfield 12th and was buried 17th March 1871 at Wraxall. Memorial Inscription in the church and outside the vestry and in Tyntesfield chapel.

Portraits: Drawing (with her son Cyril)
by E. U. Eddis, a drawing by W. Richmond, and a bust by Munro. Min. by Sir Wm. Ross, was last in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930.

Birth:
13 Hyde Park Street

Alice married Rev. Alfred Gurney on 16 Aug 1866 in Wraxall, Somerset. Alfred (son of Rev. John Hampden Gurney and Mary Grey) was born on 14 Nov 1843 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire; died on 28 Nov 1898 in Roehampton, Surrey; was buried on 2 Dec 1898 in Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 24 Jun 1850, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1891, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1901, Windsor, Berkshire

Notes:

4th son of William Gibbs of Tyntesfield of Barrow Court, Somerset. Baptised 24 June 1850 at St. John's, Paddington. Educated at Lancing College 1866-69; matric. Cambridge (Clare College) 1871. Buried 25 April 1928 at Barrow Gurney, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there; in Barrow Court chapel; in the chapel of Keble College, Oxford; in King's College, Taunton and Lancing College; Memorial window in Down Ampney Church, Wiltshire and Memorial reredos in the chapel of St. Michael's Home in Cheddar, the 2 last to him and his wife. Will dated 19 November 1926, cod. 20 March 1928, proved 24 August 1928.

During 1874 he lived at Malahuasi in the valley of Jauga, Peru, for his health. He restored Barrow Court 1882-84 for his home and bought it and the advowson of Barrow Gurney in 1885: restored the church at Barrow Gurney, 1887; erected or restored many buildings in the village; and bought the manor of Barrow Gurney 1902. The manor and village had previously belonged to J. Gratwick Blagrave, son of J. H. Blagrave.

Leased Down Ampney House, co. Glos., 1893-1916 and gave the screen, new pulpit, new seats and other gifts to the church there. For his benefaction with his brother Antony of a block of buildings to Keble College, Oxford, in 1875-78, in memory of their father, see Antony Gibbs. He gave the building which contains the school hall and class rooms, and many other benefactions, to Lancing College, and to its chapel; also gave a new wing to Ardingly College and was a great benefactor to this and other of the Southern and Western schools of the "Woodard" group.

He was on the Corporation of SS. Mary and Nicolas (the governing body of all the "Woodard" schools); a Fellow (1879-1928) of the Society of the SS. Mary and Nicolas (Lancing and the other Southern Schools); Fellow and Gustos (1879-1928) of the Society of SS. Mary and Andrew (King's Coll., Taunton); on the Committee of Lancing Coll., and Trustee of its property; founded three scholarships there.

He restored the Garrison Church at Dover Castle, and gave the reredos to the English Church at Balquhidder, co. Perth. Chairman of the Trust of St. Michael's Home in Cheddar. On the Long Ashton Rural District Council, 1902-28, and Chairman of the Barrow-Gurney Parish Council. A Justice of the Peace for Somerset (Long Ashton petty sessional division) 1886-1928. High Sheriff of Somerset for 1897. Served on various committees of the Bath and Wells Diocesan Conference.

Portraits: Oil by Solomon J. Solomon, last in possession of his son Major Antony Gibbs; water colour by E. Clifford, chalk by J. de Cazenave (1859), a min., a water colour (on photo base) by Speaight (1920), whereabouts unknown (1980); oil by Goldsborough Anderson (about 1903) at Lancing Coll.; min. (as a child, with his bro. George) by Sir W. Ross was last in possn. of Lord Wraxall (in 1930.

Birth:
8 Sussex Square,

Died:
Barrow Court

Henry married Emily Anna Otter on 22 Jun 1883 in Lindfield, Sussex. Emily (daughter of Rev. William Bruere Otter and Elizabeth Melvil) was born on 6 Mar 1854 in Cowfold, Sussex; died on 5 Jul 1928 in Fyfield, Berkshire; was buried on 8 Jul 1928 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Clergymans Wife
• Baptism: 1 Jun 1834, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1861, East Hendred, Berkshire
• Residence: 1871, Abingdon St Helen, Abingdon, Berkshire; Age: 36; Relationship: Wife
• Residence: 1881, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Age: 46; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Wife
• Residence: 1891, Sussex; Visitor
• Residence: 1901, Windlesham, Surrey
• Death: 21 Jan 1903, Chertsey, Surrey

Notes:

Baptised at Clifton Hampden 1 June 1834. Buried 26 January 1902 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there.

Died:
Woodside

Emily married Ven. Archdeacon Alfred Percivall Pott on 5 Jul 1855 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. Alfred (son of Charles Pott and Anna Cox) was born on 30 Sep 1822 in West Norwood, Surrey; died on 28 Feb 1908 in Windlesham, Surrey; was buried on 3 Mar 1908 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Feb 1836, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Age: 15; Relationship: Visitor
• Residence: 1861, Great Bookham, Surrey; Relation to Head of House: Son Wife
• Residence: 1871, Great Bookham, Surrey; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1881, Allithwaite, Lancashire; Relation to Head of House: Brother (Head); Marital Status: Married
• Residence: 1901, Chelsea, London; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

2nd daughter of Rev. Joseph Gibbs. Baptised at Clifton Hampden 3 February 1836. Buried 21 March 1907 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard. Will dated 30 July 1900, proved 9 may 1907.

She and her husband removed to Cape Colony in 1889 with those of their children who were not already there and built a house for themselves called Belmont at Ceres. She returned to England (after his death) in 1893.

Dorothea married Rev. George Heberden on 7 Jul 1859 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. George (son of Rev. William Heberden and Elvina Rainier Underwood) was born on 27 Sep 1833 in Great Bookham, Surrey; died on 2 Mar 1891 in Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Mar 1891 in Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant S America
• Baptism: 24 May 1838, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wiltshire
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 32; Relationship: Head
• Residence: 1881, London; Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Head

Notes:

Baptised there 24 May 1838. Educated at Marlborough College 1947-53. Died at his residence Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts 26 November and was buried 1 December 1881 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and in Aldenham Church and Memorial Screen in Elstree Chapel. Will proved 1882.

He inherited Belmont, Wraxall, on his father's death in 1865 (subject to his mother's life interest) and sold it in 1870 to his uncle William Gibbs of the adjoining Tyntesfield. Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1855 (was in London 1855-59; in William Gibbs & Co., Peru & Chile, 1859-62; in London, as a manager of A. Gibbs & Sons 1863, as a partner 1865-81). Visited New York 1863, Spain and Portugal 1864, Mexico 1869 all on business of the firm. A director of the London Assurance Co. 1865 (deputy Governor 1878, sub-Governor Dec. 1878-81).

A benefactor to Elstree church. Patron of the living of Hutton, Somerset (see VI, n33). Resided at 14 Devonshire Terrace, Paddington, 1864-67; Nutwood, Bickley, Kent, 1867-70; Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts., 1870-81; 46 Grosvenor Street, Westminster, 1881. See book In Memoriam mentioned below under entry for his wife Laura Beatrice Hallam and Obituary notice in The Guardian of Dec. 1881.

Portraits (head) in possession of his daughter Beatrice Rhoda Gibbs; 2 posthumous portraits by Hanson Walker (one last in possession of Antony Gibbs & Sons, the other in that of his grandson Lt.-col George Arthur Gibbs; watercolour thought to be of G. L. M. Gibbs last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley).



1851 CENSUS - Aged 12, at Marlborough College.
1871 CENSUS - Aged 32, living at Deacon's Hill, Edgware.Occ. Merchant. Children, 6 listed, no wife.
1881 CENSUS - Aged 42 , living at 46 Lower Grosvenor St. Occ. Merchant, S. America.
Laura, aged 38, Lillian, aged 15, & Mabel , aged16. Also present, Edmund Elton, 54,
(brother in law), Justice of the Peace - Somerset, and wife Mary, 56.
PROBATE - 1 March 1882, personal estate of £127,333 19s 11d.

( Refer to National Trust guide book for Tyntesfield for family tree.)

Died:
Deacon's Hill

George married Laura Beatrice Elton on 5 Jan 1864 in East Clevedon, Somerset. Laura (daughter of Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet and Rhoda Susan Willis) was born on 29 Mar 1842 in Rome, Italy; died on 30 Aug 1911 in Bourton, Dorset; was buried on 4 Sep 1911 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant
• Baptism: 22 Dec 1840, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1881, Barnstaple, Devon; Son in Law
• Death: 3 Mar 1886, London

Notes:

Baptised 22 December 1840 at Wraxall. Educated at Eton College (King's scholar) 1855-58, matric. at Oxford (Queen's College), entered the Middle Temple 1862. Buried 27 March 1886 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in the churchyard on gravestone of Joseph Gibbs (his father). Will proved 17 May 1886.

At Eton he was in the School cricket XI, 1858, and football "Wall" XI, 1857. He worked for a year on the Devon, and Somerset Railway at Barnstaple, next in Paris and Spain; all in connection with Antony Gibbs and Sons. He was Corresponding Director in Mexico of the Mexican Railway Co. Ltd. 1868-74; on the London Board 1874 till death. He was sometime a director of the Union Bank of London, of the Union Bank of Spain, and of the Mexican Gas Works, and in partnership in the City of London with W. Bailey Hawkins, metalbroker, of Staginhoe Park, Herts.

Birth:
Belmont

Died:
24 Lexham Gardens

Joseph married Mary Rider Budd on 13 Jun 1867 in Barnstaple, Devon. Mary (daughter of Richard Budd and Harriet Cotton Rider) was born on 11 Feb 1848 in Barnstaple, Devon; died on 11 Jan 1924 in Dorchester, Dorset; was buried in Jan 1924 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Oct 1842, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1871, Hutton, Somerset
• Residence: 1881, Hutton, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Hutton, Somerset

Notes:

4th son of Rev. Joseph Gibbs of Clifton Hampden. Baptised 26 October 1842 at Wraxall. Educated at Marlborough College, 1857-9, matric. Oxford (Exeter College), 18 October 1862, BA and student at Cuddesdon Theological College, 1867. Buried at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and Memorial window in Hutton Church. Will dated 23 August 1874.

Deacon 1867; Priest 1868. Curate of Hambledon, Bucks., 1867-9; Rector of Hutton, Somerset (for which Living he was nominated under the will of his uncle George Gibbs, 1869 till 1895, when he resigned and retired to Oxford.

Birth:
Belmont

George married Mildred Mordaunt on 3 Sep 1868 in Flax Bourton, Somerset. Mildred (daughter of Captain John Mordaunt and Harriet Maria Cumberlege) was born on 17 Sep 1846 in Long Ashton, Somerset; died on 22 Sep 1926 in Painswick, Gloucestershire; was buried in Sep 1926 in Painswick, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Apr 1844, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1871, London; Sister
• Residence: 1881, Surrey
• Residence: 1891, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Cranbrook, Kent

Notes:

3rd daughter of Rev. Joseph Gibbs of Clifton Hampden. Baptised 26 April 1844 at Wraxall. Buried at Adderbury, Oxon, Memorial Inscription there.

Birth:
Belmont

Harriet married Lieut. Colonel James Sparrow Mordaunt on 7 Nov 1872 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. James (son of Captain John Mordaunt and Harriet Maria Cumberlege) was born on 14 Nov 1843 in Flax Bourton, Somerset; died on 19 Dec 1927 in Adderbury, Oxfordshire; was buried in Adderbury, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Aug 1845, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1871, Abingdon St Helen, Abingdon, Berkshire
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1891, Hagley, Worcestershire
• Residence: 1901, Hagley, Worcestershire; Age: 55; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, East Budleigh, Devon; Age: 65; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

5th son of Rev. Joseph Gibbs of Clifton Hampden. Baptised 28 August 1845 at Wraxall. Educated at Marlborough College, 1852-62, matric. at Cambridge (Jesus College) October 1865, BA 1870, MA 1876. Student at Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxon, 1868-9. Buried 18 March 1918 at Clyst St. George. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Memorial window in Hagley Church, co. Worcester, to him and his sons Beresford and Edward. Will proved London 8 May 1918.

