Isabel Marianne Bright

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1851, Abbots Leigh, Somerset; Age: 16; Relation: Daughter
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon
• Residence: 1901, Speen, Berkshire; Relation to Head: Wife

Notes:

2nd daughter of Robert Bright (died 1869) of Abbots Leigh, Somerset (partner of George Gibbs), for whose lineage see Bright of Colwall in Burke's 'Landed Gentry', by Caroline (died 1843); 4th and youngest daughter of Thomas Tyndall of The Royal Fort, Bristol. Baptised at Abbots Leigh 3 January 1860. Was buried at Speen House 24 March 1920. Administration May 1920.

Her Tyndall grandmother was Marianne (died 1805), daughter of Lambert Schimmelpennick of Bristol (of the family of the Dutch Counts of that name) and sister-in-law of Mary Anne Schimmelpennick, the authoress, whose life is in the Dictionary of National Biography. For the Tyndall family see articles by Greenfield in The Genealogist Magazine Vol II (1878). Her diaries 1851 to 1920 (53 volumes) were in possession of John Arthur Gibbs in 1932, now missing.

Portraits: Pastel by E. Havell (1887) last in possession of Christopher J. Gibbs; a chalk drawing by E.U. Eddis (c. 1859) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932; a watercolour by Curnock, one of a set of three of herself, her sister Caroline (born 1827) and her sister Constance (born 1837), all in possession of George Medley 2014, but not mentioned in the 1932 edition of the Gibbs Pedigree. Sampler, dated Sept 26 1845 (then aged 10) in possession of Vera Medley.

Died:
Speen House

Isabel married Rev. John Lomax Gibbs on 3 Jan 1860 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset. John (son of George Henry Gibbs and Caroline Crawley) was born on 28 Mar 1832 in 11 Bedford Sq, Bloomsbury, London; died on 12 Jan 1914 in Speen, Berkshire. [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]

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• 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]

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• 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]

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• 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]

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• Departure: New York, USA
• Baptism: 11 Jan 1903, Paddington, Lancashire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 8; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 31 May 1960, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 57

Notes:

1st son. Lt. Co. Territorial Army. Baptised 11 January 1903 at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, Paddington. Educated at Winchester College, 1916-1921; matric. at Oxford (University College) 15 October 1921; 3rd Class History and BA 1924; MA 1928.

Fellow of the Royal Institution of the Chartered Surveyors. Fellow of the Land Agents Society. On the Council of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 1948. Articled to J.R. Eve & Son of Bedford and Westminster 1925-8. With Lofts & Warner, surveyors and land agents 1929-1935, Chief Land Agent to the National Trust 1961. Retired 1968. Last address: The Porch House, Lacock, Chippenham, Wilts.

From 1924 City of London Yeomanry Battery (RHA) (TA) 'Roughriders'. In Second World War with Anti-Aircraft Command RA in England. Retired with the rank of Lt. Col. after the War.

Birth:
20 Cleveland Gardens

Christopher married Margaret Evelyn Mackay on 8 Sep 1942 in Petham, Kent. Margaret (daughter of Capt. Robert Henry Ramsey Mackay and Beatrice Caroline Arbuthnott) was born on 5 Mar 1914 in Westbourne, Hampshire; died on 11 Aug 2005 in Swindon, Wiltshire; was buried in Lacock, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 6; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

2nd son. Baptised 28 May 1904 at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate. Educated at Eton College 1917-22. matric: at Oxford (University College, 17 October 1922); 2nd class Science (Physiology) and BA 1926; MA 1930; BM and B.Ch. 1930; Medical Student at Oxford 1922-7 and St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, 1927-30, DM 1932. Died at Ewhurst, Surrey, 14th June 1993 and buried at St. James' Abinger.

Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (England), Licentiate of Royal College of Physicians (London), Member of British Medical Association Jan 1930. Clinical Assistant St. Thomas' Hospital Feb-Aug 1930, Casualty and Outpatients' Officer to Evelina Hospital for Children, Southwark, August 1930-Feb 1931. House Physician Mar-Dec 1931, Obstetrical House Physician Mar-Sept 1932, at the Radcliffe Infirmary and County Hospital, Oxford.

Surgeon to Cobham Nursing Division St. John Ambulance 1937-50.

General Practitioner in Cobham, Surrey 1933-71. Lived at Broxmore, Cobham, Surrey 1933-38; at Leylands, Leigh Place, Cobham, 1938-71 and at Mercer's Cottage, The Common, Cranleigh, Surrey, 1971-1993

Birth:
20 Cleveland Gardens

Antony married Helen Margaret Leuchars on 21 Oct 1937 in Cobham, Surrey. Helen (daughter of William Wood Leuchars and Gwendoline Evelyn Fleming) was born on 2 Feb 1913 in Cobham, Surrey; died on 4 Nov 2013 in Reigate, Surrey; was buried on 18 Nov 2013 in St James, Abinger Common, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, Cramond, Midlothian, Scotland
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age: 19; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1922, South Yarra, Fawkner, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

1st son. Baptised 14 May 1891 at St. Giles, Oxford. Educated at Winchester College (scholar) 1904-10; matric at Oxford (scholar of New College) 1910; 1st class Mods. 1912; 1st class Lit. Humaniores 1914. Cremated at Springvale, nr. Melbourne.

