Francis Lomax Gibbs

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]