Won the mile race for Cambridge v. Oxford in 1868 in the fastest amateur time then on record (4 min. 28 sec.). Deacon 1869; Priest 1871. Curate of Abingdon, Berks., 1869-73; Vicar of Exwick, nr. Exeter, 1873-8; (presented by Wm. Gibbs; Vicar of Abingdon 1878-84; Rector of Hagley, co. Worcester, 1884-1903; Rector of Clyst St. George, Devon (presented by Antony Gibbs) 1903 to 1911 when he resigned and retired to Temple Hill afsd.

Birth:
Belmont

Died:
Temple Hill

William married Annie Katharina Downall on 6 Feb 1879 in Exwick, Devon. Annie (daughter of Archdeacon John Downall and Katherine Pyndar Turner) was born on 26 Sep 1846 in Wolverley, Worcestershire; died on 11 Dec 1924 in East Budleigh, Devon; was buried on 15 Dec 1924 in Clyst St George, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Southampton, Hampshire
• Baptism: 18 Oct 1846, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Hampstead, London
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London; Residence Age: 14; Relationship: Son
• Residence: 1871, London
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1901, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1925, England
• Departure: 29 Aug 1925, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 4 Sep 1925, New York, USA

Notes:

1st son, 2nd Lord Aldenham (1907) of Aldenham and Clifton Hampden. Born at Naples 23 and baptised there privately by Embassy Chaplain 25 April and received into the Church 18 October 1846 at Clifton Hampden. Educated at Eton College 1860-1: matric at Oxford (Christ Church) 1865, B.A. 1870, M.A. 1881. Died 9 May 1936.

He succeeded to the estate of Clifton Hampden (Oxon. & Berks) and to the lordship of the manor of Clifton Hampden by gift from his father in 1902. The Vicarage there became his Manor House in 1905 & he enlarged it. He built new cottages in Clifton Hampden and added to his lands, which in 1927 consisted of the whole of Clifton Hampden & extended into Burcot, Toot Baldon, Dorchester, and Long Wittenham, in all about 1780 ac. On his father's death in 1907 the life tenancy of the Aldenham estates passed to him, comprising at that date 3,060 ac. in Herts and 106 in Middlesex. Patron of the Livings of Aldenham (from 1907) and Clifton Hampden (from 1905).

He entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1870, partner from 1873, head from 1907. During his headship the firm opened a Branch in N. York (1913). Visited Australia 1881-2 when the firm entered into business there. Director of the Guardian Assurance Co. from 1871; the Universal Marine Insce. Co. 1875-87; the Bank of Australasia from 1887; and director of other public Cos. In the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths (livery 1897, assistant 1900, prime warden 1908-9) and also in the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (master).

Contested Abingdon for Parliament 1880. Followed his father as M.P. (Conservative) for the City of London, 8 July 1892. In 1904 he and his brother Vicary vacated their seats (under an Act of George III) owing to the fact that as partners in A. Gibbs & Sons they had contracted with our Government to sell them Chilean Warships. He was at once re-elected by the City. Elected again by the City in 1906 for the new Parliament, he retired in favour of the Right Hon. Arthur Alfour (ex-premier). President of the London Institution 1906-13. Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. President of the City of London Conservative Association from 1908. Commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London from 1892: Commissioner of income and land tax for the same from 1892. A Governor of Aldenham School of income and land tax for the same from 1892. A Governor of Aldenham school 1907-13. Sometime Treasurer of the National Society and later Treasurer of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the Royal School for Deaf and Dumb children at Margate, the Colonial Bishoprics' Fund, and the Additional Curates Society.

As a Freemason, was Grand Warden of England in Craft Masonry, Deputy Grand Mark Master of English, and the Provincial Grand Mark Master of Kent. Member of the Roxburgh Club (vice-president 1911, president in succession to Lord Rosebery from 1929) to which he contributed the 'Life of St. Katherine' edited by his father (1884), and (in 1908) by his father's wishes 'The Mirrour of the Lyf. of Jesu Christ'. Member of the Club 'Nobody's Friends', from 1875 (president from 1913). Among other Clubs, sometime member of the Athenaeum, the Carlton, the City Carlton from 1891 (Chairman 1908-26, President from 1930, Trustee for the Club and its Debenture holders over many years), the City of London from 1869 (Chairman 1891-4; Trustee from 1907). Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

He printed, 1914, 'Catalogue of the Aldenham Library' by Helen Budd, being a revision of the catalogues printed by his father. Editor of a booklet of 'Extracts from the diary of G.H. Gibbs' being a reprint from the Gt. Western Railway Magazine of 1909-10.

Residences: 13 Park Square, Marylebone, 1875-8; 82 Portland Pace, 1878-1907; 37 Portland Place from 1907; the Manor House, Clifton Hampden from 1905; in Scotland The Dell, Rothemurchus, 1883-9; Invergeldie, Comrie, 1890-5.

Portraits: One by H. Herkomer, a miniature by Angelo Tricca of Florence, 1858, a chalk drawing (aged 13) with his father by E.U. Eddis and another by W.E. Miller, all 4 in his own possession. Portrait by Lady Cokayne, 1922, in possession of A. Gibbs and Sons.

Alban married Bridget Beresford-Hope on 18 Feb 1873 in Kilndown, Kent. Bridget (daughter of The Right Honourable Alexander James Beresford-Hope and Lady Mildred Arabella Charlotte Henrietta Gascoyne-Cecil) was born on 19 Feb 1853 in Bedgebury Park, Kent; died on 27 Feb 1896 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; was buried in 1896 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Residence: Shenley, Hertfordshire
• Baptism: 23 Jun 1854, St John's, Hampstead
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, Hampshire
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 56; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Arrival: 17 Dec 1921, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

4th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs) Lord Aldenham, of Briggens, Herts. Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (created 1923). born at Frognall in Hampstead, London and baptised 23 June 1854 at St. John's Hampstead. Educated at Winchester College, 1868-71. Matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1873; B.A. 1877, M.A. 1884. Died 22 May 1935 at Briggens and was buried 25 May 1935 at St. Dunstan's, Hunsdon.

After a course of training (1877-9) in the offices of Wallace Bros. London; Ventura Marco del Pont, Paris; Gibbs Bright & Co., Liverpool; and Henry Bath & Son, Swansea; he joined Antony Gibbs & Sons 1879; was with their Chilean Branch, Gibbs & Co., 1880-1, and a manager thereof 1881: a manager of the London firm 1881 and a partner thereof from 1882. Original Chairman of the Alianza (Nitrate) Co. Ld., 1895-1928, and of the Pan de Azucar Nitrate Co., Ld., 1901-26; Director of the Rio de Janeiro City Improvements Co. Ld. from 1884 and Chairman from 1905: Director of the Australian Mutual Provdent Soc. from 1908: and sometime Director of other public companies. Chairman of the City of London Conservative Association Sep. 1912 to 1932. On the Public Works Loan Board from July 1884 (dep. Chairman 1908-21, Chairman from 1921). Justice of the Peace for Herts, from 1916. High Sheriff of Herts. for 1913. He was a member of the Deputation sent by the British Government to Russia in the winter of 1912-13 to return the visit of the Duma to England. In the Great War he was director of Purchases of Nitrate of Soda for the Allies (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p.389). Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (?1918). Created Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon 24 July 1923. First speech in the House of Lords 7 July 1924, the subject being 'Trade and Unemployment'. Chairman of the City of London Club 1928-31; Member of the Carlton Club, Pall Mall, from 1910. Author of 'History of Gibbs of Fenton' in Dartington (1925), 'The Parish Registers of Hunsdon (1915)', several pamphlets on Bimetallism and the Currency, 1894-5, including 'A Bimetallic Primer' 1894 (rd ed. 1896), and one on 'The Incidence of Income Tax and Wasting Securities (1904)'. His evidence on 'Wasting Assets Abroad' before the Royal Comn. on Income Tax of 1920 is in an appendix to their Report.

He bought Biggens in the parish of Hunsdon and the lordship of the Manor of Hunsdon in 1908. His successive London residences from 1885 were 34 York Terrace, 17 Portman Street, 9 Portman Square (1898-1923), all in St. Marylebone.

Portraits: Drawing by W.E. Miller, 1882, another by E.U. Eddis in a group with his mother and brother Vicary, 1860, both in possession of Lord Aldenham. Oil, three quarter length, 1891, by W. Ouless, R.A., at Briggens (copy by Miss Richardson in possession of A.Gibbs & Sons). Crayon by John Hay, presentation from City of London Conservative Association, 1932, in possession of Antony D. Gibbs, 5th Lord Aldenham.

Herbert married Anna Maria Durant, Lady Hunsdon on 12 Feb 1885 in Shenley, Hertfordshire. Anna (daughter of Richard Durant and Charlotte Still Dashwood) was born on 8 May 1862 in High Canons; died on 30 Dec 1938 in Ware, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 May 1856, St John's, Hampstead
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Occupation: 1881, London; Assistant Curate St Andrews Parish
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1891, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Probate: 12 Apr 1935, London; To Raymond Kenneth Gibbs & Bernard Vicary Gibbs ( his sons)

Notes:

The Ven. Archdeacon the Hon. Kenneth Francis Gibbs (5th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs), Lord Aldenham. D.D., Archdeacon of St. Albans. Born at Frognal aforesaid, 2 April and baptised 11 May 1856 at St. John's Hampstead. Educated at Winchester College 1870-4. Matric: Oxford (Christ Church) 15 January 1875; 4th class Theology and B.A. 1878: MA 1881; D.D. (Lambeth) 1929. Student at Leeds Clergy school, 1878-80. Died 1st February 1935 and was buried at Aldenham on 4 February 1935.

Ordained deacon 1880; priest (London) 1881. Curate of St. Andrews, Wells St., St. Marylebone, 1880-4; Vicar of Aldenham 1884-1913 (presented by his father); Rural Dean of Watford 1898-1909; Hon. Canon of St. Albans 1900-09; Chaplain to the Bishop of St. Albans 1904-09; Archdeacon of St. Albans from 1909-33; Chaplain to The King from 1921. Prolocutor of the Lower House of Canterbury Convocation 1925-32; Vice-chairman of the House of Clergy of The National Assembly 1925-29, Chairman 1929-32. Degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred by the Archbishop at Lambeth Palace No. 1929. Attached as Chaplain to Herts. Yeomanry (Territorial) 1914-21. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1906-1922. Member of 'Nobody's Friends' from 1893; of Aldenham Club 1989-1921. Editor of 'The Parish Registers of Aldenham' (2 vols. 1902 and 1910). Living from 1913 until his death at The Old Rectory, Hatfield, Herts.

Portraits: Drawing by W.E.Miller and oil in a group by E.U. Eddis (1859) with his mother and sister; oil by R.G. Eves, RA and oil sketch b same artist, all in possession of his son Andrew Antony. Oil by R.G.Eves, RA (presentation portrait) in possession of his son Bernard Vicary. Another oil sketch by same artist in possession of his son Raymond Kenneth. Chalk sketch with his mother by E.U. Eddis now in possession of his daughter Dorothea Lady Goodenough, together with a pencil sketch and oil sketch by Eves.

Birth:
Frognall

Kenneth married Mabel Alice Barnett on 5 Jun 1894 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. Mabel (daughter of Charles Edward Barnett and Augusta Rose Walsh) was born on 6 Sep 1874 in 1 Eaton Terrace, Westminster, London; died on 20 Mar 1953 in Witney, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Sep 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, London; Age: 9; Relationship: Son

Notes:

6th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs), Lord Aldenham. Baptised 7 September 1861 at St. Marylebone Church. Educated privately; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 21 May 1880. Buried 18 September 1907 at Aldenham. Will dated 24 January 1903, proved 30 October 1907.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1889, partner in that firm 1890-1907 and was with their Australian Branch, Gibbs Bright & Co., 1893-5 and 1903. Director of The London Assurance, 1883-97, of the Grand Junction Canal Co. 1883-9, of the East Argentine Railway Co. Ld. 1884-8, of the Argentine North Eastern Railway Co. Ld. 1889-1907, and of The Sulphine Corporation Ld. (from its inception) 1895-1907. A Commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London. Residences: 10 Lennox Gardens, Chelsea, 1888-1907; The Manor House, Elstree, 1896-1907.