At Winchester was "Prefect of Hall" 1909-10. Elected Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Oct. 1914 but never resided. In the Great War 2nd Lieut. 15 October 1914 in 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion (Territorial) of The Welsh Regiment. Temporary Captain 1915 as a Railway Transport Officer in France. On General Staff in France as A.D.C. to General Sir Tom Bridges (Head Quarters 19th Divn.) Dec. 1915-Nov. 1916. Returned to Ry. Transport Nov. 1916-May 1917. Thereafter in "Grand Quartier General" French Armies in liaison work till Mar. 1919. Temporary Major from September 1918. Medals, 1914 Star, British War medal, Allies (Victory) medal.

Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, May 1919 and was one of the managers of their Australian Branch, Gibbs Bright & Co. 1920-30 (Melbourne 1920-23, Adelaide 1923-25, Sydney 1925-30). Headmaster of "Tudor House" Preparatory School nr. Mossvale, N.S.W. from 1931-38. Elected Vice-Chancellor, Melbourne University in 1938 from which post he retired in 1951. Knighted 1948.

A Trustee of the Australian National Gallery from 1941, and Chairman from 1951. Member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1942. President of the Australian Council for Educational Research 1948. Portrait by Max Meldrum in the John Medley building, part of the Arts Faculty, University of Melbourne.

1 son, David John Medley (United States citizen 1967), m. Ruth Crane and has issue. 1 daughter, Diana Mary m. Francis Barrington Hall, Chief of Protocol, Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Canberra (1978) and has issue.

John married Emmeline Mary Newbolt on 15 Sep 1916 in Southwark Cathedral, Surrey. Emmeline (daughter of Sir Francis George Newbolt and Alice Clara Franck Bright) was born on 5 Aug 1891 in Weybridge, Surrey; died on 4 Mar 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Northamptonshire; Age in 1911: 18; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Visitor

Notes:

Baptised 18 July 1892 at St. Giles, Oxford. Educated at St. Paul's School, London and Glasgow College of Domestic Science.

Joined Voluntary Aid Detachment of Red Cross Society, Glasgow, 1914, and in the Great War served in hospitals at Wellingborough and Glasgow and in Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich.

Two sons: Peter Beauchamp Hogg m. Gabrielle Argentine Allington and has issue; Robin David Hogg m. Ruth Taylor and has issue.


Birth:
2 Keble Road

Isabel married Beauchamp Ferdinand Hogg on 17 Apr 1920 in Greenham, Hungerford, Berkshire. Beauchamp (son of Charles Edward Hogg and Caroline Hannah Roberts) was born on 15 Aug 1886 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; died on 17 May 1964 in Hungerford, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

2nd son. Baptised 18 January 1894 at St. Giles, Oxford. Educated at Sedbergh school 1907-12 and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1912-14. Cremated at Salisbury.

2nd Lieut. Royal Field Artillery July 1914. In the Great War Lieut. June 1915, Adjutant November 1915-November 1916. Acting Captain November 1916-November 1917 Captain November 1917. Acting Major November 1907-March 1919. Brevet
Major 1 July, 1931. Served in France September 1914-March 1915, June 1916-January 1918; May-September 1918; in Belgium March 1915-June 1916, January-May and September-Dec. 1918; in Germany December 1918-March 1919. Military Cross January 1917. Despatches twice (1916 and 1919). "Croix de Guerre avec palme" December 1918. 1914 Star. British War medal. Allies (Victory) Medal. After the war India 1919-26. At Staff College Camberley January 1927; passed January 1929. General Staff Officer (R.A.) 3rd grade, in the Aldershot Command October 1929-31; the same in the War Office from Oct. 1931. R.A.F. Staff College Andover 1934. G.S.O. 2 Malaya 1936-38. Awarded OBE 1938. Commanded 19th S.L. Militia Depot June-October 1939. Commanded 53rd Anti-Tank Regt. R.A. (Worcestershire Yeomanry) November 1939 to June 1940. In France Jan.-June 1940 when evacuated from Dunkirk. DSO 1940. Brigadier and Commander Corps Medium Artillery July 1940. Commander Corps R.A. Feb. 1941. Went to Middle East June 1941. Brigadier R.A. September 1941. Invalided to U.K. G.S.O. 1 Senior Officers' School 1942. Assistant Commandant Staff College 1943-44. Deputy Military Secretary, War Office 1944-46. Retired December 1946.

Lived at Holt, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1946 to 1968 then at Thanes House, Shaftesbury, until his death.

1 son, George Julius Medley, OBE, Director of the World Wild Life Fund for Nature (WWF-UK) 1978-1993, m. Vera Frances Brand and has issue.

