Hon Ursula Mary Lawley, Baroness Wraxall, OBE, RRC: Gibbs Family Tree

Gibbs Family Tree

1888 - 1979 (91 years)

Generation: 1

Hon Ursula Mary Lawley, Baroness Wraxall, OBE, RRC 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.

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Residence: 1891, Fulford, Yorkshire

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Eldest daughter of Captain Hon. Sir Arthur Lawley (6th Baron Wenlock) GCSI, GCIE, KCMG, of Woodside Place, Hatfield, Herts., by Anne Allen (GBE, DGStJ), daughter of Sir Edward Cunard, 2nd Baronet. She is 2nd cousin to Euphemia Gibbs and 1st (once removed) of Cyril Cunard (also in the Family Tree). Baptised at York Minster. Her funeral service was held at All Saints' Church, Wraxall, 20 October 1979.

She was Maid of Honour to H.M. Queen Mary 1912-27. In the Great War she was nursing in France for three and a half years, and she holds the Royal Red Cross Decoration. The King and Queen attended her wedding.

Regional Representative, S.W. Region; Red Cross & St. John War Organiser, 1941-47. President Somerset Branch British Red Cross Society, 1945-70.
Patron, Somerset Branch British Red Cross Society from 1970.

OBE (1945), RRC (1919), SSStJ (1920).
Clubs: Ladies Carlton, V.A.D.

She lived at Tyntesfield, Bristol.

Ursula married The Right Hon. George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall on 21 Jul 1927 in St Margaret's, Westminster, London. George (son of Antony Gibbs, of Tyntesfield and Janet Louisa Merivale) was born on 6 Jul 1873 in Wraxall, Somerset; died on 28 Oct 1931 in London; was buried on 31 Oct 1931 in Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall was born on 16 May 1928 in London; died on 19 Jul 2001 in Somerset, England.
3. Eustace Hubert Beilby Gibbs, 3rd Baron Wraxall, KCVO, CMG was born on 3 Jul 1929 in Westminster, London; died on 17 May 2017 in Oakley, Suffolk.

Generation: 2

Eustace Hubert Beilby Gibbs, 3rd Baron Wraxall, KCVO, CMG

(1.Ursula¹) was born on 3 Jul 1929 in Westminster, London; died on 17 May 2017 in Oakley, Suffolk.

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Baptism: 13 Aug 1929, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset
Occupation: Between 1982 and 1986; Vice Marshal, The Diplomatic Corps

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Baptised 13 August 1929 in the chapel at Tyntesfield. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, BA (1952), MA (1965). ARCM (1953).

2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards 1948-49; Foreign Service London, 1954-55 (3rd Secretary); Bangkok 1955-57 (3rd Secretary); London 1957-59; Rio de Janeiro 1959-63 (2nd Secretary); Attached British Military Government, Berlin 1966-68 (1st Secretary); Vienna 1968-71 (1st Secretary); Caracas 1971-74; Royal College of Defence Studies 1974. London, 1975-77 (Counsellor). Paris, 1977- (Counsellor and Consul General).

Clubs: Brooks, Pratts, Beefsteak.

Address: Coddenham House, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Eustace Hubert Beilby Gibbs, 3rd Baron Wraxall, KCVO, CMG (3 July 1929 – 17 May 2017), was a British diplomat and hereditary peer who succeeded his brother, Richard Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall, on 19 July 2001. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_Gibbs,_3rd_Baron_Wraxall

Eustace married Evelyn Veronica Scott on 23 Oct 1957 in Westminster, London. Evelyn (daughter of Sydney Keith Scott and Enid Ursula Moore) was born on 9 Sep 1935 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India; died on 14 Dec 2003 in Gipping, Suffolk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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