Portraits: drawing (1865) by E. U. Eddis, and pastel (1883) by W.E. Miller, last in possession of Anthea H. Lowes.

Birth:
St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park,

Died:
The Manor House

Henry married The Hon. Alice Mary Crutchley on 17 Aug 1887 in Sunninghill, Berkshire. Alice (daughter of Charles Crutchley, General and Elizabeth Bayfield) was born on 21 Jun 1860 in Chelsea, London; died on 5 Oct 1942 in Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 50; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

1st son. Born at Collina (now the Vicarage), Torwood, Torquay, 27 October and baptised 7 December 1860 at St. Mark's, Torwood. Educated at Winchester College 1874-8, matric. at Oxford (Keble College), 28 January 1879; 1st class Science (biology) and BA 1882; MA 1925. Died 9 July 1949 and was buried at St. James' Abinger, Surrey. Will proved.

Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London 1882; in Liverpool with Antony Gibbs & Sons & Co., 1882-3; in Melbourne, Australia, with Gibbs Bright. & Co., 1885-9 (a manager there 1889); a partner in Gibbs & Co. Chile (Valparaiso and Iquique) 1890-6; a manager in the London firm 1896 and partner therein 1897 to 31 December 1930, when he retired. Director of the Mexican Railway Co. from 1905 and of the Indemnity Assurance Co. from 1906. Churchwarden of St. James', Abinger, of St. Martin Outwich, of St. Helen's, City of London, from 1920. On the council of Keble College, Oxford, from 1925. Author of 'The History of Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' and of the 'Early Years of Antony Gibbs & Sons', published 1922, and editor of the third edition of the family pedigree. Author of Abinger Parish Church published October 1938 (all his notes are available on-line at http://www.stjameschurchabinger.org/church-history.ashx and view 'Other Documents' on this page. His Chilean War Diaries are in the possession of Julian R. GIbbs

Residences: after marriage, 20 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington, 1902 - March 1931, and Goddards, Abinger, Surrey, leased from 1914, bought by his wife, 1927. Goddards was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1898-9 for Sir Frederick Mirrilees. The house was intended for Sir Frederick's daughter Cecilia (afterwards Mrs Craven) and until she needed it, it was used as a rest home for nurses.

St Cecilia's badge is carved outside the front entrance. After the house was enlarged in 1910 it was occupied for a short time by Sir Frederick's son, Donald Mirrilees and his wife. Mrs. Craven never lived there. It is a fine example of the relationship between house and garden which was of paramount importance to Lutyens (see Edwin Lutyens Architectural Monographs 6, Academy Editions, London, 1979). The garden was designed by Gertrude Jekyll and is mentioned in 'Gardens Old and New' edited by H. Avray Tipping, MA, FSA, Vol. III (pub. about 1912 by Country Life). Distinct reservations on its architectural merits are expressed by Pevsner in the vol. on Surrey in the 'Buildings of England' Series, pub. by Penguin Books, 1st edition 1962, 2nd edition. 1971, however it is the subject of one of the books in Brian Edwards' "Architecture in Detail" series (Goddards, Lutyens by Brian Edwards published by Phaidon Press Ltd 1996).

Birth:
Collina

John married Emily Gertrude Franck Bright on 14 Jan 1902 in Oxford, Oxfordshire. Emily (daughter of Rev. James Franck Bright and Emmeline Theresa Wickham) was born on 31 Aug 1868 in Preshute House, Marlborough College, Wiltshire; died on 27 Nov 1960 in Cobham, Surrey; was buried in Abinger, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Quebec, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age in 1911: 48; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife
• Arrival: 10 Sep 1929, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

2nd daughter of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised 29 January 1863 at Wraxall. Buried at Speen. Memorial Inscription there.

Family/Spouse: Dudley Julius Medley. Dudley (son of Maj. Gen. Julius George Medley and Adelaide Charlotte Steel) was born on 31 Mar 1861 in Paddington, London; died on 14 Oct 1953 in Newbury, Berkshire; was buried in Oxford, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1930, Kensington, London

Notes:

2nd son of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised 13 June 1865 in the church at Clifton Hampden. Educated at Winchester College and at a Tutor's in Cornwall 1979-83, and at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, Englefield Green, 1883-6. Buried at Leamington Spa.

In the Indian Telegraph Service (in Burmah 1886-7 in India 1888-1914); a director thereof 1910-14. Retired to England 1914. Sometime Captain in Madras Volunteer Guards. In the Great War was in London attached to the Intelligence Staff of War Office 1915-19 as a Censor of Telegraphs with the rank of temp. Lieut. May 1915, temp. Capt. Ap. 1919. Assistant Treasurer and lay Canon of Southwark Cathedral 1925-30. Lived from 1925 at 7 Prince of Wales Terrace, Kensington.

Pastel portrait by Havell.

Birth:
The Parsonage

Robert married Emily Fraser Handcock on 3 Apr 1893 in Waltair, Andhra Pradesh, India. Emily (daughter of Rev. Richard George Hancock and Mary Swinhoe) was born on 31 Jul 1864 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; died on 24 May 1947 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire; was buried in Bristol, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Canon of St. Albans
• Baptism: 4 Aug 1867, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, Christchurch, Hampshire
• Residence: 19 Oct 1886, Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1939, Aldenham Vicarage, Hertfordshire; 1939 Census of England & Wales, Clerk of Holy Orders

Notes:

3rd son of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised at the Parsonage, Clifton Hampden, 4 August 1867. Educated at Lancing 1881-6; matric. oxford (Keble College) 19 October 1886; 3rd class Theology 1890 MA 1894. Student at Cuddesdon (Oxon), Theological College 1891-2.

Ordained Deacon at Exeter, 1892, Priest 1893. Curate of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, 1892-4; Curate of Clyst St. George under his father 1894-7. Vicar of Clifton Hampden, Oxon., 1898-1923 (presented by Henry Lord Aldenham). His (overlarge) parsonage of 1832-46 (meanwhile called The Cottage) being re-exchanged with it. Vicar of Aldenham 1923-40 (presented by Alban, Lord Aldenham). Canon of St. Albans.

Reginald married Lucia McCausland on 4 Jan 1899 in Limavady, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Lucia (daughter of Capt. Conolly Thomas McCausland and Laura St John) was born on 18 Oct 1869 in Drenagh, Newtown Limavady, Derry, Ireland; died on 10 Jan 1940 in Peace Memorial Hospital, Watford, Hertfordshire; was buried in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Wandsworth, London; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

4th son. Born at the Parsonage, Clifton Hampden, 28 January and baptised in the church there 28 February 1869. Educated privately in England and at Bonn, Germany; matric. at Oxford (Keble College) October 1888, BA 1892. Died childless 28 December 1943 and was buried 1 January 1944 at Putney Vale Cemetery.

He was in Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1892-1907. In his own business at 62 London Wall from 1907. Amongst other companies, director of Minerals Separation Ld. from 1906 (chairman from 1919); an original director and chairman of Rhodesian Congo Border Concession Ld., 1923-30, and of N'Changa Copper Mines Ld. 1926-30; director and deputy chairman of Rhokana Corporation from 1930; director of Eagle Oil Transport Co. 1913-30; director sometime of the Argentine N. Eastern Railway Co. Ld., and a Trustee for its debenture holders. Churchwarden of the parish church of Roehampton, 1911-23. Last residences: Woodmansterne, Putney Heath, and Groman, Erwood, co. Brecon.

Birth:
The Parsonage

Francis married Sylvia Beatrice Cokayne on 26 Apr 1909 in St Peter's, Eaton Sq., Westminster, London. Sylvia (daughter of George Edward Adams Cokayne and Mary Dorothea Gibbs) was born on 18 May 1863 in 92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, London; died on 21 Aug 1949 in Wandsworth, London; was buried in Cemetery, Putney Vale, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Jan 1873, Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon; Relation to Head of House: Daughter. Age mistranscribed from census
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Speen, Berkshire; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

4th daughter, baptised privately 3 January and received into the Church 15 April 1873 at Clevedon parish church. Died childless 11 March 1961 in Natal.

Lived with her parents till their death. In the Great War was head of a Hopsital Supply Depot in Newbury 1915-17.

Birth:
Offer's Hotel

Ethel married Reginald Herbert Bruce Dickson on 3 Jan 1922 in Roehampton, Surrey. Reginald (son of Rev. Robert Bruce Dickson and Grace Agnes Broughton) was born on 24 Apr 1882 in Cadmore End, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; died in Mar 1966 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Putney, Surrey

Notes:

1st daughter. Baptised 28 July 1858 at St. John's, Paddington. Died at Charterhouse 17 September 1883 and was buried in the cemetery of Godalming, Surrey, leaving one daughter Blanche Mary Dorothea who died in infancy.

Portraits: Chalk as a child, with her sister Caroline, by Gilbert in possn. of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932; drawing by Miller in possession of George Medley in 1980.

Blanche married Rev. William Francis John Romanis on 10 Aug 1882 in Putney, Surrey. William was born in 1848 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; died on 31 Aug 1913 in Plymouth, Devon; was buried in 1913 in Talland, Polperro, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Putney, Surrey
• Residence: 1881, Godalming, Surrey
• Departure: 1900, Valparaiso, Chile
• Residence: 1901, Putney, Surrey
• Residence: 1901, London; Relation to Head: Son
• Arrival: 7 Jan 1901, Liverpool, Lancashire; From: Valparaiso, Chile
• Departure: 1911, Santa Marta, San German, Puerto Rico, USA
• Arrival: 27 Apr 1911, New York, USA
• Occupation: Between 1918 and 1920, London; Governor of the Bank of England
• Residence: 1919, London
• Residence: 1920, London; 22 Exeter House
• Arrival: 23 Feb 1924, New York, USA; Age: 59

Notes:

Born Adams. Became Baron Lord Cullen of Ashbourne. Baptised 10 August 1864 at St. John's, Paddington. Educated at Charterhouse, Surrey 1878-82.

Was in Racquets pair for Charterhouse. Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons, 1883, (London 1883-5; in Gibbs & Co., Chile, 1886-1900, and partner thereof from 1890; in London and partner of A. Gibbs & Sons from 1901). Director of the Bank of England from November 1902 (Deputy-Governor 1915-18, Governor 1918-20): director of the Pan de Azucar Nitrate Co. Ltd., 1901-24: director and chairman of the Rosario Nitrate Co. Ld. from 1924; director of the National Bank of Egypt, 1923-29. A commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London from 1904. Created Knight of the Order of the British Empire, August, 1917: Baron Cullen of Ashbourne (UK Peerage) 1920. Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure of Japan. Commander of the Order of Leopold (Belgium).

Residences: 6 York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, 1905-11; Exeter House, Roehampton, from 1911.

Portraits: Pastel head by Edward Havell 1886; oil, small head and shoulders by Grace Cokayne 1907; water colour, small, head and shoulders, by the same 1919: oil, head and shoulders, by the same, 1924; all four last in his own possession. Oil, full length, by Wm. Rothenstein, painted for the Bank of England 1931-32. 3 sons and 3 daughters.

His heir, Charles Borlase Marsham Cokayne, MBE (2nd Baron) inherited the title from his father in 1932; born 6 Oct. 1912, married Istly Valerie Catherine Mary Collbran by whom he has 1 daughter, Julia Collbran b. 1943; married 2ndly Patricia Mary Clulow-Gray; educated at Eton; served in the Second World War; Amateur Tennis Champion 1947, 1952. One of H.M. Lieutenants City of London from 1976; Chairman, the National Listening Library (which provides Talking Books for the Handicapped); Chairman of the Osteopathic Educational Foundation (the Fund Raising Charity for the profession). Lord in Waiting. Address: 75 Cadogan Gardens, S.W.I. He died on December 17 2000 at his home in Bodrum, Turkey.

Other children: Hon. Edmund Willoughby Marsham, born 1916, m. Janet Manson Watson; Hon. John O'Brien Marsham, born 1920, m. Anne Frances Clayton (d. 1970) and has issue; Hon. Barbara Mary, born 1905 and died 2004, m. Major Gilbert Edgar Francis van der Noot (d. 1981) and has issue; Hon. Dorothy Grace, born 1907; Hon. Ruth Margaret, born 1909, m. Istly Captain Robert William Alfred Moore (d. 1940) and has issue, m. 2ndly Rev. David Henry Aitcheson Williams (d. 1955).