Birth:
7 Crick Road

Edgar married Norah Templer on 5 Oct 1929 in Barnstable, Devon. Norah (daughter of Robert Shawe Templer and Frances Anne Beauchamp) was born on 16 Nov 1906 in Monsoon Lodge, Colombo, Sri Lanka; died in Feb 1999 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age: 14; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

2nd daughter. Baptised 10 December1896 at St. Giles, Oxford.

In the Great War worked at Munitions in the firm of Barr and Stroud, Glasgow.

Two daughters: Anne Rosalind m. Jan Vanderwerff and has issue; Fiona Mary m. Michael Evans and has issue.

Buried at Rathfarnham.

Birth:
7 Crick Road

Died:
Grange House

Mary married Mark Startin Cassidy on 1 Jun 1918 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. Mark was born on 29 Dec 1894 in Kensington, London; died on 5 Jun 1937 in Herefordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Oct 1906
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age: 4; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

4th son. Baptised at Segrave, Northants 17 October 1906. Educated at Royal Naval Colleges of Osborne 1920-21, Dartmouth 1921-23.

Midshipman September 1924; Sub-Lieut. 1928; Lieut. April 1929. Has served in H.M.Ss. Benbow, Wessex, Cornwall, Sandwich and Devonshire. On the China station 1928-31; the Mediterranean station 1931, China 1932. Lieutenant Commander 1937. Commander 1940. Captain 1947. Served also in Crusader (Home Fleet; and Red Sea during Abyssinian War). R.N. Staff College 1937. Commanded destroyers Stronghold and Beagle 1938-39. In July 1939 appointed Staff Officer to Commodore, South American Division. At Battle of River Plate in Ajax (Despatches). Commanded Beagle for the second time in Greenock Escort Force 1942-43 and took part in Russian Convoys (D.S.O. July 1942) and North African Landing. Lent to Royal Canadian Navy March 1943 for command of C3 Atlantic Escort Group and served in Burnham, Saskatchewan and Prince Rupert. Appointed Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief,
Mediterranean, July 1944, at Caserta, Italy, and later at Malta. O.B.E. 1945. Drafting Commander, Portsmouth R.N. Barracks 1947-48. Commanded Cardigan Bay in Mediterranean and as Captain, 4th Frigate Flotilla on China Station 1948-50. Deputy Director Admiralty Operations Division 1950-52. Senior Directing Staff Officer at Joint Services Staff College, Latimer, Bucks., 1952-54. Chief Staff Officer to (French) Admiral, Central European Command at N.A.T.O. Headquarters at Fontainebleu 1955-57, as Commodore.

Retired March 1957. Became Clerk to the Worshipful Company of Sadlers from 1960-71. A Freeman of the City of London and Honorary Assistant of the Saddlers' Company in 1971. Lived at Emsworth, Hants. 1938-57 and from the latter year, at Biggs Cave, Dinton, Aylesbury, Bucks.

Retired first to Aynho, and then to Chilton House Nursing Home where he died.

2 daughters: Shirley Vivienne m. Robert Antony Lewis Phipps and has issue; Carolyn m. Ian Richard Taylor and has issue.

Birth:
Rectory

Ralph married Letitia Ethel Boyce on 16 Jun 1934 in Farringdon Church, Hungerford, Berkshire. Letitia (daughter of Harry Augustus Boyce and Minnie Gabriella Williams) was born on 21 Mar 1909 in Plymouth, Devon; died in Oct 2002 in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lt. Commander Royal Navy (ret.) Only child. Baptised at Waltair 6 May 1895. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, 1908-10 and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth 1910-12. Cremated at West Norwood, Surrey.

Midshipman in the Royal Navy 1913; Sub- Lieut. 1915; Lieutenant 30 April 1917; Retired 1921; obtained rank of Lieut. Commander 30 April 1926. Served throughout the Great War (on HMS's Thunderer and Empress of India at Scapa Flow, Sloop Iris at Queenstown and in submarines in the North Sea), and was awarded the 1914 Star, British War medal, and Allies (Victory) medal. In employ of Minerals Separation Co. London and of allied firms on the Continent 1921-9; in Dorr Oliver Co. Ltd., Sales Engineers, London, from 1929. He and his wife lived from 1931 at Ash Cottage, Garrard Road, Banstead. Associate Member of Institute of Mechanical Engineers 1932. During World War II 1939-45 at Admiralty Offices in Glasgow and London.

Robert married Walda Elfriede E. Gruhn on 15 Mar 1930 in Berlin, Germany. Walda (daughter of Edwin Gruhn and Henriette Rothe) was born on 27 Nov 1908 in Berlin, Germany; died in Oct 2005 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Sep 1900, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Baptised privately at Banbury Road, Oxford 1st September, and baptised privately there 21 September, and received into the Church 11 October 1900 at Clifton Hampden. Educated at Lancing College (scholar) 1914-19; matric. Oxford (Keble College) Michaelmas 1919, BA 1922, MA 1927. Student at Cuddesdon Theology College 1924. Memorial in Chester Cathedral.