Brien married Grace Margaret Marsham on 29 Sep 1904 in Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire. Grace (daughter of Rev Hon John Marsham and Penelope Jane Hume) was born on 17 Sep 1877 in Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire; died in 1971 in Wokingham, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London

Notes:

4th son. Baptised 7 September 1871 at St. John's, Putney. Educated at Charterhouse, Surrey, 1884-90; matric. Oxford (Oriel College) Michaelmas 1890; BA 1893.

In Racquets pair for Charterhouse 1889: for Oxford University, Racquets, 1891-92, Royal Tennis, 1892.

Member of the London Stock Exchange from 1899 and partner of David Bevan & Co., stockbrokers, in the City of London. Residences, 54 Montagu Sq., London, W, 1909-29, 1 Bryanston Sq. from 1929.

Portraits: Chalk, age 23, by P. Downes 1894; pencil by Francis F. Crawley-Boevey, 1894; chalk by Geoffroi de Chaume 1924; and chalk by the same 1925; all four last in his own possession.

1 son and 3 daughters. Thomas Probyn, born 1920
(d. 1943); Elizabeth,born 1913, m. Peter Duke Doulton and has issue; Anne, born 1916, m. Walter Arbuthnot Prideaux and has issue; Susan, born 1923, who has in her possession a portrait by George Richmond of Mary Dorothea Cokayne.

Francis married Dorothy Emily Probyn on 30 Dec 1909 in Exeter House, Roehampton, Surrey. Dorothy (daughter of Sir Leslie Probyn and Emily Rosalie Davis) was born on 10 Jan 1889 in Fairfield, Acton, Middlesex; died on 10 Dec 1963 in Surrey South Eastern, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 19 Jun 1863, St John's, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1901, Putney, Surrey

Notes:

Sylvia was Francis's first cousin. 4th daughter of George Edward Adams, afterwards Cokayne. Born at 92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, 18 May and baptised 19 June 1863 at St. John's, Paddington. Was buried at Putney Vale.

In the Great War she was a working member of the Putney Depot of Queen Mary's Needlework Guild.

Portraits: Oil, 'The Dead robin,' by E.U. Eddis (1870), last in possession of her brother Lord Cullen (engraved by Algernon Graves, circ. 1873). Water-colour by Fred. Pegram (1920); miniature by Mrs Kay Robertson; drawing by P. Downes; a chalk by E.U. Eddis (original drawing for 'The Dead Robin'; all four in possession of her husband in 1932; 'The Dead Robin' by Eddis, in possession of George Medley in 1980, now with Alexandra White (2021).

Sylvia married Francis Lomax Gibbs on 26 Apr 1909 in St Peter's, Eaton Sq., Westminster, London. Francis (son of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs and Isabel Marianne Bright) was born on 28 Jan 1869 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; died on 28 Dec 1943 in Wandsworth, London; was buried on 1 Jan 1944 in Cemetery, Putney Vale, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Aug 1873, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 14 Oct 1892, Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Wraxall, Somerset

Notes:

George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall, PC DL (6 July 1873 – 28 October 1931), was a British Conservative politician. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gibbs,_1st_Baron_Wraxall



Birth:
Charlton on the Tyntesfield Estate

George married Victoria Florence de Burgh Long on 26 Nov 1901 in All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, London. Victoria (daughter of Viscount Walter Hume Long and Dorothy Blanche Boyle) was born on 10 Aug 1880 in 1 Grafton Street, Westminster, London; died on 29 Mar 1920 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Hon Ursula Mary Lawley, Baroness Wraxall, OBE, RRC on 21 Jul 1927 in St Margaret's, Westminster, London. Ursula (daughter of Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock and Annie Allen Cunard, Baroness Wenlock, GBE) was born on 8 Jun 1888 in Fulford, Yorkshire; died on 16 Oct 1979 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 20 Oct 1979 in All Saint's Church, Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Santa Fe, Argentina
• Baptism: 8 Nov 1874, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Clyst St Mary, Devon
• Arrival: 1 Dec 1960, London

Notes:

2nd son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised 8 November 1874 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College, 1888-92; matric. Cambridge (Trinity Hall) 1893; BA 1897.

Tenant of his brother George from 1899 of Pytte, Clyst St. George. In the firm of Antony Gibbs & Sons in the City of London 1898-9. Partner from 1899 in Milford Snow & Co. (The City Bank) Exeter, since united with Sanders & Co. (The Exeter Bank) later the National Provincial Bank, Ltd., of which he was a local director. Among many other official occupations in Devon, member of The Tuckers' Hall, Exeter, from 1906, President for 1912. President of Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital 1923-5. Treasurer from 1930. Chairman of St. Thomas' (Exeter) District Council and Chairman of St. Thomas' Guardians' Committee. Member of the Devon County Council and of the Devon Standing Joint Committee; Treasurer of the Board of Finance of Diocese of Exeter to July 1930, vice-Chairman from July 1930; Treasurer of the East Devon Hunt, and of sundry other institutions. Chairman of the Devon and Exeter Dispensary, 1909, of the West of England Institution for the Blind, 1912, and of the Devon and Exeter Institution, 1929. A Justice of the Peace for Devon from 1922. A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar. Member of the Carlton Club from 1913.

2nd Lieut. North Somerset Yeomanry, 1895; Lieut., December 1898; Captain 1904; Major, June 1912. Coronation Medal of King Edward VII, 1903. Territorial Decoration, 1915. In the Great War served with the North Somerset Yeo., 4 August 1914 to Mar. 1917, and was in France with them 2 November 1914 to May 1915, the Regt. being part of the 6th Cavalry Brig, of 3rd Cav. Division under Major General The Hon. Julian Byng now Lord Byng of Vimy. In command of 3rd N. Som. Yeo. at Bath May 1915-March 1917; on Quarter Master General's Staff of Southern Command at Salisbury May 1917 to end of the War. Medals of the War, 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal.

He was a proficient carpenter, electrician and mechanic, turning articles in ivory and wood on his lathe, an art he had learned from his father. In 1923 he made a gavel and block to be used by the Chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Committee. The gavel is still in the possession of the Hospital and is stamped "A. H. Gibbs 1923, R.D.E.H. Fecit". During the Second World War he became an Air-raid Warden and was given the Defence Medal at the end of the war.
Clyst St. George Church. (Extract from A. Hubert Gibbs obituary in the Express and Echo and Western Morning News, 31 July 1957). "After the destruction of the church by enemy action in 1940, it was rebuilt thanks to his untiring energy and patience, in a style which has won warm approval by its beauty and comfort. In this cause he obtained grants and raised funds, chose the best architect and builders available, and selected the most suitable designs for the lovely east and west windows. He was also the prime mover in the erection of the Parish Hall, of which he was a trustee and the first chairman." It is believed that this church was the first in England to be destroyed in the Second World War (by incendiaries). With his own hands he salvaged the two oldest Gibbs' memorials: to John Gibbe, 1592 (brass); and to George Gibbs (stone), 1692, which he put in a wheelbarrow and reassembled in a cow shed at Pytte, where it remained until the rebuilding in 1950, when it was put together again (not quite complete) by Herbert Read. The church was re-dedicated on 4 July 1952. Architects: Nicholson & Rushton, Lincolns Inn; Builders, Dart & Francis Ltd., Crediton; Windows (east and west), by Hugh Easton, London. Bells: recast and rehung by Hughes & Stainbank of Whitechapel, London.
The Reredos and Bosses were the gift of William Otter Gibbs from Barrow Court oratory.

There is a memorial to Hubert, Mercy and their son Evan in the form of altar rails by Herbert Read, 1948, and altar rail gates by Herbert Read (son) 1961.

Portraits: Pastel by H.M. Heaton last in possession of his son Antony; one by E. Clifford (1878) was in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930.

Antony married Mary Mercy Llewellyn on 18 Oct 1899 in Burrington, Devon. Mary (daughter of Evan Henry Llewellyn and Mary Blanche Somers) was born on 26 Jun 1875 in Langford Court, Burrington, Somerset; died on 16 Jan 1956 in Pytte, Clyst St George, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: May 1876, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Paddington, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Thornbury, Gloucestershire

Notes:

1st daughter of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised in May 1876 at St. Michael's, Paddington.

Portrait, aged 6 (1882) by W. Walker; Portrait (1878) by E. Clifford, see Lord Wraxall, both last in possession of Lord Wraxall.

Albinia married Richard Alexander Bennett on 2 Dec 1899 in Wraxall, Somerset. Richard (son of Rev. Alexander Sykes Bennett and Jessie Payne) was born on 12 Dec 1872 in Bournemouth; died on 16 Jul 1951. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Dec 1877, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset

Notes:

7th Hussars. 3rd son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College 1891-6; matric. Oxford (Magdalen College) 1896; 3rd class law and BA 1899.

2nd Lieut. 7th Hussars, February, and Lieut., November 1900. In the South African (Boer) War, served 1901-2 with 7th Hussars in operations in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony and Transvaal; awarded Queen's Medal, with five clasps. Captain, Ap. 1907. Seconded to be Brigade Major of Eastern Mounted Brigade (Territorial) March 1913-March 1916. In the Great War, served in Gallipoli (Anzac) October-December 1915: in Egypt December 1915-October 1916 (Staff Officer, Western Defence Force; Brigade Major, Coastal Area): in France, October-December 1917, as Major, 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regt.; in Mesopotamia Ap. 1918-Ap. 1919 with 7th Hussars and in command of them from September 1918. Wounded at Shergat, nr. Mosul, 28 October 1918. Awarded 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) War Medal: Croix de Guerre (avec palme): mentioned twice in despatches (1916 and 1919). Lieut.-Colonel 1919, and in the Regular Army Reserve of Officers from 1920. One of the Exons of the King's Bodyguard of Yeomen of the Guard from 1926.

Portrait: In Yeoman of the Guard's Uniform last in possn. of his wife Ruby Mable Brassey.

Birth:
16 Hyde Park Gardens

Died:
Severalls

William married Ruby Mabel Brassey on 22 Jul 1911 in Knightsbridge, London. Ruby (daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey and Anna Harriet Stevenson) was born on 10 Oct 1887 in Preston Hall, Kent; died on 30 Jun 1981. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Jan 1880, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset; Age: 11; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1901, Paddington, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Windsor, Berkshire

Notes:

Baptised 28 January 1880 at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College, 1892-7 and Royal Military college, Sandhurst, 1898-9. Died at Estcourt Grange, Gloucestershire, 11th and buried 13th October at Shipton Moyne, Glos. Memorial there.

2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards, January 1900. Lieut. November 1901. Served in the South African (Boer) War in operations in Cape Colony July 1901 to May 1902, and was awarded the Queen's medal with three clasps. Adjutant 3rd Battalion Coldstream Gds., Ap. 1904-Ap. 1907. Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India (Earl of Minto) Sep. 1907-June 1910. Captain January 1910.

Acting A.D.C. to Field Marshal Lord Kitchener at the Coronation of King George V, 1911.

In the Great War he served in France and Belgium in 1914. Captured at Gheluvelt 29 October 1914, he was kept a prisoner of war at Stralsund, Heidelburg, Holzminden, Freiberg, etc., in Germany, was transferred to and interned in Holland, Feb., 1918, and was released 12 Jan. 1919. Awarded Military Cross 1920, 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. Major 1915, Lieut. Colonel Ap. 1919, Col. Oct. 1924. Commanded 1st Battalion Coldstream Gds., 1920-21. Commanded 129th (S. Wessex) Infantry Brigade (Territorial) 1928-30. In command of Coldstream Guards Regt. and Regtl. District from Aug. 1930.

Lived from 1927 at Estcourt Grange, Tetbury, Glos. Portrait of himself (as a Russian) and one of his wife (with four dogs) last in possession of David Evelyn Gibbs.