In Lancing College 1st Cricket XI. Rowed in the Keble College VIII and rowed in the Oxford Trial VIII for selection for the University crew. Member of Oxford University Dramatic Society. Assistant master at Edgeborough, Guildford, 1922-4 (his prep. school before Lancing). Cuddesdon Theological College 1924-5. Ordained Deacon at Southwark 1925; Priest 1926. Curate of St. Mary, Putney, 1925-7. Assistant Priest of the Cathedral Chapel at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia 1928-34; Sub-Dean of the Cathedral 1934. Rector of Bulawayo 1936-41; 1937 Archdeacon of Matabeleland. Rector of St. Saviour's, Claremont, Cape Town, 1941-47; Canon of Cape Town Cathedral 1946. Dean and Rector of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town 1947-54. Dean of Chester 1954-62.

Chairman of the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesian Mission; Vice-President of the South African Church Institute; Chairman of the Missionary Council of Chester Diocese; Member of Convocation of York; Member of Church Assembly; Governor of the King's School and of the Queen's School, Chester; President of the Chester Rotary Club. Fostered contacts and understanding between the Clergy and the Medical Profession.
While he was Dean of Cape Town, building works were started to complete the south side of the cathedral and nave. These were finished in 1963.
Much of his time was devoted to spiritual counsel and direction, individually, through retreats, and helping others in need.

Interests: Fishing, acting, singing, walking, and as a young man, shooting. He was a very good shot, trained by Charlie Woodley, his Cousin Alban's (keeper at Clifton Hampden. A very good tennis player.

Memorials: Window in the north wall of Cape Town Cathedral; Memorial in the chapel of Ranche House College, Salisbury, Rhodesia, where his son John Michael was the first principal. Nave stalls in Chester Cathedral, dedicated on 18 June 1966. Grave stone in the floor, east side of south transept of Chester Cathedral.

Michael married Edith Marjorie Ward on 4 Aug 1926 in Long Wittenham, Berkshire. Edith (daughter of John Spencer Ward and Beatrix Leyla Marjory Wentworth Dunbar) was born on 25 Sep 1898 in Kensington, London; died on 18 Oct 1968 in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Berkshire; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

3rd son of Canon Reginald Gibbs, MA. Baptised at Clifton Hampden 19 November 1905. Educated at Lancing College (Foundation Scholar) 1919-24 and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1924-26. Army Staff College, Camberley, 1939.

Captain of the School at Lancing and in the school Athletic Team in 1923 and 1924. At Sandhurst in the 1st Association football team; a junior under officer there; passed out 6th. Gazetted to The Queen's Royal Regiment February 1926 and joined 2nd Battalion in Allahabad, India, in March the same year, returning to UK via Sudan with his Regiment in 1928. Adjutant, Regimental Depot 1930. In 1934-35 at London University and in Italy studying Italian under War Office auspices, prior to becoming an Italian military Interpreter. A/Staff Captain 9 Inf. Bde., Portsmouth, 1936. Promoted Captain 1937 and appointed Adjutant 2nd Bn. Queen's Royal Regt. in Isle of Wight. Nominated to vacancy at Staff College, Camberley, January 1939.
Following outbreak of war in Sept. 1939 was appointed, in November, Staff Captain (A) G.H.Q. BEF France. In February 1940 Brigade Major 144 Inf. Bde. in 48 Divn. and in May, on the German invasion of Holland and Belgium, moved up with the Bde. to outskirts of Waterloo. Took part in the Retreat to Dunkirk and evacuated from Dunkirk beaches on 1st June 1940. (Mentioned in Despatches). 1940-41 on Staff at H.Q. 10 Corps, Catterick, and at H.Q. Eastern Comd. Luton Hoo. March 1942 appointed to command 1/6 Queen's Royal Regiment, serving in Egypt in 8th Army and taking part in battles of Bir el Munassib, Adam Haifa and El Alamein. Whilst serving in Egypt was mentioned in Despatches and awarded the DSO.
Captured in the Desert in October 1942 and taken by air to Italy. Held in various POW camps 1942-43, from Bari to near Cremona in the valley of the river Po, from whence he escaped from Campo PG49 at Fontanellato in Sept. 1943. Trekked 600 miles down the Apennines before reaching Allied Lines near Naples in November 1943. Details of the escape are recorded in a book, privately published, Apennine Journey, Diary of Travels across Italy after escaping from P.O.W. Camp.

November 1943-Feb. 1944 sick leave in U.K. June 10 1944 ordered to Normandy Beach Head to take over command of 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, whose C.O. had been killed in the Normandy landings 3 days earlier. Remained in command throughout operations in France, Belgium and Holland up to the Rhine in Germany. Awarded Bar to D.S.O. for action whilst under command of II Armd. Divn. near Falaise.