Birth:
16 Hyde Park Gardens

Died:
Estcourt Grange

John married Her Serene Highness Helena Frances Augusta Cambridge, Princess of Teck on 2 Sep 1919 in Windsor, Berkshire. Helena (daughter of 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Duke of Teck, Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus and Marchioness of Cambridge Margaret Evelyn Grosvernor) was born on 23 Oct 1899 in Grosvenor House,Westminster,London,England; died on 22 Dec 1969 in Badmington, Gloucestershire; was buried in Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Oct 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Acaster Malbis and Bishopthorpe, Yorkshire-East Riding, England; Age: 28; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1952, Chelsea, London

Notes:

In the Great War she worked in 1916 in the Nunthorpe Hospital, York, as member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment of the Red Cross Society. In 1930 was on the Archbishop of Canterbury's committee for entertaining the Bishops attending the Lambeth Conference. From 1930 was Hostess for the Girls' Diocesan Association at many of their week-ends over the following years. While at Windsor became Chairman of the Townswomen's Guild. During the Second World War worked with the Red Cross 'Parcels for Prisoners of War', and developed a fellowship of relatives and friends of prisoners of war with A.S.C. in Windsor.

Anstice married Rev. Canon Arthur Stafford Crawley on 16 Jun 1903 in Wraxall, Somerset. Arthur (son of George Baden Crawley and Eliza Inez Hulbert) was born on 18 Oct 1876 in Tressady, Sutherland, Scotland; died on 8 Oct 1948 in Clewer, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Santa Marta, San German, Puerto Rico, USA
• Departure: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Bombay
• Destination: Morocco
• Baptism: 15 May 1887, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Arrival: 27 Apr 1911, New York, USA
• Departure: 28 Mar 1929, London
• Arrival: 26 Apr 1929, London

Notes:

Her husband's first cousin, 3rd daughter of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised 15 May 1887 at Wraxall, Somerset.

Assistant Commandant of Red Cross Hospital
Chippenham, 1917-18. On the Rural District Council of Long Ashton, Somerset, from 1925; on the Board of Guardians of same, 1925-30; Vice-Chairman of Guardians Area Committee from 1930. Member of Somerset County Nursing Assn. since 1929; on the Exec. Committee of Somerset Federation of Women's Institutes from 1924 (Vice-Chairman, 1929-30); a Trustee of St. Michael's Home aforesaid from 1929; member of Council of St. Monica Home of Rest afsd. President of the Clevedon Branch of Somerset Welfare of Women and Girls.

Travelled round the world, 1910; S. America, 1911; India and Canada, 1912.

1938 First County Commandant A.T.S. for Somerset. During the Second World War, Barrow Court became a convalescent hospital for soldiers (1940) under the Red Cross and she was the Commandant. In 1947 Barrow Court was let to the combined Dioceses of Bath and Wells, Gloucester and Bristol, as an adjunct of Fishponds St. Matthias' Diocesan Training College for church school teachers, and she and her husband bought Attadale in Wester Ross, where they lived until 1952, and thereafter at South Cerney, Glos.

After her husband's death in 1960, she moved to Sheldon Manor and lived in the converted outbuildings.

Portraits: min. by Cosway Co. (1911); oil (1930) by T. Binney Gibbs, both last in possession of her son Major Antony Gibbs

Birth:
Charlton

Janet married Lieut. Colonel William Otter Gibbs on 23 Feb 1915 in St. Michael's, Star Street, Paddington. William (son of Henry Martin Gibbs, High Sheriff, Somerset and Emily Anna Otter) was born on 13 Sep 1883 in Clifton, Gloucestershire; died on 22 Mar 1960; was buried in Mar 1960 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Shanghai, China
• Baptism: 22 Jan 1890, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Windsor, Berkshire
• Arrival: 8 Mar 1928, San Francisco, California, USA
• Residence: 1931, St Marylebone, London

Notes:

7th son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised 22 January 1890 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College 1902-8. Buried at Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire.

2nd Lieut. Somerset Light Infantry 1908; 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards December 1910, Lieut. July 1913. Coronation medal of King George V, 1911. In the Great War: Served in France, August 1914 till 1919. Adjutant, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Gds., November 1914-April 1916. Temporary Captain December 1914-July 1915. Captain July 1915. Staff Captain 1st Guards Brigade April-November 1916. Acting Lieut.-Col. in command of 2nd Battn. Coldstream Gds. November 1916-March 1917. Acting Major March-May 1917 and December 1917 to February 1918. General Staff Officer (3rd Grade) Guards Division, February to April 1918. Brigade Major 140th Infantry Brigade April 1918 to February 1919. General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (Intelligence) in British section of the Supreme War Council at Versailles February to June, 1919. Military Cross 1916 and bar 1917. Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, 1918. Mentioned four times in Despatches. Awarded 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. After the War Adjutant 3rd Battn. Coldstream Gds. June to November 1919. General Staff Officer, 2nd grade, London District, December 1921 to August 1922. Aide de Camp to Lord Rawlinson, the Commander-in-Chief in India, November 1922 to March 1925, and awarded the North West Frontier Medal and one clasp in the Waziristan campaign. Second in command of 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards when part of the Shanghai Defence Force, 1927-28. Commanded the British troops in Paris for Marshal Foch's Funeral, 1929. Lieut. Colonel December 1930, in command of 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards until 1934. A.A.G. War Office, 1934-38; retired pay 1938; Brigadier i/c Administration, London District 1939-45; reverted to retired pay 1945; recalled War Office in connection with Victory March, January-July 1946; reverted to retired pay 1946. Jubilee Medal 1937. Coronation Medal 1953 Coronation. Gentleman at Arms Her Majesty's Bodyguard.

Portrait by Marientrau, at Braishfield.

Lancelot married Marjory Florence Maxwell on 10 Jul 1929 in Westminster, London. Marjory (daughter of Sir Arthur Kenis Maxwell, Baron Farnham and Aileen Selina Purdon Coote) was born on 24 Apr 1906 in Dublin, Ireland; died on 5 May 1939. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lancelot married Diana Primrose Quilter on 25 Feb 1942 in Westminster, London, and was divorced in 1945. Diana (daughter of Percival Cuthbert Quilter and Gladys Clare Alice Tudway) was born on 9 Jan 1916 in St George Hanover Square, London; died on 4 Aug 2011 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 31 1901, Sholden, Kent; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Baptism: 15 Apr 1868, England
• Residence: 2 Apr 1871, Wraxall, Somerset; Relation to Head of House: Grandson
• Residence: 1881, Mortlake, Surrey
• Residence: 5 Apr 1891, London; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Departure: Mar 1897, South Africa
• Arrival: 11 May 1897, England
• Residence: 1901, Sholden, Kent; Age: 33; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 2 1911, Henlow Grange, Henlow, Bedfordshire

Notes:

Educated at Winchester College, 1882-3; matric. at Oxford (Christ Church) 1887, BA and 3 Cl. History 1891. Died at his flat in London 2nd and was buried 6 March 1926 at Henlow, Bedfordshire where was his residence (Henlow Grange) since 1908. Memorial Inscription in Henlow churchyard. Will dated 15 March 1924, proved 23 July 1926.

Partner in Thomson Hankey and Co. merchants in the City of London, 1896-1926, and head of the firm for some years up to his death.

Director of the Indemnity Assurance Corporation, 1900-26 (chairman 1925-26). He had two sons and a daughter; his eldest son Christopher William Gurney was a partner in Thomson Hankey & Co. until his death. Christopher married Joan Doris Grenfell (see Burke's Peerage}, who was active in Women's Institutes and W.R.V.S. during World War II.

They had two sons and a daughter; their eldest son Timothy was a Director of Thomson Hankey & Co. from 1947-76; their second son Jeremy was an Underwriting Agent in Price Forbes, Insurance Brokers; and their daughter Gillian married and emigrated with her husband to Ontario, Canadain 1948 (living 1980). Both sons are married and living.

Cyril Gurney's daughter Alice was active in Women's Institute and Village Produce Association and died unmarried in 1969; his second son, John, was a student Land Agent when he died (1924).

Cyril married Margaret Evelyn Trotter in 1894 in St. Peter's, Eaton Square, Westminster, London. Margaret (daughter of William Trotter and Mary Isabel Davies) was born in Apr 1869 in St George Hanover Square, London; died on 4 Jan 1958 in 41 Sydney Building, Bath, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 19 Sep 1883, Gloucestershire

Notes:

Baptised 19 September 1883 at St. Paul's, Clifton. Educated at Eton College 1896-1901 (Miss Evans' house) and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1901-2. Buried at Barrow Gurney. Memorial Inscription there.

2nd Lieut. 10th Prince of Wales' Own Hussars, November 1902; Lieut., June 1904; Capt., October 1907; Major, February 1915. Retired, Sep. 1919, with rank of Lieut. Col. joining the Reserve of Officers. Brevet Col, Mar. 1932. In command of 5th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry from 1928. Member of the Somerset Territorial Association from 1928. Was with his Regiment in India at Mhow, 1903-6, at Rawal Pindi,1906-12. In India played for his Regiment in the winning team in inter-regimental polo matches, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912. Durbar Medal (1912). Attached to the Egyptian Army, June 1912-June1914 (Khor Shambat and Shendi).

In the Great War was in operations in France and Belgium, 1914-18; he embarked for France 11 Aug. 1914, attached to Headquarters 3rd Cavalry Brigade; joined 18th Hussars 3 Sep., and rejoined 10th Hussars, 20 October Wounded 1 Nov. at the 1st Battle of Ypres near Hooge, he rejoined from England, 12 March 1915. Wounded again at the 2nd Battle of Ypres near Potije, he returned to France 19 August 1915. At various times, 1915-18, was Acting Lieut. Col. 10th Hussars. Seconded to Tank Corps, 9 June 1918. Slightly wounded again, 23 August 1918, but remained on duty. His war service ended with a fourth wound suffered 17 October l918 near Vaud Audigny. (Mentioned in Despatches, Gazette, May 1917. Medals, 1914 Star; British War Medal; Allies' (Victory) Medal.

Member of Somerset County Council from 1922. Justice of the Peace for Somerset (Long Ashton petty sessional division) from 1924. Succeeded his father as owner of the Manor and Advowson of Barrow Gurney. Fellow of SS. Mary and Nicolas afsd. 1924-30. Fellow of SS. Mary and Andrew afsd. from 1927. A Trustee of St. Michael's Home afsd. (Chairman from 1928). An original member (1923) of the Council of St. Monica's Home of Rest at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. Deputy Lieut. Somerset, 1935; High Sheriff, 1936; Hon. Col. 5th Battalion Somerset L.I. 1936; A.D.C. to The King, 1938.

His residences since marriage: 6 Evelyn Gardens, Kensington, 1915; Down Ampney House, Glos., 1916-17; Sheldon Manor, Chippenham, Wilts., 1917-23 (still owned); The Home Farm, Barrow Gurney, 1923-28; Barrow Court from 1928.

Portraits: by J. C. Horsley, R.A. (1886); by G. Anderson (1905); by Francis Crawley-Boevey; min. by Miss Hall; oil by T. Binney Gibbs (1930) no relation, last all in possession of his son Martin Antony Gibbs, except the one by Anderson (destroyed).

Birth:
43 Alma Road

William married Janet Blanche Gibbs on 23 Feb 1915 in St. Michael's, Star Street, Paddington. Janet (daughter of Antony Gibbs, of Tyntesfield and Janet Louisa Merivale) was born on 15 Apr 1887 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 4 Jun 1974 in Chippenham, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Dec 1885, Barrow Gurney, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, Eton, Buckinghamshire; Boarder

Notes:

3rd son of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 25 December 1885 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College 1899-1904; matric. Oxford (Magdalen College) October 1906; BA 1909, MA 1921. A pupil of Budd Johnson & Jecks, Solicitors in City of London 1909-11. A student at Wells Theological College 1911-12 and at Farnham Theological College 1912.

Deacon 1913; Priest 1914 (Southwark); Curate of Lambeth 1913-16 and 1919-20; Rector of Walkern, Herts, from 1922. In the Great War was a Chaplain to the Military Forces 1916-19 (in France, Spring to Nov. 1916 and Oct. 1917 to Oct. 1918; in North Russia two months in the summer of 1919). Wounded twice (16 Nov. 1916, near Beaumont Hamel; in Oct. 1918, near Caudry). Military Cross and bar to the same (both earned in 1918). British War Medal, Allies (Victory) Medal. Hon. Chaplain to the Forces 1921.