March 1945 appointed GSO I Liaison 24 Army Gp. and subsequently returned to U.K. to command 166 Inf. Officer Cadet Unit in Isle of Man. Oct. 1945 in command Basic O.C.T.U. Aldershot to reform it into the Mons Officer Cadet School; appointed Acting Colonel. 1946 in command 1st Bn. of his own Regiment, The Queen's Royal Regt. in Malaya. 1948 Commandant Eaton Hall Officer Cadet School, Chester. 1950 retired, remaining on Regular Army Reserve of Officers, with mobilization appointment in rank of full Colonel.

1950-63 market gardening at Roborough House, Nr. Plymouth; Member of Board of Governors, St. Dunstan's Abbey School, Plymouth 1951-66; Member of House of Laity, Church Assembly 1965-70; Church Warden, St. Mary the Virgin, Bickleigh, 1951-63, member of the P.C.C. and Manager of the Church School at Bickleigh; member of the P.C.C. of Parish Church of St. Eustachius, Tavistock, since 1965.

Interests: Gardening; Bird Watching (Member R.S.P.B.).

Clubs: Sometime member Junior United Service and Senior Army & Navy (the Rag); more recently, St. John House Club (Order of St. John of Jerusalem).

Portrait: Crayon by Robert Needham 1947.



From Cobbold Trust Tree:

When commanding 1/6 Queen's Royal Regiment with the 8th Army and taking part in the battles of Bir el Munassib, Adam Halfa and El Alamein, he was awarded his first DSO. He was captured in the desert but escaped from prison camp. The story of his escape is told in his privately published book, Apennine Journey. Following his escape he was ordered to Normandy to command 2nd Battalion of the Warwickshire Regiment whose CO had been killed in the Normandy landings three days earlier. He retained this command for the rest of the war and won his second DSO.
The citation states:
"On August 6th 1944 Lieut-Colonel Gibbs' battalion withstood a heavy and determined attack at le Bas Perrier from enemy infantry and Tiger tanks, preceded by intense artillery and mortar covering fire. One company area was overrun by tanks, which penetrated the battalion position. The action lasted from early afternoon till dusk, and the fire of enemy tanks dominated the battalion area the whole time, from the high ground above. Throughout this confused action, in which the battalion suffered heavy casualties, Lieut-Col. Gibbs had the situation well in hand. His calm, imperturbable behaviour was an inspiration to his junior leaders and soldiers. His clear orders, determination and complete disregard for his own safety under these very difficult circumstances had a most marked effect upon the course of the battle, and its successful outcome is a shining example of what the personality of a courageous leader can achieve."

At his funeral service on 4th May 1984 the address was given by Major General Sir Philip Ward. Here is what he said:

Once in a lifetime - maybe twice - if you have eyes to see - you will behold a man who you will recognise as one who is especially good, especially dear, in fact uniquely special. And if you have ears to hear you will reconise in him a voice that speaks the truth. In my lifetime, and I guess in the lifetime of most of you here this afternoon, Denis Gibbs was such a man. His influence on us all was far reaching, profound and wholly benign.

I originally met Denis on 1st January 1950 when I was appointed to my first job outside my regiment to be his Adjutant, when he was Commandant of Eaton Hall Officer Cadet School. My predecessor, like me, a Welsh Guardsman of tender years, in handing Denis over to me said - rather anxiously - "don't worry if at times he seems a little fierce; he tends occasionally to gnash his teeth and storm about, but if you stand your ground he turns out to be the kindest man on earth and you will get to love him". He also told me that Denis was given to writing little notes on very small pieces of paper, none of which were decipherable, but that it didn't matter because he always followed them up with verbal confirmation that left no room for misunderstanding. Well - he did storm about a bit and gnash his teeth, (seldom I'm happy to say at me), but his gnashes expired as quickly as they had begun, and ended with the object of his wrath being bought a reviving drink to settle things.

As to the writing, that too proved to be a correct warning, but it has become a source of intellectual delight far exceeding the solution of crossword puzzles, in all the time of friendship and correspondence that has ensued throughout the last four and thirty years. The trick, we found, was to open one of his letters at breakfast time and lie it flat on a convenient table or desk and let it get used to its new surroundings. We would then visit it during the day taking it, as it were, by surprise, and from a distance dart in and out, making out its meaning, bit by bit.

From these early days my alarm had changed to respect, from respect to affection and from affection to admiration and love. Denis Lucius Alban Gibbs was the third son and child of the five children of Canon Reginald Gibbs and his wife Lucia of Clifton Hampden in the county of Oxfordshire and was born in 1905. His brother Tom and his sister Joan survive him and they are here with us today. It was within this truly remarkable family that Denis received his grounding in the Christian Faith. He was carved into it, granite strong, and it was a faith that never left him. By it he was inspired, with it he inspired other people. It was the first of five foundation stones upon which his life was built.