Portraits: by F. Crawley-Boevey (1895); by Ogilvie (1916); and a miniature (artist unknown); (last 2 in possession of his son Major Henry Francis Gibbs).

Francis married Agnes Mary Denise Ruddock on 27 Jun 1923 in Ardeley, Hertfordshire. Agnes (daughter of Mark Ernest Ruddock, (Rev) and Annie Josphine Scott) was born on 9 Oct 1893 in Ardeley, Hertfordshire; died on 24 Jul 1978 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire; was buried in Jul 1978 in Ampney St Peter, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Liverpool, Lancashire
• Baptism: 28 Dec 1889, Paddington, London; St Michael's
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Gloucestershire
• Arrival: 13 May 1912, New York, USA

Notes:

5th son of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 28 December 1889 at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College 1902-8 ad at Cirencester Agricultural College 1909-10.

He qualified as an Associate of the Surveyors' Institution, 1910, and was learning land agency, 1911-12. A clerk in Vivian Gray & Co., stockbrokers, in the City of London, 1912-14; member of the London Stock Exchange from 1914.

After the Great War he rejoined Vivian Gray & Co., but from 1919-23 his home was at Gatwicke Hall, Barrow Gurney, where he was working his father's Home Farm on his own account. Partner in Vivian Gray & Co. from 1922. 2nd Lieut., North Somerset Yeomanry, Jan. 1910; Lieut., Aug. 1914; Capt. May 1915. Territorial Decoration, 1920. Retired from Territ. Army, 1928. Served 1914-18 in the Great War in France and Belgium (1914 Star, British War Medal, and Allies' (Victory) Medal). Served in North Somerset Yeomanry in the Second World War.

A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar from 1918. Resided at 7 Tite Street, Chelsea, 1923-25; The Hyde, Hatfield, Herts, 1925-27; Chestnut Farm, Acton Turville, Glos., 1927-28; from 1928 at Ruckley, Easton Grey, Malmesbury; after the war at The Cottage, Badminton and finally at Park Leaze, Ewen, Cirencester.

Portrait as a boy by F. Crawley-Boevey at Sheldon Manor in possession of Martin Gibbs and another in uniform by Ogilvie with his son Martin St. John Valentine Gibbs, together with a portrait of Margaret Olivia by L. Trapp last in possession of his son Martin St. John Valentine Gibbs.

Birth:
16 Hyde Park Gardens,

Guy married Margaret Olivia St. John on 6 Aug 1914 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. Margaret (daughter of Henry Percy St John and Maude Louise Glyn) was born on 3 Jun 1890 in Westminster, London; died on 29 Sep 1964 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire; was buried in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Aug 1891, Barrow Gurney, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire; Relation to Head of House: Son
• 1911 Census: 2 Apr 1911, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire; Age: 19; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

6th son of Henry Martin Gibbs. Baptised 4 August 1891 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College, 1904-9; matric. Oxford (Magdalen College) October 1910.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons, 1912; joined Gibbs & Co., Chile, 1914, but returned on outbreak of the Great War. Re-entered A. Gibbs & Sons, 1919, and joined Gibbs, Bright & Co., Australia in the same year; resigned in 1923. Partner from 1928 in Lamb & Gold, stockjobbers in the City of London. 2nd Lieut. North Somerset Yeomanry (Territ.), Oct. 1912; Lieut., 1915; Captain, 1916; Retired, 1919. In the Great War served in France with N. Som. Yeo., Sept. 1914 to May 1915; and August 1916 to April 1918; and with the 7th Dragoon Guards, April 1918, till end of the War. Despatches, 14 January 1915; 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. He was a Trustee of St. Michael's Home, in Cheddar, and Treasurer of St. Peter's Home, Kilburn. In the Second World War he was a Lt. Col. in the Military Police in India.
Residences: Bush Hall, Hatfield, Herts., 1924-28; Benhay, Little Gaddesden, Herts., from 1928; later at Church Farm, South Marston and The Manor House at Woodmancote.

Portraits: by G. Anderson (1900); by Ogilvie (1915); by F. Crawley-Boevey at Sheldon Manor last in possession Martin A. Gibbs; and a min. by Miss Hall; all four were in possn. of his brother William in 1932.

Ralph married Dorothy Elizabeth Houldsworth on 5 Aug 1915 in St Saviour, Chelsea, London. Dorothy (daughter of William Thomas Houldsworth, Rev. and Eulalie Venables) was born on 13 Feb 1894 in 1 Mansfield Street, St Marylebone, London; died on 9 Mar 1951 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Destination: Kilindini, Mombasa, Coast, Kenya
• 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

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.

Lionel married Mary Charlesworth on 1 Jul 1925, and was divorced in 1932. Mary (daughter of Albany Hawke Charlesworth and Eleanor Charlotte Bayley) was born in Jan 1904 in Park Steet, Westminster, London; died in Dec 1962 in Staincross, Yorkshire West Riding. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lionel married Elizabeth Sonia Snagge on 1 Nov 1933 in Long Ashton, Somerset. Elizabeth (daughter of Harold Edward Snagge and Inez Alfreda Lubbock) was born in 3 1910 in Kensington, London; died on 30 Oct 1959 in Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Dec 1894, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire
• Residence: 1901, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire

Notes:

2nd daughter of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 2 December 1894 in the parish church at Down Ampney.

In the Great War she worked in the kitchens of two hospitals, and, for some months from January 1919, in the American Young Men's Christian Assn. at Aix les Bains, Min. by Miss Hall last in possession of her son Peter Tremayne Miles.

Memorial service held at Poulton 22 September 1979.

Birth:
Down Ampney House

Mary married Lieut. Colonel Edward William Tremayne Miles, MC on 9 Aug 1923 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. Edward (son of Lieut. Frederick Tremayne Miles and Anna Coralia Sellar) was born on 25 Jan 1884 in Chelsea, London; died on 22 Sep 1943 in Chippenham, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Jun 1857, Flax Bourton, Somerset
• Residence: 1871, London; Age: 13; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Windlesham, Surrey

Notes:

1st daughter. Baptised 28 June 1857 at Flax Bourton. Buried at Clifton Hampden.

3 sons and 1 daughter.


Birth:
Belmont

Anne married Rev. James Liggins Cotton on 7 Aug 1884 in Sonning, Berkshire. James (son of Richard Payne Cotton and Elizabeth Liggins) was born on 18 Feb 1851 in St George Hanover Square, London; died on 2 Jan 1899 in Sonning, Berkshire; was buried in Jan 1899 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Jan 1859, Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1871, London
• Residence: 1881, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Baptised at Cuddesdon, Oxon 23 January 1859. Buried at Trent, Dorset.

2 sons and 2 daughters.

Mary married Very Rev Dr William Foxley Norris on 17 Apr 1884 in Sonning, Berkshire. William (son of Canon William Foxley Norris and Julia Monro) was born on 4 Feb 1859 in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire; died on 28 Sep 1937 in Westminster, London; was buried in 1937 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Jun 1863, Bromley, Kent
• Residence: 1871, Abingdon St Helen, Abingdon, Berkshire; Age: 7; Relationship: Son
• Residence: 1881, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire

Notes:

2nd son. Baptised 16 June 1863 at Bromley, Kent. Educated at Radley College, matric. at Cambridge (Jesus College) 1881, BA 1885, MA 1888. Buried at Great Milton, Oxon.

Deacon 1886; Priest 1887. Curate of Upton-with-Chalvey, Bucks., 1886. Domestic chaplin and secretary to Bishop of Wakefield 1888. Curate of Datchet, Bucks., 1890; Rector of Newington, Oxon., 1893; Vicar of Thursley, Surrey, 1901-7.

From 1921 lived at The Manor House, Great Milton, Oxon. Author, under the pen name of Alfred Percivall, of 'Somerset Neighbours' (1921), 'They'm Telling me' (1925), 'Gorse and Firs' (1929).

2 daughters.

Died:
Great Manor

Alfred married Edith Laura Cook on 20 Jun 1893 in Paddington, London. Edith (daughter of Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd Bart. and Mary Anne Elizabeth Cotton) was born on 13 Nov 1870; died on 2 Apr 1954 in Warborough, Oxfordshire; was buried in Apr 1954 in Great Milton, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Dec 1864, East Hendred, Berkshire
• Residence: 1871, London
• Residence: 1881, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire

Notes:

4th daughter. Baptised 26 December 1864 at East Hendred. Died childless at Clifton Hampden and buried at Warborough, Oxon.

Alice married Rev. Edward Issac Gillam on 15 Oct 1895 in Sonning, Berkshire. Edward (son of Thomas Henry Gillam and Maria Gillam) was born about 1858; died on 23 Jul 1937 in Warborough, Oxfordshire; was buried on 27 Jul 1937 in Warborough, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Dec 1865, East Hendred, Berkshire
• Residence: 1871, Abingdon St Helen, Abingdon, Berkshire; Age: 5; Relationship: Son
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Goodrich, Herefordshire; Age: 45; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

3rd son. Baptised 17 December 1865 at East Hendred, Berks. Educated at Haileybury College, matric. Oxford (Keble College) 14 October 1884, 4th class Classics, BA 1888.

Died childless 13 March 1920 and was buried at Goodrich. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Will proved 18 June 1920.

An assistant master at Clifton Coll. 1889 and at Tonbridge school 1890-8; Social tutor at Radley College 1915-16. Author of Greek Love Songs and Epigrams from The Anthology (1911) and of Translations of Martial and Thomas a Kempis. His widow lived at Ganarew House, Monmouth.

Died:
Goodrich House

John married Caroline Louisa de Bernier Gem on 1 Aug 1891 in Reading, Berkshire. Caroline (daughter of Samuel Harvey Gem and Henrietta Louisa de Bernier Smart) was born on 23 Sep 1867; died on 3 Feb 1942; was buried in Goodrich, Herefordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Sep 1870, London
• Residence: 1881, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 14 Oct 1889, Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Windlesham, Surrey
• Death: 25 Jan 1951, Tonbridge, Kent

Notes:

Baptised 14 September 1870 at St. Helen's, Abingdon. Educated at Radley College, 1885-8, matric. at Oxford (Magdalen College) 1888, BA 1892. Buried at Clifton Hampden.

Partner 1903 in Ingle Holmes Son & Pott (now Holmes Son & Pott) Solicitors in the City of London. Member of the Council of the Law Society from 1925. Governor of the Foundling Hospital from 1926.

President of The Law Society 1943. Knight Bachelor 1944.

Two sons, Robin and John. Robin was killed in action in WWII.

John Antony Pott (born 21 February 1924) married Cynthia Margaret Guillaume on 23 October 1956. John followed his father into the family law firm in London until his death from cancer on 19 October 1983. Cynthia died on 8 March 1995. They had two children: Francis John Pott, born on 25 August 1957, and Charles Antony Pott, born on 19 June 1960.

Francis married Virginia Straker on 19 September 1992 in Winchester Cathedral and they have two children: Christopher (born 8 August 1995) and Isabel (born 9 December 1999).

Charles married Jacqueline Parr on 27 July 1985 in St. John's College Chapel, Cambridge. They have two children: Catherine Anne Pott (born 23 July 1990) and Alexander James Pott (born 8 December 1992). Catherine is due to marry Christopher Butterworth in Royston Parish Church on 25 July 2015.

Birth:
Kennington

George married Lady Mildred Constance Bell Pitman on 23 Nov 1920 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. Mildred (daughter of Rev. Arthur Theodore Pitman and Caroline Janson) was born on 21 Nov 1895 in Scarborough, Yorkshire; died on 10 Aug 1976 in Goring, Oxfordshire; was buried in Aug 1976 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Indonesia
• Destination: Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy
• Residence: 1901, Llysfaen, Caernarvonshire, Wales
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Ewell, Surrey; Age: 37; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Arrival: 21 May 1935, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 62
• Departure: 15 Jan 1937, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 63

Notes:

5th son. Baptised privately 11 July 1873 and received into the Church at Abingdon. Educated at Eton College, 1887-91, matric. at Oxford (New College) 1891, BA 1895, MA 1901. Died childless at Levanto, Italy, 12 May 1938, and buried there. Memorial stone in churchyard at Clifton Hampden.