The second foundation stone, chronologically, was his Regiment and the Army. He went to Sandhurst in the year that I was born, and was commissioned after an oustanding two years as a Gentleman Cadet into The Queen's Royal Regiment in 1926. he was lucky enough to serve in India and in the Sudan before such service was eclipsed by the aftermath of the Second World War. In those years before 1939 he became immersed in the art and ethos of regimental soldiery, honed and tempered for the most difficult of all levels of command - in his case that of Battalion Commander. But first, at the outbreak of war he was appointed Brigade major of 144 Infantry Brigade serving in France. He was Mentioned in despatches for his part in the evacuation from Dunkirk.

Then, in 1942, he was given command of 1/6 Battalion of his own Regiment, leading them at the battles of Alam Halfa and El Alamein. Here again he was Mentioned in Despatches and was awarded his first D.S.O.
Fate ordained that he should be captured in the desert, but fate also ordained that he should escape from his prison camp, and more of that in a moment. Meanwhile, after his return to this country, and a short spell of sick leave, he was ordered to Normandy to take over the 2nd Battalion of The Warwickshire Regiment whose Commanding Officer had been killed in the Normandy landings three days earlier. He remained in command throughout the rest of the war and received his second D.S.O. What a record: what a man.

The story of his escape from prison camp near Cremona in Italy is recorded in a slim, privately printed book, written by Denis, and called Apennine Journey, and is in itself a small classic of fortitude and resolution. Many of you will have read it, and in it you will have detected that self-effacing modesty and that concern for the people who helped him make good his escape, so typical of Denis. For all who understood soldiery, and for all who saw him at work right up until the time of his retirement in 1950, Denis was the Quintessential regimental officer: proud of his Sovereign and the Country which his regiment served: proud of the men he led.

In 1933, after seven years with his Regiment, another foundation stone, but of a very special kind, was laid, namely his marriage to Hilaria Edgcumbe. Here, if ever, was a marriage made in Heaven. The combined ingredients of love and their contrasting characteristics: the details of administration for him; the carefree serenity from her. Their combined interest in, compassion for and care of each other and of other people combined to make a marriage that was at once efficient and effective, and at the same time one that was as romantic at its end as it was at its beginning. So happy are we that they and all of us were able to share in the Golden Wedding celebrations last year.

Two more foundation stones. First the family. Four daughters, eleven grandchildren. Such a source of pride and happiness. Such special people as you would expect from such a parentage. Colourful, diverse in character,adventurous, individualistic, original, loving - sometimes presenting Denis with conundrums to be shared and solved, with advice to be sought and given, all activities which, though like all fathers doubtless sometimes driven wild by them, Denis relished to the full, and without which he would have felt a little cheated.

I come now to the last foundation stone: his Church: one allied so closely to the first of those which I suggested, his Faith. He was churchwarden and a member of the Parochial Church Council at Bickleigh, amongst his flowers and fruit whilst at Roborough, from 1951 to 1963. And of this church, here at Tavistock, a member of the Parochial Church Council from 1965 to his death. He was a most regular attender at all services of the Church's year deriving strength and comfort in such a quiet and modest way. If he was here (ie at Tavistock), or staying away, he never missed an Office if he could help it, and he epitomised what it is that the Church needs so desperately, if it is to survive and grow, namely the active participation of the Laity.

Faith and Family: Regiment, Queen and Country, The Church. These were Denis' talismen. By them he steered: by them he was formed into the man we knew. I have tried to hold before your eyes a looking glass. In it I hope you have seen a Denis whom you recognise. But be assured of this. We shall not see his like again, this side of Paradise.

Denis married Lady Hilaria Agnes Edgcumbe on 17 Oct 1933 in Aldenham Church, Aldenham, Hertfordshire. Hilaria (daughter of Kenelm William Edward Edgcumbe, 6th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Lilian Agnes Arkwright) was born on 16 Jan 1908 in Chelsea, London; died on 19 Nov 2009 in Plymouth, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Arrival: 18 Sep 1933, Southampton, Hampshire; Proposed address: Aldenham Vicarage, Watford, Herts - Residence Southern Rhodesia: Occupation: Painter. Also Thomas Reginald Gibbs - brother - Occupation: Missionary - 4 years older - previous residence Northern Rhodesia.

Notes:

Younger twin of Bridget. Baptised at Clifton Hampden 22 September 1907. Educated at St. Helen's School, Abingdon, 1918-25.

Art Student at Lucy Kemp Welsh Art School, Bushey, Herts. Heatherley's Art School, London; and Chelsea Polytechnic. Worked in the Admiralty O.D.5. Division 1941-45.

Interests: Painting.

Died 14 November 1995.