After some years as assistant master elsewhere he became headmaster of Parkside, a private school at Ewell, Surrey, 1902-15. An officer in the Church Army contingent in Italy during the Great war. Lived after 1917 at the Fleur de Lis, Clifton Hampden.

Alfred married Marianne Gertrude Cornelia Congreve on 21 Dec 1900 in Burton, Cheshire. Marianne (daughter of William Congreve and Frances Townsend) was born in Jul 1866 in Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales; died on 14 Jul 1949 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; was buried in Jul 1949 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 May 1860, Surrey
• Residence: 1861, Great Bookham, Surrey
• Residence: 1871, Great Bookham, Surrey
• Residence: 1881, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 20 Aug 1896, Barkly West, Northern Cape, South Africa
• Residence: 1901, London; Age: 40; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

1st son. Baptised at Ranmore, Surrey. Educated at Malvern College, 1872-8, matric. Cambridge (Jesus College) 1880, BA 1883, student at St. George's Hospital, Westminster, MRCS and LRCP 1888. Buried in the English Cemetery at Maitland, nr. Cape Town.

In medical practice in Cape Colony (successively at Bredersdorp, Kenhard, Barkly West, and Victoria West) 1888 till his death. Surgeon-captain to the Kimberley Light Horse during the siege of that town 1899-1900. D.S.O. J.P. for Barkly West. A Freemason.

2 sons.

George married Winefred Bermingham Cottam on 7 Jun 1895 in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. Winefred (daughter of Rev Cottam) was born on 30 Mar 1868 in Old Trafford, Lancashire; died between 1945 and 1955. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Baptism: 6 Oct 1863, Surrey
• Residence: 1871, Great Bookham, Surrey; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1881, Rothwell, Yorkshire; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 18 Mar 1931, London
• Departure: 15 Jan 1937, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

2nd son. Educated at Malvern College 1972-8. Died childless 29 August 1940.

A clerk in the Bank of England 1883-9. In S. Africa 1889-1912. Joined South African Mounted Police 1889. Living at Belmont, Ceres, afsd. 1890-5.

From 1895 he was farming, at first at Kenhart, Cape Col., later near Buluwayo, S. Rhodesia.

On his return to England he farmed sometime in Guernsey. He and his wife lived from 1932 at Gorse Bank, Peppard, co. Oxon.

Reginald married Lilian Katherine van der Byl on 14 Feb 1914 in Westminster, London. Lilian (daughter of Pieter Voltelin Van Der Byl and Ann Adelaide Taylor) was born on 2 Mar 1882 in Fairfield, Caledon, Cape, South Africa; died on 8 Sep 1959 in South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Baptism: 4 Jan 1865, Surrey
• Residence: 1871, Great Bookham, Surrey
• Residence: 1881, Rothwell, Yorkshire; Age: 16; Relationship to Head: Son
• Residence: 1881, Rothwell, Yorkshire; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 4 Apr 1927, Southampton, Hampshire
• Departure: 21 Apr 1927, London

Notes:

3rd son. Baptised at Ranmore 4 January 1865. Educated at Malvern College and (1880-2) Leeds Grammar School, matric. Cambridge (Jesus College) 1883, student at St. George's Hospital, 1884-9, MRCS and LRCP 1889.

In medical practice in South Africa from 1889 (successively at Frazerburg in Cape Col., Mafeking, and, from 1902, in Johannesburg, where he was Medical Officer to the Feriera Deep Mine).

A Freemason. Later Senior Surgeon at the Johannesburg General Hospital and also held a University appointment.

His daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Hoare (Bessie), widow of Rev. Arthur Henry Marsham Hoare, lived at 12a Cathedral Street, Norwich.

1 son and 3 daughters.

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Edith Margaret Taylor-Broun. Dorothy (daughter of Dr John Taylor-Broun and Lucy Lewis) was born in 1888 in Strath Wye, Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales; died in 1980. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Mar 1869, Surrey
• Residence: 1871, Great Bookham, Surrey; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1881, Rothwell, Yorkshire; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

4th son. Baptised 2 March 1869. Educated at Leeds Grammar School and (1882-8) Lancing College.

In S. Africa since 1888. A clerk in the Standard Bank of S. Africa at Johannesburg and elsewhere 1889-94.

Afterwards a farmer in Cape Coloney and in the Bechuanaland Mounted Police.

Served in the Boer War of 1899-1902 with Remmington's Scouts. Farming and mining in Southern Rhodesia from 1908, till his retirement to the Cape at Port Alfred.

1 son and 2 daughters.

Hector married Frances Grace Mary Somerset in 1901. Frances (daughter of FitzRoy Maclean Henry Somerset and Ellen Amelia Arnot) was born on 22 Dec 1876; died in 1936. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Oct 1870, Ranmore Common, Surrey
• Residence: 1881, Rothwell, Yorkshire; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

5th son. Baptised at Ranmore 10 October 1870. Educated at Lancing College 1883-9.

Associate member of Institution of Civil Engineers. Apprenticed to civil engineers in S. Africa 1889-93 and engaged in engineering thereafter.

For many years in the employ of the Cape Government.

He was Senior Consulting Engineer of the South African Railways.

When he retired in 1930 he settled in Cape Town.

A Freemason.

Louis married Ethel Jackson in 1938. Ethel died in 1973 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Paddington, London; St John's
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 6; Relationship: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 46; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Notes:

Photo of Mabel at Cevedon Court with the Elton family, see marriage scrapbook of Sir Edmund Harry Elton.
Photo of Mabel with Sir Charles & Laura with Gibbs family, see marriage scrapbook of George Louis M. Gibbs.

1891 CENSUS - Aged 26. Living with Charles, and children Laura, aged 1, and Matthew aged 1 month.
1901 CENSUS - Aged 36. Living with husband and family.
1911 CENSUS - Living at 79 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington. Aged 46. Family listed, husband Charles, aged 54; daughter Laura, aged 21: son Matthew aged 20: and son Edmund aged 10.

Died at 10 Sheen Gate-gardens, East Sheen, Surrey on 11 March 1944.

Probate read 24 August 1944 at Llandudno "the said Sir Charles F-B knight and Matthew F-B OBE company director . Effects £2668 8s 4d."

Birth:
14 Devonshire Terrace

Mabel married Sir Charles Fortescue-Brickdale, Knight, FRGS of Newland on 5 Sep 1888 in Bramley, Surrey. Charles (son of Matthew Inglett Fortescue-Brickdale and Sarah Ann Lloyd) was born on 1 Mar 1857 in Victoria Street, Westminster, London; died on 20 Sep 1944 in Gorse Corner, Townsend Drive, St.Albans, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Oct 1865, East Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Slough, Buckinghamshire
• Death: 23 Oct 1934, Hampshire

Notes:

Baptised 4 October 1865 at East Clevedon, Somerset.

Birth:
10 Sussex Square

Agnes married Maj. Gen. Charles Frederick Gordon Young on 20 Sep 1892 in St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, London. Charles (son of Colonel George Gordon Young and Charlotte Sophia Smith) was born on 12 Nov 1859 in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan; died on 17 Mar 1956 in Gosport, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1865, East Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Farnborough, Hampshire; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London

Notes:

Baptised at East Clevedon. Buried 21 July 1925 at Bourton, Co. Dorset. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Will proved 5 October 1925.

She and her husband lived at Chaffeymoor House and she remained there as a widow. In the Great War she lent the house as a Hospital, and became Commandant of the Military Hospital at Gillingham, Dorset.

Portrait (with her son Hallam) by Wontner last in possession of her sister Agnes Hilda Gibbs.

Birth:
Sussex Square

Lilian married Major-Gen. Sir Henry Hallam Parr, CMG, CB KCB on 15 Nov 1888 in Bramley, Surrey. Henry (son of Thomas Clements Parr and Julia Elizabeth Elton) was born on 24 Jul 1847 in Rockbeare, Devon; died on 3 Apr 1914 in Bourton, Dorset; was buried on 8 Apr 1914 in Bourton, Dorset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1870, Paddington, London; St Michael's
• Residence: 1881, Christchurch, Hampshire

Notes:

Baptised at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Charterhouse School, Surrey, 1883-6. Buried 31 December 1926 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard. Will proved 29 January 1927.

2nd Lieut. 60th Rifles (Militia) c. 1888. In Australia c. 1889-91. Student at the Agricultural College, Cirencester, c. 1892-96, following on which he and his brothers Stanley and Antony were for a few years in the partnership of a brewery at Ashford, Kent. He and his wife resided at Ablington Manor c. 1901-3. He was in delicate health a great part of his married life. In his last years they lived at Slough. He inherited, but gave to the Bishop of Bath & Wells the advowson of Hutton (see George Louis Monck Gibbs).

Portrait by T. W. Webber, and crayon by A. G. Witherby ("Spy" of "Vanity Fair") both last in possession of his widow.

Birth:
8 Lancaster Gate

Died:
Baylis House

George married Anna Everilda Caroline Webber, of Kellavil on 2 Sep 1897 in Ballintubbert, Laois, Ireland. Anna (daughter of Thomas Wingfield Webber and Mathilda Emily Barstow) was born on 21 Sep 1874 in Portarlington, Laois, Ireland; died on 11 Aug 1977 in Winchester, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 Aug 1870, Elstree, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1891, London; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

Baptised at Elstree, Herts. Buried at Notgrove, Glos.

She and her first husband resided at Faringdon House, Berks., 1902-7; at The Manor House, Notgrove, co. Glos., from 1908, which she retained after his death till 1918. With her second husband she resided at Britwell House, Britwell Salome, co. Oxon., 1918-26; chiefly in London afterwards.

Oil portrait by M. Bisson last in possession of Veronica Hanbury-Tracey and pastel by Braun last in possession of Penelope Loveday.

Beatrice married Cyril Grant Cunard on 23 Jul 1896 in Bibury, Gloucestershire. Cyril (son of William Cunard and Laura Charlotte Haliburton) was born on 21 Sep 1867 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; died on 17 Apr 1914 in 54 Great Cumberland Place, St Marylebone, London; was buried on 22 Apr 1914 in Notgrove, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrice married Walter Hilton Curran on 4 Apr 1918 in All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, London. Walter (son of John Jones Curran and Jane or Jenny Miller) was born on 25 May 1885 in Orillia, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada; died on 14 Jul 1931 in Marylebone, London; was buried in Jul 1931 in Kirdford, Chichester, West Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 27 Dec 1873, Hendon, Middlesex
• Baptism: 3 Feb 1874, Elstree, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1891, Brendon, Devon

Notes:

Baptised at Elstree Herts. Educated at Charterhouse School, Surrey, 1886-90. Buried at Winson, Gloucestershire. Will proved 18 July 1922.

Sometime in the brewery partnership mentioned under George Harold Gibbs. 2nd Lieut., 3 Mar. 1897, in Royal East Kent Yeomanry Cavalry. 2nd Lieut., 1899, in Inniskilling 6th Dragoons, Lieut. 12 Ap. 1901. Served in the Boer War in South Africa 1899-1901 (medal with 3 clasps). A.D.C. 1903 to his bro.-in-law Major-General Parr when in command of the North West District of England at Chester. Resigned from the Army 21 Oct. 1903.

Trout-breeding at Beaulieu, Hants. 1906-11. A director of Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co., Ld., London, 1899-1922. In the Great War was on home service as temp. Major in the Gloucestershire Yeomanry 19 September 1914 to December 1919. Resided at 13 Cadogan Court, Draycott Avenue, Chelsea, for some years from 1911; at Winson Manor, Gloucestershire, for some years up to his death.

Birth:
Deacon's Hill

Died:
Tynewyd, Erwood

Antony married Euphemia Constance Houstoun Boswall Preston on 24 Oct 1906 in St. Peter's, Eaton Square, Westminster, London. Euphemia (daughter of Colonel Thomas Alfred Houstoun Boswell-Preston and Alice Mary Cunard) was born on 5 Mar 1884 in London; died on 21 Apr 1966 in Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Oct 1875, Elstree, Hertfordshire

Notes:

Baptised 6 October 1875 at Elstree. Died childless April 1947.