Joanna married Dr. Victor Bremner Purvis on 1 Oct 1945 in Chelsea, London. Victor (son of John Bremner Purvis and Elizabeth Annie Willis) was born on 13 Aug 1904 in Kampala, British East Africa; died on 26 Jan 1995 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married John Antony Austin Harrison [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married John Brooke Howell [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married John Robert Page [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Julian married Juliet Marguerite Celia Gore-Anley [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Julian married Lucy Wood [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Antony married Mary Janet Day [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anya Coper [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Vivien Jean Kersey [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Rose-Marie Ada Margot [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Susan Elizabeth Russell [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David, after some years in Australia in Aircraft Engineering, went to work in USA in various roles for Rockwell. His wife Ruth née Crane predeceased him and both his children died a few years later. David served in the Second World War in the R.A.N.V.R as the Radar Officer and was sunk in HMAS Canberra just before the Battle of the Coral Sea, safely rescued luckily by the Americans.

Family/Spouse: Ruth Christina Crane. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: 16 May 1922, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1977, Cockburn, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia

Notes:

God-daughter of Alfred Bright, so attached to both Gibbs and Bright lines.

Diana married Francis Barrington Hall on 27 Jul 1948 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Francis was born on 12 Feb 1920 in Panton Hill, Victoria, Australia; died on 14 Nov 2013 in Australian Capital Territory, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Gabrielle Argentine Allington in Q3 1951. Gabrielle was born on 5 May 1931 in Headington, Oxfordshire; died in Dec 2004 in Leominster, Herefordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robin married Ruth M Taylor in 1954 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire. Ruth was born in 1928. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1978-1993; Director of the World Wild Life Fund for Nature (WWF-UK)

George married Vera Frances Brand in Sep 1952 in Croydon, Surrey. Vera was born in 1927 in Croydon, Surrey; died on 18 Jul 2021 in Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, Farnham, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jan Andreas Vanderwerff. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fiona married Michael Evans in 1951. Michael was born on 29 Sep 1923 in Hampstead, London; died on 14 Mar 1976 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Antony Lewis Phipps. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ian Richard Taylor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret Patricia Jackson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Banstead Church, Banstead, Surrey
• Occupation: State Registered Nurse

Notes:

Baptised at Banstead Church. Educated at Greenacre School, Banstead 1946-54.

Pitmans College for Commercial Course, 1955-56. Secretary in the British Iron & Steel Federation 1956-57. Radcliffe Infirmary SRN Training 1957-61. Staff Nurse at Radcliffe Infirmary 1961-62. Nuffield Maternity Home, Oxford for SCM Part 1 training 1962. Queen Mary's Hospital, Porsmouth for SCM Part 2 training 1963. Between 1963 and 1970 various posts as a staff nurse in hospitals in Berne and Geneva in Switzerland; New York and Seattle, USA; and Fulham Hospital, London. Chiswick Polytechnic for Health Visitor Training in 1971. Worked as Health Visitor in the Boroughs of Richmond and Sutton from 1971-76.

Birth:
24 Garrard Road

Jacqueline married Alan Hathaway Martin [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Doctor of Medicine

Notes:

1st son. Baptised 28 August 1927 at Aldenham, Herts. Educated at the Diocesan College, Cape Town, 1942-44; Cape Town University Medical School, 1945-47; Keble College (Oxford) 1948-50; St. Mary's Hospital Medical School 1950-52, BA (Oxon 1949), BM, BCh (1952); DM (1962); MRCP (London 1955), FRCP (1973).

1935-40 Ruzawi School, Marandellas, Southern Rhodesia, founded by Maurice Carver (later to be brother-in-law). Scholarship in Anatomy and Physiology, University of Cape Town, 1947; Fulbright Travel Award to USA 1962; Trainee Research Grant of the US Public Health Service, 1962-63; Wellcome Grant for Research in Medical History, 1970. House Physician posts between 1953 and 1958 at St. Mary's Hospital, London;
Hillingdon Hospital, Middlesex.; Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases; Hammersmith Hospital. Registrar and Senior Registrar, The London Hospital, 1958-62; Fellow in Medicine (Gastroenterology) Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, and Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass. 1962-63. Senior Medical Registrar, King George Hospital, Ilford 1963-64; Consultant Physician Good Hope District General Hospital, Sutton Coldfield and to the North Birmingham Group of Hospitals 1965-74. Consultant Physician in General Medicine and Gastroenterology to The London Hospital from March 1974. National Service in the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force, 1955-57 (Squadron Leader).

Author of Exfolialive Cytology of the Stomach, Butterworth, London, 1968, and articles in medical journals. Examiner in Medicine, University of London (1978-79), University of Liverpool (1978), University of Basrah, Iraq (1979), Conjoint Board (1975-79). Adviser on examination reform, Indian Civil Service sponsored by British Council (1980).
Chief Medical Officer to the Provident Life Association of London.

Fellow Royal Society of Medicine; Member Harveian Society of London; British Society of the History of Medicine; British Soc. of Gastroenterology; British Society of Digestive Endoscopy (Hon. Treas. 1973-78).

Interests: Old books, medical history, walking.
Club: Athenaeum.

Portrait: Watercolour by Harry More-Gordon (1979) in own possession

Died suddenly, but painlessly, on 8th January 2015 with Rachel, Nicholas and Sarah at his bedside.

Birth:
40 Norroy Road

Denis married Rachel Elizabeth Youard [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Apr 1929, Salisbury, Rhodesia

Notes:

2nd son. Baptised at Salisbury 7 April 1929. Educated at Diocesan College, Cape Town, Keble College (Oxford) 1947-50, (BA Hons), and London University 1957 (PC. Ed.).

1950-59 Teaching at Diocesan College, Cape Town; Cape Town University, St. Paul's School, London, Cyrene African Secondary School, Rhodesia. 1960-63 First Principal of Ranche House College, Salisbury, Rhodesia. The Hall at Ranche House College is named after him. 1964-73. Teaching in England: King Edward's School, Birmingham, Woodbridge School, Suffolk; Ipswich High School, G.P.D.S.T. 1974-80 First Warden of International Community Centre, Nottingham. Trustee of Budiriro Trust (Scholarships for Rhodesian Africans).

Interests: Painting, printing, writing poetry, gardening.

John married Carol Margaret Williamson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st daughter. Educated at Cape Town University (B.Soc. Sc. 1955).

1950-56 Orthopaedic nursing at Oxford. Member Institute of Medical Social Workers (1956). 1957-65 held appointment as Medical Social Worker at Harold Wood Hospital, Essex; Bromsgrove, Worcs.; Cheshire County Hospital; Reading Local Authority; Nuffield Orthopaedic,Oxford.

1966-76 Teaching (Home Economics, English, Librarian) at Malosa Secondary School, a large co-educational boarding school for Malawians, mission-founded and government controlled since Independence, aided by World Bank.

Interests: In Malawi, Home Care Clubs for girls with award scheme financed by donations in memory of her mother Marjorie Gibbs (4). In England: sketching, village lend-a-hand scheme, House Groups.

Mary married Maurice Fraser Carver on 29 Oct 1965 in Marandellas,S.Rhodesia. Maurice (son of Frank Carver, MP and Annie Jane Harriet Creswell) was born on 30 Mar 1899 in Harborne, Staffordshire; died on 28 Sep 1986 in Ledbury, Herefordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Chlorakas, Paphos, Cyprus

Notes:

3rd son. Educated at Diocesan College, Cape Town 1945-52; Keble College, Oxford (BA Hons, Geology) 1953-56; University College London., 1959-60 (Diploma Land Survey), and 1968-69 (M.Sc. Photogrammetry).

1977 Fellow Royal Institute Chartered Surveyors. 1978-9 Member Watt Committee on Energy Working Party. In 1953, aged 18, accompanied by an 18-year old companion, was first known to navigate Orange River from source to mouth. 1956-59 Member of Falkland Islands Dependencies Surveys; Base Leader Stonington Island. Awarded Polar Medal. Surveyed for H.M. Govt. in Zambia (1960-62), in Botswana (1963-65), Ghana (1965-67).
1969-77 with Ordnance Survey. 1977-79 with firm of Commercial Surveyors. 1979 started private survey practice in Edinburgh.

Interests: Walking, skiing, gardening, renewable energy resources. Member Photogrammetric Society, London; Cartographic Society.

Clubs: New (Edinburgh); Achilles; Antarctic (London).

Peter married Judith Ann Orgill [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bridget married Rev. John Walton Beauchamp Perry [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Kure, Hiroshima, Japan
• Arrival: 21 Jan 1948, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 12

Notes:

Baptised at Aldenham Church, educated at St. Stephen's College, Broadstairs. Married firstly at St. Mary's, Tamerton, Foliot on 18 April 1959, and secondly on 25 April 1974 in Bristol.

After leaving school obtained Diploma in Cookery and Needlework, followed by a year in France
studying French for 'A' levels and French History of Art. Secretarial Course at Marlborough Gate Secretarial College, followed by 2 years work with Architects James Cubitt and Partners, and at Marconi House. Returned to Devon for a year's practical work in school for E.S.N. children as a Matron before going on to study Social Science in Bristol.

Portrait: Crayon by Robert Needham, July 1947, last in possn. of her father Denis L Gibbs.

Jillianne married Major Martin John Minter Kemp on 18 Apr 1959 in St Mary's, Tamerton Foliott, Devon, and was divorced in 1973. Martin (son of Arthur John Minter Kemp and Beatrice Mary Shaw) was born on 20 Mar 1935 in Windmill House, Wingrave, Buckinghamshire; died on 15 Feb 2020. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jillianne married Anthony Alan Russell Cobbold [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Rev. Mark Lyon Thornewill [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rosamund married Rear Admiral Sir Robert Nathaniel Woodard, KCVO, DL [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Penelope married Douglas Arthur Dale [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Penelope married Surg Cdre Timothy Roger Douglas Riley, CBE OstJ MB BS MRSC MRCGP DA Dip.Sports Med [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucia married Lieut. Colonel Christopher Charles Lynwood Owen, MVO, OBE [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christopher married Phillida A Seaward, MBE [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]