She and her husband resided at 7 Brompton Sq., Kensington 1900-10, 29 Brompton Sq. 1910-15; also The Glebe House, Driffield, near Cirencester 1900-18; Culkerton House, Glos. from 1918.

She was a Governor of the secondary school at Tetbury, Glos.

Portrait (aged 10) by F. Eddis, last in her own possession.

Helen married Lauriston Leonard Batten, KCVO on 29 May 1900 in Kensington, London. Lauriston (son of Rayner Winterbotham Batten and Marion Leonard) was born on 26 Jul 1863 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire; died on 31 Jul 1944 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Mar 1871, Distrito Federal, Mexico
• Residence: 1901, Barnstaple, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Barnstaple, Devon; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Notes:

Baptised 23 March 1871 in the Cathedral at Mexico City.

Evelina married Dr. John Robinson Harper, CBE, TD, JP on 10 Jun 1897 in Sonning, Berkshire. John (son of Joseph Harper and Augusta Mary Robinson) was born on 7 Nov 1867 in Barnstaple, Devon; died on 30 Apr 1947 in Pilton Cottage, Barnstaple, Devon; was buried in 1947 in Barnstaple, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Paddington, London; St Michael's
• Residence: 1881, Barnstaple, Devon
• Departure: 1920, London; Age: 45
• Arrival: 22 Feb 1920, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada; Age: 45

Notes:

3rd son. Baptised at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Charterhouse, 1889-93. Died childless in Canada.

In Breweries in London 1896-1903. Farming in Saskatchewan, Canada, 1903-5. Mining in Ontario from 1905. In the Great War he enlisted in 2nd Canadian Pioneers, Oct. 1915 (sergeant Nov.) and served in France Mar.-June 1916: trained for a commission at Lichfield Cadet Sch. July-Oct., he became 2nd Lieut. 6th Bn. of the Devon regiment Oct. 1916: served in France, attached to 9th service Bn. of the same, Jan.-Nov. 1917, and in Italy Nov. 1917-Dec. 1919 (Acting Capt. in command of 7th Division Tunnelling Company Apr. 1918 till end of the War). Repatriated to Canada Feb. 1920. Mentioned in despatches 17 Nov. 1917. Military Cross, Jan. 1919.

Birth:
Leamington Road Villas

Family/Spouse: Mary Scott. Mary died in Dec 1961 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1881, Kensington, London
• Baptism: 16 Feb 1881, Kensington, London; St Matthias
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Barnstaple, Devon; Age: 30; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

MC, TD, Croix de Guerre. Baptised at St. Matthias, Kensington. Educated at Radley College (scholar) 1893-9, student St. Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth 1900-05.

At Radley he was Captain of Rackets and Fives 1899, in the 1st Cricket XI 1897-9 and 1st Football XI 1898-9; at St. Thomas' in 1st Cricket XI (captain 1905) and in 1st Association Football XI 1900-05. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, and Licentiate of Royal College of Physicians, London, 1905. Was senior obstetric House Physician at St. Thomas'. Member of the British Medical Association. From 1906 in partnership with his brother-in-law, J. R. Harper, in Barnstaple, the firm being Harper, Jonas, Gibbs, Shaw and Harper. Surgeon to the North Devon Dispensary, Barnstaple; Honorary Physician N. Devon Infirmary there; and medical officer to the public elementary schools there. He joined the Royal North Devon Hussars 1906; Surgeon Lieut. 1906. In the Great War was mobilized in 1914; but was seconded for home service till December 1915: in France 1916-19 with 2/2 Wessex Field Ambulances (Territorial) Capt. Dec. 1915; Major Oct. 1918. Territorial war medal, British War medal, Allied (Victory) medal, Croix de Guerre with bronze star gained November 1917 at Armentieres, Military Cross 3 October 1918. Territorial Decoration 1921. Appointed in 1930 medical officer of St. John Ambulance Brigade, Devon. In Masonry he was a Past Provincial Grand Warden of Devon. He and his wife lived after 1928 at Elmfield, Bear Street, Barnstaple.

Birth:
24 Lexham Gardens

Stanley married Margaret Ellen Harper on 28 Sep 1909 in Heanton Punchardon, Devon. Margaret (daughter of Joseph Harper and Augusta Mary Robinson) was born on 8 Jan 1878 in Barnstaple, Devon; died on 24 Sep 1955 in Barnstaple, Devon; was buried in 1955 in Barnstaple, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Jul 1876, Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
• Residence: 1881, Hutton, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Baptised at Mentone, 25 July 1876.

Was in India with her husband 1909- Nov. 1917 and returned to England under a special permit to travel through the Mediterranean danger zone in escorted convoy.

Died childless.

Olive married Major Gerard Stuckely Torkington on 4 Nov 1908 in Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire. Gerard (son of Charles Torkington and Florence Elizabeth Caroline Coke) was born on 24 Sep 1878 in Hythe, Kent; died on 30 Mar 1952 in Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Margate, Kent
• Arrival: 4 Jul 1929, London

Notes:

2nd son. Born 8 December 1887 and baptised at Hutton. Educated at Haileybury College 1902-3, but left because his back was broken playing rugger and was thereafter educated privately.

In the Great War volunteered for the Army 5th August 1914 and served in Training Corps and in civilian war work, but owing to ill-health was always refused admission to the Army. He owned Rietfontein Citrus farm afsd. and lived there 1920-9.

In the firm of Leonard Partridge, dealer in Works of Art, of 3 Savile Row, Westminster, 1929-32. Joined the firm of Peter Jones, Sloane Square, firstly in the Interior Decorating Dept., and then in due course becoming the firm's Assistant General Manager.

1941-45 working for the Foreign Office in Dublin. After the Second World War became a partner in an antique shop in Victoria, London, S.W.I.

Joseph married Hon. Dorothy Annesley on 27 Jul 1921 in Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, Chelsea, London. Dorothy (daughter of Arthur Annesley, 11th Vicount Valentia and Laura Sarah Webb) was born on 11 May 1892 in Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire; died in 1985 in England; was buried in Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1881, Surrey
• Residence: 1891, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset

Notes:

2nd daughter. Baptised at Dinapore, India.

Was Delegate for co. Antrim for choosing Members to form the first Parliament for Northern Ireland.

Died childless.

Mildred married Robert Wyndham Humphrey Marcial Bland in 1915 in St Marylebone, London. Robert (son of John Humphrey Bland and Emily Charlotte Maddon) was born on 27 Jan 1872 in Kensington, London; died on 18 Jul 1942 in Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Hutton, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Cranbrook, Kent

Notes:

2nd son. Baptised at Hutton, Somerset. Educated at The United Service College, Westward Ho!, Devon, 1900-4.

A professional singer 1908-14. Articled to Walter E. Tower, Architect, London. In 1930 living at Thornby, Northants, in private practice and as resident architect to Captain Arnold S. Wills of Thornby Hall.

In the Great War enlisted 1914 as a Trumpeter in Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles Yeo. Territory; 2nd Lieut. December 1914 Royal Field Artillery, 1st Lincolnshire Baty. Territ.; Capt. 1915 Royal Horse Artillery Warwickshire Baty. Territ.; was employed in training various Batteries in England till Feb. 1918; and being unable to pass as fit for service overseas was invalided out of the Army in 1918.

Charles married Edith Violet Wood on 5 Jun 1915 in Chelsea, London. Edith (daughter of Richard Somerville Wood and Francis Harriet Moodie) was born on 9 Feb 1890 in Kurseong, West Bengal, India; died on 15 Feb 1979 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Dec 1879, Abingdon, Berkshire; St Helen's
• Residence: 1891, Hagley, Worcestershire; Age: 11; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1901, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire; Age: 21; Relation to Head of House: Visitor

Notes:

Baptised 14 December 1879 at St. Helen's, Abingdon. Educated at Haileybury College, 1893-8, matric. at Oxford (Keble College) 1898, BA 1904, MA 1908. Student at Cuddesdon Theological College, 1904. Buried at Didmarton 2 February 1952. Memorial Tablet in St. John Baptist's Church, Shipton Moyne, nr. Tetbury.

At Haileybury he won mile and half mile races 2 years; at Keble College the half and quarter mile 3 years. President of Keble Coll. Athletic Club 1901. At Oxford House, Bethnal Green, 1902. Travelled round the world with a pupil 1903. Deacon 1904; Priest 1905. Curate of St. Pancras in the Borough of that name 1904-8; member of the Bush Brotherhood of Charleville, Queensland, 1908-11; Vicar of St. Frideswide's, Poplar, and Head of the Christ Church (Oxford) Mission there 1911-13; Vicar of Christ Church Telford Road, Kensington, 1913-19; Vicar of Badminton, co. Glos. from 1919.

Chaplain to the North Somerset Yeomanry 1911-30. In the Great War he was chaplain to the Australian Voluntary Hospital at Wimereux January-April 1915; to the 8th Cavalry Brigade (Brit. Exp. Force) September 1915-18; to the Garrison and Hospitals at Exeter February-July 1918; to the 3rd Cavalry Division (B.E.F.) 1918-19. Mentioned in despatches 1917; Military Cross 1918. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, and Allies' (Victory) Medal of the Great War.

Rector of Shipton Moyne 1937-50. Rural Dean of Tetbury, Glos. Hon. Canon of Gloucester. Special Constable (Head) in 2nd World War. Chairman of Tetbury Grammar School.

Portrait: Pastel by W. E. Miller last in possession of his daughter Sheila (Countess of Morton).

Birth:
Vicarage

John married Mary Rosamond McCorquodale on 24 Apr 1924 in Winslow, Buckinghamshire. Mary (daughter of Norman McCorquodale, OBE, JP and Constance Helena Burton) was born on 19 Oct 1897 in St George Hanover Square, London; died on 17 Feb 1966 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire; was buried on 22 Feb 1966 in Didmarton, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1891, Hagley, Worcestershire; Age: 8; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

Baptised 27 August 1882 at St. Helen's, Abingdon. Educated at Newton Abbott, Devon, 1891-6, and the Naval Training ship, Britannia 1897-8. Buried Standish 2 November 1956.

Was in Rugby Football XV Navy v. Army 1910-11 and Captain of the United Services XV 1910-11. Midshipman Royal Navy Dec. 1898; sub-Lieut. 1902; Lieut. 1904; Lieut. Commander 1910; Commander 1915; retired 1923 and attained rank of Captain R.N. 1927. Captain of Destroyers
1909-19.

In the Great War he served with the Dover Patrol 1914-15 as Captain of Destroyer Crusader and took part in the bombardment of the German Army left wing from the Coast: served with the Harwich Force 1915-18 in Destroyers Matchless, Medea and Thruster. Was Captain 2nd in command of Royal Naval Coll. Dartmouth 1919-21. Commanded H.M.S. Bryony (Commander-in-Chief s yacht) Mediterranean Fleet, 1921-3. Member of the Royal Victorian Order 1911. Companion of the Distinguished Service Order 1916. Mentioned 4 times in Despatches (13 April 1915, 25 July 1916, 22 June 1917, 7 Jan. 1918). 1914 Star, Brit. War Medal and Allies' (Victory) medal of the Great War.

From 1923 farmed with his brother Joseph at Malthouse Farm, Standish, Glos.

Second World War: Bar to D.S.O.; served throughout war: 1939-40 Narvick (Norway); 1942-44 H.M.S. Queen Emma—Dieppe Raid and others; Sierra Leone; Mediterranean. 1944-46 H.M.S. Ganges at Shotley, Suffolk. Hon.

Secretary of the Berkeley Hunt for many years.

Portrait: Pastel by W. E. Miller last in possession of his nephew Beresford.

Birth:
Vicarage

George married Susan Fayth Harding Newman on 21 Sep 1926 in Eastbourne, Sussex. Susan (daughter of Francis Robert Harding Newman and Florence Susan Willes) was born on 11 Aug 1900 in Kirtling, Cambridgeshire; died on 5 Feb 1942 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire; was buried in Standish, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]